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When Nothing Bad Happens but You’re Still Unhappy: Boredom in Romantic Relationships

... and passion are both emotional and highly arousing in nature, while commitment to one’s partner and engagement in romantic ... 243-254. Smith, R. P. (1981). Boredom: A review. Human Factors, 23, 329-340. Strong, G., & Aron, A. (2006). The effect ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... In fact, because bodily responses belong to our physical nature, researchers tend to think that they have to operate in our mind through ... and facilitating conditions of the human smile: A nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis.Journal of ... / more

Human, or Less than Human?

... question for psychology than what it is that makes us human. It’s harder still to come up with an acceptable answer. Great thinkers through the ages have puzzled over the nature of human nature , and so have contemporary psychological theorists. ... / more

Reconsidering Race in the Genetic Era

... important that the public understand the true complexity of human genetics and its relationship to race. Empirical studies in psychology ... of genomics research: A blueprint for the genomic era . Nature, 422, 835-847. Condit, C. M., Parrott, R. L., Bates, B. R., ... / more

‘The Vision Thing’

... features (e.g., selection processes, salary schemes, the nature of competitors) can impact upon a leader’s effectiveness. It is ... Dynamic categorization processes in the 'poll tax riot'.  Human Relations, 53, 247-273. Turner, J. C. (1991).  Social ... / more

Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... 1979 ). Yet, many psychological theories that explain human functioning and behavior do not seem to care much for this important ...  approach lies in the recognition of the group-based nature of many psychological mechanisms that are often too easily ascribed to ... / more

Love at First Sight

... launch’d a thousand ships," maybe we should start with the human face in our quest for an answer. After all, when people meet, their faces ... on the brain of the young animal (originally designed by nature to make it easier for an offspring to identify and find its nurturing ... / more

The Anatomy of Love

... relatedness with others is one of the three most fundamental human motivations, along with having a sense of competence and ... my meaning. This is the type of situation up with which nature does not put. If people don’t produce kids fast enough, then nature ... / more

Altruism: Myth or Reality?

... of benefiting another—does exist and is a part of human nature ."(p. 27) If empathic concern produces motivation with the ... / more

Creativity is More Than a Trait: It’s a Relation

... and did so freely, i.e. with no limitations due to laws (of nature). All other crafts and technologies were interpreted as acts of ... to God. This verb no longer designated the realm of human action, because only the divine could produce a “creation from ... in the sciences, believed that the variation observed in human intellect was controlled by genetically-determined, biological processes. ... / more