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Finding Your Way With Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies

... not being good parents. In fact, one of the chapters, “You don’t have to be perfect,” addresses this issue and cites research by ... / more

Seeing and Believing: Common Courtroom Myths in Eyewitness Memory

... “common sense”. However, surveys suggest that people don’t understand why they distrust memory or what factors can influence the ... Houston, K. A., Hope, L., Memon, A., & Don Read, J. (2013). Expert testimony on eyewitness evidence: In search of ... / more

Are conservatives really simple-minded?

... What does this all mean? And I want to say up front that I don’t know for sure. I think that sometimes-awkward statement of doubt (“I don’t know”) is scientifically important. As we stated in the paper, I’m ... / more

From the Editors: On the Current State of Science Journalism

... scientists to step back, think about what we know (or don’t), and then go back to doing what they do best. There’s another ... something like, “That’s an interesting idea, but we don’t have strong evidence yet to corroborate such claims.” Unfortunately, ... / more

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

... on voting for them (other than that crazy relative you don’t talk to), almost half of Americans polled support the candidate you ... But if those other guys are wrong, we are right, and we don’t like them anyway, why should we care? Remember how you don’t know ... / more

Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live With Themselves

... and advantageous comparisons. I directly asked myself why I don’t see more of this in the news on television, newspapers or online. I was ... / more

Adverse Childhood Experiences and its lifelong consequences

... What are ACEs? Many children have a hard time at home and don’t grow up in loving, stable households. Therefore they don’t receive the love and care they need to grow up happy and healthy. ... / more

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

... should not try to guess and that it is okay to say “I don’t know” or “I don’t understand”). The pre-substantive phrase continues with a rapport ... / more

In Defense of Anger: An Evolutionary Necessity and its Contemporary Applicability

... doesn’t make me any less irritated, because my emotions don’t care about the logic behind his actions. Just as I cannot control the ... personality disorder, who seem to lack emotion, but also don’t have the outward charm of a psychopath. This inevitably causes them to ... / more

Straight talk about gaydar: How do individuals guess others’ sexual orientation?

... trigger implicit bias or prejudice .   What We Don’t Know About Gaydar Research has produced mixed results about ... / more