The correspondence bias is the tendency to explain behavior as a function of personality rather than the situational constraints.

The 'primacy effect' in social judgment dictates that initial impressions weight more heavily than subsequent information.

A 2003 study indicated that even brief experiences of social rejection trigger activity in the brain's dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.

A 2012 study demonstrated that names easy to pronounce are judged as more trustworthy.

People consistently expect their expressions of gratitude to be less impactful than they actually are to the recipient.

In a 1982 study, participants showed significantly lower recall for information delivered immediately before their own turn to speak.

A 1994 study demonstrated that repeatedly recalling a subset of learned information suppresses memory for related, unrecalled items.

The self-evaluation maintenance model suggests you feel threatened when a close friend outperforms you in a domain essential to your self-identity.

In a 2018 study, participants consistently underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them.

A 1977 study revealed that people are significantly more likely to assume others share their own beliefs and habits than is statistically accurate.

In a 1998 study, speakers consistently overestimated how much their audience could detect their internal anxiety or lies.

In the 1990s, moves towards federalism within the European Union, and the political transition since the collapse of Communism had given rise to a number of

Why is it that when interacting with another person, I automatically assign them the position of someone who has the right to judge me?

We began our study in 2020 to understand cooperation during COVID-19. As the pandemic evolved, so did our questions. Five years of panel data eventually gave us an unexpected opportunity to explore the roots of vaccine conspiracy beliefs.

As demand for therapy surges beyond metros, start-ups, hospitals, and investors are working to transform mental healthcare from an awareness movement into a sustainable segment.

When deciding whether to cooperate with someone, we may consider both their reputation and how they have treated us personally. We built a model that does the same—and found that this combination can make cooperation remarkably robust in an imperfect world.

The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study (MTRAS) has been a source of enduring controversy due to its goal of addressing genetic and environmental explanations of Black-White IQ differences. The study followed the intellectual development of 130 Black and interracial children adopted into relatively advantaged White households. However, contrary to the initial interpretations of its original researchers, MTRAS became a tool for hereditarian racial ideologies. Its findings were appropriated and publicized by figures associated with racist research agendas, such as J. Philippe Rushton. We contend that the design of MTRAS was never capable of achieving its most ambitious scientific aims and, as a result, unintentionally contributed to a body of speculative literature that leveraged its inconclusive findings to support harmful discriminatory ideologies. To the extent that MTRAS was both limited in scientific value and potentially harmful, this paper examines the question: was MTRAS abhorrent race science?