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Imagine there is a certain advantaged group of people that supports a policy that harms a disadvantaged group, and you believe there are hints of racial or ethnic bias underlying their position. Even if the advantaged group doesn’t literally believe that the disadvantaged group is less deserving, it’s impossible to view their insensitivity to the [...]
Saguy, T., Chernyak-Hai, L., Andrighetto, L. & Bryson, J. (2013). When the powerful feels wronged: The legitimization effects of advantaged group members' sense of being accused for harboring racial or ethnic biases, European Journal of Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1948
Rasinski, H., Geers, A. & Czopp, A. (2013). "I Guess What He Said Wasn't That Bad": Dissonance in Nonconfronting Targets of Prejudice, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, DOI: 10.1177/0146167213484769
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The recent disclosures about the extent of the NSA’s domestic spying program add to a long history of incidents in which the American public has gained access to information that was once secret. And that’s great. People should have information about what their government is doing. But it’s worth considering whether people are able to [...]
Travers, M., Van Boven, L. & Judd, C. (2013). The Secrecy Heuristic: Inferring Quality from Secrecy in Foreign Policy Contexts, Political Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/pops.12042
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From a new paper by the University of Wyoming’s Sean Laurent: Three experiments explored how hypocrisy affects attributions of criminal guilt and the desire to punish hypocritical criminals. Study 1 established that via perceived hypocrisy, a hypocritical criminal was seen as more culpable and was punished more than a non-hypocritical criminal who committed an identical [...]
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The backlash against the Common Core continues to advance, the latest evidence being the New York Times‘ decision to publish a relatively silly anti-CCSS piece in the Sunday opinion pages. Though it’s easy to dismiss the backlash as a bunch of loonies who believe the Common Core is literally a federal project, what’s driving the [...]
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Farhad Manjoo has a fun story about how people engage (or disengage) with online articles. In short, a lot of people don’t read much of the article, and even those who share a link often haven’t read the whole thing. Manjoo concludes that in the face of competing alternatives it’s too easy to lose interest. With ebooks [...]
Kurzban, R., Duckworth, A., Kable, J.W. & Myers, J. (2012). An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task
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