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February 01, 2013

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7:29 PM | Mom's the boss at home - but is it good for her?
Source I often say that becoming a mom has made me a stronger feminist than any class, book, or essay I took or read at my small liberal arts college. More and more, I have been noticing the explicit and implicit ways that all women, but especially those with children, get excluded from positions of power in organizations. Meanwhile, I have seen many strong, intelligent, and admirable female friends change or leave their careers to accommodate families. All this makes me wonder, if the […]
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November 21, 2012

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6:30 PM | Your Thanksgiving Table - The Political Metaphor
Source This week, I'd like to follow up on Michael's post about the ways that our parents' attitudes shaped our political ideals.  A recent study (Fraley, Griffin, Belsky & Roisman, 2012) has found that parents who tend to believe in authoritarian parenting raise kids more likely to be conserve. Those that have egalitarian parenting attitudes tend to have kids who are liberal. As you fly home and think about your parents' strict or relaxed styles, I'd […]

Carney, D., Jost, J., Gosling, S. & Potter, J. (2008). The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind, Political Psychology, 29 (6) 807-840. DOI:

Fraley, R., Griffin, B., Belsky, J. & Roisman, G. (2012). Developmental Antecedents of Political Ideology: A Longitudinal Investigation From Birth to Age 18 Years, Psychological Science, 23 (11) 1425-1431. DOI:

Oxley, D., Smith, K., Alford, J., Hibbing, M., Miller, J., Scalora, M., Hatemi, P. & Hibbing, J. (2008). Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits, Science, 321 (5896) 1667-1670. DOI:

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September 20, 2012

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4:52 PM | Entitlement, laziness, and internal attributions: What Romney and the rest of us think about government assistance.
Source "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them." Mitt Romney's “47 percent” […]

Skitka LJ, Mullen E, Griffin T, Hutchinson S & Chamberlin B (2002). Dispositions, scripts, or motivated correction? Understanding ideological differences in explanations for social problems., Journal of personality and social psychology, 83 (2) 470-87. PMID:

Skitka, L. J. & Tetlock, P. E. (1993). Providing public assistance: Cognitive and motivational processes underlying liberal and conservative policy preferences. , Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65 1205-1223. DOI:

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August 15, 2012

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6:40 PM | Don't stand so close to me: Why morality divides us.
Source Have you ever discovered that a friend has a dramatically different position than you on a moral matter? Perhaps you found yourself on opposite sides with an old pal in the wake of 9/11 and the US invasion of Iraq. Maybe, during the Occupy Movement, you discovered that some of your friends had a different take on financial inequality than you did. Or, possibly, last week you found out that a colleague lined up proudly to get a Chik-Fill-A sandwich in order to support […]

Effron DA & Miller DT (2012). How the moralization of issues grants social legitimacy to act on one's attitudes., Personality & social psychology bulletin, 38 (5) 690-701. PMID:

Skitka LJ, Bauman CW & Sargis EG (2005). Moral conviction: another contributor to attitude strength or something more?, Journal of personality and social psychology, 88 (6) 895-917. PMID:

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July 18, 2012

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6:30 PM | Honor Killings and the People Who Love Them
Source A husband shoots his wife in the back nine times with a rifle as neighbors watch and cheer. The first four shots shake her body as it falls to the ground. He hears the crowds’ encouragement and shoots her corpse again and again. The onlookers return to their lives and he is exalted as an honorable man.  While these actions are close to unimaginable, reporters speculate that this is the story behind a recently circulated execution video from Kabul, Afghanistan. Here, as in a […]

Vandello JA & Cohen D (2003). Male honor and female fidelity: implicit cultural scripts that perpetuate domestic violence., Journal of personality and social psychology, 84 (5) 997-1010. PMID:

Willer R, Kuwabara K & Macy MW (2009). The false enforcement of unpopular norms., AJS; American journal of sociology, 115 (2) 451-90. PMID:

Centola, Damon, Robb, Willer & Michael, W. Macy (2005). The emperor’s dilemma: A computational model of self-enforcing norms, American Journal of Sociology, 110 (4) 1009-1040.

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June 20, 2012

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4:59 PM | Don't be a sheep...or a donkey or an elephant
Source As election season approaches, many of us are deciding how to vote on policies that will influence our country and communities. How do we make these important choices? What sources do we turn to when deciding how to vote? We certainly can and do seek out objective information, listen to educated opinions, and consult our own values. However, it might surprise you to learn that what other people think makes the largest impact on our own policy attitudes. People are surprisingly […]

Cohen GL (2003). Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs., Journal of personality and social psychology, 85 (5) 808-22. PMID:

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May 16, 2012

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6:36 PM | Marriage equality: What is shifting our opinions?
Source Our president has brought us many first – events that have nudged the collective social psychological typography of our nation. President Obama’s race, grassroots campaign, and prolific use of social media have shaped subtle changes in how we interact with the political system and each other. Last week brought another first. Speaking in support of same-sex marriage, Obama acknowledged and gave his voice to a divisive social issue. Simultaneously, for the first time in our […]

Rozin, P., Lowery, L., Imada, S. & Haidt, J. (1999). The CAD triad hypothesis: A mapping between three moral emotions (contempt, anger, disgust) and three moral codes (community, autonomy, divinity)., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76 (4) 574-586. DOI:

Inbar Y, Pizarro DA, Knobe J & Bloom P (2009). Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays., Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 9 (3) 435-9. PMID:

Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D. & Bloom, P. (2009). Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals, Cognition & Emotion, 23 (4) 714-725. DOI:

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