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Would One Direction be as popular if we got to re-run the world?

... Scarcity, Commitment and Consistency, Reciprocity and Social Proof. These cues, Cialdini points out, work because they are honest ... quite know, but here is a plausible scenario. You join the group right after the inversion (you don’t know this though). You check out ... / more

Political ideology is more than just “liberal” and “conservative”

... (i.e., prejudice ). Both the popular media and social scientists themselves often divide the political world into two sets of ... are prejudiced against atheists (an unconventional group), whereas social liberals are prejudiced against Evangelical Christians ... / more

Learning from our dreams

... Westport, CT US: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group. Cartwright, R., Agargun, M. Y., Kirkby, J., & Friedman, J. K. ... 141 , 261–270. McNamara, P. (1996). REM sleep: A social bonding mechanism. New Ideas in Psychology, 14 (1), 35–46. ... / more

No strings attached: Are “friends with benefits” as complicated in real life as they are in the movies?

... few decades. As some evidence of this, data from the General Social Survey reveals that among college students surveyed between 1988 and ... most researchers to date have studied FWBs as one homogenous group. As a result, we must await future research to determine whether certain ... / more

Consensual non-monogamy: Table for more than two, please

... and what people consider “normal” (monogamy) in their social group may not be necessarily the best practice for everyone.  CNM appears to ... / more

Living in a safer world: Offering help when surrounded by others for the sake of reputation

... beliefs, the lack of help can be explained differently. The social and psychological forces at play during a bystander effect ... an email with a request for help, addressed to an entire group, is often shrugged off under the pretence that someone will likely ... / more

Foul-weather friends: Social psychology and school aggression

... peers in a helpful way? Although, as a discipline, social psychology has studied such bystander effects for decades, it has been ... applied to the playground. Since then it has been shown that group processes may help us to understand children's bullying tendencies. This ... / more

When having meaning in life helps – and why

... for that day pay off or don’t relatively quickly.  If the group isn’t working out for someone, that person can leave and join another ... that uncertainty, we have developed justifying beliefs and social arrangements that make us feel better about life.  We structure life ... / more

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

... question with a ‘yes’ than when you have more of a set group of people you spend time with. In this blog, I will describe the recent ... Western than non-Western settings, we need to look at the (social) ecology of the environment in which our sense of self develops. Just ... / more

How stress influences our morality

... standardized psychological stressor called Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), involving public speaking and difficult arithmetic ... et al., 1993). Compared to the non-stressed control group, the stressed participants not only showed physiological responses like ... / more