Psychology
- Why We Buy Into Magic At Christmas
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Few events encapsulate our infatuation with a well-told story as much as Christmas. As a culture, we are dependent on stories as a tool with which to negotiate our daily lives and make sense of the world around us. In particular, we love magical ones beca ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 24 2015 - 10:30am
- Ask, Don't Tell, When It Comes To New Year's Resolutions
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A recent analysis spanning 40 years of surveys including more than 100 papers on the 'question-behavior effect,' a phenomenon in which asking people about performing a certain behavior influences whether they do it in the future, offers insight ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2015 - 12:03pm
- Stereotypes: It's Not So Black And White
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Recent race-related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago and New York City make it seem like race is a big problem in America, but in reality America seems that way because of transparency. We never need to run ad campaigns to stop racist chants at spor ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2015 - 9:08pm
- Ugly Consumer: We Don't Want To Know If Our Tablet Was Made With Child Labor
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No one wants to knowingly buy products made with child labor or that harm the environment and that may be why few people want to know if their favorite products were made ethically. Even beyond that, people really don't like those good people who mak ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2016 - 10:29am
- Organic Paranoia Is Not New: Ancient Communities Resisted New Farming Practices Too
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It may seem strange to have a segment of the population, once confined to wealthy elites on the coasts but now growing nationwide, which believe that a particular process for food is not only healthier, but materially, culturally and ethically important. ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2016 - 10:09am
- Most Women Don't Use Social Capital To Get Promoted, Say Successful Women
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It may not be sexism that keeps more women from top jobs, it may be less understanding of the role of social capital in reaching the top, according to graduate student Natasha Abajian of City University London at the British Psychological Society's D ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2016 - 5:11pm
- Even How You Manage Emails May Be Bad For Your Health
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Claims that sitting is bad for your health were all the rage last year- epidemiological curve matching claimed that you were in real peril if you didn't get up once an hour, while waitresses without epidemiologists surveying them disagreed that a des ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2016 - 8:57am
- Does Religion Always Lead To Violence?
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Take any religion that claims to be about peace and it will have a violent history. And while Islam is the most violent religion claiming to be peaceful today, Christians commit plenty of hateful acts- and Buddhists have extremists in their ranks as well. ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2016 - 1:10pm
- Marital Interdependence Persists Even After The Death Of One Spouse
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There is a common perception that as people spend more time together, they begin to act and think more alike. They may even look more alike. This synchrony, or interdependence, between a couple posits that a married person's cognitive functioning or ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 2:38pm
- Seduced By The Promise Of Food Labels
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Have you ever been to the supermarket and chosen foods based on nutrition labels? Have you ever assumed a fat-laden, high-calorie coffee drink must be healthier because a barista claims the milk does not contain something science-sounding like rBST? Labe ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2016 - 7:30am