Personality development, like many aspects of phenotypic development seen across species, can be viewed within the framework of flexible ontogeny (Hagen & Hammerstein, 2005). An individual’s behavioral patterns across time represent that individual’s context-dependent adaptive strategy for coping with the…
At the risk of inundating loyal readers with navel-gazing fodder, I recommend Gregory Mitchell’s (2012, Perspectives on Psych Science) new article examining effect sizes within and outside of the lab. Mitchell surveyed 82 meta-analyses that directly compared effect sizes for…
Joey Cheng, Jess, & Joe Henrich’s (2010) paper on The Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status was the 11th most downloaded article from Evolution and Human Behavior in 2011
For those who haven’t kept up to date with the recent published papers, blog posts, and media reports on the state of psychological science and social psychology in particular, I strongly recommend Brent Roberts’ blog post: Roberts, B. W. (2012).…
New research from the lab shows that the pride expression is likely to be a universal implicit status signal– now in press at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Read the paper here.
Pride and shame expressions communicate status more powerfully than competing contextual information– paper by Azim Shariff, Jess, and Jeff Markusoff published at PSPB.
Emotion researchers often examine the divergent effects of two or more emotions on behavior. Such research designs involve inducing emotion states in groups of participants and comparing the average response on a behavioral measure across groups. For example, one might…
Lab Happy Hour And… lab members in action
Following on the heels of a year that included Bem’s ESP paper and the False Positive Psychology upheaval and culminated in our area-wide discussion of research practice in social and personality psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science just released a new…
Some of the most peculiar things are also the commonest. Every day people give to complete strangers, anonymously, with no hope of future repayment or reputation gain. In other ways though, our generosity seems oddly constrained. The philosopher Peter Singer…