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Elephants and Donkeys Are Killing The United States: Why We Need Political Diversity

While the opinions expressed in our own social networks may overwhelmingly predict our presidential candidate winning ... the liberals (Silver, 2012). With cable TV, internet, and social media now providing hundreds of explicitly partisan news sources which ... their side and to tailor your argument to fit their belief system (Tuller et al., 2015). Appeals that invoke value concerns that are ... / more

Asking Children to Talk About Abuse: Can Research Help Improve Police Interviewer Skills?

... factors, such as the use of highly suggestive questions and social pressure, were later identified in the McMartin case (Garven, Wood, ... (2015). Evaluation of a comprehensive interactive training system for investigative interviewers of children. Psychology, Public Policy, ... / more

Straight talk about gaydar: How do individuals guess others’ sexual orientation?

... These beliefs and exceptions are part of a larger belief system that is limited, in that it not only assumes a binary model of ... have been studied in terms of discrimination and social avoidance. However, gaydar researchers have not yet investigated ... / more

Invoking Pocahontas: An act of racism disguised as politics

... psychologists are interested in understanding the impacts. Social psychologists Stephanie Fryberg and Sarah Townsend argue Native American ... American Indian politics and the American political system . Rowman & Littlefield. [7] U.S. National Library of Medicines ... / more

"We are ready to move!" An interview with Daniel Lakens and Klaus Fiedler on the current challenges in the field of psychological research

... science do better?  During last year’s Cologne Social Cognition Meeting (CSCM), Jan Crusius and Oliver Genschow from the ... : What I learned is that science itself is not a fixed system. It can change. For me that's very nice, because reflecting on this idea ... / more

Origins of Common Fears: A Review

... so; she has presented evidence that our complex visual system was in part shaped by the presence of venomous snakes that preyed on our ... to fear-relevant stimuli. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 271–279. Isbell, L. (2006). Snakes as agents of ... / more

Doing ill for ‘the greater good’: Understanding what really went on in the Stanford Prison Experiment

... to topple what is possibly the single most famous study in social psychology. But the news from the archive and the Jaffe-Mark tape ... unable to keep the Prisoners in order and eventually the system collapsed. It was only when a leader who promised to restore law and ... / more

Remembering what never occurred? Children’s false memories for repeated experiences

... a crucial role in the investigation process. In the legal system, however, children have oftentimes been labelled as suggestible and ... children, made practitioners (i.e., clinical psychologists, social assistants, legal professionals, police) believe in the credibility of ... / more

The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts

... tries to bite you. Within seconds, your autonomic nervous system is activated. This system releases the stress hormone adrenaline ... participants immerse their hands in ice water, the Trier Social Stress Test ( 17 ), in which participants are forced to present a ... / more

How to get into shape like the Hulk

... suggests that it takes effort to have our reflective system use self-control to regulate our impulses all the time, especially ... relates to a wide range of behaviors.  Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16,  76-99. doi: 10.1177/1088868311418749 [6] ... / more