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

... (Blau & Kahn, 2007). This issue has received increased media attention lately partly because Jill Abramson, the first woman executive ... in human mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50 , 3, 559-570. Chambers, J. R., Baron, R. S. Inman, ... / 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 ... Carey, 2013). As FWBs have increased in popularity, so have media depictions of these relationships, including the popular films No Strings ... / more

Revisiting the past can make the present a better place: The psychological and social benefits of nostalgia

... this view lacked scientific support. In recent years, social psychologists have employed scientific methods to more systematically ... versions of “the classics”. And of course, social media is thriving, in part, by capitalizing on people’s desire to ... / more

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

... to death (Mercer, 2013), to name just a few. With all this media attention on violence, it’s not strange that most people believe our ... beliefs, the lack of help can be explained differently. The social and psychological forces at play during a bystander effect ... / more

Can you replicate that?

... across several disciplines in science has led to a lot of media attention (Begley, 2012) and feisty arguments over the value of ... this year, for example, an entire issue of the journal Social Psychology was devoted to publishing studies that attempted to ... / more

Never give up: The persistence of misinformation effects

... risk of developing autism  (Wakefield et al., 1998). The media got a hold of Wakefield’s findings and soon spread these around the ... perseverance, and change of naive theories. Social Cognition , 16 (1), 8-30. Cohen, E., & Falco, M. (2011, 11 ... / more

Who gives a Tweet? Fandom, social identity, and why people take to Twitter

... perceive us, and the extent to which we express our social identities in order to bolster our self-esteem . This blog will ... to express their social identities using social media and, more specifically, will propose that Twitter serves an important ... / more

Solid science: How graduate students foster research transparency

... their results? A Cambridge scholar in the field of social psychology, whose paper failed to replicate, stressed that ... especially if accompanied by mocking and bullying on social media . So the burden of proof needs to be high before claims about ... / more

On kissing in elevators and flirting in the office: A cross-cultural perspective on normative behavior.

... and cross the street, you just broke what is called a social norm . Social norms help us to effectively respond to social ... of religiosity within a country, the degree to which the media is controlled or the severity of punishments in the criminal justice ... / more

The perverse incentives that stand as a roadblock to scientific reform

... one finds in journals like the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is the multi-study package of 5 or more, small N studies, ... downright startling (Ross, Lepper, & Ward, 2010).  Now that media mentions and alternative metrics, like number of twitter followers are ... / more