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Uncovering the Intricacies of Unethical Behavior
Various factors — including values and beliefs about what is correct, patterns of social orientation, and cost-benefit expectations — interact to produce unethical behavior.
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Your Choice of Friends Can Help You Improve Your Focus
Having trouble disciplining yourself to hit the gym rather than joining colleagues for happy hour? Unable to stop chatting with your friend in the next cubicle even though a deadline is looming? Many of us struggle to resist temptations—even fighting to keep from checking Facebook when we’re trying to finish a report to the boss. The remedy may be developing close working relationships with people who exhibit a high degree of self-discipline, according to a recent study.
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Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology will take place February 13–15, 2014 in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.spsp.org/?Convention.
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Warning of Potential Side Effects of a Product Can Increase Its Sales
Drug ads often warn of serious side effects, from nausea and bleeding to blindness, even death. New research suggests that, rather than scaring consumers away, these warnings can improve consumers’ opinions and increase product sales when there is a delay between seeing the ad and deciding to buy or consume the product. “Messages that warn consumers about potentially harmful side effects — presumably with the intent to nudge them to act more cautiously — can ironically backfire,” says psychological scientist Ziv Carmon of INSEAD in Singapore.
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What to Remember Before a Job Interview
It’s easy to feel nervous and awkward when applying for a new job. Unless you’re already working and a potential employer is trying to poach you, you’re essentially at the mercy of a recruiter looking at your résumé and talking with you about your qualifications. That can instill a profound sense of vulnerability. But new research has identified a possible strategy that can help job candidates improve their confidence and communication skills during the interview process. An international team of scientists recently found that you can more effectively impress recruiters by merely recalling a time when you felt powerful.
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Some Parts of Memory Still Developing Deep Into Childhood
Young Children Have Difficulty When Elements of Memory Overlap Memory for not only what happened, but where and when something happened, undergoes substantial development even after the age of 7, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The study suggests that this kind "episodic memory" takes longer to develop than often assumed. The findings indicate that young children may have no problem with remembering certain simple events or facts. But, in some cases, they may have difficulty placing them in the right place, time or context.
