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Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships

... apart from several inconsequential trysts, had spent most of his life alone and indifferent to the world of love and romance. He had, in ... (and other scientists) have accumulated a vast array of theory and research that the body plays a significant role in behavior and ... / more

House, M.D. and the science of psychogenic illness

In an episode of House, M.D. (“Airborne”) an illness spreads among passengers on a ... turned out to be wholly psychogenic , or “in the mind.” Apparently, Cuddy and the other passengers had convinced themselves ... response plus cognitive label - the Dual-Factor Theory of Emotion. According to this theory, it’s not immediately apparent ... / more

Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future

In the midst of racial segregation in the U.S.A and the ‘Jim Crow Laws’, Gordon Allport ... that it justifies being referred to as intergroup contact theory (Hewstone & Swart, 2011). How does it work? Multiple mechanisms ... just a few. As Hewstone and Swart (2011) argue, “Theory-driven social psychology does matter, not just in the laboratory, but ... / more

Job insecurity climate: On shared perceptions of job insecurity

Imagine that there is a general feeling of anticipating job loss at your work place or in your work group. Maybe ... job insecurity are perceived. Specifically, social cognitive theory explains how behavior, cognition or other personal factors and context ... / more

When conversations flow

... well-trained in having smooth conversations, any disruption of this flow indicates that something is wrong, either on an interpersonal ... Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Festinger, L. (1954). A theory of social comparison processes.   Human Relations, 7,   ... / more

When does revenge taste sweet? A short tale of revenge

... implications, have received any empirical attention. The aim of the present article is to provide an overview on the issue of revenge ... Tyler (Eds.),   Trust in organizations: Frontiers of theory and research   (pp. 246–260). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.   ... / more

Death and deities: A social cognitive perspective

The universality of religious belief—in supernatural agents: gods, ghosts, souls, spirits, and ... death has been most strongly forwarded by Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986; Vail, Rothschild, Weise, ... beliefs, cultural religiosity, and impaired theory of mind affect the implicit bias to think teleologically. Unpublished doctoral ... / more

Would you recognize the perpetrator? What do you need to know when you have to make an identification from a lineup?

... out the right person from a lineup ? We discuss the role of various factors that can influence the decision-making process of ... or to reject the lineup . According to signal-detection theory, this results in four different decision outcomes (Swets, Dawes, & ... / more

“Look in my eyes. I said in my eyes!”: Antecedents and Consequences of (Self-) Objectification

Physical appearance is one of the primary cues for individuals living in a society guided by a vast ... activation of neural networks involved in the attribution of mind. Importantly, one of the implications of sexual objectification ... Förster, & Suitner, 2012). In line with objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) which posits that women are more likely to ... / more

When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness

... us from our aversive selves forever, is suicide. The idea of suicide as escape has been proposed by a sociologist, Jean Baechler (1975), ... Roy Baumeister (1990), who advanced a social-psychological theory of suicide as resulting from a motivation to escape self-awareness . ... / more