Does discrimination fit a prototype?

In this blog post, I discuss what information people use to decide whether a behavior constitutes discrimination. Similar to the way people organize categories and identify objects, I review research showing that people rely on prototypes when deciding what is and is not discrimination. Imagine a...
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Everything was better in the past? Children’s self-regulation across the decades

Editorial Assistants: Elisabeth Höhne, Stella Wernicke Note: The blog post was originally published in the German version of In-Mind. Do you also believe, like most American adults, that children today have less self-control than prior generations? A large study suggests that this assumption is...
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What does your selfie say about you?

Selfie is a new form of self-expression in this digital age. In this post, I will discuss our research on how selfies reveal the personality of their owners and how people judge others’ personality based on selfies (Qiu, Lu, Qu, & Zhu, 2015) . Personality expression in social media Psychological...
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Why do we still have a cognitive bias that makes us send innocent people to jail? – Explanations of the confirmation bias

We often have to take objective decisions, observe something in an objective manner, or give an objective opinion. However, although objectivity is often strived for, the question is: Can we ever be truly objective? The answer is no. Since we are human beings, we all suffer numerous biases, which...
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