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Simine Vazire
Washington University in St. Louis www.simine.com What does your research focus on? My research examines people’s knowledge about their own personalities. Do people know how they behave? Do they know how others see them? I
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Study of the Day: Want to Improve a Woman’s Driving Skills? Flatter Her
The Atlantic: PROBLEM: Previous studies — and far too many sexist jokes — have discussed how women are not as skilled as men when it comes to tasks like parking and map-reading that require spatial
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Never mix business with pleasure: How the office ogler takes a toll on your work rate
Daily Mail: Being ogled by the office lothario probably makes most women feel uncomfortable. Now, it seems, it might also affect their work performance. A study has found women who were subjected to an ‘objectifying
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Phillip Atiba Goff
Executive Director of Research, Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity www.policingequity.org University of California, Los Angeles www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty_page?id=147&area=7 What does your research focus on? My research focuses on contemporary racial and gender discrimination, particularly in the
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Matthias R. Mehl
University of Arizona, USA http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~mehl/ What does your research focus on? I am interested in the psychological implications of people’s everyday social lives. What do people do in their daily lives? And why do they
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Robert Rydell
Indiana University Bloomington, USA http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/pages/rydell.asp What does your research focus on? I am currently engaged in two distinct lines of research. Members of my lab and I have been most interested recently in stereotype threat
