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Nicholas Scurich
University of California, Irvine http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/nscurich What does your research focus on? Broadly speaking, I study psychology and law. The general theme of my research is judgment and decision making in the legal system. I also
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Emily Falk
University of Michigan cn.isr.umich.edu What does your research focus on? What makes ideas successful in persuading individuals and in affecting larger populations? Sometimes we don’t even realize that an idea has embedded itself in our
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Jamil Zaki
Stanford University ssnl.stanford.edu What does your research focus on? I study the cognitive and neural bases of social cognition and behavior, but that’s not very specific! For the past several years, my research focused on
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Tessa West
New York University http://psych.nyu.edu/westlab What does your research focus on? My research primarily examines the dynamics that unfold during dyadic interactions, with a particular focus on the intergroup (e.g., cross-race) context. I study how individuals
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Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks
The New York Times: BAD NEWS SELLS. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning
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How Offices Become Complaint Departments
The New York Times: There is the ideal life, and then there is life as it really exists. We have various ways of expressing discontent over this inevitable gap, and one of the most common