Psychology News Round-Up: ICYMI December 1, 2017
On the Blogs
Alex Maki, one of SPSP’s Op-Ed Training Grant recipients, writes on climate change and persuasion in the Washington Post.
Sara Konrath and Femida Handy look at what’s behind the urge to donate.
Help You Help Me via The Behaviorist
Nichola Raihani covers why doing good deeds doesn't always make someone seem like a good person.
In the News
7 Surprising Health Benefits of Gratitude via Time
Very Intelligent People Make Less Effective Leaders, According To Their Peers and Subordinates via Research Digest
Chronic Feelings of Powerlessness Spur Men to Engage In Sexual Harassment via Pacific Standard
Why Fear Motivates both Altruists and Psychopaths via The Washington Post
Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? via The New York Times
The Weird Science of Homophobes Who Turn Out to Be Gay via The Daily Beast
What Turns Black Friday Shoppers Into Raging Hordes? via The New York Times
There's a Simple, Selfless Genius to Gifts That Don't Aim To Surprise or Impress via Quartzy
Why Ageism Never Gets Old via The New Yorker
The Emotional Benefits of Small Talk Outweigh Your Fear of Being Awkward via Quartz
Nice Brains Finish Last via Scientific American
Brexit Strongly Linked To Xenophobia, Scientists Conclude via The Independent
We Have Friends On Facebook And Everywhere Else, But Are They The Kind We Need? Via The Washington Post
How Segregation Leads To Racist Voting By Whites via Vox
Our Personalities Are Shaped By the Climate We Grew Up In, New Study Says via The Washington Post
Belief in Our Moral Superiority Is the Most Irrational Self-Enhancing Bias of All via Research Digest
All Muslims Are Often Blamed For Single Acts of Terror. Psychology Explains How to Stop It. via Vox
Podacast: Not by Chance Alone with the Legendary Social Psychologist Elliot Aronson via The Psychology Podcast
Podcast: Stereothreat via RadioLab
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— Michelle Williams (@michell00427345) November 20, 2017
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— PSYKOLAB (@Psykolab_fr) November 21, 2017
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— ᴊᴏʜɴ ᴍᴄᴄᴏʀᴍᴀᴄᴋ (@LAevolving) November 23, 2017
Fascinating stuff -- and also to be featured at #SPSP2018! https://t.co/Jswg1GfskZ
— Jean Twenge (@jean_twenge) November 24, 2017
What skills should a behavioral scientist have to be an asset for your organisation https://t.co/J6jzSWeK3t via @behscientist #nudge #neurotech #behaviorchange
— Olivier Oullier (@oullier) November 25, 2017
Xenophobia strongly predictive of vote for Brexit regardless of age, gender or education via @SPSPnews @researchgate https://t.co/5SCqf3HC7G…
— Ciarán Kearney (@ciaranjkearney) November 27, 2017
“The opposite of complicity isn’t apology — it’s fixing what you broke.” https://t.co/yI5nEY6B32
— Leslie Berntsen (@leslie_bern) November 29, 2017
Grad School Is Trash for Students of Color and We Should Talk About That https://t.co/ZDNDYe2fzN
— Ivy Onyeador, PhD(!) (@Ivuoma) November 30, 2017
Why we are all to blame for the nightmare of online debate: How our #tribalistic clashes send us spiralling deeper into the void by @oliverburkeman https://t.co/KHQXPWAFvM
— Jay Van Bavel (@jayvanbavel) November 30, 2017
New paper out on today at JPSP with @SebastianDeri and Tom Gilovich, on why people think others' lives are better than their own: https://t.co/pVvoFuSUjV
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) December 1, 2017
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