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Pause Button Therapy

... and anything else is futile whether it is a drug or a manipulation technique. However, the book claims that by using the Pause Button ... / more

“Look in my eyes. I said in my eyes!”: Antecedents and Consequences of (Self-) Objectification

... & Fredrickson, 1998) or a as a state, via an experimental manipulation consisting, for example, in wearing a swimsuit vs. a sweater in ... / more

It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

... have refrained from revealing that they noticed the manipulation . However, the fact that many participants noticed one of the ... only about one-third of the participants detected this manipulation . Based on these findings, Hall and colleagues (2010) proposed ... / more

Anger Management

... way. Our studies borrowed the “mood-freezing pill” manipulation developed by Robert Cialdini and his colleagues in the 1980s. ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... their best or worse qualities (i.e., thought-direction manipulation ) using their dominant or non-dominant hands (i.e., overt behavior manipulation ). Then, participants rated the confidence in the thoughts they ... / more

The Surprising Effect of Facial Appearance on Political Decision-Making

... well-known candidates, were affected by the similarity manipulation . Overall, participants generally preferred familiar faces, but ... / more

Love at First Sight

... of the strangers’ faces were digitally altered by image manipulation software to more closely resemble their own ( DeBruine, 2002 ... / more

Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation

... should lead to mental simulations . One simple manipulation of this concept is to have a mug with the handle pointed to the ... matched the participant’s dominant hand. Such a subtle manipulation as mirroring the visual contained within an advertisement leads ... / more

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

... side). Indeed, the simplicity of combining an embodied manipulation with a questionnaire is part of the charm of these experiments. ... In particular, even when experimenters make the manipulation unobtrusive, it might happen that the participants spontaneously ... / more

The reason that you need to feel good about yourself in order to be happy might not be what you think it is

... that people have on their minds. This experimental manipulation consisted of asking people to recall and write down their ... / more