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Psychology News Round-Up (October 10th)

Submitted by hdaniel on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:27

By Dave Nussbaum

Stéphane Côté (@StephaneCoteTO) and Michael Kraus (@mwkraus) wrote an op-ed in the Sunday NYT on their research about the divide between classes and the difficulty of bridging that gap socially, as well as an intervention that can help overcome it.

Submitted by hdaniel on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:23

By Dave Nussbaum

On Monday, Erika Salomon (@ecsalomon) wrote about theInherence Heuristic, which may underlie various effects in psychology, including system justification and the correspondence bias.

Submitted by hdaniel on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:18

By Dave Nussbaum

Submitted by hdaniel on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 11:14

By Dave Nussbaum

Happy Halloween! This week we had two fantastic posts on the blog that you should definitely check out if you missed, plus there was a lot happening on twitter as well…
On Monday, Tamar Kreps discussed her research with Benoit Monin on how to make moral arguments. It turns out that explaining costs and benefits can sometimes undermine the moral weight of your argument.