Social PsychologyFeb 28, 2025
Social Exclusion and Psychological Outcomes
Social exclusion denotes the experience of being ignored, rejected or ostracised by one’s social group and poses a fundamental ...
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Social PsychologyFeb 23, 2025
Escape Room 154 reinvents social psychology research
When people enter an escape room, they are usually blindfolded and locked inside, tasked with finding clues and solving puzzles ...
Social PsychologyAug 18, 2024
Is Social Media Making Us Lonely?
When award-winning poet and critic, and director of creative writing at Yale University, Richard Deming sat down to write a book ...
Social PsychologyJul 24, 2024
What do genes have to do with psychology? They likely influence your behavior more than you realize
Whether genes are able to compromise between their competing interests can have consequences for development. pressureUA/iStock ...
Social PsychologyJun 21, 2024
The Dark Side of Social Media
In a previous post, my team and I explored how social media use can negatively impact body image in youth. As young people are on ...
Social PsychologyMay 18, 2024
We Know Social Media Use Stirs Up Anxiety and Depression for Many
In the early 2000s, social media was a baby. Cut to now: Statista (2023) predicts there should be around six billion social media ...
Social PsychologyMay 9, 2024
Decoding Social Proof In Consumer Psychology
In a marketplace echoing with an excess of choice, the whisper of the crowd often becomes the deciding voice. This voice, an ...
Social PsychologyAug 16, 2023
A Psychologist Explains Why Taylor Swift Is The Subject Of A New Course On Social Psychology
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday ...
Social PsychologyAug 14, 2023
Taylor Swift University Course Asks Psychologists: ‘What Can We Learn From Her?’
Taylormania is in full swing. From 20,000 fans showing up outside sold-out Eras Tour stadium shows, to making history with four ...
Social PsychologyAug 5, 2021
A Social Psychology Tutorial
In May 1997, I was privileged to receive a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of New Hampshire. While my career since ...
Social PsychologyJul 21, 2020
Behavioral Principles Can Promote a Prosocial Society
Western society typically promotes neo-liberal economic values of capital growth, both for the individual and society as a whole ...
Social PsychologyApr 17, 2016
Welcome to Social psychology!
Welcome to the website of the Social Psychology Research Group headed by Gerald Echterhoff. Our work combines social psychology ...
Social PsychologyApr 4, 2016
Social Psychology: It’s "Obvious" or it’s "False"
Being able to spend my days talking to people about social psychology research is a great privilege. The behavior involved in ...