The study was published online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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But the reaction isn't entirely surprising to Sara Hodges, a social psychology professor at the University of Oregon.
Social psychology teaches us that we tend to think people who are like us are nicer, smarter, and more competent.
D. in psychology, becoming over the next 30 years one of the nation's leading thinkers on the social psychology of aging.
Once people learn about the social psychology of power, they can use these principles to become more effective in their interpersonal interactions.
Viewing the color green may help make those ideas more apparent, according to research published last year in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Stapel had gained stardom status in the field of social psychology but, simply speaking, had been making up all his data all the time.
The paper was published in April in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and written about recently in a British newspaper, the Mail Online.
The study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, contradicts the idea that being under pressure leads to bad habits like over-eating or shopping sprees.
"Usually at conferences, it's a room full of suits, and I'm in my Iron Maiden T-shirt, " said Dr. Snell, who holds a doctorate in social psychology.
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The other is the story of a professor of social psychology who has come to understand that life's complexities can be broken down into simple truths.
Research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that we grossly underestimate just how willing others are to help us out ( PsyBlog).
D. in social psychology at the University of North Carolina.
The study was published in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science, and headed up by two male researchers from The University of Southern California and Duke University.
Sonia Livingstone, professor of social psychology, at the London School of Economics, said the findings were a "good reason to ask why some children spend so much time watching television".
The research -- due to appear in the forthcoming Journal of Personality and Social Psychology -- also found that a person's influence was not affected by how much others liked them.
But many of the theories that have been put forward as to why people do it don't stand up, says Tom Postnes, professor of social psychology at Groningen University in the Netherlands.
New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that presidents and psychopaths share a psychological trait that may shed light on what made Teddy such a unique character.
Consider the findings of a study in this month's issue of Social Psychology, examining how the "mere presence" of a cell phone -- even when it is not being used -- influences people's performance on complex mental tasks.
In a 2009 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, David Lubinski and his team at Vanderbilt found that in a sample of academically gifted young adults, women became less career-oriented than men over time.
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In a 2005 study from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, people who wrote one-sentence e-mails were supremely overconfident in both their ability to communicate and their ability to detect sarcasm, seriousness, anger and sadness over e-mail.
We have a tendency, though, to overestimate how happy people around us are, and it makes us feel even more dejected, according to a study out of Stanford, led by Alex Jordan, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Where engineering in the 1880s organized itself around lines suggested by the physical sciences, the new technologists are organizing in new ways, along lines suggested by the cognitive, aesthetic and social sciences and arts: computer science, psychology, social psychology, user-experience and design.
While such a step may seem intrusive and unnecessary, Nass, who specializes in the social psychology of technology and explores similar themes in a new book, The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: How Computers Can Teach Us About Human Relationships, says the potential benefits are vast.
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"Don't worry if you don't have the answers, " says Deborah Tolman, professor of social welfare and psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York.
When researchers tried to lift the grades of struggling college students by raising their self-esteem, the students' grades got worse, according to a 2007 study of 86 students published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
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