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Being Ignored Hurts, Even by a Stranger
Feeling like you’re part of the gang is crucial to the human experience. All people get stressed out when we’re left out. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for
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Survival’s Ick Factor
The New York Times: Disgust is the Cinderella of emotions. While fear, sadness and anger, its nasty, flashy sisters, have drawn the rapt attention of psychologists, poor disgust has been hidden away in a corner
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23rd Annual Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research Thanks APS
Last Fall 140 students and faculty researchers from over 20 institutions as far as California and Moscow converged on Touro College’s Lander College for Women in Manhattan for the 23rd Greater New York Conference on
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We’re Sorry: Not All Apologies Are Apologies
Miller-McCune: Variations on “I’m sorry” are playing an increasingly prominent part in our public and private discourse, with figures as diverse as Charlie Sheen and the CEO of BP making widely circulated statements of remorse.
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Human Motivation
Elliot Aronson is perhaps best known for his experiments refining the theory of cognitive dissonance, which states that people will change their attitudes or behaviors to reduce cognitive discomfort caused by performing actions that are
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What We Find Gross, and Why
The New York Times: Did you hear the one about the Texan at his first Passover Seder? He was mightily impressed with the soup. “These matzo balls sure are delicious, ma’am,” he told his hostess.