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Women underperform on spatial tests when they don’t expect to do as well as men, but framing the tests as social tasks eliminates the gender gap in performance, according to new findings published in...
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The Dunnette Prize, named after the late Marvin D. Dunnette, is given to honor living individuals whose work has significantly expanded knowledge of the casual significance of individual differences...
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From romantic dramas to tensions at work, we’re often better at working through other people’s problems than our own—while we may approach our friends’ problems with wise, clear-eyed objectivity, we...
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When asked about emergency situations, most people say they would spontaneously help another person. However, not everyone does so in real life, especially when there are other people around, a...
View ArticleNew Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Tracking Colisteners’ Knowledge States During Language Comprehension Olessia Jouravlev, Rachael Schwartz, Dima Ayyash, Zachary...
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Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Prosody and Function Words Cue the Acquisition of Word Meanings in 18-Month-Old Infants Alex de Carvalho, Angela Xiaoxue He, Jeffrey...
View ArticleThe Opposite of Procrastination
For every employee who chronically misses deadlines, there is another who completes assignments far ahead of schedule. One worker may take days to respond to an email, while another may write back so...
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Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Can a Good Life Be Unsatisfying? Within-Person Dynamics of Life Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being in Late MidlifeHenry R....
View ArticleThis Book Is Not About Baseball. But Baseball Teams Swear by It.
… Baseball is littered with examples of varying body types — Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, who is 5-foot-6, and Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, who is 6-7, finished 1-2 in the 2017 American...
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A Social-Identity Theory of Information-Access Regulation (SITIAR): Understanding the Psychology of Sharing and WithholdingWilliam J. Bingley, Katharine H. Greenaway, and S. Alexander HaslamAccording...
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