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Why Are We Still Spanking Our Kids?

... to take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social, and educational measures against corporal and mental violence (Becker, ... (b) war, (c) intimate relationships and (d) in the penal system, has been found to predict aggression both in and outside of the ... / more

Blame. What is it good for?

... I argue that while the former answer is dominant in social psychology, it predicts a dysfunctional system of blame that explains only a small portion of why people blame. ... / more

Patriot Acts: Why the USA’s recent decrease in national glorification might be a good sign

... tend to be more prejudiced and ethnocentric, believe more in social dominance, and are more concerned with military threat and cultural ... M. J., & Hassin, R. R. (2011). Implicit nationalism as system justification: The case of the United States of America. Social ... / more

When science selects for fraud

...   Publication bias , which is especially bad in the social (Peplow, 2014) and biomedical sciences (Hopewell et al., 2009), does not ... distorts the incentives for researchers. This reward system does give an advantage to those with good scientific intuitions, which ... / more

How stress influences our morality

... Kahneman’s more general “thinking fast and slow” or System 1 and System 2 assumption (Kahneman, 2011). In a nutshell, the ... standardized psychological stressor called Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), involving public speaking and difficult arithmetic ... / more

Hot or cold morality? (Part 1)

... is comprised of two competing systems: A ‘hot’ emotional system that quickly produces judgments based on ‘gut’ intuitions and a ... and may not be able to overcome initial gut reactions. Social morality In contrast to the hot, self-oriented process of ... / 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 ... people within cultures as embedded in a larger multi-level system. In these theories, the degree to which people’s individual ... / more

Time to unwind: When autonomy and motivation add weight to recovery

... Accomplishing work-related tasks puts the psychobiological system of a person under strain. Elevated blood pressure levels or fatigue are ... the end of a working day if they joined their colleagues in social or work activities. Yet, these negative effects were even more ... / more

The perverse incentives that stand as a roadblock to scientific reform

... that incentive structure?  In my opinion our incentive system rewards four qualities: 1) finding p values less than .05, 2) small N, ... one finds in journals like the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is the multi-study package of 5 or more, small N studies, ... / more

A junior researcher's practical take on the why and how of open science.

If you are a social psychologist, it’s probably old news to you that the field is in ... it is also an incredibly exciting time to be a junior social psychology researcher.  There is something about discord that opens up ... serves as a time-stamped online file storing and sharing system, not unlike Figshare or Dropbox.  But, importantly, with a click of the ... / more