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Reconsidering Race in the Genetic Era

... is a topic that has been explored throughout the history of social psychology research. Typically, this research has focused on how our ... and its relationship to mechanisms of motivated social cognition.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88 (4), 686-702. ... / more

Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die

The riddle of death  Martin Luther King Jr., the social activist who represents for many the ideal of a meaningful life, ... MS effects have been shown to go beyond the realm of mere cognition into defensive behaviors that could prove dangerous for both the ... / more

Social Judgment: Warmth and Competence are Universal Dimensions

... statistical analyses suggested two primary dimensions of social perception : social good-bad ( warmth ) and intellectual good-bad ... of Analysis: Understanding Culture, Intergroup Relations and Cognition  (Guimond, S., ed.), pp. 249–263, Cambridge University Press. ... / more

Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... reason for this is that groups are part and parcel of our social lives. Groups fulfill our needs for belongingness, affiliation , and ... Caporael, L. R. (1997).  The evolution of truly social cognition: The core configurations model.  Personality and Social Psychology ... / more

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

... approach is based on the interaction between three social systems: the individual, the  field  and the  domain  (see ... Finke, R., Ward, T., & Smith, S. (1996).  Creative cognition.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Flaherty, A. (2005).  Frontal ... / more

The Naked Power: Understanding Nonverbal Communications of Power

... these ideas are often exaggerated and misguided. Likewise, social psychologists still have no good understanding of the nonverbal cues ... over the association of power and size.  Social Cognition . Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Seibt, B. (2007).  The ... / more

There’s Something About Zero

... of synaesthesia research, but (as is appropriate for a social psychology magazine) I have chosen a final use that has social ... Synaesthesia and Visuo-Spatial Number Forms ? Cognition, 101, 114-128. Simner, J. and Hubbard, E.M. (2006). Variants of ... / more

Do Multicultural Experiences Make People More Creative? If So, How?

... moderating influence of fear of invalidity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 855-866. Rubin, D. C., & Kontis, T. C. (1983). A schema for common cents.  Memory and Cognition, 11, 335-341. Torrance, E. P. (1974). Torrance Tests of ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... a colleague put to me the question: Why are humans still social? That “still” was weighty with meaning—the idea of a primal ... The task group affords possibilities for distributed cognition, which refers to shared cognitive tasks such as perception , ... / more

Are Blonds Really Dumb?

... Through the activation of such category-based knowledge, our cognition and behavior is influenced. This may lead to a continuous ... J. A., Chen, M., & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype ... / more