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Are voters rational?

... preferences. Yet, even the findings within this field are inconsistent. For example, some research by Jim Sidanius and ... & Popkin, S. L. (2000). Beyond rationality: Reason and the study of politics. In A. Lupia, M. D. McCubbins, & S. L. Popkin (Eds.), ... / more

More than meets the eye: Physical sensations influence first impressions

... as personalities, emotional expressions, and behaviors. The study of person perception examines how we perceive people and infer their ... only re-descriptions of this information. The emerging field of embodied cognition , however, suggests that knowledge is based, ... / more

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

... no fluency will result. This was tested in recent field experiments. Topolinski, Lindner and Freudenberg (2014) invited German ... for advertised compared to novel products. In a second study, it was tested whether actual consumer choices could also be affected by ... / more

The year the journals changed

... standards that have typically been used to judge whether a study deserves publication or not. When success depends on meeting rigid ... avoid that kind of fraud. But what happens when an entire field – including the gatekeepers at the journals – convinces itself that ... / more

Pre-registration watch part 1: Detecting deception

... deception detection . The idea of pre-registering a study is simple: authors who decide they are going to run a study will state ... authors to do more work. However, my experience in my field of social psychology is that it is not – for my pre-registration ... / more

Manipulating the body, measuring the body, and tinkering in the name of Psychology

... such methods can quickly turn into productive tools. The field of embodiment , the topic of this special issue, is no difference. ... The manipulating-the-body strategy has been applied to study this. For instance, in experiments, participants are instructed to push ... / more

From candidate genes to genome-wide association studies

... In the early 2000s, a new technology transformed the field : genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which simultaneously ... harmonise and pool their data.This change transformed the field . While the candidate gene era produced (arguably) no findings ... / more

Can you replicate that?

... post I report on another, larger change occurring in the field : the replication movement.  Every undergraduate psychology ... experiment prove nothing. 1 Before the conclusions of a study or a larger theory are integrated into scientific knowledge, the results ... / more

How stress influences our morality

... prone to follow their emotional intuitions. Another study conducted by Starcke, Ludwig, and Brand (2012) confirmed—and ... A. (2009). Altruism and helping: The evolution of a field : The 2008 Cooley-Mead presentation. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72, ... / more

Never give up: The persistence of misinformation effects

... like Wakefield’s. They are not only limited to the field of health but have also extended to the political and commercial world. ... Seife (2012)) or when you participate in an experimental study where a researcher intentionally deceives you to test her hypotheses. ... / more