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Social Psychology
Think you should speak about 40% of the time in conversation? How about 70%?
Only have sex with a person you love — a novel concept!
Dogs are seen as more likely to leap without looking – possibly a trait shared with their owners.
Catfish taste with their whole bodies - and that’s just one way animals sense the world totally differently than us.
We're overthinking being nice.
When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
A clever neuroscience experiment shows that the "other-race effect" is likely due to a lack of experience and perceptual expertise rather than racism.
When justice isn’t tempered by something such as mercy, forgiveness, or nonviolence, efforts to make society more equitable often backfire.
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One study estimated that 80% of people include “deviations” from the truth in their online profiles.
What can elite athletes teach you about how to win?
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New research shows that having an attitude of gratitude is key to healthy relationships, and it can virally impact society.
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Just as there are many types of believers, there's not only one type of atheist.
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Evolutionary psychology could explain those otherworldly feelings.
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From superstition to religion, we are surrounded by supernatural thinking. Is that a bad thing?
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A new study shows that political partisans are more likely to remember things that didn't happen — as long as it fits their narrative.
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of "otherness." We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
In the early 1900s, some Americans feared that teddy bears would not instill maternal instincts in girls, thereby causing "race suicide."
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
One might think that people who started poor and became rich might be more sensitive to the plights of the poor. Not so, suggests a new study.
What’s one of the most reliable indicators that a first date is going well? The answer might lie in how closely the couple is matching each other’s behavior and physiology. […]
Arguments are a normal and often healthy part of a relationship. It all depends on picking the right kind of arguments, though.
If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
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Kids don’t always make you happier. Here’s why people have them anyway.
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We tend to assume our view of the world is objective and accurate rather than subjective and biased — which is what it really is.
It's time to put on your listening hat.
One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?