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Can music create intercultural understanding? According to Madonna (and psychological research), it can!

... that support the claim that music indeed increases cooperation and, thus, brings people together. But, as you might remember, ... / more

Blame. What is it good for?

... than binding them together.      Yet, research on cooperation points in the opposite direction.  Blaming actually makes people ... Young & Saxe, 2009) and explains why blame leads to more cooperation .  Judgments that are warranted via shared social-cultural ... / more

How stress influences our morality

... 2000). This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. Cooperation evolved in order to maximize the proliferation of our ... / more

Seeing and Believing: Common Courtroom Myths in Eyewitness Memory

... the support of our law enforcement partners and the cooperation of many witnesses,” (McMenamin, 2015). On the other hand, a ... / more

What is c Factor, and Where Can I Get It?

... This aspect can help a group's leader facilitate cooperation among individuals from different ideological standpoints and ... / more

Elephants and Donkeys Are Killing The United States: Why We Need Political Diversity

... of outgroup members and increased intergroup cooperation (Allport, 1954; Iyer, 2016; Pettigrew & Trope, 2006). ... / more

Asking Children to Talk About Abuse: Can Research Help Improve Police Interviewer Skills?

... the closure phase, where the child is thanked for their cooperation and asked questions about a neutral topic for a few minutes ... / more

Cooperation in social dilemmas: How can psychology help to meet climate change goals?

... our physical environment. This cannot be done without cooperation at international, national and local levels. Bringing together ... as a “global commons problem” requiring “international cooperation” (IPCC, 2014).  Effective collective management of our ... / more

Improving the Disclosure of Information in an Investigative Interview: Rapport building and the Physical Environment

... during interviews? And can it be used to elicit cooperation and sharing of information (“disclosure”)? This paper will ... may also sometimes elicit resistance, rather than cooperation [5 , 6] . Thus, researchers have started advocating for a ... / more

Understanding Online Child Sexual Abuse and How to Talk to Children About it

... across countries within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 15-year-olds spend more than two hours ... / more