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Why we perceive death differently
Times of India: European-Americans get worried and try to protect their sense of self, while Asian Americans are more likely to reach out to others. Much of the research on what psychologists call “mortality salience”
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Power, sex and conventional wisdom
Reuters: Would there be fewer sex scandals if the world were run by women? The question comes to mind in the wake of scandals that involve two powerful men, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and
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Sex, Lies, Arrogance: What Makes Powerful Men Behave So Badly?
TIME: When her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn was preparing to run for President of France five years ago, Anne Sinclair told a Paris newspaper that she was “rather proud” of his reputation as a ladies’ man
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Immunity in the Mind
Do our own prejudices and perceptions of people help defend our bodies against infectious disease? An article published in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
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El poder encamina a la infidelidad
El Colombiano: Ellos lo son, lo ha reconocido la sociedad. Pero ¿y de ellas qué? Infidelidad. Que los unos y las otras lo sean… hoy no parece raro. ¿Qué los motiva? El poder juega. Un
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Miracle Fruit: The Results Are In!
Magical Miracle Fruit The Results Are In! At Convention last year APS Past-President Linda Bartoshuk led a miracle fruit experiment with the audience during the Presidential Symposium in Boston, MA. Audience members tasted ‘miracle fruit,’