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Sapna Cheryan on Stereotypes as Gatekeepers

The Situationist Staff wrote 2 hours ago: TEDxTalks on Apr 27, 2010 Stereotypes as Gatekeepers - Sapna Cheryans research broadly examines how … more →

Tags: Ideology, Implicit Associations, Video, Gender, social cognition, Stereotypes

Why you vote the way you do3 comments

SaltyPoliticalMusings wrote 6 hours ago:   “What’s the lesson here? It’s that morality binds us and blinds us. We all get s … more →

Tags: General News, Politics, pop culture, Conservatives, crosspost, Ideology, Liberals, Musing, political divide

Solitary Social Creatures

andyblumenthal wrote 1 day ago: We’ve all had the feeling of being alone, abandoned, and feeling down and out. As social anima … more →

Tags: boredom, communications, Dungeon, Friends, G-d, Humanitarian, interaction, Jail, loneliness

Mom and Dad Are Splitting Up

Scott Robinson wrote 2 days ago: Here we stand, worlds apart, hearts broken in two … The Journey reference will not be lost on my fri … more →

Tags: Politics 2, neuroscience, Politics, Neuroscience, Psychology, lakoff

Madonna or the Whore. 2 comments

Josephine wrote 2 days ago: Hey BrainBreakers! Whew! Uni’s been crazy lately, and I’ve just finished submitting my l … more →

Tags: Stereotypes, Women, sexism, benevolent, Hostile, Power, Men, Business, Madonna

Inductive reasoning and making wrong assumptions

Shouldland wrote 2 days ago: “I don’t know” is an intelligent answer to a question, but one many people fail to use. People are r … more →

Tags: Beliefs, inductive reasoning, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology

Insights and advice from an underappreciated social psychologist

onewomanshiftintheweather wrote 3 days ago: I am currently reading a book of essays from 55 social psychologists on their most underappreciated … more →

“The Man Who Shocked The World:” An Engaging Biography of Stanley Milgram

Liz Wright wrote 4 days ago: Stanley Milgram (1933-1984) was a social psychologist whose research has had a far-reaching influenc … more →

Tags: Book Review, Psychology, Science, Research, Personality, psychohistory

Attitude and Healthy Foods... What's the Connection?

hottjam wrote 4 days ago:  Healthy Living Responsible for Bad Attitudes?? A study published in Social Psychological and Person … more →

Tags: Mind, health, diet, Food, Research, attitudes, organic food, comfort food, Loyola University Chicago

Choosing organic gives people moral credit

onewomanshiftintheweather wrote 5 days ago: One of my main interests in psychology is morality. How do people reason through moral dilemmas (e.g … more →

Reality bites

tomorrowneverdiets wrote 5 days ago: “There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs … more →

Tags: Diet, Weight loss, Weight, Before, After, reality, Belief

Analytical thinking and religious disbelief: A Dawkinsian tale

Dana Smith wrote 6 days ago: Last week Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, out-spoken atheist, and author of The God Gene, a … more →

Tags: experimental psychology, analytical thinking, Dual process cognition, Intuition, Religious belief, RIchard Dawkins

Organic Foodies: Naturally Selfish?

Mike Licht wrote 6 days ago: “Does organic food turn people into jerks?” asks Diane Mapes at MSNBC. ”Study Sugg … more →

Tags: Research, Food, organic food, Psychology, Morality

An introduction to social psychology blog

Donna Peach wrote 1 week ago: Hi there and thanks for dropping by, for those of you who know me, you will know that I generally ha … more →

Language plays a critical role in every form of prejudice

SAGE Insight wrote 1 week ago: Language and prejudice: Direct and moderated effects From Journal of Language and Social Psychology  … more →

Tags: Psychology, Communication, prejudice, language, implicit prejudice, explicit prejudice, language distortion, languageuses, language metaphors

Laura Kubzansky on Stress and Reslience3 comments

The Situationist Staff wrote 1 week ago: WordPress video At the Fifth Project on Law and Mind Sciences Conference,“The Psychology of Inequali … more →

Tags: Distribution, Video

Angry Birds2 comments

Scott Robinson wrote 1 week ago: I count among my friends three intellectual curmudgeons, all senior to me in both years and curmudge … more →

Tags: Evolution, Creationism, Science, Neuroscience

What are 'Shadow Beliefs'?2 comments

peopletriggers wrote 1 week ago: A while back, an MBA instructor of mine asked me to find some information for him on a term he … more →

Tags: stress and pressure, Behavior, Belief, Cognitive Distortion, cognitive restructuring, Culture, Jack Welch, Joe Vitale, LinkedIn

Knowledge and Wisdom: what are they and how to get them

Shouldland wrote 1 week ago: Knowledge is the facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education … more →

Tags: Beliefs, knowledge, Philosophy, Sociology, Wisdom


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