13.11.2014 | Meaning Making Hot or cold morality? (Part 1) written by: Andrew Monroe How do we make moral judgments? Are people cold, calculating Vulcans? Or are they affectively hot hedonists? Researchers often present... more
12.11.2014 | Culture Sorry, the relationship with your mother still matters for your achievement in life written by: Marieke van Egmond Parents in societies around the world have big ambitions for their children. At the same time, those societies have become... more
31.10.2014 | Political Psychology Never give up: The persistence of misinformation effects written by: Alina Feinholdt Politicians, corporations, journalists and even scientists sometimes do it – they tell people things that later on turn out to... more
26.10.2014 | Race & Ethnicity, Self-Control & Decision-Making Does discrimination fit a prototype? written by: Aaron Moss In this blog post, I discuss what information people use to decide whether a behavior constitutes discrimination. Similar to the... more
18.10.2014 | Happiness & Well-being The missing heritability problem written by: Marcus Munafo In my last post I described the transition from candidate gene studies to genome-wide association studies, and argued that the... more
14.10.2014 | Solid Science When science selects for fraud written by: Shauna Gordon-McKeon Natural selection is the process by which populations change as individual organisms succeed or fail to adapt to their environments... more