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16th European Conference on Personality
APS-EAPP Cosponsored Preconference Symposium: “The Cognitive Neuroscience of Personality Dynamics” July 10, 2012 European Association of Personality Psychology 16th European Conference on Personality (ECP16) Trieste, Italy July 10-14, 2012
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Can You Think Your Way To That Hole-In-One?
NPR: Psychologists at Purdue University have come up with an interesting twist on the old notion of the power of positive thinking. Call it the power of positive perception: They've shown that you may be able to improve your golf game by believing the hole you're aiming for is larger than it really is. Jessica Witt, who studies how perception and performance are related, decided to look at golf — specifically, how the appearance of the hole changes depending on whether you're playing well or poorly. So she took a large poster board to a golf course with circles of different sizes drawn on it. Some circles matched the size of the golf hole, some were larger and some were smaller.
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Does power reveal people’s true colors?
Business Insider: Does power reveal people's true colors? Not necessarily. People with power do show their true colors when no other factors are affecting them. Overall it's more accurate to say that power makes people behave in line with whatever influences easily come to their mind -- whether that's their true desires, their habits or the context they're in. My guess is that the distinction here is that people without power have to consider whether their feelings are appropriate so as to not rock the boat. Powerful people don't need to filter, they just react to whatever is top of mind. Read the whole story: Business Insider
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Google searches for “Free Term Paper” expose cheating in income inequality states
KALW Public Radio: A new study published in the journal Psychological Science shows a correlation between college students that come from states with high income inequality and students that cheat. The researcher, Lukas Neville, is a Ph.D. candidate in organizational behavior at Queen’s School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He said he became interested in academic dishonesty and plagiarism because of his teaching experience. Turnstyle spoke with Neville about his research. Turnstyle: What inspired you to do this study? Neville:I wanted to look at situational factors that contributed to cheating.
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Warning: This Face Is Dangerous
If you’re a little, soft-spoken guy, duking it out mano-a-mano with a tough, masculine type probably isn’t in your best interest — and a fair amount of research on threat perception and dominance explores why men perceive (and presumably avoid) threats differently. But what if you’re a little, soft-spoken gal? Christopher D. Watkins and his coauthors write in the European Journal of Personality that, similar to men, less-dominant women tend to perceive women with masculine-looking faces as more dominant than women with feminine-looking faces.
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The Psychological Science of Relationships – News Brief
Association for Psychological Science 202-293-9300 (April 16, 2012) -- Our relationships with others are an essential part of everyday life, but that doesn’t mean that understanding and getting along with other people is easy. Here is some of the latest research on the mechanisms that drive our social interactions from the journal Psychological Science. ********** You Give Me the Chills: Embodied Reactions to Inappropriate Amounts of Behavioral Mimicry Lead author: N. Pontus Leander - University of Groningen – [email protected] – in press There are some people who just give us ‘the chills,’ even though they seem perfectly polite and pleasant.
