recent research

More from Kevin Lewis' blog:

• A chaotic environment makes us stereotype more.
• An economist builds a model to understand how creativity connects to geography.
• Justice depends on the time of day: judges make more favorable rulings right after their breaks.
• More brain scans comparing liberals and conservatives.
• Two studies explore why we find evil action so much worse than evil inaction.
• What we see depends on how we feel.
• Our personalities influence our politics - but only via the moral values we hold.
• Conservatives are more apt to hold negative stereotypes. (An older study also confirms that conservatives tend to accentuate to the negative - as does a recent study.)
• When we imagine cause and effect: we get "pseudoscience, superstition and quackery."
• When policies move from democracy to democracy.
• If you're a professional athlete (or in the navy), it pays to be good-looking.
• It's not just humans who wear their personalities on their faces.
• Ever notice when someone's pupils get larger? Probably not, but your amygdala knows.
  
• We're natural born cheaters, at least when our defenses are down.
• The benefits of being interested.
• How consistent is your identity? Depends on how powerful you are.
• Belonging to many groups is good for your health.
• Political participation is for the happy - in Germany too.
• The president's approval ratings are up. Or is it just a sunny day?
• Philosophically we're in tune with our "true" rather than "actual" self.
• Monkey see, monkey buy.
• Getting verbal and nonverbal persuasion to fit.
• The Commitment principle in action.
• Evidence that we sift out information that supports our previous views - this time when it comes to home child care or daycare.
• What's good for the gossip is good for the group.
• Why politicians get away with dodging the question.