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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: One for All: Social Power Increases Self-Anchoring of Traits, Attitudes, and Emotions Jennifer R. Overbeck and Vitaliya Droutman The authors of this study hypothesized that powerful people are more likely than people with little power to engage in self-projection -- the projection of one's own traits, attitudes, and values onto group members. Participants were told they would be playing a group game and were assigned the role of group manager (high-power condition) or team member (low-power condition).
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Engaging in a Brief Cultural Activity Can Reduce Implicit Prejudice
A small cue of social connection to someone from another group — such as a shared interest — can help reduce prejudice immediately and up to six months later.
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For Disappointed Sports Fans, Defeats Increase Consumption of Fat and Sugar
On the Monday following a big football game, fans of the losing team seem to load up on saturated fats and sugars, whereas supporters of the winning team opt for healthier foods.
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Far From Being Harmless, the Effects of Bullying Last Long Into Adulthood
Serious illness, struggling to hold down a regular job, and poor social relationships are just some of the adverse outcomes in adulthood faced by those exposed to bullying in childhood.
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Giving Preschoolers Choice Increases Sharing Behavior
Getting kids to share their toys is a never-ending battle, and compelling them to do so never seems to help. New research suggests that allowing children to make a choice to sacrifice their own toys in order to share with someone else makes them share more in the future. The new findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. These experiments, conducted by psychological scientists Nadia Chernyak and Tamar Kushnir of Cornell University, suggest that sharing when given a difficult choice leads children to see themselves in a new, more beneficent light.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: Dorthe Berntsen and David C. Rubin The prevalent view of posttraumatic stress disorder suggests that people have trouble voluntarily recalling autobiographical memories of traumatic events but frequently recall these memories involuntarily. Participants were asked to think about an important event from the past week and rate the memory's valence and the intensity of the emotion they felt when remembering it. Participants also indicated how often they had voluntarily or involuntarily remembered the event.