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It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

... thought (Johansson, Hall, & Sikström, 2008). Rather than monitoring all of the visual details that surround us, we seem to focus our ... This should make a difference – shouldn’t it? A group of Swedish researchers explored whether people may at times be blind to ... / more

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

... in important ways from people who do not. Perhaps this group was simply smarter or more observant and realized that the books ... towards specific and frequently discussed policies – like monitoring the mercury dumped into rivers – may be less susceptible. Further, ... / more

Empathy and prejudice after attacks in Paris and Beirut

On Friday November 13 th 2015, a group of at least 7 attackers started shooting and bombing at six locations in ... in the EU after 11 September 2001. Vienna: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. Allport, G. W. (1954). The ... / more

Was that how it happened? Shaping our memory for personal experiences in conversation with others

... memories can sometimes be the result of source monitoring errors . Source monitoring refers to one’s ability to ... to identify inaccuracies in the account introduced by other group members, and instead attribute these to the experienced event. For ... / more

Sleepy Politics: How Sleep Deprivation can Affect Political Decision Making

... can have negative effects on motivation and learning in a group. However, there are possible ways in which sleep deprivation might not be ... might compensate for deficits by using advice or by mutually monitoring group performance. Another point to consider is that problems ... / more

Selfie-Esteem: The Relationship Between Body Dissatisfaction and Social Media in Adolescent and Young Women

... exposure (i.e., media exposure to the people in one’s peer group) with eating pathology in Fijian adolescent girls. Despite its ... teenage girls who used Facebook were more concerned with monitoring body appearance, idealizing thinness, and pursuing thinness, than ... / more

Cooperation in social dilemmas: How can psychology help to meet climate change goals?

... Faber, Savulescu, & Van Lange, 2016). Emphasising a shared group identity among participants can increase cooperation in laboratory ... norms as discussed above. Fourthly, there must be ongoing monitoring of the effects, as well as capacity for revision through some kind ... / more

Welcome to the Matrix! Opportunities and Risks of the Virtual World

... Dutch Delft University of Technology. They ask questions, monitoring Jan's reactions, and even controlling his date to observe his ... VR help these people? To answer this question, a research group at University College London have created an unusual virtual space. ... / more

The Kids are Alright? An Interview with Well-Being Ambassador Will Williams and a Case for Bringing Mindfulness to Schools

... are we to do? Fortunately, most of us have a solid support group to talk to or a partner or close friend who we can vent our frustrations ... J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2008). Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences ,  12 , 163-169. ... / more

Can We Believe in Our Own Lies?

... ; [38] ; [39] ). Moreover, in some studies a third group of participants is included as a delay test-only condition (i.e., ... memory impairment related to fabrication is the source monitoring framework (SMF; [66] ). According to the SMF, oftentimes ... / more