Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

Jan 20, 2021

Do We Have to Judge Books By Their Covers?

by Kao-Wei Chua

Various miniature people standing behind pair of glasses

We make snap judgments about other people based on facial appearance, but we can change these judgments with experience.

Jan 18, 2021 People Believe that Prison Transforms Prisoners for the Better by Jason C. Deska & Kurt Hugenberg Criminals are frequently dehumanized, but this reduces as prisoners approach release. Why?	Jan 15, 2021 Left or Right? How You Hold a Baby is Linked to Emotional and Racial Biases by Gianluca Malatesta, Daniele Marzoli, and Luca Tommasi Turns out the left side is preferred, but most people are probably unaware of its possible implications.
Jan 13, 2021 Playing with Power: Humor as Everyday Resistance by Anna Dobai & Nick Hopkins Very funny… But who’s laughing now?	Jan 11, 2021 Most Polls Gave Biden the Edge in the Election, but Many Thought Trump Would Win. Why? by Brett Pelham Given that most polls predicted that Joe Biden would win the election, why did so many Americans believe Trump would win? And why do so many of his base believe he was wronged?

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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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