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Free Will in Social Psychology

... debate across multiple disciplines for centuries. What can social psychology contribute? Social psychology is unlikely to provide a ... relationships. Put more simply, the human action control system had the capabilities to function in culture. Functioning in culture ... / more

Reconsidering Race in the Genetic Era

... is a topic that has been explored throughout the history of social psychology research. Typically, this research has focused on how our ... groups. In other words, the basic physiology of our nervous system is essentially the same for all humans. When we do find minor ... / more

Taking One for the Team, Even on Your Way Out of the Door

... not directly or explicitly recognized by the formal reward system, and that in the aggregate [promote] the effective functioning of the ... on the notion of mutual rewards via the related processes of social exchange ( Blau , 1964) and reciprocity ( Gouldner , 1960). ... / more

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

... approach is based on the interaction between three social systems: the individual, the  field  and the  domain  (see ... individual’s and thefield’s culture. It is a symbolic system including ideas, behaviors, styles, etc.  Csikszentmihalyi  (1999) ... / more

On Mirror Neurons or Why it is Okay to be a Couch Potato

... the tendency of people to copy each other’s postures? In social psychology this phenomenon is called postural mirroring. All this ... the brain. We therefore sometimes also talk about the mirror system. The brain area of interest to the Italian researchers is the ... / more

‘Forever and a Day’ or ‘Just One Night’? On Adaptive Functions of Long-Term and Short-Term Romantic Relationships

... 2005). The evidence that humans possess neurophysiological system of pair-bonding and attachment (Hazan & Zeifman, 1999) speaks for ... in short-term mating. Research shows that women prefer high social status in long-term mates; conversely, for short-term mates they (like ... / more

Five Social Psychology Essentials

Social psychology teaches critical thinking about social behavior, or at least that's what we teachers like to think. It's ... components of modern society. Every political and economic system incorporates preferred views about what makes people tick and what steps ... / more

Evolution of Religion

... (or for that matter among the opponents!) of religion, the social sciences have often encountered great difficulties dealing with ... depression or anxieties, and have a poorer immune system. The need to belong might even prevail above other needs, as some ... / more

Same Same? Moral Development across Continents

... whether theories that came about as a result of particular social psychological research are valid for different cultures across ... culture? Matsumoto (2000) defines culture as ”a dynamic system of rules, explicit and implicit, established by groups in order to ... / more

Sense-making through science

... Callan, & Laurin, 2008; Lerner, 1980), our world and our social environment are far from perfectly orderly and controlled. Life in ... the endorsement of conspiracies (Whitson & Galinsky, 2008), system defense (Kay et al., 2008), susceptibility to superstitious thinking ... / more