Tag: social psychology

A new study in Current Psychology shows that people primed with high power exhibit weaker syntactic priming effects than those ...

A two-study psychological investigation shows that a common ingroup identity promotes prosocial collective action through hope and group efficacy, with ...

A new vignette experiment with 310 participants shows that dissociation triggers the most shame when it violates how people believe ...

New research shows that labeling a claim a conspiracy theory in group discussions can shut down nuanced deliberation, while open ...

A new experiment shows that sharing music preferences makes people like a stranger more regardless of whether they share political ...

Two social psychologists argue that polarization research wrongly treats all political conflict as harmful, proposing a framework that distinguishes democratic ...

A new review argues that decades of psychological theory linking personal adversity to ideology rest on a flawed clinical model, ...

A new perspective in Frontiers in Ethology proposes a unified framework linking behavioral ecology, social psychology, and neuroscience to explain ...

A preregistered 12-wave panel study of 839 adults found little robust evidence that conspiracy beliefs cause loneliness or reduced social ...

A five-study investigation finds that people imagine broken relationships as the main reason they would detach from a fused group, ...