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Word of mouth: How our tongue shapes our preferences, and why you should eat popcorn in the cinema

... it will not influence you anyway. However, psychological research has identified how branding hacks into your mind and how you can ... a ball and others to eat popcorn. Eating popcorn is a funny experimental condition for participants, but for basic psychological research, ... / more

The year the journals changed

... in psychology are starting to insist on better reporting of research studies. In this first post of a two-part series, I will explain some ... “streamline” their results by leaving out measures and experimental conditions that didn’t work, or to get their results to an ... / more

Sticks and stones and breaking bones: Social psychology and school aggression

... for decades, it has been less than ten years since this research expertise was applied to the playground.  Since then it has been ... a summer school two different colored t-shirts to wear. In experimental groups, use of the colored t-shirts was made in activities, and ... / more

Pre-registration watch part 1: Detecting deception

... analysis plan before they run that study. This way of doing research has been argued for by several authors in several journals (e.g., ... or unknowingly) and this practice could help make the research we do more solid. Because an increasing number of people are ... What makes for a convincing replication ? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 50 , 217–224. ... / more

Can music create intercultural understanding? According to Madonna (and psychological research), it can!

... about the values that its listeners hold. In an experimental design, Boer and colleagues (2011) found that fans on rock, metal, ... / more

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

... body and measuring thought But how can psychological research test suc h ideas in experiments? The main path that has been taken ... own lab, we are already using Arduino hardware to build up experimental devices. Here are three examples: We started by hooking up an ... / more

Would One Direction be as popular if we got to re-run the world?

... world, but we can create multiple virtual worlds. In the research I’ll describe, the worlds were seeded with the identical sets of ... J. & Watts, Duncan J. (2008) Leading the herd astray: An experimental study of self-fulfilling prophecies in an artificial cultural ... / more

Coping with being bullied

In this blog post, I discuss recent research suggesting that being the victim of bullying can have a long-lasting ... other managed to put it into perspective over time.  Recent research on the stress of being bullied suggests that, while bullying has a ... A systematic and meta- analytic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology . 7 (1),27–56. ... / more

Why Are We Still Spanking Our Kids?

... Insult, aggression and the Southern culture of honor: An “experimental ethnography”. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , ... Report on physical punishment in the United States: What research tells us about its effects on children . Center for Effective ... / more

Smile! And I tell you where you’re from

... song ) hold that we all laugh in the same language, recent research has found that people are remarkably adapt at detecting local accents ... cross-cultural component. For example, researchers used experimental material that was designed by colleagues in other countries. When ... / more