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Social Judgment: Warmth and Competence are Universal Dimensions

... leading to feelings of resentment and even envy. All the media hoopla boils down to these two dimensions, which determine the outcomes ... statistical analyses suggested two primary dimensions of social perception : social good-bad ( warmth ) and intellectual good-bad ... / more

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

... and last but not least, scientific issues. Moreover, the media is filled with references to  creativity  or its synonyms.  Ochse ... approach is based on the interaction between three social systems: the individual, the  field  and the  domain  (see ... / 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 ... communicative device to uphold powerdifferences in the media ( Archer, Iritani, Kimes, & Barrios , 1983;  Schwarz & Kurz , ... / more

The Media: Carriers of Contagious Information

The media play a critical role in modern society because they are the carriers of information about how people behave. And, the evidence from social science is clear that information about others’ behavior can have a ... are performing them. In instances of mass delusions, this social validation extends to wildly irrational acts that seem to reflect ... / 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, ... relatable and provided a “fresh” perspective within the media. The campaign’s success is evident in the tremendous publicity that it ... / more

Fifty Shades of arousal misattribution and cognitive associations: How Christian Grey is making us believe that women find BDSM “hot”

... 2013).  It is likely that the film will further spread the social belief that women find it arousing to feel pain as a “submissive” ... arousing “emotional jolt” (a term used in the media violence literature).  Just because it is surprising (as is watching ... / more

Is banning bossy enough to enact real social change? Celebrity activism and the “Ban Bossy” campaign

... in the classroom and in life. In this blog I highlight the social value of celebrity activism and I highlight important caveats of ... social issues that would not otherwise be addressed by the media.  The campaign against “bossy” The latest social ... / more

Colorful Culture

... our daily lives (Morling & Lamoreaux 2008). Aspects of the media (TV ads, internet blogs, magazine articles, textbooks), art (paintings, ... in the West, and on external factors (e.g. social support ) in the East (Markus et al., 2006). These findings thus ... / more

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

... other people (i.e., prejudice ). Both the popular media and social scientists themselves often divide the political world into two sets of ... / more

Only searching for a plane? What the disappearance of Flight MH 370 reveals about the human need for meaning and certainty

... In this post, I describe how two core motives of human social behavior—the need for understanding and the need for control—shape ... is because people—family members of those on board, the media, officials leading the search, the public—need to know what happened, ... / more