Focusing our attention on faces exhibiting more extreme emotions can lead us to overestimate a crowd’s emotional state. More
Focusing our attention on faces exhibiting more extreme emotions can lead us to overestimate a crowd’s emotional state. More
How good are we at reading crowds’ emotions? Research indicates that individuals tend to focus their attention on the faces that exhibit the most extreme emotions, leading them to overestimate the crowd’s actual emotional state. These findings have implications for public speaking as well as for controlling crowd demonstrations. More
Author/APS Member: Saul Kassin Most Americans don’t know this, but police officers in the United States are permitted by law to outright lie about evidence to suspects they interrogate in pursuit of a confession. Of all forms of subterfuge they deploy — like feigning sympathy and suggesting that a suspect’s More
Perceptions of gender and race combine into unique stereotypes and complex patterns of discrimination. More
Research finds that the intersecting roles of gender and race combine in unique ways to feed into simple stereotypes that can contribute to complex patterns of discrimination. More
The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis three months ago and the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin have led the US to a period of reckoning. As thousands have marched in the streets to protest against racial inequality, many others have also been forced More