29 results for „understanding hypothesis“
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magazine issue | 10/2013
A funny thing happened on the way to romance: How humor influences romantic relationship initiation
... To help avert a flirting disaster and to grow in our understanding of social dynamics, we can take a closer look at the role humor ... connecting humor with intelligence supports the evolutionary hypothesis that humor developed to indicate fitness. Humor production ... / more
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Everyone is prejudiced, too
... new research in political psychology that is changing our understanding of what prejudice is, and who is prejudiced. When you ... and Wetherell (2014) developed the Ideological Conflict Hypothesis (ICH) , which argues that liberals and conservatives are equally ... / more
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Are voters rational?
... However, research helps us advance closer to a genuine understanding of voter rationality – or irrationality, as the case may be. As ... system ? A large-scale test of the status–legitimacy hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104 , 765-785. ... / more
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Being rational and emotional are not (necessarily) contradictions
... best tradeoff between my short-term and long-term goals. By understanding the factors that influence these goals – whether they are ... system ? A large-scale test of the status–legitimacy hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 104 , ... / more
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Social: why our brains are wired to connect.
... Humans have large brains. According to the social brain hypothesis, proposed by Robin Dunbar, the social environment played a large ... and the workings of the mirror system that supports action understanding. For example, Lieberman covers how these systems contribute to ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
Judging a book by its cover: Prior knowledge determines the effect of embodied cues.
... influences that judgment. Three studies directly test this hypothesis, finding that participants evaluated a book as more ... If this is the case, then there is much work to be done in understanding how different physical experiences influence thinking and ... / more
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Bleeding-heart liberals and hard-hearted conservatives: Political dehumanization in the United States
... findings are consistent with the ideological conflict hypothesis (Brandt et al., 2014) discussed in my previous blog post, in that ... research questions will help us further develop our understanding of political prejudice and its consequences. ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation
... provide practitioners and curious intellectuals a primer for understanding this fascinating area of human thought. Our lives are ... the human smile: A nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5), 768-777. ... / more
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Political ideology is more than just “liberal” and “conservative”
... for policy and intergroup attitudes. The importance of an understanding of ideology that includes multiple dimensions is illustrated in ... ideologically dissimilar others (the ideological conflict hypothesis, or ICH; Brandt, Reyna, Chambers, Crawford, & Wetherell, 2014), my ... / more
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magazine issue | 08/2015
Why do we so often ignore the influence of situations on behavior?
... idea for why the FAE happens is known as the just-world hypothesis. Lerner (1977) suggested that people are motivated to view the world ... questions about those stories that relied either on the understanding of mental states or of physical states. Fletcher and colleagues ... / moreHere you can search the entire InMind magazine for any content of your choice. You can reduce your search results by selecting one or more filter options in the right column.