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Always on the Move: How Residential Mobility Impacts Our Well-Being

... especially to the newcomers. Even more exciting, their social circles were so broad that John would likely meet various kinds of ... a few deep relationships. Spend a lot of time with a small group of close friends and provide help when they need it. ... / more

How to win (and lose) friendships across cultures: Why relational mobility matters

... personal strategy for relational success is only valid under social contexts common in your country. In particular, your typical strategy ... refers to “the degree to which a particular society or group provides individuals with opportunities to choose relational partners ... / more

Does it matter if people are aware of their implicit racial bias?

... bias—automatic attitudes and beliefs that favor one ethnic group over another. Although people can be defensive, emerging research ... prejudice . In the U.S. today, social norms make prejudice against minority groups unacceptable ... / more

Experience in Action Games and the Effects on Executive Control

... about this development and refer to potentially negative social effects (which have not been entirely proven yet). However, cognitive ... two groups of non-gamers played different games. The first group worked on a puzzle game (Tetris) with only one main task and low ... / more

Can you nonbelieve it: What happens when you do not believe in your memories?

... & Knott, in press; Lambert & Lilienfeld, 2007). One group of individuals who are particularly interesting are those who previously ... What we need is research on this type of dynamic; how social feedback leads to nonbelieved memories and further influences ... / more

Empathy and prejudice after attacks in Paris and Beirut

On Friday November 13 th 2015, a group of at least 7 attackers started shooting and bombing at six locations in ... theory that describes how our physical distance, social distance, and hypothetical distance can influence whether our thinking ... / more

What is c Factor, and Where Can I Get It?

... project team, she began as an “average” member of the group. The team was reasonably strong; they met their deadlines for the most ... well-studied dysfunctions such as " groupthink " and " social loafing ." Woolley and colleagues (2010) empirically determined there ... / more

Marginal and Happy – How can people be culturally detached and well adjusted?

... at the same time can be associated with complex feelings of group membership. In this post, I will provide an explanation for the ... their need to differentiate themselves by belonging to social groups . However, belonging to several cultural groups at the same time ... / more

Was that how it happened? Shaping our memory for personal experiences in conversation with others

...   Memories are reproductions that can be shaped by social influence Contrary to popular belief, our memories are not libraries ... to identify inaccuracies in the account introduced by other group members, and instead attribute these to the experienced event. For ... / more

Elephants and Donkeys Are Killing The United States: Why We Need Political Diversity

While the opinions expressed in our own social networks may overwhelmingly predict our presidential candidate winning ... of view.  This political polarization may help our own group in the short run, but leads to a host of negative downstream ... the liberals (Silver, 2012). With cable TV, internet, and social media now providing hundreds of explicitly partisan news sources which ... / more