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April 20, 2013

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6:07 PM | SWAG: Racial Bias in Pain Perception
Tom Brady is no stranger to pain (source) Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). This week in SWAG we read an article about racial biases in perceptions of others’ pain. The American medical field has a long […]

Trawalter S, Hoffman KM & Waytz A (2012). Racial bias in perceptions of others' pain., PloS one, 7 (11) PMID:

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April 18, 2013

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5:02 PM | The Daddy Chronicles: What Happened To My Testosterone?
Zoë at two weeks I'm not sure how many of you know this, but on March 19th of this year I became a new daddy. It's hard to describe the meaning of this event and its impact on my life, but here is a useful comparison that might put things into perspective: My dissertation was accepted for publication on the same day that my daughter was born and despite the near month passing, I still haven't filed the publication forms for the paper. Fatherhood changes the way I see the world […]

Gettler LT, McDade TW, Feranil AB & Kuzawa CW (2011). Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (39) 16194-9. PMID:

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April 01, 2013

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2:37 AM | SWAG: Video Games and Violence
wikipedia.org Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). This week, SWAG was led by Jesse Preston, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. Her summary of the SWAG discussion follows below: Can […]

Ferguson, C. (2013). Violent video games and the Supreme Court: Lessons for the scientific community in the wake of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association., American Psychologist, 68 (2) 57-74. DOI:

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March 14, 2013

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3:00 PM | PYM Enters the Terrible Twos!
Two years ago today, this blog was born. Thanks to you, PYM readers, this once tiny blog venture has been an overwhelming success--both in terms of outreach, and I think, in terms of fun (at least for the bloggers)! Let's check out some of the PYM blog stats after the jump. Read More->
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March 07, 2013

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10:14 PM | SWAG: The American Choice Fixation
Yes. I Exist! (source) Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). Right before our SWAG meeting this week, I attended a laboratory meeting of a colleague here at the University of Illinois. One of the graduate students […]

Savani K, Markus HR, Naidu NV, Kumar S & Berlia N (2010). What counts as a choice? U.S. Americans are more likely than Indians to construe actions as choices., Psychological science, 21 (3) 391-8. PMID:

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February 27, 2013

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11:19 PM | SWAG: Do the ends justify the means?
source Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). Are you familiar with Watchmen? The popular graphic novel turned semi-popular summer blockbuster describes a deeply dystopian future in which Richard Nixon has been […]

Conway P & Gawronski B (2013). Deontological and utilitarian inclinations in moral decision making: A process dissociation approach., Journal of personality and social psychology, 104 (2) 216-35. PMID:

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February 22, 2013

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5:02 AM | Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! Practical Reform in Social Psychology
The cake we can (1) have, and (2) eat! If you have been following recent headlines in the social sciences then you are aware that the field of social psychology has been in some rough water over the past three years. In this time period, we've had our flagship journal publish a series of studies providing evidence that ESP exists (and then refuse to publish non-replications of these studies). We've suffered through at least three instances of scientific fraud perpetrated by high […]

Richard, F., Bond, C. & Stokes-Zoota, J. (2003). One Hundred Years of Social Psychology Quantitatively Described., Review of General Psychology, 7 (4) 331-363. DOI:

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February 21, 2013

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2:47 AM | SWAG: Thoughts as Physical Objects
Ideas as Objects (Source) Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). We typically think of thoughts as mental constructs without physical properties. And yet, it is remarkably common to use physical metaphors when […]

Briñol P, Gascó M, Petty RE & Horcajo J (2013). Treating thoughts as material objects can increase or decrease their impact on evaluation., Psychological science, 24 (1) 41-7. PMID:

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February 08, 2013

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5:27 PM | SWAG: I'm good enough, I'm smart enough... and I give up!
wikipedia.org Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). This week we read a recent collection of studies written by Kathleen Vohs and her colleagues (2013) about goal disengagement and self-affirmation. Usually […]

Vohs KD, Park JK & Schmeichel BJ (2013). Self-affirmation can enable goal disengagement., Journal of personality and social psychology, 104 (1) 14-27. PMID:

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January 31, 2013

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5:15 AM | SWAG: The World is ending and that's unfair!
www.earthtimes.org Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar, affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). Ever watch a video like this one? I imagine that for different people it activates very different emotions. For some, this sort of video might galvanize […]

Feinberg, M. & Willer, R. (2010). Apocalypse Soon?: Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global Warming by Contradicting Just-World Beliefs, Psychological Science, 22 (1) 34-38. DOI:

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January 23, 2013

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10:43 PM | SWAG: The Aversion to Harm Others
Every Wednesday afternoon, I gather with a bunch of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois to discuss a journal article about social psychology, and to eat a snack. This blog post reflects the discussion we had during this week's seminar affectionately called Social Wednesdays and Grub (SWAG). This week in SWAG we read a paper on committing harmful actions by Fiery Cushman and colleagues (2012), who may have the most fantastic name in all of the academic world. Cushman […]

Cushman F, Gray K, Gaffey A & Mendes WB (2012). Simulating murder: the aversion to harmful action., Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 12 (1) 2-7. PMID:

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January 20, 2013

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7:26 AM | How Much Inequality Is Too Much?
“Of all the babies that die every year, what percent should be from the richest 20% and what percent should be from the poorest 20%?” – Mike Norton In the Saturday morning session, some of my favorite social psychologists/researchers presented their ongoing work on lay beliefs about inequality in the United States. It is encouraging to see the new generation of psychology scholars taking on important issues related to social justice and inequality! The first talk was presented by […]
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January 19, 2013

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2:39 AM | SPSP 2013: Notes For Starting Your Academic Career
“There is no other job that allows you to pursue questions that interests you, and then pay you to do it. But, there are tradeoffs.” –Chuck Carver                        In the second morning symposium session at SPSP this year, three hugely influential scholars in our field discussed some challenges that new faculty members must contend with early in their career. Having just started an academic job of my own at the University of Illinois, I found this […]
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January 18, 2013

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6:54 PM | SPSP 2013: How to Get Your Message Across
The team at Psych-Your-Mind is at the annual meeting for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans, LA bringing you the latest news from the conference! At this morning’s symposium on science in the media called “How to Get Your Message Across,” two public relations experts discussed some of the strategies that researchers can use to be more effective in their communications with the media. I attended this symposium with great interests because my research […]
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