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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: One for All: Social Power Increases Self-Anchoring of Traits, Attitudes, and Emotions Jennifer R. Overbeck and Vitaliya Droutman The authors of this study hypothesized that powerful people are more likely than people with little power to engage in self-projection -- the projection of one's own traits, attitudes, and values onto group members. Participants were told they would be playing a group game and were assigned the role of group manager (high-power condition) or team member (low-power condition).
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The Dark Side of Empathy
Conventional wisdom, backed up by substantial experimental research, holds that we’re more cooperative in negotiations when we can truly see the other person’s point of view. But in some cases, seeing a situation from the other’s perspective can lead us into unethical behavior. A team of behavioral researchers suspected that in competitive contexts, perspective-taking draws our attention to conflicting interests and to how a competitor’s actions may threaten our own self-interest. They confirmed their hypothesis in a series of experiments, the results of which are reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Fast Forward Yourself
People who are able to sock away a healthy degree of resources for the future have essentially a relationship with their future selves, emerging research shows.
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Dissecting the Perceptions of White Male Privilege
Despite all the advances that women and people of color have made in professional settings over the last several decades, White men still tend to have the upper hand on getting the corner offices, the lofty job titles, or the hefty salary hikes. But how do women perceive the marginalization that people of color face in the workplace? And how do minorities perceive the obstacles faced by women? A report published in Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, provides some answers to these questions.
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Drangsalierte Kinder leiden noch als Erwachsene (Bullied children suffer as adults)
Suddeutsche Zeitung: Wer als Kind gemobbt wurde, hat einer aktuellen Studie zufolge als Erwachsener überdurchschnittlich häufig soziale, finanzielle und gesundheitliche Probleme (Psychological Science, online). So fiel es den gemobbten Probanden schwerer, Arbeits- und Freundschaftsbeziehungen aufrechtzuerhalten, außerdem litten sie als Erwachsene häufiger an schweren Krankheiten. "Wir dürfen Mobbing nicht als harmlosen Ritus des Erwachsenwerdens ansehen", mahnt Dieter Wolke von der Universität Warwick. Er und sein Team verfolgten den Werdegang von fast 1300 Kindern, die gemobbt wurden, selbst Mobbing ausübten, in beide Kategorien fielen oder ohne diese Probleme aufwuchsen.
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Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory
Nature: In a career spanning four decades, Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, has done more than any other researcher to document the unreliability of memory in experimental settings. And she has used what she has learned to testify as an expert witness in hundreds of criminal cases — Pacely's was her 101st — informing juries that memories are pliable and that eyewitness accounts are far from perfect recordings of actual events. Her work has earned her plaudits from her peers, but it has also made her enemies. Critics charge that in her zeal to challenge the veracity of memory, Loftus has harmed victims and aided murderers and rapists.
