Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

Jan 26, 2022

When a “Small” Change Mitigates Bias

by Greg Walton and Jason Okonofua

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How a 1-page letter to a teacher reduced return to juvenile detention by 40 percentage points.

Jan 24, 2022 The Pain Doctor’s Dilemma by E. Paige Lloyd Distinguishing real from fake pain is difficult across race.	Jan 21, 2022 Can Thinking About Other People’s Positive Traits Reduce Racial Bias? by Lisa Legault Thinking about someone’s good qualities can have a ripple effect you might not expect.
Jan 19, 2022 Help Me, Help Us: Framing Personal and Planetary Benefits of Eating More Veg by Ganga Shreedhar and Matteo Galizzi Chances are that you, or someone you know, has a diet that harms health and the planet because it includes too much meat. How can we motivate dietary change?	Jan 17, 2022 Improving Accuracy in Memory Recall: The Particular Case of Alibi Generation by Hyungwook Yim and Simon Dennis “Where were you at 9pm on the night of the crime?” You might not remember.

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Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.

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