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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring links between procrastination and psychopathology, post-divorce depression and mortality, and co-development of relational aggression and disruptive behavior.
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Too Fast, Too Slow: Judging–And Misjudging–Speeds
Video played at different speeds can quickly alter what people perceive as normal speed, which may affect how we drive, play sports, and even make decisions as jury members.
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The Rhythm of Prosociality
Chanting at football games, singing national anthems, and marching in a band are examples of rituals that bring groups of people together. They all incorporate synchrony, a matching of rhythmic behaviors, which appears to generate
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Strangers Can Detect Social Class in Just Seven Words
New research shows that a person’s social class is communicated in very brief interactions and maybe even in a few words.
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Cognitive Abilities Seem to Reinforce Each Other in Adolescence
Scientists from Cambridge, London, and Berlin directly compared different proposed explanations for the phenomenon of ‘general intelligence’ and how it develops over time.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Associative Learning of Social Value in Dynamic Groups Oriel FeldmanHall, Joseph E. Dunsmoor, Marijn C. W. Kroes, Sandra Lackovic, and Elizabeth A. Phelps The researchers examined value-based learning in social situations in two experiments. In the first experiment, participants received large monetary offers from "good" dictators and small monetary offers from "bad" dictators. The good and bad dictators then offered similar monetary amounts while partnered with a novel dictator.
