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Doing This Makes People Twice as Likely to Help You, According to Wharton Psychologist Adam Grant
When you ask people for help with projects or tasks, how likely are they to do what you ask? It turns out that one factor tips the balance between likely to help you or unlikely--whether you thanked them last time they did. It may seem obvious that thanking someone for a favor makes them more willing to do another one, but you might be surprised at how big a difference it makes. ...
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Showing Gratitude Is Good for All of Us, so Why Don’t We Give Thanks More?
Giving thanks is good for the person giving it as well as the one receiving it. So why don’t we express gratitude more often? Research suggests that many people don’t realize how much a simple gesture of thanks can mean. In one 2018 study published in Psychological Science, over 300 participants were asked to write a letter of gratitude to someone who positively impacted them — their parents, friends, coaches or teachers from long ago. ...
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Social Psychologists Behind “Unskilled and Unaware of It” Bias Idea Receive 2023 Grawemeyer Award
The two were recognized for their idea, known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, which shows that people who perform worse on certain tasks tend to have overly flattering opinions of their ability to perform them.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on graduate training, changing the understanding of etiology, the cross-category effect among Hispanic and Latino populations, destigmatizing borderline personality disorder, research into consciousness, and much more.
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Hearing is Believing: Sounds Can Alter Our Visual Perception
Audio cues can not only help us to recognize objects more quickly but can even alter our visual perception. That is, pair birdsong with a bird and we see a bird—but replace that birdsong with a squirrel’s chatter, and we’re not quite so sure what we’re looking at.
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APS Board of Directors Accepts Resignation of Perspectives on Psychological Science Editor-in-Chief
On December 6, 2022, at 9:35 a.m. ET (2:35 p.m. UTC), at the request of the APS Board of Directors, Klaus Fiedler, Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Psychological Science, submitted his resignation, which has been accepted.
