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Sleepy Politics: How Sleep Deprivation can Affect Political Decision Making

... can have negative effects on motivation and learning in a group. However, there are possible ways in which sleep deprivation might not be ... not only at the individual cognitive level, but at the social level, too. These social effects of sleep deprivation can alter ... / more

Asking Children to Talk About Abuse: Can Research Help Improve Police Interviewer Skills?

... factors, such as the use of highly suggestive questions and social pressure, were later identified in the McMartin case (Garven, Wood, ... found that feedback, either from individual evaluations or group discussions, did improve interviewing skills compared to investigators ... / more

The Face of Leadership: How CEOs’ Facial Appearance Predicts Business Success

Recent research in social psychology has demonstrated that the facial appearance of Chief ... that the leaders of America’s top law firms are an elite group of highly competent individuals. Yet, just as with the Fortune 1000 CEOs, ... out-group stereotypes . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 78. Alexander, M. G., Brewer, M. B., & Livingston, ... / more

Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classics (2nd Edition)

... be overcome? And the questions can go on and on.  Social interactions are complicated and their impact on the individual is ... study, Milgram’s shock experiments, Tajfel’s minimal group studies, Lapierre’s hospitality study, Sherif’s boys’ camp studies, ... / more

Selfie-Esteem: The Relationship Between Body Dissatisfaction and Social Media in Adolescent and Young Women

Social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook have become ingrained in ... of such platforms, it is an important question whether social media use has an impact on self-concept , self-esteem , ... exposure (i.e., media exposure to the people in one’s peer group) with eating pathology in Fijian adolescent girls. Despite its ... / more

Cooperation in social dilemmas: How can psychology help to meet climate change goals?

... national and local levels. Bringing together research on social dilemmas from the laboratory and the field gives us hope that we ... Faber, Savulescu, & Van Lange, 2016). Emphasising a shared group identity among participants can increase cooperation in laboratory ... / more

The Force is Too Strong with This One? Sexism, Star Wars, and Female Heroes

... Lucasfilm (Kathleen Kennedy) and as the head of the writers group (Kiri Hart); the New York Times recently ran a story about these ... of her character is sexist [13] . When compared to other social, political, and demographic variables we measured, including the extent ... / more

Invoking Pocahontas: An act of racism disguised as politics

... psychologists are interested in understanding the impacts. Social psychologists Stephanie Fryberg and Sarah Townsend argue Native American ... relative invisibility occurs such that the group representation is erroneous and/or outdated—e.g., sports mascots and ... / more

Welcome to the Matrix! Opportunities and Risks of the Virtual World

... have developed for training people to deal with challenging social situations  [1] .With such situations, researchers hope to answer a ... VR help these people? To answer this question, a research group at University College London have created an unusual virtual space. ... / more

Does social media usage really make people miserable? Fact-checking claims about the psychology of Facebook

... Facebook is linked with poor mental health and feelings of social isolation. To his credit, Yglesias referenced a few scientific studies ... them to post more status updates. Compared to the control group, participants in the “post more updates” group reported less ... / more