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Word of mouth: How our tongue shapes our preferences, and why you should eat popcorn in the cinema

... hand during reading and rating the words. This task was a control condition that should not actually disturb subvocal articulations. The other ... / more

Revisiting the past can make the present a better place: The psychological and social benefits of nostalgia

... that they have identified as nostalgic. Participants in control conditions reflect on other, non-nostalgic autobiographical experiences ... have found that nostalgia , relative to a control condition , increases positive mood (Wildschut et al., 2006), feelings of ... / more

How stress influences our morality

... (Kirschbaum et al., 1993). Compared to the non-stressed control group, the stressed participants not only showed physiological ... J. D. (2004). The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgment. Neuron, 44(2), 389‒400. ... / more

Why do we so often ignore the influence of situations on behavior?

... overweight, when physiological circumstances outside their control might contribute more than their apparent laziness (Gaesser, 2002). ... student would willingly support Fidel Castro.  In one condition, readers were told that the essay writers were free to choose their ... / more

Sleepy Politics: How Sleep Deprivation can Affect Political Decision Making

... perspective – we do not have a non-sleep-deprived control condition struggling with exactly the same problem, which would allow us to ... / more

Does social media usage really make people miserable? Fact-checking claims about the psychology of Facebook

... in which some participants were randomly assigned to a condition where they received a daily email instructing them to post more status updates. Compared to the control group, participants in the “post more updates” group reported ... / more

The Hope Circuit, Reviewed by Joe Smith

... slate” and the acceptance that evolution and the brain condition and constrain mental life; the end of psychology’s ... Steve Maier’s (1967) experimental design included clever control conditions that isolated the lack of contingency between a test ... / more

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

... and opportunities [28]; as such, it has incredible control over someone’s life, and makes up a great part of one’s identity. ... lives: this is the case of people living in poverty. A third condition of increased legitimization is when the system is (or is perceived ... / more

Can We Believe in Our Own Lies?

... third group of participants is included as a delay test-only condition (i.e., controls). These participants do not receive any instructions ... events happened to them (i.e., fabricated-experimental vs. control events). After that, those that indicated that the experimental event ... / more

From Derogation to Reclamation: How Does Language Change?

... commonly used toward their group and, depending on the condition, to remember a time in which their group was either powerful or ... self-labelling elicited feelings of power and being in control. To be effective, reclaiming needs to be perceived as empowering ... / more