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Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future

... of contact that drives modern school exchanges and cross-group buddy schemes. In the years since Allport’s initial intergroup ... , as exemplified by the unique importance of cross-group friendships in reducing prejudice (Pettigrew, 1998). Most friends ... / more

Job insecurity climate: On shared perceptions of job insecurity

... of anticipating job loss at your work place or in your work group. Maybe something dramatic happened, for instance that the company you ... or later. Anticipating job loss is an agonizing state of mind. In fact, experiencing insecurity related to the continuity of one’s job ... / more

Does Exercise Truly Make You Happy?

A healthy mind in a healthy body or mens sane in corpore sano, as Decimus Junius ... imply some causal relationship between exercise and a sound mind. However, when Juvenalis (one of the great Roman satirists of his time) ... N. J. & Smith, R. E. (1985). A comparative outcome study of group psychotherapy versus exercise treatments for depression . ... / more

Brain Training: Practice Keeps You Fit

... differently in each individual. Keeping our mathematician in mind, we might conclude tentatively that cognitive reserve is restricted to ... person. One can only imagine the positive influences that group brain training could have. References Kelly, A.M.C., Garavan, H., ... / more

When conversations flow

... on an interpersonal level or on the level of consensus in a group. The question we aim to answer in this paper is: Why do we feel ... by insuperable delays in the Internet connection. Keeping in mind the effects of conversational flow for feelings of belonging and ... / more

Death and deities: A social cognitive perspective

... of religious belief, such as for health (Bulbulia, 2004), group flourishing (Wilson, 2002), and mating (Bering, 2011). However, much ... beliefs, cultural religiosity, and impaired theory of mind affect the implicit bias to think teleologically. Unpublished doctoral ... / more

It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

... This should make a difference – shouldn’t it? A group of Swedish researchers explored whether people may at times be blind to ... Blindness in Eyewitness Settings With these studies in mind, we wondered what the implications of choice blindness for eyewitness ... / more

The dish on gossip: Its origins, functions, and bad reputation

... place. Defining Gossip If you were to ask a group of friends to write down their definitions of gossip , you would ... Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.),   The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture   (pp. ... / more

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

... Circle is based on two axes: social scale (individual vs. group skills) and process scale (input vs. output orientation). An interesting ... strength, is that it is written with business students in mind. In times when governmental savings reach higher education, economical ... / more

Successful Dieting in Tempting Environments: Mission Impossible?

... weight loss over time (Jeffery et al., 2000). One group seems especially unsuccessful in controlling food intake: Chronic ... while thoughts about eating enjoyment are flooding the mind of dieters. Moreover, dieters evaluate pizza more positively and perceive ... / more