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Revisiting the ‘Hormone of Love’
The Huffington Post: It’s been more than a decade since oxytocin was first heralded as the “hormone of love” — a distinction that came with optimistic predictions for future drug therapies. It was just a Visit Page
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Emotional Expressions and Shade of Skin Tone Affect Perception of Sex
We are very sensitive when it comes to processing faces. Subtle differences in physical properties of a face, such as configuration of facial parts, facial features, emotional expressions, skin shade, etc., can influence our facial perception. Visit Page
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A Stimulus/traits-organism-response (S/T-O-R) Model of Job Satisfaction
Over the years, situational and dispositional influences on job satisfaction has attracted much attention in the field of organizational behavior. Past research has yielded evidence that situational characteristics or environmental stimuli (S) affect job satisfaction Visit Page
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He’s Just Not That Into Me: Rejection Influences Women’s Risky Sexual Decision Making
Given the significant consequences involved in women’s choices to have unprotected sex, empirical research designed to understand the in-the-moment factors influencing women’s risky sexual decision-making has become crucial. For the present study, we employed Downey Visit Page
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Magical Thinking in Decision Making About Companion Animals
We extended contagion, a form of magical thinking, to animate objects. Dogs with identical information were liked less and deemed less adoptable when this information included contact with an undesirable previous owner. The effect seemed Visit Page
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Mindfulness: The Effects of Fatigue on Social Behavior
We investigated how fatigue influences social interactions. Eighty-three participants were presented hypothetical social activities categorized as alone or social, and active or passive. Results show that fatigued individuals show less desire to take part in Visit Page
