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“Look in my eyes. I said in my eyes!”: Antecedents and Consequences of (Self-) Objectification

... : cf. Noll & Fredrickson, 1998) or a as a state, via an experimental manipulation consisting, for example, in wearing a swimsuit vs. a sweater in ... / more

It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

... have refrained from revealing that they noticed the manipulation . However, the fact that many participants noticed one of the ... and target-absent base rates.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12 , 11-30. Chabris, C. F., & ... / more

Anger Management

... cause of aggression. In support of that view, nearly all experimental studies of aggression try to make participants angry first. For ... way. Our studies borrowed the “mood-freezing pill” manipulation developed by Robert Cialdini and his colleagues in the 1980s. ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... their best or worse qualities (i.e., thought-direction manipulation ) using their dominant or non-dominant hands (i.e., overt ... easy to provide cover stories or to ask participants in experimental settings to act in a given way, it is not so easy to do so in more ... / more

Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation

... demonstrated the existence of mental simulation from an experimental perspective; more recently, they have also done so using ... should lead to mental simulations . One simple manipulation of this concept is to have a mug with the handle pointed to the ... / more

Manipulating the body, measuring the body, and tinkering in the name of Psychology

... side). Indeed, the simplicity of combining an embodied manipulation with a questionnaire is part of the charm of these experiments. ... own lab, we are already using Arduino hardware to build up experimental devices. Here are three examples: We started by hooking up an ... / more

The reason that you need to feel good about yourself in order to be happy might not be what you think it is

... to think too highly of yourself. In a set of survey and experimental studies, Yuki, Sato, Takemura and Oishi (2013) found that ... that people have on their minds. This experimental manipulation consisted of asking people to recall and write down their ... / more

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

... their belief and recollection for the action. This manipulation undermined participants’ belief for 14% to 26% of the fake ... but this review shows that they can easily be elicited in an experimental setting. The next step is to examine how nonbelieved memories ... / more

Improving the Disclosure of Information in an Investigative Interview: Rapport building and the Physical Environment

... Kelly and colleagues emphasized the role of context manipulation . In this model, context manipulation refers to the ... false confessions : A meta- analytic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology. 2014 Dec 1;10(4):459-86. [4] Nesterak E. ... / more

Just a compliment? Why positive gender stereotypes can be more harmful than they seem

... assumption of hostile sexism is that women resort to manipulation or strategically employ their sexuality in order to achieve ... threat and women’s math performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35(1) , 4–28.   [xiv] Kahalon, ... / more