A quest to find 'the best' may bring out the worst in shoppers
If it feels like holiday shopping brings out the worst in people—you might be right.
If it feels like holiday shopping brings out the worst in people—you might be right.
Social Sciences
Dec 4, 2017
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For those highly determined to pursue a profession, receiving negative feedback may lead to the endorsement of immoral behavior, a team of researchers has found. The research, which involves students seeking to enter the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2016
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For the bulk of our evolutionary history, human groups were small, tightly knit communities. Only quite recently, some human groups started evolving into the large-scale societies with vast interconnected trade networks we ...
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2016
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It's much easier for consumers to justify continued support of a celebrity or politician disgraced by scandal when they separate moral judgments about a public figure from assessments of their professional performance, according ...
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2012
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Assuming that people with a criminal record are inherently more inclined to break the rules is wrong, according to a paper published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology by Joachim Vosgerau (Bocconi) and Sarah Kuehn ...
Social Sciences
May 3, 2023
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Making moral judgments is increasingly a central element of the plots of popular video games. Do players of online video games perceive the content and characters as real and thus make moral judgments to avoid feeling guilty? ...
Other
Oct 3, 2012
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Notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger who eluded authorities for more than 16 years is accused of murdering 19 people. Here, David DeSteno, associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University, ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2011
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