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Submit Your Unfunded Grant Proposals to OnPAR
Submit your work to the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR), an opportunity providing second chances to grant applications which are turned down by funding agencies.
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Why Bad News Compels Us to Take Action
How people handle sunk costs may depend, at least in part, on whether pursuing a new course of action is framed as the more active or inactive option.
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Studies in Swollen Heads: What Causes Overconfidence?
A set of experiments demonstrates how people can underestimate or forget about the importance of practicing an activity in order to do it well.
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Adults’ Political Leanings Linked With Early Personality Traits
Data from 16,000 individuals in the UK reveal links between early conduct problems and economic and political discontent 25 years later.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring hormones and externalizing behavior in adolescents, source information and working memory, language exposure and brain development, and the gender-equality paradox in STEM.
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The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases
Are you racist? It's a question that makes most of us uncomfortable and defensive. Harvard University psychologist Mahzarin Banaji says while most people don't feel they're racist, they likely carry unfavorable opinions about people of color — even if they are people of color themselves. Banaji is one of the creators of the Implicit Association Test, a widely-used tool for measuring a person's implicit biases. She says it's important to acknowledge that the individual mind sits in society.
