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Social Processes in Daily Life
Michael Roche and his coauthors studied social processes and how they play out in daily life. In their study, college students with a high-dependency or a low-dependency personality reported how agentic (dominant vs. submissive) and
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Social Feedback Loop Aids Language Development
Verbal interactions between parents and children create a social feedback loop important for language development, according to research forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. That loop appears to be
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The Sounds of Social Life
Among laypersons, psychologists are infamous for two things: their couches and the fact that they always observe people. In many of psychology’s neighboring disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and primatology, the observation of subjects in their
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Marriage Quality May Influence Heart Disease Risk
Chicago Tribune: Ambivalent hearts may be at higher risk for heart disease, according to a new study of married couples with mixed feelings for one another. “The most intriguing finding was that within a couple
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It’s Possible That Jimmy Fallon Is a Natural-Born Nice Guy
The Huffington Post: New Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon has something of a reputation, but it’s not the one we might naturally associate with Hollywood success stories: Fallon is, by nearly all accounts, a genuinely
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Do you play as Voldemort or Superman? Study shows virtual roleplay affects behaviour
The Independent: The alter-egos that players adopt in online games can affect how individuals act in real life, according to new research published in the latest issue of the journal Psychological Science. “Our results indicate