Justice and Bias, Mental Health and Poverty, Oh My!
Two recent opinion pieces provide some interesting perspective on topics we have discussed recently in Social Psychology class: implicit bias and social drift. Implicit bias is the ways we are...
View ArticleWhen You’re in Charge, Your Whisper May Feel Like a Shout – The New York Times
In Industrial-Organizational Psychology this fall, the class will be exploring issues such as leadership, organizational systems, and motivation, etc. Adam Galinsky is a social psychologist who has...
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Loss Aversion and the Stock Market
The stock market losses over the last several days leads some individual investors to panic and start selling, or if they don’t sell, they moan and groan about the losses. The problem is that the...
View ArticleThe power of false memory
In General Psychology, we just finished talking about memory. There is a good article in the NY Times today demonstrating how eyewitnesses can very easily create false memories of events. Largely this...
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Jeb Bush maligns psychology majors and Chick-Fil-A in one fell swoop
Presidential candidate Jeb Bush took a swipe at psychology majors in a speech Saturday morning, as reported in the Washington Examiner. Although I’m not a huge fan of Chick-Fil-A, I’m sure those who...
View ArticleMaking sure we consider the biopsychosocial model
The NY Times has a good Op-Ed piece by George Makari on the problem of mental health being reduced to biological processes. It argues that we need to be careful to not dismiss the power of...
View ArticleWeight stigma negatively impacts mental and physical health
We talked about weight stigma in General Psychology a week or so ago. A good article in the NY Times illustrates the depth of the problem. A new study by a social psychology graduate student, Jeffrey...
View ArticleApple, Human Factors, and I/O Psychology
Fast Company has an excellent analysis, written by the progenitors of the Apple User Interface Guidelines, of Apple’s move away from fundamental design principles in the quest for beauty in their user...
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Promise derailed
The Washington Post has a profile of a star athlete who was bound for the WNBA, until schizophrenia took her off course. It is a striking profile, and well illustrates the potential for stress to...
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Threat and Prejudice and Moral Exclusion, Oh My!
This is why I do the research I do on the power of perceived threat in prejudice and moral exclusion: Ken Knight, 54, a heating and cooling technician from Florence, S.C., said he agrees with Bush and...
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