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• Video game character identification, cultural stereotyping and hostility (Eastin et al., 2009)

  
  VG Researcher - Psychology — Authority: 112
  When a related study was posted on ScienceDaily, it reminded of a long forgotten post and was misplaced in my files. The two studies are related in that it dealt with stereotype priming within computer-mediated environments. Matthew Eastin (University of Texas at Austin) had published a study on the effects of playing ...
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• How the right partner makes a better you

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  While you choose the kind of person we want to be, you are also greatly affected by others. And, much like Michelangelo chiseled beautiful forms from stone, the right partner can help shape you into the person youd like to be. This Michelangelo phenomenon not only feels intuitively accurate, but there is empirical ...
  6 hours ago

• Marriage Hating ‘Psychologist’ Calls Palin a ‘Special Liar’ -By Warner Todd Huston

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  An anti-Palin screed somehow ended up on Psychology Today’s website. I know, I know, it’s shocking that Psychology Today could sponsor something that is less science than it is PC, hatespeak against conservatives, what with psychology being so scientific and all — but, there you have it. Penned by one Bella ...
  9 hours ago

• Soccer Players and Attribution Error

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  On November 5, 2009, during a soccer match between the University of New Mexico and Brigham Young University, UNM defender Elizabeth Lambert behaved badly. She kicked and punched other players and even pulled another womans pony tail, causing her to fall to the ground. A video of Lamberts behavior was quickly posted ...
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• Obama State of Mind

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Yesterdays NY Times assessed President Obamas China trip somewhat unfavorably. Although they called the criticism "premature," they threw in a few digs of their own, using words like "disappointing" and "dispiriting" in the context of the trip. In todays NY Times the columnist Maureen Dowd went much further. ...
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• Shifting blame to others is socially contagious (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, Nov 22 (ANI): A new study has shown that the habit of blaming someone in an organisation, even if he or she is innocent, greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu. The blame game spreads quickly because it triggers the perception that [...]
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• The Human Balance Experiment Wk One – The Downer Tests Your Will

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  While Wednesday was spent mostly in bed, unable to move, Thursday and Friday will highlight how depression and negative energy start to envelope the human mind, psyche and aura as soon as one enters Cold Turkey. It Is far easier to respond to the intensely negative emotional upheaval within the body and mind, by ...
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• The Fundamental Attribution Error and Lambert’s Violent Behavior

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  On November 5, 2009, during a soccer match between the University of New Mexico and Brigham Young University, UNM defender Elizabeth Lambert behaved badly. She kicked and punched other players and even pulled another womans pony tail, causing her to fall to the ground. A video of Lamberts behavior was quickly posted ...
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• I blame... lets see...

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Shifting Blame Is Socially Contagious. Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem -- even when the target is innocent -- greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu, according to new research."When we see ...
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• The Myths of Intrinsic-Extrinsic Motivation

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  What happens when a person is offered an incentive to do something the individual would have done anyway, without incentive? Back in 1975 Edward Deci, Mark Lepper, and their colleagues proposed that rewards undermine intrinsic motivation. In contrast, Len Sushinsky and I argued that the effects of rewards depend on ...
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• Shifting blame to others is socially contagious

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): A new study has shown that the habit of blaming someone in an organisation, even if he or she is innocent, greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu. The blame game spreads quickly because it triggers the perception that [...]
  3 days ago

• Blame game can be as contagious as epidemic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) The habit of blaming someone in an organisation, even if he or she is innocent, is picked up by others and spreads like wildfire, says a new study.The blame game spreads quickly because it triggers the perception that one’s self-image is under assault and must be protected.Nathanael J. ...
  3 days ago

• Shifting blame is socially contagious

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem -- even when the target is innocent -- greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu, according to new research from the USC Marshall School of Business and Stanford ...
  3 days ago

• Aaron Kay, “The Psychological Power of the Status Quo”

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 529
  Situationist Contributor Aaron Kay is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Professor Kay’s research has focused on the integration of implicit social-cognitive processes with the study of broad social issues. In his primary line of work, he investigates the myriad ...
  4 days ago

• Confessions of A Real-Life Shopaholic

  
  Money & Happiness — Authority: 116
  The Nashua Telegraph of New Hampshire has a humdinger of a court story this morning. (I love local papers, and am hoping the internet will eventually help them thrive rather than killing them. Really, when would I have read The Nashua Telegraph in print?) Anyway, one Meredith Moore-Flores, 31, divorced mother of ...
  6 days ago

• Genetic Variation Linked to Individual Empathy, Stress Levels

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  A genetic variation may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress.Researchers have discovered a genetic variation that may contribute to how empathetic a human is, and how that person reacts to stress. In the first study of its kind, a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter ...
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• Consequences of terror trials in NY: Re-traumatization and Revenge

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 126
  By Dena T. Smith The announcement that several terror suspects, including Khalid Saikh Mohammed, implicated in the 9/11 attacks, will have their day in New York City courts was released last week. This news sparked fervent debate both between and within political parties for a range of reasons. Why civilian courts? ...
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• #8: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

  
  SuperSave Price.com — Authority: 166
  What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (23) Release Date: October 20, 2009 Buy new: $27.99 $13.50 52 used & new from $13.19 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Hot New Releases in Books list for authoritative information on this product’s current rank.) See the original post: #8: What ...
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• #9: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

  
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  What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (23) Release Date: October 20, 2009 Buy new: $27.99 $13.50 53 used & new from $12.96 (Ranking is updated hourly. View original here: #9: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
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• The Clothes Make the (Heterosexual) Man

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 126
  Dress codes in schools have long been a source of intergenerational conflict, control, and increasingly obvious, a way to police gender norms and sexuality.  In an article that interrogates these instances of specific gender and sexuality “violations” through clothing and accessories, we can see both an increase ...
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