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Free Will in Social Psychology

... impulses. My own interest in free will emerged from my research on self-regulation . Many animals have some limited capacity for ... the great flexibility and diversity of human behavior. Experimental studies on self-regulation carried out by my colleagues have ... / more

Do the Math: Cognitive Load Attenuates Negative Feelings

... as it is about getting the answer right. That is, recent experimental findings have demonstrated that performing a cognitive task can ... your ex. But how exactly can numbers replace feelings? Research suggests it is because both cognitive tasks and emotional responses ... / more

Culture and Health Psychology: Insights from a Socio-Cultural Perspective

... cultural differences in psychological functioning and research using these constructs, by no means, captures the breadth of the ... of gain- vs. loss-framed health messages . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 535-541. ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... to the same message ( Wells & Petty , 1980). Other research has found that information presented while performing an approach ... 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

How on Earth Do People Understand Each Other in Everyday Conversation?

... take the context and each other's viewpoint into account. Research has shown that perspective taking and determining  common ... pairs were allowed to behave naturally, yet in other experimental conditions the listeners were distracted (unknown to the speaker) ... / more

Human, or Less than Human?

... humans from robots (Haslam et al., 2008). Recent research by Wegner and colleagues on "mind perception " (Gray, Gray & ... unconscious, and it can be demonstrated using computer-based experimental tasks that assess people’s rapid and automatic responses to ... / more

Reconsidering Race in the Genetic Era

... been explored throughout the history of social psychology research. Typically, this research has focused on how our conceptions (or ... essentialism and stereotype endorsement . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 228-235. Behar, D. M., Villems, R., ... / more

The Naked Power: Understanding Nonverbal Communications of Power

... are associated with  power  or powerlessness, and where research on this topic is currently going, is the topic of this article. ... a colleague of the experimenter who, depending on the experimental condition, either sat in an expanded pose (legs and arms ... / more

Exposing an Armed Criminal: What Can We Learn from Psychology and the Police?

... In this article I will review a selection of scientific research on the issue within the field of psychology. The evidence derived ... a criminal act. On top of that, the findings from experimental research on how an emotional state is being reflected in ... / more

From Heavens to Hells to Heroes

... celebrating that mental agility for most of my life, as a research psychologist for the past fifty years, but even before that as a child ... 1971; I became Superintendent of the Sanford Prison, an experimental prison run by psychologists, not by the state. I wanted to ... / more