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Nuances of Sexual Consent: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

published in: magazine issue | 02/2021

People keep talking about sexual consent, but what is it? Let’s dive into some recent research and discover that there is more to sexual consent than you might think. Sexual consent is nuanced. Internal consent feelings and... / more

written by Malachi Willis
edited by Marlene Werner & Matthew Baldwin

When I Get That Boring Feeling: Sex as Escape from Boredom

published in: magazine issue | 02/2021

Everyone gets bored from time to time. What do you do when you have these everyday feelings of boredom? In some cases, psychologists found that during such bouts, people sometimes watch porn, masturbate, or become preoccupied with thoughts about sex to deal with the adverse nature... / more

written by Andrew Moynihan
edited by Marlene Werner & Matthew Baldwin

Are Victim or Eyewitness Statements Credible? Several Ways to Check Them

published in: magazine issue | 12/2021

In 2014, two teachers and six janitors were accused of child sexual abuse at Indonesia's Jakarta International School (JIS). Three preschool children reported that they had been... / more

written by Nurul Arbiyah, Henry Otgaar & Eric Rassin
edited by Matthew Baldwin

How Much Does the Menstrual Cycle Affect Emotional Life?

published in: magazine issue | 05/2021

Around 1.6 billion women of fertile age currently have an ongoing menstrual cycle, and a larger group of women will experience or have already experienced this. Everyone probably knows a fertile woman in some way. Despite this, general knowledge about how the menstrual cycle affects women emotionally is scarce. At the same time, there are beliefs and... / more

written by Maria Gröndal
edited by Mitch Brown

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The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

published in: magazine issue | 02/2014

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty has been called a lot of things, from a “game changer” and “a breath of fresh air”, to “hypocritical”, “sexist”, and “sneaky”. So why has the campaign, whose major innovation was to use ads that featured real women rather than airbrushed models or celebrity spokespersons, sparked so much controversy? Taking... / more

written by Angela Celebre & Ashley Waggoner Denton
edited by Rosanna Guadagno & Reine van der Wal

That human touch that means so much: Exploring the tactile dimension of social life

published in: magazine issue | 02/2013

Interpersonal touch is a fundamental but undervalued aspect of human nature. In the present article, the authors review psychological research showing that even fleeting forms of touch may have a powerful impact on our emotional and social functioning. Given its... / more

written by Mandy Tjew A Sin & Sander Koole
edited by Hans IJzerman

Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future

published in: magazine issue | 02/2013

"Colored" drinking fountain (Oklahoma, 1939) - Wikimedia Commons

In the midst of racial segregation in the U.S.A and the ‘Jim Crow Laws’, Gordon Allport (1954) proposed one of the most important social psychological events of... / more

written by Jim A. C. Everett
edited by Diana Onu

No strings attached: Are “friends with benefits” as complicated in real life as they are in the movies?

published in: magazine issue | 06/2014

Many people become “friends with benefits” to avoid drama and to have sex without getting tied up in emotions; however, the reality is that having a friend with benefits often becomes complicated. Why is that, and is there anything you can do to avoid these complexities? In... / more