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Using the Psychology of Evil To Do Good
Science: Forty years after presiding over the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, Phil Zimbardo has reinvented himself as a social entrepreneur, leading a new project that will attempt to turn the Stanford Prison Experiment and other
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How You Think About Death May Affect How You Act
How you think about death affects how you behave in life. That’s the conclusion of a new study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for
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All in the Mind
BBC Radio: Hot chilli sauce and a computer game called Cyberball are tools in the lab of psychologist Kip Williams. He explains his research on ostracism to Claudia Hammond. Listen to the broadcast: BBC Radio
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Study links willingness to cheat, viewpoint on God
Los Angeles Times: A new study on the link between one’s view of God and willingness to cheat on a test is the latest example of social scientists wading into the highly charged field of
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Plus les hommes ont du pouvoir, moins ils sont fidèles
Yahoo France: Le pouvoir et la libido sont-ils étroitement liés? La question mérite d’être posée. Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich. Eliot Spitzer. Mark Sanford. Le Time s’amuse à citer les hommes politiques dont le point commun
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Powerful Women as Likely to Cheat as Men, Study Finds
Bloomberg Businessweek: Women in powerful positions are just as likely as men to cheat on their spouses, according to new research. It’s widely believed that men are more likely than women to cheat on their
