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Harassers Tend to Deflect Blame for Their Behavior, Study Suggests
Research aimed at understanding men who sexually harass subordinates in the workplace suggest these individuals are able to convince themselves they’re not to blame for their behavior.
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People in Power May Pick Up Sexual Signals That Aren’t Really There
Psychological scientists have found that people in positions of power may have be swayed into misperceiving sexual interest from subordinates.
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How Media May Fuel Sexually Harassing Behavior
Men report being more open to engaging in sexually coercive behavior after watching television programming that objectifies and degrades women, a study in Italy shows.
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Power Can Chill the Mind’s Capacity for Empathy, Researchers Find
The shocking behavior of high-profile men now embroiled in sexual harassment scandals may be explained in part from psychological studies showing a link between power and a dampened capacity for empathy.
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Hyesung Grace Hwang
“Pupillary Reactivity to Social Exclusion: A Window into the Mechanism behind Social Exclusion Detection” Social exclusion causes distress. However, physiological mechanisms behind such distress responses are unclear. We investigated whether pupil dilation, an automatic physiological response, occurs when excluded by humans versus computers. Pupil dilation increased after exclusion by both humans and computers, suggesting fast-acting sensitivity to exclusion may be an evolutionarily ingrained tendency.
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Raffles Cowan
“Core Beliefs in Late Adolescence: Factor Structure and Implications for Psychosis, Depression, and Anxiety” Core beliefs contribute to development of psychosis, depression, and anxiety. We found that core beliefs were more factorially complex and linked to attenuated psychotic symptoms in adolescents at ultra-high risk for psychosis, and that they were less factorially complex and linked to depression and anxiety symptoms in non-clinical community adolescents.
