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People Can Infer Which Politicians Are Corrupt From Their Faces
People can make better-than-chance judgments about whether unfamiliar politicians have been convicted of corruption simply by looking at their portraits.
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You Probably Made a Better First Impression Than You Think
After we have conversations with new people, our conversation partners tend to like us and enjoy our company more than we think.
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Harnessing the Power of the Crowd Could Improve Screening Accuracy
Averaging the results from two independent participants improved screening accuracy, whether participants were looking at baggage scans or mammograms.
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Replication Project Investigates Effect of Moral Reminders on Cheating Behavior
A large-scale replication effort did not reproduce previous findings showing that people are less likely to cheat on a task after making a list of the Ten Commandments.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest findings publishing in Clinical Psychological Science: The Future of Intervention Science: Process-Based Therapy Stefan G. Hofmann and Steven C. Hayes The medical illness model, which assumes that symptoms reflect a latent disease that should be targeted with a specific therapy protocol, has been the norm in clinical science, but this seems to be changing. Hoffman and Hayes consider the developments in the field that allow for a move toward process-based therapy (PBT), especially in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest findings published in Psychological Science: How Endogenous Crowd Formation Undermines the Wisdom of the Crowd in Online Ratings Gaël Le Mens, Balázs Kovács, Judith Avrahami, and Yaakov Kareev People often rely on ratings from online recommendation platforms before making decisions about purchases or other kinds of consumption. These ratings typically are averaged and accordingly are thought to reflect the wisdom-of-the-crowd phenomenon and thus provide unbiased quality estimates. But what if the way the crowd forms biases the average ratings?