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Prejudice Affects Perception of Ethnic Minority Faces
Prejudice can be a powerful influence, influencing what people believe the faces of members belonging to specific ethnic minority groups look like.
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Creative Differences: Diversity Enhances Creative Performance
When asked to describe ourselves, we usually do not answer with a list of our physical traits, rather, we tend to mention which groups we identify with. These groups (or social identities) may include a
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New Study Explores Social Comparison in Early Childhood
It has been shown (and probably experienced by all of us) that performing worse than our peers on a particular task results in negative self-esteem and poorer subsequent performance on the same task. How people
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Deal or No Deal? The Role of Emotions in Negotiating Offers
A series of experiments reveal whether people who trust their feelings (and those who do not) handle themselves in the art of negotiation.
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Why it’s good to have smart friends: The role of feedback in decision making
Every day we are faced with a multitude of options, but the majority of choices we make fall into two categories: descriptive choice (based on what we are told or on statistics) and experiential choice
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Cold and Lonely: Does Social Exclusion Literally Feel Cold?
When we hear somebody described as “frosty” or “cold”, we automatically picture a person who is unfriendly and antisocial. There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold