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Regression Toward the Mean
When Victor Nell attends a social function and has to say what he does for a living, he says he is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of South Africa. But during Adolph Eichmann’s*
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The Science Behind Secrets
In the latest season of The Sopranos, the character Vito Spatafore, a mob captain in Tony Soprano’s crew, takes a gun to a remote motel, giving the impression he might kill himself. The reason for
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Sports Complex: The Science Behind Fanatic Behavior
Only one month after April 3rd’s opening day, baseball fans from Boston to Oakland are beginning to hear a familiar cry: “Yankees suck!” These words — chanted in unison, with clapping hands and stomping feet
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4th SPSP Conference: ‘Comfortable Environment’ Open to All Practitioners
SPSP Conference Got Start at APS Convention The first free-standing Society for Personality and Social Psychology convention was in 1991 as an affiliate meeting held in conjunction with the American Psychological Society Annual Convention in
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Warsaw School Emphasizes Better Living Through Social Psychology
Few in the United States know it, but a quiet revolution took place in Warsaw, Poland, on September 23, 2001. On the front lines were 200 men and women, mostly twentysomethings, bearing freshly-minted Master’s degrees
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Persuasion and the ‘Poison Parasite’
A great deal of psychology research has focused on the mechanics and effects of persuasion. But what about the flip side: What techniques and strategies do we have to resist persuasion when it is unwelcome?
