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Social Support and Responses to Stress: Tend and Befriend Theory

September 1, 2015August 19, 2015 by Andy

As you walk down the sidewalk, an enormous dog starts running at you. What’s your … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags isolation, loneliness, neuroscience, social, stressLeave a comment
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You Know What I Mean? How Latent Semantic Similarity Plays a Role in Understanding

August 28, 2015August 25, 2015 by Andy

Guest Post by Vivian Ta As long as humans are able to communicate with each … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags conversation, Language, rapport, relationshipsLeave a comment
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How Many Arguments Are Enough to Be Persuasive?

August 25, 2015November 23, 2015 by Andy

Imagine two people try to convince you to buy their respective brands of kitchen products. … (Full Post)

Categories Blog, Persuasion Science BlogTags arguments, attitudes, elaboration, opinions, peripheral cues, persuasion, social influenceLeave a comment
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Cognitive Biases in Legal Decisions

August 20, 2015August 12, 2015 by Andy

Legal judgments are supposed to be impartial. A judge’s decision should be based on facts … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags anchoring, Biases, decision-making, heuristics, judgment, psychology and law1 Comment
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When Irrelevant Numbers Bias Our Judgment: The Anchoring Heuristic

August 18, 2015August 12, 2015 by Andy

How tall do you think Mt. Everest is? (Don’t Google it—that kind of defeats the … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags anchoring, Biases, heuristics, judgment, Social Cognition1 Comment
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Culture and Gender Stereotyping in Advertisements

August 14, 2015March 30, 2016 by Andy

You’ve seen advertisements. Don’t even try to trick me—I know you’ve seen them. A lot … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags Advertising, Culture, Media, New Research Friday, Stereotypes24 Comments
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3 Powerful Ways Labeling People Prompts Action

August 10, 2015August 9, 2015 by Andy

We can define ourselves by what we do or by who we are. For example, … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags behavior, developmental, influence, labels, The Self2 Comments
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Feeling Coerced and Resisting Persuasion: Psychological Reactance

August 5, 2015November 23, 2015 by Andy

In general, people don’t like to be told what to do. When we feel pressured … (Full Post)

Categories Blog, Persuasion Science BlogTags freedom, influence, persuasion, reactance, threat2 Comments
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Which Friendships Last the Longest?: Psychology of Attraction and Adolescent Relationships

July 31, 2015August 13, 2015 by Andy

About half of all adolescent friendships don’t even survive into the next school year. Surely … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags Attraction, friendship, Liking, New Research Friday, relationships, similarity5 Comments
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The Social Psychology of Smell: 3 Scents That Influence Us

July 28, 2015July 17, 2015 by Andy

Last week I covered a lot of the research on embodiment in a huge post. … (Full Post)

Categories BlogTags embodiment, morality, Perception, priming, smell2 Comments
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