[Social Psychology] Born on third base and thought you hit a triple. A recent study by Kraus and Keltner showed that individuals who perceived themselves as higher in social class rank tended to understand their elevated position in essentialist terms. That is, high social rank individuals tended to believe that differences in social standing can […]
[Cognitive Psychology] Did you see the gorilla? Contributing to the growing body of evidence on inattentional blindness, –the phenomenon that people often fail to recognize salient stimuli while engaged in another task–Drew et al. performed a study that examined how expert radiologists would fare if an anomalous stimuli was placed in lung CT scans. In […]
[Economic Psychology] How does the concept of money affect an individual’s perception of the social and economic systems in the United States? A research team lead by Eugene Caruso found that individuals who were merely exposed to a computer background image of $100 dollar bills while reading the instructions of the experiment (compared with those […]
[Biological & Clinical Psychology] Nature versus Nurture? You may be asking the wrong question. In their recent article in Clinical Psychological Science, Slavich and Cole review the emerging science of Human Social Genomics (HSG). This research suggests that human genetic expression may not be as fixed as previously thought, and that our genetic expression depends […]
[Methodological] Proper methodological design is paramount for any scientific study, especially those making causal claims. In a recent article, Boot et al. demonstrate that many psychology studies fail to control for differences in expectation between participants in the control and experimental groups. For many studies, the effects observed in the experimental group may in fact […]
Angela Duckworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and Colin Camerer, a behavioral economist at the California Institute of Technology, were two of the twenty-four MacArthur Fellowship recipients, announced yesterday by the MacArthur Foundation. The MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as a ‘Genius Grant’, is awarded to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality […]
