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Love at First Sight

... into six groups. Then, after cutting the pictures from each group in two, shuffling them, and placing them on a table, they invited a panel ... in the Physical Appearance of Spouses.Motivation and Emotion, 11, 335-346. Recommended Readings   Malin, S. ... / more

The Night of Nancy: Social Psychology and Football

... the Dutch Police Academy as well as through the tenets of group emotions, I will argue that the French police, the UEFA, and both soccer ... e.g.  Frijda , 1993) after experiencing and appraising an emotion. Frustration of not obtaining a certain goal for example could ... / more

Not Again! I’m Looking for a Job but I Don’t Know Why It Is Taking So Long!

... outcomes through their influence on both problem and emotion focused coping during the search process. The authors placed ... suggesting a difference between problem-focused and emotion-focused  coping behaviors following job loss. In terms of ... foraging strategies influence the length of unemployment. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7, 305-315. ... / more

After Trayvon: The science of protecting innocent black men

... showed a modest stereotype against their own racial group. This generalization obviously ties black men to crime and ... prejudice biases people’s perceptions of the facial emotion displayed by others. The researchers showed to white men and women ... / more

Political convictions emerge from the gut

... . In this second part of the series, I describe how emotion may drive political attitudes and voting behavior. In the final part of ... G. L. (2003). Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs. Journal of personality and social ... / more

Being rational and emotional are not (necessarily) contradictions

... In the second part of the series, Matt Moytl described how emotion may drive political attitudes and voting behavior . In the final part ... maximizing income), but they may also help further moral, group- (as opposed to self-) related, or long-term agendas. For example, when ... / more

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

... asked participants to do one of the following tasks. One group of participants should knead a ball with their left hand during reading ... this effect. Chewing in times of the crisis Another emotion that comes with repetition is trust. You more likely trust someone or ... / more

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

... found that when a person is excluded socially from a group, their finger temperature drops somewhat. They used a very precise ... Rotteveel, M., Fischer, A. H., & Hess, U. (2009). Embodied emotion concepts   : How generating words about pride and ... / more

Learning from our dreams

... Westport, CT US: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group. Cartwright, R., Agargun, M. Y., Kirkby, J., & Friedman, J. K. ... S. & Aron, A. (2014). Dreaming of you: Romantic behavior and emotion in dreams of significant others predict subsequent relational ... / more

No strings attached: Are “friends with benefits” as complicated in real life as they are in the movies?

... the solution to their problems is to decouple sex and emotion and just have sex with one another. Things get hot and heavy and ... most researchers to date have studied FWBs as one homogenous group. As a result, we must await future research to determine whether certain ... / more