[Social] Does an individual’s status affect the kind of help he or she will likely be offered? New research, published in the January issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, suggests it does. In a series of four experiments, Arie Nadler and Lily Chernyak-Hai examined the relationship between a help-seeker’s status*, the type of […]
[Cross-cultural] In a cross-cultural study of emotion, published in the December issue of Emotion, Park et al. explored the relationship between anger and social status in American and Japanese adults. Park et al. point out that while research has linked low status individuals to higher levels of anger, the work to date has been conducted […]
College education is too expensive, and textbooks are part of the problem. This is the thinking that motivated two psychologists to create an online platform to provide up-to-date, fully-customizable text books, for free. The newly launched Noba Project is the brainchild of Dr. Ed and Carol Diener, both highly distinguished psychologists, who wanted to help […]
A report published this week by a panel of military, medical, psychology, and ethical experts alleges U.S. military psychologists and medical professionals not only participated in, but also designed and facilitated, the torture and inhumane interrogation of U.S. military detainees. The culmination of two years work by a task force of 20 experts formed by […]
[Animal Behavior] Research by van Schaik et al., published in PLOS ONE, provides new evidence of long-term planning behavior by an animal in the wild. In a study of Sumatran orangutans, van Schaik and colleagues found that the direction of long calls made by flanged* males predicted travel directions up to 22 hours in advance, […]
[Social & Methodological Psychology] The creation of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), in 1998, sparked a new wave of theory and research focused on understanding people’s implicitly held attitudes and beliefs, and how those implicit attitudes and beliefs might affect behavior. One of most researched topics using IAT methodology is racial and ethnic discrimination. Employing […]
