Today's Fresh Blogs...

• How's Your Life? I Dunno, Is It Raining? [Mixing Memory]

  Published: October 6, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: Social Cognition

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 513-523. Read the comments on this

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• Make 'Em Bloody! [Mixing Memory]

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:34 am

  Tags: Social Cognition

  Offered without comment (and sorry, only available with subscription; maybe I'll say something more about it later), except to say, why the hell am I not doing stuff with video games? Bartlett, C.P., Harrisa, R.J., & Brueya, C. (In Press). The effect of the amount of blood in a violent video game on aggression, hostility, and arousa. Journal of

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• Priming "God Did It" [Mixing Memory]

  Published: December 6, 2007, 9:27 am

  Tags: Social Cognition

  several social psychologists have posited a "Whodunit" system in the brain that's always looking to assign authorship -- either our own or somebody else's -- to actions. Most of the time, it's pretty easy to tell when we've done something, because we have all sorts of signals coming from the body, along with the brain's awareness of the

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• Combating Stereotype Threat in the Wild [Mixing Memory]

  Published: December 19, 2007, 4:05 pm

  Tags: Social Cognition

  As I believe I've said before, if anything good has come from the Larry Summers debacle of a few years ago, it's that it inspired some really interesting research on gender differences in math. If you've been reading this blog for a while, you've probably guessed that one of my favorite topics in that research is stereotype threat. Stereotype

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• Conservatives are Happier than Liberals Because... [Mixing Memory]

  Published: June 11, 2008, 5:05 pm

  Tags: Social Cognition

  orientation, need for cognition, rationalization of inequality, and several control variables (gender, job status, education, church attendance, etc.) and the self-reported happiness of the survey takers. Considered alone conservatism was positively related to happiness (in case you don't know, regression is like correlation -- a positive

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