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Character  &  Context

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

 

Nov 30, 2018

Psychology News Roundup: ICYMI November 30, 2018

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Catch up on what you might have missed in this two-week roundup on thankfulness, political leanings, stereotypes, replication, and words. In the twitter section we include links to a recent #SPSPchat, and more information for an upcoming Rstats webinar from SPSP.

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

Predicting Resistance to Taking on The Perspective of Minority Group Members via Character & Context

Ingroup and Outgroup Favoritism in Implicit Attitudes via Character & Context

What Kind of Happiness Do People Value Most? via Harvard Business Review

How Political Opinions Change via Scientific American

When You’re Grateful, Your Brain Becomes more Charitable via The Conversation

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

In the News

Celebrity endorsements help doubters accept the truth of evolution via Pacific Standard

Psychology’s replication crisis Is running out of excuses via The Atlantic

Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations via Nature

The science of gratitude: How being thankful makes us happier via WBUR

What single word defines who you are? via BBC Future

Digital offense: Anonymity dulls our moral outrage via PhysOrg

Why the announcement of a looming white minority makes demographers nervous via The New York Times

Sexist men get aggressive when they think women want to control them: Study via Newsweek

Why we stereotype strangers via The Wall Street Journal

Parents: Take a timeout before you force your child to apologize via MedicalXpress

New research finds there is no “right thing” to say when you want to be supportive via Research Digest

Why it’s so hard to get people to care about mass suffering via Vox

When a city feels good, people take more risks via PhysOrg

Suppressing negative feelings around kids may be wrong advice via PsychCentral

White liberals dumb themselves down when they speak to black people, a new study contends via The Washington Post

 

On Twitter

For those who are members of @SPSPnews this is a good online course on RMarkdown https://t.co/U9Bu1sYTB2

— Monica Koehn (@Monica_Koehn) November 22, 2018

According to a recent study by @SPSPnews, the more connected you are to your co-workers and the company you work for, the happier and healthier you will be. More here: https://t.co/nyiMqAipG1 @alicewalton @Forbes #work #health #wellness pic.twitter.com/OhYSASQZNr

— KCSA Strategic Comm. (@kcsastrategic) November 21, 2018

Hey #scientist friends! Social media has AMAZING benefits.

Like @NeilLewisJr and @jayvanbavel who met on Twitter and ended up planning and cohosting a workshop

Check out their awesome SOCIAL MEDIA SURVIVAL GUIDE @sciencemagazine with @leahsom @junegruber https://t.co/p4JjEYiidi

— The Academic Designer (@HigherEdPR) November 30, 2018

Started our #Wakelet recap of "#SPSPchat 13: Being First Gen". Check it out: https://t.co/qf9ZcRADdS

— SPSP (@SPSPnews) November 27, 2018

Many Labs 2: 28 findings, 60+ samples, ~7000 participants each study, 186 authors, 36 nations.

Successfully replicated 14 of 28 https://t.co/nK9E5NhR92

ML2 may be more important than Reproducibility Project: Psychology. Here’s why...@michevianello @fredhasselman @raklein3 pic.twitter.com/WgLbrJe6Cd

— Brian Nosek (@BrianNosek) November 19, 2018
Search #ML2 in twitter for further discussion.

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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.  

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