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The dish on gossip: Its origins, functions, and bad reputation

... chances are that you have shared, heard, or been the topic of gossip today. Why do we love to talk about other people? Is gossiping ... of social comparison . According to social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954), people have a fundamental desire to evaluate ... / more

General action and inaction goals: Definitions & effects

... that has kept scientists and philosophers busy for thousands of years. We discuss the role of activity and inactivity in goals. What ... et al., 2008; Laran, 2009). It is crucial to note that this theory stresses that action and inaction can truly be goals, not just ... / more

On the dark and bright sides to vengeance: Cognitive, behavioral and affective consequences of aggression

... feelings most likely increase. Thus, a fine-grained analysis of the consequences of revenge is warranted. In September 2004, ... Collins, A.M. & Loftus, E.F. (1975). A spreading activation theory of semantic processing. Psychological Review, 82, 407-428.   ... / more

Successful Dieting in Tempting Environments: Mission Impossible?

One of the areas in which temptations often interfere with people’s ... while thoughts about eating enjoyment are flooding the mind of dieters. Moreover, dieters evaluate pizza more positively and perceive ... 2008) offers an explanation for why dieters often fail, the theory of temptation -elicited goal activation (Fishbach, Friedman, & ... / more

The Ghost in the System: Where Free Will Lurks in Human Minds

... that implicated them in wrong-doing in what was one of the greatest accounting scandals in United States history. Company staff fed ... can be derived from the perspective of dynamical systems theory. In recent years, this approach to understanding phenomena in the ... / more

Do the Math: Cognitive Load Attenuates Negative Feelings

... in preventing people from sending emotional emails? As one of the application’s engineers argues, people are especially likely to become ... relish and exquisite torture: The elaborated intrusion theory of desire . Psychological Review, 112, 446-467. Kemps, E., ... / more

Culture and Health Psychology: Insights from a Socio-Cultural Perspective

The beginning of the 20th century featured an understanding of health that was dominated by a ... Oyserman & Lee , 2008) which suggests that what comes to mind at a given moment depends on the available cues in one’s environment, ...   Shweder, R. and LeVine, R. (Eds.) (1984).  Culture Theory: essays on mind, self and emotion . Cambridge: Cambridge University ... / more

How on Earth Do People Understand Each Other in Everyday Conversation?

... his own lecturer and, given that I was standing in front of the lecture room messing with my papers, he assumed I was teaching his ... out the intentions behind a speaker's words. Speech act theory ( Austin, 1962 ;  Searle, 1969 ) was one of the first attempts to ... / more

Reconsidering Race in the Genetic Era

"When we talk about the concept of race, most people believe that they know it when they see it but arrive at ... In the early twentieth century, for example, Darwin’s theory of evolution was appropriated by those who believed that distinct races ... differences found between races are a result of the human mind’s ability to adapt to different environments. So, it is not race that ... / more

The Surprising Effect of Facial Appearance on Political Decision-Making

... citizenship comes with the responsibility - and privilege - of voting, then every few years you face an interesting challenge. Who will you ... their own. Such an idea is firmly grounded in evolutionary theory. Our faces tend to be similar to our family members’ faces, and we ... / more