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Is regifting really that bad?
Business Insider: The people who originally gave the gift are not nearly as offended as regifters think they’ll be. Five studies investigate whether the practice of “regifting”-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters
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The Gifts We Keep On Giving
With so many holidays and celebrations, who can blame someone for doing a little recycling, or as it is commonly known, regifting? Not the person who actually gave the original gift, despite what a regifter may think.
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Niceness Is at Least Partly in the Genes
What makes some people give blood and bake casseroles for their neighbors, while others mutter about taxes from behind closed blinds? A new paper published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
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Warning: This Face Is Dangerous
If you’re a little, soft-spoken guy, duking it out mano-a-mano with a tough, masculine type probably isn’t in your best interest — and a fair amount of research on threat perception and dominance explores why
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The Psychological Science of Relationships – News Brief
Association for Psychological Science 202-293-9300 (April 16, 2012) — Our relationships with others are an essential part of everyday life, but that doesn’t mean that understanding and getting along with other people is easy. Here
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Democrats & Republicans Don’t Care Much About Each Other’s Physical Distress
Discover Magazine: As we descend into another election year, it would be nice if we could remember that people across the political divide are, er, people too. Unfortunately, that’s harder than it sounds, according to
