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

... they would do if they were unemployed and poor (the failure condition), or if they lived in times of war (this condition was negative and ... to death, but not to personal failure). Finally, in a control condition , this task was omitted. Participants then completed a ... / more

The Role of Honor and Culture in Group-Based Humiliation, Anger and Shame

... situations interpersonal derogation serves to establish control or to maintain dominance over ‘weak peers’ by causing humiliation. ... Lindner, E. G. (2001). Humiliation and the human condition: Mapping a minefield.   Human Rights Review, 2,   ... / more

Successful Dieting in Tempting Environments: Mission Impossible?

... in which temptations often interfere with people’s self-control is the domain of eating and dieting behavior. In the present ... food cues on size perception of food. In the food prime condition, meant to activate the eating enjoyment goal , participants were ... / more

Free Will in Social Psychology

... considerable information about the inner processes and the control of behavior. To thinkers who believe in free will, social psychology ... let their emotions happen. Compared to the no instructions condition, participants who had tried to change their emotional response later ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... they judged the cartoons to be funnier in the former condition than in the latter. Aside from using mere associations such as ... other domains, attempts at persuasion may involve the direct control of a person’s behavior, including alteration in appearance (e.g., ... / more

Reconsidering Race in the Genetic Era

... genes (specifying "Whites" as participants), and 4) was a control condition where the participants received no message. After hearing the ... / more

The Naked Power: Understanding Nonverbal Communications of Power

...  of  power  takes places unconsciously and is hard to control. Second, people use abstract schemas to judge  power , and they not ... of the experimenter who, depending on the experimental condition, either sat in an expanded pose (legs and arms outstretched), or in a ... / more

Do Multicultural Experiences Make People More Creative? If So, How?

... a slideshow and complete a creativity test. In one condition, the participants watched a slideshow of the arts, architecture, ... Riceburger) (Fusion Condition). In addition, there were two control conditions in the experiment. In the first control condition , the ... / more

High Maintenance Interaction

... , he or she will sometimes even fail at self-control regarding things that otherwise would be easy to succeed on ... interaction with another person (low-maintenance interaction condition) versus poorly coordinated interaction with another person ... R.F., Heatherton, T.F. & Tice, D.M. (1994). Losing Control: How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation . San Diego, CA: ... / more

Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation

... either the left or right. We additionally included a control condition without a spoon. We found the orientation of the spoon mattered, ... / more