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Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships

... in turn caused the students to walk slower (though this effect did not replicate with psychology students in Belgium, see Doyen, Klein, ... When we put our participants in a warm room, they judged the experimenter they had just interacted with as being psychologically closer. We ... / more

House, M.D. and the science of psychogenic illness

... a few liberties by exaggerating the details for dramatic effect? Could such events ever play out in real life? What about the ... sturdy one. At the end of the bridge, an attractive female experimenter provided these males – at this point either relatively relaxed ... / more

Are we all jerks? Why nobody helps when surrounded by others

... explain this lack of helping behavior by the Bystander effect and that there are ways to decrease this effect. It was a busy ... question is; will the real participant help by summoning the experimenter or will he or she simply sit and do nothing? In the non- bystander ... / more

Death and deities: A social cognitive perspective

... religiosity, but Osarchuk and Tatz (1973) found no effect in this group. Norenzayan and Hansen (2006) similarly found no effect on ... undesirable, or because they are motivated to provide the experimenter with an answer that fulfills his or her expectations. For example, ... / more

Would you recognize the perpetrator? What do you need to know when you have to make an identification from a lineup?

... through Robert Rosenthal’s (1966, 2002) research on the effect of teachers' expectations on schools students. Meta-cognitive variables ... known as double-blind. This helps to guard against the  experimenter effect  (Rosenthal, 1966, 2002), a well-known phenomenon in ... / more

Successful Dieting in Tempting Environments: Mission Impossible?

... studies only short-term responses were assessed and the experimenter provided the diet-reminders. For unsuccessful dieters, it would ... I. C., Polivy, J., & Herman, C. P. (1997).   The effect of pre-exposure to food cues on the eating behavior of restrained and ... / more

Free Will in Social Psychology

... at a computer and told to follow its instructions. The experimenter hit “start” and left the room, but the computer went to a ... and disorder), self-organization has a ratcheting effect of staying in place and possibly permitting further forward steps. (For ... / more

The Naked Power: Understanding Nonverbal Communications of Power

... Zuckerman , 1986;  Zuckerman & Kieffer , 1994). The effect is also present for the depiction of single individuals. A recent study ... the other person was actually a colleague of the experimenter who, depending on the experimental condition, either sat in an ... / more

Are Blonds Really Dumb?

... than if they had been primed with neutral words. This effect was equally strong for people with high and low prejudice levels. ... to complete the Scrambled Sentence Task and then find the experimenter in an adjacent room. However, when the participant had finished, ... / more

Marrying smart or marrying instead of being smart? The goal conflict between MRS degrees and STEM degrees

... ; Washington Post ). I argue that another detrimental effect of Patton’s advice is that, if heeded, it could make women avoid ... In study two, college students waited in a room while the experimenter went to “look for a missing student”. The experimenter then ... / more