It’s hard to imagine a more fundamental question for psychology than what it is that makes us human. It’s harder still to come up with an acceptable answer. Great thinkers through the ages have puzzled over the nature of human nature , and so have contemporary psychological theorists. Are we
People are special. Person perception is quite different from rock perception , for example. Geologists, those with a rock in their shoe, and pet rock owners aside, the perception of a rock is often merely the perception of a collection of lines and surfaces. Yet people are not simply collections of
How do you make sense of Barack Obama and John McCain? The odds are that you judge them mainly on two dimensions: warm/cold and (in) competence . Depending on your experience of them, you may judge one of them as both warm and competent, evoking your admiration and pride; and perhaps the other as