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Why do people help strangers when disaster strikes?

... has swelled in the hearts and minds of Bostonians.  Research in social psychology may offer insight into both the magnitude of ... assessments and conceptual refinements. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 29, 61-139. Isen, A. M., & Levin, P. F. ... / more

After Trayvon: The science of protecting innocent black men

... of someone else. In several experiments, for example, a research team led by Andrew R. Todd found that participants who adopted the ... control in race-based misperceptions of weapons. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 384–396. Plant, E., Devine, P. G., ... / more

Everyone is biased

... one. I then naturally gravitated toward psychological research linking political conservatism to an assortment of nasty dispositions: ... political judgments on the left and right. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 48 (1), 138-151. Crawford, J. T., & ... / more

The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

... girls believed they would be happier if they were thinner. Research has shown that the internalization of the thin ideal can occur as ... program that emphasizes the thin ideal. Participants in both experimental groups reported more negative body-focused anxiety and body weight ... / more

CEO’s, morality, and minds: How good and bad guide our perceptions of others

... but allowing help doesn’t. There have been various experimental retorts to this account (e.g., Guglielmo & Malle, 2010; Machery, ... the hypothesis is lacking.  Another problem is that other research has shown non-moral things like norms (e.g., most people eat pasta ... / more

Social: why our brains are wired to connect.

... essays are a bit different in tone and content than the experimental chapters, I do applaud Lieberman for forwarding his vision on ... whether his recommendations only follow from neuroscientific research, but it is definitely worth the effort to think and talk about what ... / more

Judging a book by its cover: Prior knowledge determines the effect of embodied cues.

Research has shown that physical experiences can influence metaphorically ... and physical cues when a student of mine found a perplexing experimental result. He approached students around campus with a copy of the ... Knowledge moderates the use of embodied cues. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(4), 948-952. Chandler, J., & ... / more

Seeing mountains in molehills: Embodied visual perception of the environment

... the embodied nature of visual perception . Furthermore, research suggests that it is not only our physical states that alter the way we ... in geographical slant perception . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 25, ... / more

More than meets the eye: Physical sensations influence first impressions

... seems. How are you able to do this? A long tradition of research on person perception shows that people can automatically perceive ... movements influence concept accessibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 123–128. Chao, L. L., & Martin, ... / more

Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation

... preparation for object interactions.  We also discuss our research showing how simple object orientation can change mental simulation ... demonstrated the existence of mental simulation from an experimental perspective; more recently, they have also done so using ... / more