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That human touch that means so much: Exploring the tactile dimension of social life

... and their children, and among members of a group with a shared identity. When people engage in communal sharing , they implicitly ... Cowen P., and Harmer C. (2009). Oxytocin enhances perception and memory for positive versus negative emotional information in ... / more

Job insecurity climate: On shared perceptions of job insecurity

... to you. Add to this picture that job insecurity can be shared within an organization, for instance amongst your coworkers. It thus becomes a shared perception , a climate of job insecurity. The aim of this article is to give a ... / more

The victim wars: How competitive victimhood stymies reconciliation between conflicting groups

... (Nadler, 2002). Only a radical change in each group's perception of the others can break the cycle of violence and guarantee an ... group, in which psychological and physical sufferings are shared. Some studies have documented the beneficial effects of this ... / more

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

... of physical appearance are influenced by culturally shared standards (e.g., Engeln-Maddox, 2006). In Western society, these ... that sexual objectification could cause negative social perception . For example, Loughnan and his colleagues (2010) have shown that ... / more

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

Gossip is ubiquitous – chances are that you have shared, heard, or been the topic of gossip today. Why do we love to talk ... E. R., & Collins, E. C. (2009). Contextualizing person perception : Distributed social cognition .   Psychological Review, ... / more

The Role of Honor and Culture in Group-Based Humiliation, Anger and Shame

... also occurs at a group-based level, however, when it is shared by a group of people who are related to each other (Mosquera et al., ... On the other hand, concepts like other-blaming, perception of injustice and antagonistic tendencies make humiliation similar ... / more

Family Honour and the Purity of the Family’s Essence: A Relational Models Approach

... ones, is a way to protect against contamination of the shared essence. The Brazilian novel City of God from Paulo Lins tells ... communal sharing relationships are characterized by a perception of shared essence, which is pure but can be contaminated. Families ... / more

Human, or Less than Human?

... and as cross-culturally universal; they constitute our "shared humanity". Human Nature traits are also seen as deep-seated, ... 2008). Recent research by Wegner and colleagues on "mind perception " (Gray, Gray & Wegner, 2007) reveals two very similar dimensions: ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... called “macrobands” (the seasonal gathering of bands who shared a common language, cosmology and ancestors). Quite independently, ... is a product of psychological mechanisms coordinating perception and action. It requires no thought, intention or practice. ... / more

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

... the kind of book that might be found in a specific place or shared by a specific person) . It is possible that knowledge ... N. (2009). How extending your middle finger affects your perception of others: Learned movements influence concept accessibility. ... / more