Skip to main content
Home
  • Connect!
  • Donate
  • My Account
  • Join/Login
  • S
  • About
    • What is Social and Personality Psychology?
    • Leadership
      • Elections
    • Get Involved
    • Committees
    • Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
    • Government Relations
    • Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology
    • Governance Documents
    • Staff
    • Jobs at SPSP
      • Benefits of Working at SPSP
      • Current Openings
  • Connect!
  • Join/Login
  • Home
  • Members
    • Membership Categories and Rates
    • Member Demographics
    • Member Directory
    • APA Division 8
    • Fellowship
    • Listservs and Shared Interest Groups
    • Member Deals and Discounts
  • Publications
    • Best Practices
    • Publication Policies
    • Resources
    • PSPB
      • Editorial Philosophy
      • Manuscript Preparation/Submission Guidelines
      • PSPB Online
    • PSPR
      • Manuscript Preparation
      • PSPR Online
    • SPPS
      • Manuscript Preparation
      • SPPS Online
  • Events
    • 2022 Convention
    • Future/Past Conventions
    • Summer Psychology Forum
    • Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists
    • APA Convention (Division 8)
    • Student Opportunities
      • SISPP
      • SPUR
      • SASP
      • EASP
      • EAPP
    • Online Learning
  • Giving
    • Ways to Give
    • Planned Giving
    • Tribute Wall
    • Annual Reports
    • ARP Awards
  • Awards/Grants
    • Annual Awards
      • Senior Career Contribution Awards
      • Mid-Career Awards
      • Early Career Awards
      • Teaching and Mentoring Awards
      • Prizes for a Single Outstanding Contribution
      • Media Awards
      • Service Awards
      • Student Awards
      • Diversity Awards
    • Student Awards
      • Heritage Dissertation Research Award
      • Outstanding Research Award
      • Graduate Student Poster Award
      • Undergraduate Student Poster Award
      • Student Publication Prize
      • Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award
      • Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award
    • Diversity Awards
      • Jenessa Shapiro Award for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion
      • Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award
      • Diversity Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award
    • Legacy Program
    • Registration Awards
      • Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award
      • Teacher/Scholar Registration Award
      • International Registration Award
      • International Bridge-Building Award
    • Small Research Grant Program
    • Small Conference Grant Program
    • Community Catalyst Grant Program
  • News
    • Member Newsletter
    • Student Newsletter
    • Character and Context Blog
    • Press Releases
    • Member Updates
  • Resources
    • Connect!
    • COVID-19
    • Free-Form Fridays
    • Students
      • Graduate Program Directory
      • Applying to Grad School
      • Life in Graduate School
    • Early Career
    • Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
    • Multimedia
      • #SPSPchat
      • SPSP Experts
      • Out of the Lab
      • Convention Videos
    • Funding
    • International Study and Work
    • Statistics & Data Analysis
    • Teaching
      • Recommended Textbooks
      • Syllabi Examples
      • Teaching Aids
      • Video
    • Applied Psychology
  • Careers
    • Find/Post a Job
    • Graduation Outcomes
    • Career Resources
    • Academic Job Market
    • Non-Academic Internships
    • Undergraduate Research
  • About
    • What is Social and Personality Psychology?
    • Leadership
      • Elections
    • Get Involved
    • Committees
    • Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
    • Government Relations
    • Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology
    • Governance Documents
    • Staff
    • Jobs at SPSP
      • Benefits of Working at SPSP
      • Current Openings
  • Connect!
  • Join/Login
  • Home
  • Members
    • Membership Categories and Rates
    • Member Demographics
    • Member Directory
    • APA Division 8
    • Fellowship
    • Listservs and Shared Interest Groups
    • Member Deals and Discounts
  • Publications
    • Best Practices
    • Publication Policies
    • Resources
    • PSPB
      • Editorial Philosophy
      • Manuscript Preparation/Submission Guidelines
      • PSPB Online
    • PSPR
      • Manuscript Preparation
      • PSPR Online
    • SPPS
      • Manuscript Preparation
      • SPPS Online
  • Events
    • 2022 Convention
    • Future/Past Conventions
    • Summer Psychology Forum
    • Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists
    • APA Convention (Division 8)
    • Student Opportunities
      • SISPP
      • SPUR
      • SASP
      • EASP
      • EAPP
    • Online Learning
  • Giving
    • Ways to Give
    • Planned Giving
    • Tribute Wall
    • Annual Reports
    • ARP Awards
  • Awards/Grants
    • Annual Awards
      • Senior Career Contribution Awards
      • Mid-Career Awards
      • Early Career Awards
      • Teaching and Mentoring Awards
      • Prizes for a Single Outstanding Contribution
      • Media Awards
      • Service Awards
      • Student Awards
      • Diversity Awards
    • Student Awards
      • Heritage Dissertation Research Award
      • Outstanding Research Award
      • Graduate Student Poster Award
      • Undergraduate Student Poster Award
      • Student Publication Prize
      • Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award
      • Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award
    • Diversity Awards
      • Jenessa Shapiro Award for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion
      • Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award
      • Diversity Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award
    • Legacy Program
    • Registration Awards
      • Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Graduate Registration Award
      • Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award
      • Teacher/Scholar Registration Award
      • International Registration Award
      • International Bridge-Building Award
    • Small Research Grant Program
    • Small Conference Grant Program
    • Community Catalyst Grant Program
  • News
    • Member Newsletter
    • Student Newsletter
    • Character and Context Blog
    • Press Releases
    • Member Updates
  • Resources
    • Connect!
    • COVID-19
    • Free-Form Fridays
    • Students
      • Graduate Program Directory
      • Applying to Grad School
      • Life in Graduate School
    • Early Career
    • Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
    • Multimedia
      • #SPSPchat
      • SPSP Experts
      • Out of the Lab
      • Convention Videos
    • Funding
    • International Study and Work
    • Statistics & Data Analysis
    • Teaching
      • Recommended Textbooks
      • Syllabi Examples
      • Teaching Aids
      • Video
    • Applied Psychology
  • Careers
    • Find/Post a Job
    • Graduation Outcomes
    • Career Resources
    • Academic Job Market
    • Non-Academic Internships
    • Undergraduate Research

