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

... help in an emergency when more people are nearby. A classic study shows and explains this effect. Participants were asked to sit down in ... system. There was actually only one real participant in the study; the other participants were prerecorded voices, including one person ... / more

Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future

... Contact hypothesis and inter-age attitudes: A field study of cross-age contact. Social Psychology Quarterly, 74-80. Chu, ... / more

That human touch that means so much: Exploring the tactile dimension of social life

... of the importance of touch in coping . Harlow set out to study the effect that separation from their mothers has on children by ... might be helpful to autistic individuals (see Escalona, Field , Singer-Strunck, Cullen, & Hartshorn, 2001). More broadly speaking, ... / more

Job insecurity climate: On shared perceptions of job insecurity

... divergent. Beatriz Sora and colleagues (2012) recently did a study on how climate strength affects the relationship between job insecurity ... with Employees following a Merger: A Longitudinal Field Experiment. The Academy of Management Journal, 34 (1). doi: ... / more

It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

... ) conducted a hilarious field study using this exact set-up and found that the change in identity went ... Postdicting eyewitness identification accuracy in a field study . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 15 , 46-62. ... / more

Honor and Emotion

... much later than Spanish children. A cross-cultural study on emotional narratives asked 7-year-old Spanish and Dutch children to ... Dijk, W. W., & Galluci, M. (2007). A bumpy train ride: a field experiment on insult, honor, and emotional reactions.   Emotion, ... / more

Skill sheets. An integrated approach to research, study and management

... outrageous moral and financial consequences for science, field and university. The committee formed to investigate the nature of this ... by the subtitle, An integrated approach to research, study and management , van Tulder tries to show that this set of basic skills ... / more

Anger Management

... people seem to act first, and think later. Indeed, in one study (Leith & Baumeister, 1996), angry participants were instructed to wait ... Baron, R. A. (1976). The reduction of human aggression: A field study of the influence of incompatible reactions.   Journal of ... / more

Positive Psychology and the Importance of Close Relationships in TV Sitcoms: That 70s Show, Entourage, and How I Met Your Mother

... theorists (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), the field of psychology has tended to focus its attention on the grim and painful ... Although these are very important topics for scientific study, some psychologists have argued that this research focus is too narrow, ... / more

Free Will in Social Psychology

... reactions, their physical stamina is reduced, as an early study showed ( Muraven, Tice, & Baumeister , 1998). In that study, participants watched a video and were told either to amplify or stifle ... much of the bread and butter of social psychology. Our field studies how people learn and follow norms, how they delay ... / more