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Fair Enough? The Inequality Paradox, Inequality Awareness, and System Justification

... leading people to prefer “ unequality ” is their sense of fairness. Both in the real world and in the lab, there are certain ... each American quintile. Then, participants contributed to a common pool and were given the possibility to punish and reward fellow players, ... / more

Sex differences in the perception of sexual arousal

... women are from Venus” [1] this saying often appears as common knowledge. Particularly the sexuality of men and women is often ... by an attractive potential sexual partner, it makes sense to not immediately give in to the sexual impulse, but critically question ... / more

Disaster is here, but the lawn looks good: Why we fail to act on the things that matter most

... pandemic, and fighting climate change all have something in common – all three try to keep the things we have in our lives and our ways ... has been quite successful in motivating us by arousing our sense of threat. In the last few weeks, we’ve abandoned fundamental aspects ... / more

How The Good Place illustrates an unorthodox theory in moral psychology

... impolite to break this rule, but it isn’t wrong in a moral sense. The intuition behind both of these pairs of examples is that there ... in which individual members of a category have features in common with other members but have no set of unifying properties [2] [3] ... / more

The Sex Tips You Won’t See In Magazines: Science-backed ways to stay sexually satisfied in long-term relationships

... with their romantic partner that day that led them to feel a sense of excitement, or new knowledge about the self/the world (22). It turns ... several years. What do all these sex tips have in common? When it comes to sex , focusing on mechanics is important, ... / more

Learning styles: Why they don't exist but still persist

It is a common myth that for optimal learning, individual learning styles should be ... in particular because the concept of learning styles makes sense in an intuitive way. After all, people are different from each other. A ... Verlag. Newton, P. M., & Salvi, A. (2020). How common is belief in the learning styles neuromyth, and does it matter? A ... / more

That's cringe! – Wait a minute. What is cringe?

... and the viewers. The lay definitions seem to make perfect sense: one (the viewer) is uncomfortable with the (mis-)behavior (the awkward ... V. Mayer, L. Rademacher, and S. Krach, “Laugh or cringe? Common and distinct processes of reward-based schadenfreude and empathy ... / more

Tilting at windmills: How conspiracy theories hinder climate action and what to do about it

... to climate-related attitudes and behaviors? It would make sense to assume that there is link for two reasons. First, a pronounced ... be effectively countered? There is a common assumption that people with strong conspiracy beliefs are not open to ... / more

Never fear, a moral expert is here

... person who lives according to moral principles, as stated by common expertise definitions, may well develop moral expertise if she receives ... complex idea of moral expertise. A certain training in the sense of theoretical knowledge, education, and also intelligence is required. ... / more

The role of others' presence in sport performance under pressure

... Shane Wiskus of the U.S. men's gymnastics team, it brought a sense of comfort and familiarity, making the competition feel like "another day ... In the next section, we will further detail the two most common explanations for how the presence of others, or pressure more generally, ... / more