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Integrative Moral Cognition
The philosopher John Stuart Mill famously proposed that moral decisions are made according to a principle of utilitarianism: Moral decision makers perform a sort of cost-benefit analysis in an attempt to maximize benefits and minimize
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An Intergenerational Conversation Between Mahzarin R. Banaji and Rebecca Saxe
Psychological scientists often learn about each others’ work at conferences or in journals, but it’s not often that they actually get the chance to sit down face to face and pick each others’ brains. The
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Heat Wave Psychology
Much of the eastern U.S. is gripped in a heat wave right now, with some predictable effects on mood and behavior—or at least our perceptions of others’ moods and behavior. Normally congenial folks seem to
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Dealing with Death? Get on Facebook
Discovery News: Anywhere from 1.8 to 3 million Facebook users will die in 2011, according to separate estimates from the digital legacy sites 1000Memories and Entrustet, likely transforming those posthumous profiles into digital epitaphs. With
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Porteros se lanzan más a la derecha cuando van perdiendo
BBC Mundo: Un estudio por investigadores holandeses de las tandas de penaltis en los partidos de los Campeonatos Mundiales de 1982 a 2010 mostró que los arqueros por lo general tenían la misma probabilidad de
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J.K. Rowling’s characters turn up in medical literature, too
Los Angeles Times: For more than a decade, the phenomenally popular Harry Potter series has provided grist for medical studies on topics including genetics, social cognition and autism. PubMed, an online database of medical studies
