What does your selfie say about you?
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personality, selfie, zero-acquaintance judgment, social media
What does your selfie say about you?
Selfie is a new form of self-expression in this digital age. In this post, I will discuss our research on how selfies reveal the personality of their owners and how people judge others’ personality based on selfies. / more
Why do we still have a cognitive bias that makes us send innocent people to jail? – Explanations of the confirmation bias
Why do we still have a cognitive bias that makes us send innocent people to jail? – Explanations of the confirmation bias
The confirmation bias – seeking and interpreting information to support your pre-existing beliefs – can have tremendous consequences. In this blog, I will explain the existence of the confirmation bias in the criminal justice system and give two possible explanations to why we still have this bias. / more
Does discrimination fit a prototype?
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discrimination, prejudice, prototypes
Does discrimination fit a prototype?
In this blog post, I discuss what information people use to decide whether a behavior constitutes discrimination . Similar to the way people organize categories and identify objects, I review research showing that people rely on prototypes when deciding what is and is not discrimination . / more
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