More Than a Glance: Understanding Others Better by Paying More Attention to Them There’s an easy way to form more accurate impressions of other people.
Seeing Yourself in the Villain You might feel especially drawn to stories with a villain who resembles you.
How We Judge Children Based on their Faces Despite warnings not to judge a book by its cover, we readily do so—even when forming first impressions of children.
What We Get Wrong About the Criminal Justice System Many people don’t understand the link between inequality and incarceration.
People’s Faces Can Give Clues about What Kind of Partner They Are Men’s—but not women’s—faces convey information about their approaches to relationships.
My Enemy’s Enemy is My Friend—Common Enemies Blur Lines between Groups in Conflict What Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and an imaginary alien invasion can teach us about human nature.
Look Who’s Talking! Entitled Individuals Break the Rules but Also Enforce Them People with an inflated opinion of themselves can actually be good for society.
Failure of Female Role Models Affects Beliefs about Women More Generally Role models are not superhuman, and they sometimes fail. Although we might accept their imperfections, we do not expect that other people will treat them the same.
Why do People Believe in the “True Self”? Although intuitively appealing, the belief that each person has a true self may be just a quirk of the human mind.