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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 applications. Most people still aren’t aware of synaesthesia , and ... Ward, J., Simner, J. and Auyeung, V. (2005). A comparison of lexical-gustatory and grapheme-colour synaesthesia ... / more

From Heavens to Hells to Heroes

... what extent was their behavior shaped by the same kinds of social psychological forces that operated in the Stanford Prison Experiment, ... special—to see them as superhuman, practically beyond comparison to the rest of us. Just as with the psychology of evil, situations ... / more

Fairness Judgments: Genuine Morality or Disguised Egocentrism?

... When people think about fairness, they often think about social norms and values, or about general moral principles such as equality ... procedure on one occasion. These two situations thus draw a comparison between perceiving a major injustice happening to someone else (the ... / more

Are Blonds Really Dumb?

... of African-Americans was subliminally primed. In comparison to a neutrally primed control group, these participants reacted with ... J. A., Chen, M., & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype ... / more

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Why do we sometimes enjoy the misfortune of others?

... immoral feeling (Baudelaire, 1855/1955); and as harmful to social relations (Heider, 1958). Although schadenfreude carries a negative ... less enviable and transforms a painful upward social comparison into a more favourable comparison (Smith et al., 1996; Van Dijk, ... / more

The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

... spokespersons, sparked so much controversy? Taking a social psychological perspective, this article attempts to address the good, ... Within the context of body image , social comparison theory states that people will make automatic comparisons to ... / more

Re-thinking how we think about conformity

... pink tights (and got laughed at by your friends). See the comparison yourself: Do a Google image search for tights in Japanese ( ... people’s behavior is a response to the physical and social environment they find themselves in. Toshio Yamagishi demonstrated this ... / more

Free will without metaphysics

... confusion and disagreement regarding free will’s role in social life, in particular, how people understand free will and whether free ... free will (r2 = .41) and blame (r2 = .52) to an agent. As a comparison, SAT scores predict college freshman GPA at r2 = .30 (Sackett et ... / more

Now I ain’t sayin she’s a gold digger, but will she get with someone who makes less than her, either?

... in human mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50 , 3, 559-570. Chambers, J. R., Baron, R. S. Inman, ... (2014) What do men and women really want? A cross-cultural comparison of gendered beliefs about romantic relationships. Manuscript in ... / more