recent research

Pickings from Kevin Lewis' blog this week:

• Getting the cold-shoulder is more than metaphor. (Hans IJzerman)
• Hanging out with the right crowd will get you to college. (Steven Alvarado)
• Thinking abstractly (as opposed to concretely) makes us more tolerant of cultural minorities, but not racial minorities or dominant groups. (Jamie Luguri)
• One of my favorite effects, motivated reasoning, as applied to beliefs that Obama is Muslim. (Todd Hartman)
• Incivility online: it may get more people participating, but it also leaves us more close-minded. (Porismita Borah)
• If you have a logical argument, keep it brief. If, on the other hand, is full of BS you're better off rambling on a bit. (Evan Heit)