“What else can you expect from a crappo?”
I’m back at the BPS Research Digest today, with my second of three guest posts this week on recent social psychological research. My second post is on a recent paper published by P.J...
Stories by Melanie Tannenbaum
Mind The Gap: Overestimating Income Inequality
I’m thrilled to be breaking my dissertation-imposed “mini-hiatus” this week with a series of guest posts over at the BPS Research Digest, where I’ve been asked to take over guest hosting duties for the week and write a few pieces on some recent awesome Social Psych research...
Blind athletes provide clues about the nature of our emotions.
One of the most important ways that we learn how to interact with the world around us is through observational learning. By watching how our friends and family members behave, we learn at a very young age how to do things like turn on a lightbulb, open a door, or play with a doll, without [...]..
Fear and Love on a Shaky Bridge
Imagine being in the jungle, thousands of miles from civilization Thus opened the promo two years ago forLove In The Wild, the extreme dating experiment on NBC that sent its contestants on first dates that were jam packed with shaky bridges, crocodile attacks, and bungee jumping...
Sex and the Married Neurotic
There are few things in this world that I truly loathe. One of those things is the showEverybody Loves Raymond. Why, you might ask? First of all, its actually quite hard to really love Raymond...
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Love, Hate...What's the Difference?
In honor of Valentines Day, Id like to take a quick look at one of the most fundamental human emotions hate. Wait, that doesnt seem right.
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What are failed resolutions costing you, and how can you fight back?
Today’s guest post is written by David Maxfield,the three-timeNew York Times bestselling author ofInfluencer, Change Anything, andCrucial Accountability.
Practical Tips for your 2014 Goals
It’s the 3rd day of 2014. Have you gotten started on your resolutions yet? We’ve already discussed how to set good resolutions, and why telling Facebook about them might not be wise (unless you are thinking of this act in a very specific kind of way)...
Should you tell Facebook about your resolutions?
Now that you’ve set your difficult, specific, and attainable resolutions for 2014, should you tell people about your plans? Before you update your Facebook status proclaiming your intention to lose 15 pounds, run a marathon, or publish 20 papers, you should think about your reasons for broadcasting your plans to the world...
Set SMART resolutions in 2014!
As we approach the beginning of a new year, many people will be heading into 2014 with a long list of resolutions that they intend to tackle.
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Knowledge, Knowledge Everywhere: Do Social Networks Spread or Drown Health & Science News?
We live in an age of constant data. Between television, the Internet, and our “real-life” social circles, society has never before had as much access to health and science news as we now enjoy — and it has never been so easy for anyone to access an entire encyclopedia of information about any health or [...]..
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The Zombies In Our Midst
Every Halloween, we find ourselves surrounded by zombies, vampires, ghouls, and other mythical monsters. But even though this is the one day each year that we consciously realize we are surrounded by these creatures (at least in their human-costumed forms), are we surrounded by more common forms of these monsters every day without even realizing [...]..
Rest In Peace, Nalini Ambady.
Yesterday, the field of Social Psychology lost a true pioneer. Nalini Ambady, professor of psychology at Stanford, passed away at the far-too-young age of 54 after a long battle with leukemia...
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“But I didn’t mean it!” Why it’s so hard to prioritize impacts over intents.
I spend a lot of time talking with friends and colleagues about societal issues that we find meaningful and important. Racism. Sexism. Cultural sensitivity.
Lady Gaga, You Shouldn’t Be Doing It For The Applause.
When Lady Gaga tells us in her latest hit single that everything she does is “for the applause,” is that a message that we should be celebrating?
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Outside the Ivory Tower: Science Writing, Social Media, and Non-Painful Networking.
On Friday, I was invited by a friend at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington to give a talk to an undergraduate colloquium about Science Writing/Blogging and how students might be able to pursue it as a potential career path...
Atonement, Forgiveness, And Our Most Fundamental Error.
Today is the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Although it is often called the “holiest day of the Jewish year,” what is notable about Yom Kippur is not the fact that it is particularly holy, nor is it the fact that many Jews you know might be particularly hungry today...
Are your 9/11 memories really your own?
I can remember exactly where I was twelve years ago when I learned why the sky was starting to fill with smoke about 30 miles to the west. Though I live in Illinois now, I’m originally from Long Island...
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Psychology’s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness.
Today, sitting down to my Twitter feed, I saw a new link to Dr. Alex Berezow’s old piece on why psychology cannot call itself a science.
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Weiner’s Wiener? Too perfect to be a coincidence.
In case you haven’t heard, Carlos Danger — AKA shamed former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner — recently got in trouble once again for exposing his infamous…well, his infamous wiener...
