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Alzheimer’s drug candidate may be first to prevent disease progression, mouse study suggests
A new drug candidate may be the first capable of halting the devastating mental decline of Alzheimer's disease, based on the findings of a new study.
Agentic and Communal Traits and Health: Adolescents With and Without Diabetes
The authors examined whether agentic and communal traits are associated with relationship and health outcomes among adolescents with and without diabetes. They interviewed 263 teens (average age 12; 132 Type 1 diabetes; 131 healthy) on an annual basis for 5 years. The authors measured agency, communion, unmitigated agency, and unmitigated communion as well as parent ...
The Effect of Public Social Context on Self-Control: Depletion for Neuroticism and Restoration for Impression Management
The present study explores the role of personality in moderating the effect of public social context on self-control. The authors predicted that in public settings neuroticism would be associated with ego-depletion effects and individual differences in impression management (IM) would be associated with restoration effects. Three experiments supported the hypothesis. In Study 1 neuroticism was ...
Ghosts of the Past and Dreams of the Future: The Impact of Temporal Focus on Responses to Contextual Ingroup Devaluation
The authors investigated the impact of temporal focus on group members’ responses to contextual ingroup devaluation. Four experimental studies demonstrated that following an induction of negative ingroup evaluation, participants primed with a past temporal focus reported behavioral intentions more consistent with this negative appraisal than participants primed with a future temporal focus. This effect was ...
Intergroup Time Bias and Racialized Social Relations
Within the framework of intergroup relations, the authors analyzed the time people spent evaluating ingroup and outgroup members. They hypothesized that White participants take longer to evaluate White targets than Black targets. In four experiments, White participants were slower to form impressions of White than of Black people; that is, they showed an intergroup time ...
Unraveling the Mystery of Brazilian Jeitinho: A Cultural Exploration of Social Norms
Two studies explore the structure and psychological makeup of jeitinho, a Brazilian indigenous construct associated with problem-solving strategies in strong hierarchies. Study 1 used a scenario approach with nonstudent participants and demonstrated that jeitinho can be described by a three-dimensional structure: corruption, creativity, and social norm breaking. Study 2 used individual and social norm scenarios ...
Do Agreeableness and Neuroticism Explain Age Differences in the Tendency to Forgive Others?
Previous research has shown that age is positively related to a dispositional tendency to forgive others. The present investigation tested the hypothesis that agreeableness and neuroticism partially mediate the association between age and forgivingness. Data from two representative cross-sectional samples of adults were used to test this hypothesis. Results from Study 1 (N = 962, ...
I Can Do That: The Impact of Implicit Theories on Leadership Role Model Effectiveness
This research investigates the role of implicit theories in influencing the effectiveness of successful role models in the leadership domain. Across two studies, the authors test the prediction that incremental theorists ("leaders are made") compared to entity theorists ("leaders are born") will respond more positively to being presented with a role model before undertaking a ...
Fanita English talks about Ego States in Transactional Analysis
A useful way of understanding human personality as Ego States, or systems of thinking, feeling, and acting that exist within each of us. The last sentence was cut off, and should be “The more I learn about myself and how I operate with three ego states, the better am I able to avoid the kinds ...
Pride and Prejudice: How Feelings About the Self Influence Judgments of Others
The present research demonstrates that pride has divergent effects on prejudice, exacerbating or attenuating evaluative biases against stigmatized groups, depending on the form of pride experienced. Specifically, three experiments found that hubristic pride—associated with arrogance and self-aggrandizement—promotes prejudice and discrimination, whereas authentic pride—associated with self-confidence and accomplishment—promotes more positive attitudes toward outgroups and stigmatized individuals. ...