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Looks Overshadow Reputation When Deciding Who To Trust
LiveScience: When faced with a decision of who to trust with money, people will often choose the face that looks the most trustworthy, shunning those who they deem look sketchy. Interestingly, a new study shows
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Stress Turns Men Into Social Butterflies
LiveScience: When stress strikes, women are said to turn to their social ties for support, while men are supposed to become aggressive. But new research finds that these gender stereotypes don’t always hold true.… In
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How to Spot a Scoundrel: Fidgeting and Trust
Imagine the original job interview. The first one ever, back on the prehistoric savannahs of eastern Africa. It wouldn’t have been exactly like a modern job interview, because early humans had no resumes or Linked-In
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Reminders of Secular Authority Reduce Believers’ Distrust of Atheists
What’s the group that least agrees with Americans’ vision of their country? It’s not Muslims, gays, feminists, or recent immigrants. It’s atheists, according to many sociological surveys. In one survey conducted in 2006 by sociologist
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Refining the Formula That Predicts Celebrity Marriages’ Doom
The New York Times: In 2006, Garth Sundem and I confronted one of the great unsolved mysteries in social science: Exactly how soon will a given celebrity marriage blow up? Drawing on Garth’s statistical expertise
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A Gesture of Authority: What’s the Point?
The Huffington Post: My very first classroom teacher had a long wooden pointer, and she wielded it like a weapon. At least that’s my gauzy recollection. Many of the lessons were written on the blackboard