Science Education - Psychology
Social Psychology

Analyzing Situations in Helping Behavior
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Social psychologists and personality psychologists both attempt to predict human ...

Using fMRI to Dissect Moral Judgment
Source: William Brady & Jay Van Bavel—New York University In examining the roles of reason and emotion in moral judgments, psychologists and ...

Perspectives on Social Psychology
Social Psychology is a complex field—one that investigates how social contexts affect people’s actions, thoughts, and attitudes. It brings the ...

Evaluating the Accuracy of Snap Judgments
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Social psychologists have long been interested in the way people form impressions of ...

A Minority of One: Conformity to Group Norms
Source: William Brady & Jay Van Bavel—New York University It is obvious that we are influenced by those around us, but in the early to mid ...

Misattribution of Arousal and Cognitive Dissonance
Source: Peter Mende-Siedlecki & Jay Van Bavel—New York University A host of research in psychology suggests that feelings of psychological ...

Marginal Dishonesty: The Adding-to-10 Task
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Classical economic theory asserts that people are rational and self-interested. In ...

Ostracism: Effects of Being Ignored Over the Internet
Source: Peter Mende-Siedlecki & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Social ostracism is defined as being ignored and excluded in the presence of ...

Inducing Emotions
Source: William Brady & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Psychologists have long known that people behave differently in good moods versus bad ...

Persuasion: Motivational Factors Influencing Attitude Change
Source: William Brady & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Decades of social psychological research sought to understand a fundamental question ...

Creating the Minimal Group Paradigm
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University The study of intergroup relations, such as prejudice, conflict, and discrimination, has ...

The Implicit Association Test
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University One of the core constructs in social psychology is the notion of an attitude toward an ...

Nonconscious Mimicry Occurs when Affiliation Goals are Present
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University People are social chameleons and regularly engage in nonconscious behavioral mimicry. ...

Effects of Thinking Abstractly or Concretely on Self-control
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Whether it's refraining from having a second serving of ice cream, studying instead of ...

Thinking Too Much Impairs Decision-Making
Source: Peter Mende-Siedlecki & Jay Van Bavel—New York University When we are considering a tough choice between two or more attractive options, ...