You are here

Home »  

Character  &  Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate
Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

 

Oct 26, 2018

Psychology News Round-Up: ICYMI October 26, 2018

Feature Image

In the news this week, a look at machine intelligence making moral decisions. See what else you may have missed online.

Recently in the news, written a post, or have selections you'd like us to consider? Email us, use the hashtag #SPSPblog, or tweet us directly @spspnews.

On the Blogs

The Consent of the Governed May Depend on Who’s Doing the Governing  via Character & Context

WHY You Preregister Should Inform the WAY You Preregister  via Incurably Nuanced

What If We Talked About P-hacking The Way We Talk About Experimenter Effects?  via The Hardest Science

Remembering Walter Mischel, with Love and Procrastination  via The New Yorker

Check out more posts from around the web: Social and Personality Psychology Blog Roll
 

In the News

Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal  via Nature

High stakes decision-making causes a little more cheating, a lot less charity  via Medical Xpress

Americans are distinguishing between Muslims and terrorists via Pacific Standard

How to capitalize on your team’s diversity  via Scientific American

Binary bias distorts how we integrate information  via Medical Xpress

Why are we so angry? via BBC Radio

Strangers smile less to one another when they have their smartphones  via PsyPost

Mobile communication lab lets any person participate in any study  via Cornell Chronicle

Psychologists discover surprise reason why people stay in unhappy relationships  via Newsweek

First impressions count, new speech research confirms  via Medical Xpress

Tetris: It could be the salve for a worried mind  via ScienceDaily

The wax and wane of ovulating-woman science  via Slate

Three is not good company for women job seekers  via Yale News

I’ll have what she’s having: Books for better sex and better relationships  via The New York Times

How to stop delegating and start teaching  via Harvard Business Review

 

On Twitter

First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings.
This is a community metascience project about @RegReports, w preprint on @PsyArXiv, published in @nature, and interview comments by @improvingpsych. Open science at its best. - https://t.co/l3TwBlvNik pic.twitter.com/qLlwjeVtuy

— Center For Open Science (@OSFramework) October 25, 2018

Now out in Nature: "The Moral Machine Experiment". Led by head wizard @EdmondAwad, and reporting the results of the millions who played the https://t.co/gSYwwPtNIK.
https://t.co/gmqShAh1L3 https://t.co/xdZaPip1tu

— Azim Shariff (@azimshariff) October 24, 2018

Listen or read, for great insights into how #creativity happens. https://t.co/rm0yVBOBm8

— Teresa Amabile (@TeresaAmabile) October 25, 2018

do you hold a strong belief on whether lovers should live together before marriage?
its complicated. the science is mixed. so loosen that white-knuckled grip on morality and read on....@TheAtlantic #sexysciencehttps://t.co/euNTI6ryRG

— Todd Kashdan (@toddkashdan) October 25, 2018

Ever wondered how reviews affect our purchase decisions? Turns out that moderately positive reviews are the biggest influencers, finds marketing professor Daniella Kupor in a recent study. https://t.co/JRvRhF9EQt

— BU Questrom (@BUQuestrom) October 25, 2018

What can individuals do about climate change? Personal actions change social norms and spark societal change. From me and Gregg Sparkman, in @Slate: https://t.co/bNgxe00uvF

— Leor Hackel (@leorhackel) October 26, 2018

Want to receive the latest content from Character & Context? Sign up for updates direct to your inbox here.

What did we miss? Did you recently complete a media interview, write a post, or have your work featured in the news? Want to be in the next edition? Drop us a note and a link at press@spsp.org. Your contributions keep us engaged.

Tags: 
political psychology
politics
moral psychology
decision-making
charity
terrorism
diversity
bias
technology
relationships
sex
work

About our Blog

Why is this blog called Character & Context?

Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.  

□Learn More
□Contribute a Blog to Character & Context
□Visit the Blog Roll for other feeds

Search the Blog

Get Email Updates from the Blog

 
 

Popular Articles

What Makes People Sensitive to Social Rejection?
Using Self-Control Strategies to Resist Temptations
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A New “Era” in your Personal Well-being?
What Does It Feel Like To Be Sadistic?
The More You Have, the More You Want?

Share this page
 
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
1120 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 280
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 869-3240
spspinfo@spsp.org
Facebook Icon Twitter Icon LinkedIn Icon
  • About
  • Connect!
  • Join/Login
  • Home
  • Members
  • Publications
  • Events
  • Giving
  • Awards/Grants
  • News
  • Resources
  • Careers
© 2021. Society for Personality and Social Psychology®. All rights reserved.

View our Privacy Policy here.