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To affinity and beyond! How our preference to be among similar people interacts with our social ecology

... this to be true intuitively, it has also been verified by social and psychological science. The tendency for people to prefer similarity ... patterns of segregation would occur. In fact, eventually the system would achieve close to the mathematically maximum amount of segregation ... / more

Gender equity in science: Achievement unlocked?

... conditions, we still need to keep the pressure on the system to promote gender equity in STEM hiring.  References ... Analytic Tests of Three Theories. Personality and Social Psychology Review , 1088868315574461. Dovidio, J.F. & Gaertner, ... / more

Why do we still have a cognitive bias that makes us send innocent people to jail? – Explanations of the confirmation bias

... bias where objectivity is most needed – within the legal system. Confirmation Bias in the Criminal Justice System As ... Press. Fiske, S. T., & Taylor, S. E. (1991). Social cognition ( 2 nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Hill, C., ... / more

Why do we so often ignore the influence of situations on behavior?

... The rest of us, as onlookers, are left with a difficult social puzzle to solve. Why did the man give back the money? A few ... FAE might be a byproduct of humans having a highly-evolved system that takes behaviors we see and converts them into models of the ... / more

Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice.

... about a lot of things that are wrong with the U.S. legal system: The way suspects and victims are perceived and treated, the at times ... explanations and research findings from, for example, social and cognitive psychology or sociology. In my view, the combination of ... / more

Seeing and Believing: Common Courtroom Myths in Eyewitness Memory

... minds have extolled it as the very best tool of the justice system and also rejected it as the very worst. After the arrest of a 19-year ... on a complex interplay of personal, situational, and social factors (e.g., the witness’ distance from the perpetrator, individual ... / more

Can you nonbelieve it: What happens when you do not believe in your memories?

... trauma memories? Eyewitnesses The criminal justice system relies heavily on eyewitness testimony. Since 1989, there have been ... What we need is research on this type of dynamic; how social feedback leads to nonbelieved memories and further influences ... / more

From the Editors: On the Current State of Science Journalism

... groundbreaking discoveries from cognitive, behavioral, and social scientists impress the academic community, and continue to prove the ... deficit also reflects fundamental flaws in our education system] Anecdotally speaking, I believe this problem to be due (in part) to ... / more

It’s not a matter of fashion: How psychological research can revamp common beliefs on lesbian and gay parenting

... of children with heterosexual parents. Both personal and social outcomes have been examined: sexual identity, psychological adjustment ... adjustment of children is the result of a complex system of influences where the relationship between parents, among other ... / more

Are Perceptions of Election “Rigging” Racialized?

... Given the stakes, we believe that is important for social scientists look closely at what might be driving these troubling doubts ... influence may extend even to perceptions of the political system as a whole.   References Barreto, M., Nuño, ... / more