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The Chameleon Effect

PsyBlog -- Does mimicking other people's body language really make them like us? Self-help books, persuasion manuals and glossy magazine articles often advise that mimicking body language can increase how much others like us. But is it really true that mimicry causes others to like us, or is mimicry just a by-product of successful social interactions? Although it had long been suspected that copying other pe...     11-20
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Self-Study Positive Psychology Courses

PsyBlog -- Sponsored post: Positive psychology self-study courses available at Intentional Happiness. How can you live a happier life? How can you discover your strengths and build on them? What is the case for hope and optimism? Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, a happiness researcher and life coach, addresses these important questions in a workbook aimed at helping you understand and apply the lessons from the lat...     11-19
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The Psychological Immune System

PsyBlog -- We get over bad moods much sooner than we predict, thanks to the covert work of the psychological immune system. One of the most incredible things about the human mind is its resilience. Let's face it, life can be pretty depressing at times,and yet people generally push on much the same as they always have, sometimes even with a spring in their step and a smile on their face. How come one day it s...     11-13
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Why Do People Bother Voting?

PsyBlog -- Why we overestimate the power of our own vote. It might seem like an undemocratic question but it's one that's always plagued me: why do I bother voting? Most people know their own tick in the box is hardly worth it when weighed against the effort involved in getting registered and actually going to vote, let alone when weighed against all the other people voting.Quattrone & Tversky (1984) had...     11-01
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The Truth About Self-Deception

PsyBlog -- Can we pull the wool over our own eyes or dowe see through ourmind games? In theory the one person we should never, ever, lie to is ourselves. Surely lying to ourselves is counter-productive? Like calmly and deliberately shooting yourself in the foot or taking a hot toasting fork and plunging it into your eye? But look around and it's not hard to spot the tell-tale symptoms of self-deception in ot...     10-28
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How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation

PsyBlog -- Surely one of the best ways to generate motivation in ourselves and others is by dangling rewards? Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we've been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometimes they backfire. Spectacularly. Here is a story about preschool children with much to teach all ages ...     10-13
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How to Make People Believe in Telepathy

PsyBlog -- Have you ever been thinking about someone and then moments later they've called you? Is that random coincidence or something more? People love to believe in supernatural powers like telepathy. At least one-third of Americans report a belief in extra-sensory perception (ESP), with a further 40% refusing to rule out the possibility. Surveys in Europe reveal similar figures with one study finding tha...     10-08
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Are You a Liar?

PsyBlog -- Do people really lie 3 times within 10 minutes of meeting someone new? It's a statistic often quoted to show how callous and heartless people are. It's the kind of number the misanthrope TV doc Gregory House (played by Brit Hugh Laurie) should have tattooed across his forehead. But what kinds of lies are people telling? Are they covering up dastardly crimes or just oiling the social wheels? To fin...     10-01
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PsyBlog Now on Twitter

PsyBlog -- PsyBlog is now on Twitter, right here. So many people have kindly been sharing articles from PsyBlog with others on Twitter that the tweet count for recent articles is now fairly hefty. Thanks very much to all the Twitterers who've been spreading the word! PsyBlog's Twitter feed is another way to keep up to date with the latest articles published on the site. You can get much the same result by ad...     09-30
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How Long to Form a Habit?

PsyBlog -- Research reveals a curved relationship between practice and automaticity. Say you want to create a new habit, whether it's taking more exercise, eating more healthily or writing a blog post every day, how often does it need to be performed before itno longer requires Herculean self-control? Clearly it's going to depend on the type of habit you're trying to form and how single-minded you are in pur...     09-22
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Why You Can’t Help Believing Everything You Read

PsyBlog -- You shouldn't believe everything you read, yet according to a classic psychology study at first we can't help it. What is the mind's default position: are we naturally critical or naturally gullible? As a species do we have a tendency to behave like Agent Mulder from the X-Files who always wanted to believe in mythical monsters and alien abductions? Or are we like his partner Agent Scully who was ...     09-18
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Sit Up Straight! Be Confident!

PsyBlog -- New study finds slouchers make less confident self-evaluations. At school all the cool kids were slouchers. No one wanted to be seen sitting up straight, paying attention or, heaven forbid making an effort to learn. It was only the geeksin the front row,hoovering up all that useless knowledge, who kept their backs straight. The rest were doing their best to reach the horizontal, and sometimes exce...     09-11
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How Groups Form, Conform, Then Warp Our Decision-Making, Productivity and Creativity

PsyBlog -- · Discover the essentials of group psychology. When we're in a group other people have an incredibly powerful effect on us. Groups can kill our creativity, inspire us to work harder, allow us to slack off, skew our decision-making and make us clam up. The keys to understanding human behaviour—our lives as citizens, as workers, asfriends—are in theresearch on group psychology, which PsyBlog has bee...     09-08
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Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

PsyBlog -- Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's handy to know that 'The Homer' has a number of forward-thinking design features including three horns, all of which...     09-01
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The Acceptance Prophecy: How You Control Who Likes You

PsyBlog -- · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophecy? Themystical-sounding 'acceptance prophecy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we behave more coldly and they don't like us as much. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy because if we predict acc...     08-28
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Brainstorming Reloaded

PsyBlog -- · Whybrainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it.Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; people happily brainstorm for holiday destinations, restaurants and even newcareers. Brainstorming certainly ...     08-17
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Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively

PsyBlog -- "No, leaks aren't on the agenda..." In 1985 Stasser and Titus published the best sort of psychology study. Not only does it shine a new light on how groups communicate and make decisions, it also surprises, confuses and intrigues. Oddly, the results first look as if they can't be right, then later it seems obvious they are right, then attention turns to what can be done about it. The findings were...     08-11
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happier.com: Online Tools to Improve Happiness

PsyBlog -- · Sponsored post: happier.comgives you the tools to live better. Includes special offer for PsyBlog readers.The people at happier.com have been working hard to come up with new ways to make you happier. Now boasting 32,000 users in their community, happier.com is a website that contains online tools, tests and exercises to help you measure, track and improve your happiness. New on their site are f...     08-06
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40 Superb Psychology Blogs

PsyBlog -- Fortyof the best psychology blogs, chosen to give you a broad sweep of the most interesting content being produced online right now. The list is split into three sections: first are more general psychological blogs, followed by those with an academic slant, followed by condition specific and patient perspective blogs. Other than that the blogs are presented in no particular order: General: MindHac...     07-22
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Fighting Groupthink With Dissent

PsyBlog -- · Why dissent is vital to effective decision-making. In government, in corporate boardrooms, every day across the land people gather in groups to make decisions. More often than we would like these decisions turn out to be wrong, sometimes very badly wrong. Governments waste billions, corporations go bankrupt and people suffer.So why do groups sometimes make such awful decisions? Group decision-ma...     07-15
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