Social Psychology

David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Social Science Bites
January 3, 2023

David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion
Social Science Bites
October 3, 2022

Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion

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Albert Bandura, 1925-2021: The Social Psychologist Who Transformed How We Think of Learning and Morality
Impact
August 18, 2021

Albert Bandura, 1925-2021: The Social Psychologist Who Transformed How We Think of Learning and Morality

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Creating ‘Psychological Vaccine’ to Protect Against Fake COVID News
Research
January 28, 2021

Creating ‘Psychological Vaccine’ to Protect Against Fake COVID News

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Addressing the Psychology of ‘Together Apart’: Free Book Download

Addressing the Psychology of ‘Together Apart’: Free Book Download

Given the import of its subject matter, SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) had agreed to make an e-book o the psychology of COVID-19 freely available.

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Philosopher of Psychology: Rom Harré, 1927-2019

Philosopher of Psychology: Rom Harré, 1927-2019

Rom Harré, a philosopher deeply engaged in critically examining the attributes and vulnerabilities of the social sciences, and who was both an early computational researcher and an incredibly prolific academic author, died October 17 at age 91.

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Why the Community that Sings Together Stays Together

Why the Community that Sings Together Stays Together

Is singing is a behavior that evolved to bond groups together? This question launched a research project that involved London’s Megachoir and the charity Workers’ Educational Association.

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Textbook Authorship: The Joys of a Crazy Undertaking

Textbook Authorship: The Joys of a Crazy Undertaking

“Writing a textbook,” says Tom Heinzen, “is a foolish idea.” It’s an enormous undertaking and the rewards a few. But there are some rewards, and Heinzen and Wind Goodfriend, the authors of the new intro textbook ‘Social Psychology,’ are reaping one of them: their book received a Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association, or TAA.

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Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias

Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias

“The brain is an association-seeking machine,” Harvard social psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast. “It puts things together that repeatedly get paired in our experience. Implicit bias is just another word for capturing what those are when they concern social groups.

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Why We Sometimes Hate the Good Guy

Why We Sometimes Hate the Good Guy

Everyone is supposed to cheer for good guys. We’re supposed to honor heroes, saints and anyone who helps others, and we should only punish the bad guys. But is the expression ‘no good deed goes unpunished’ really accurate? New research shows we often do, in fact, punish those who do good deeds.

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Sander van der Linden on Viral Altruism

Sander van der Linden on Viral Altruism

When online charitable appeals take off, social psychologist Sander van der Linden perks up. He studies ‘viral altruism,’ and in this Social Science Bites podcast he details to host David Edmonds how he studies this phenomenon.

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BPS Award-Winner Alex Haslam on Teams and Trump

BPS Award-Winner Alex Haslam on Teams and Trump

Social psychologist Alex Haslam talks about many of his research interests, from Donald Trump to identity politics to classic studies – is his ‘glass cliff work’ with Michelle Ryan count? – in a wide-ranging interview following his receiving the President’s Award from the British Psychological Society.

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