A classic
psychology experiment shows that other people exert more power over us than we'd like to believe.
Not exact matches
Reporting on two
experiments in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC
Psychology, researchers
show that under certain conditions, women have an advantage over men at multitasking.
However, these
experiments are the first to
show that activating this motivation can influence performance on complex, real - world behaviors,» said Greenberg, who was another co-author of the studies, along with UA
psychology doctoral student Peter Helm.
In «Touch and Go: Merely Grasping a Product Facilitates Brand Perception and Choice,» published in Applied Cognitive
Psychology, they conduct a series of
experiments and
show that blindfolded people induced to grasp familiar products (a bottle of Coke, for example) under the guise of a weight judgement task are then quicker in recognizing the brand name of the product when it slowly appears on a screen, include more frequently the product in a list of brands of the same category, and choose more often that product among others as a reward for having participated in the
experiment.
On this week's
show: The origin of moralizing gods, replicating 100
psychology experiments, and a roundup of daily news stories.
Experiments in personality
psychology show that open - minded people do indeed process information in different ways and may literally see the world differently from the average person.
Alison Gopnik describes new
experiments in developmental
psychology that
show everything we think we know about babies is wrong.
The most pleasingly cerebral of recent American films, «Experimenter» concerns Dr. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard in an expertly shaded and intelligent performance), the creator of certain enduringly famous
experiments in social
psychology, which the film starts out by
showing us.
Many social science
experiments show that reinforcing stereotypes before testing can have a negative effect on student performance —
psychology vlogger Matt Mignogna explains more here.
The study, published in a 2006 issue of the Journal of Applied Social
Psychology,
showed that participants in the
experiment told an average of 2.19 The widespread online availability of background information makes it even more risky to lie in job interviews.
The study, published in a 2006 issue of the Journal of Applied Social
Psychology,
showed that participants in the
experiment told an average of 2.19 In a 2013 article for CBS MoneyWatch, Suzanne Lucas interviewed Patrick Barnett, an investigator for ARS Employment Background Screening.