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Group Rituals Can Make Us Biased Against Outsiders
Engaging in basic rituals — even arbitrary movements — can make us more likely to trust those who share the same ritual and less likely to trust those who don’t.
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Hitting the Streets for Science: What Motivates Protest Behavior?
This past weekend tens of thousands of people participated in science marches in more than 600 cities around the world. Scientists on all seven continents — even Antarctica – participated in the protest. At a
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The Factors That Foster Wise Reasoning
Empirical research on wisdom suggests that it’s not so much that some people simply possess wisdom and others lack it, but that our ability to reason wisely depends on a variety of external factors.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring parallel processing in a language task, the neural basis of independence versus interdependence orientations, age differences in risky decision making, and switch costs in visual attention.
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A 48-Hour Sexual ‘Afterglow’ Helps to Bond Partners Over Time
A study of newlywed couples indicates that partners experience a sexual ‘afterglow’ that lasts for up to two days and is linked with relationship quality over the long term.
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To Understand Others’ Minds, ‘Being’ Them Beats Reading Them
We may believe we can tell what others are experiencing by observing them – but new research shows we’d get a much better idea if we put ourselves in their shoes instead.
