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Melanie Tannenbaum
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- January 20, 2013
- 11:20 AM
- 145 views
Being a “doer” vs. a “thinker,” and where you’ll go for New Orleans beignets.
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
When I arrived in New Orleans on Thursday to attend the annual SPSP conference, everyone told me that I must immediately go to Cafe du Monde to eat beignets and drink cafe au lait. Once I did get to Cafe … Continue reading →... Read more »
Orehek, E., Mauro, R., Kruglanski, A., & van der Bles, A. (2012) Prioritizing association strength versus value: The influence of self-regulatory modes on means evaluation in single goal and multigoal contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(1), 22-31. DOI: 10.1037/a0025881
Zhang, Y., Fishbach, A., & Kruglanski, A. (2007) The dilution model: How additional goals undermine the perceived instrumentality of a shared path. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(3), 389-401. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.3.389
Albarracin, D., Hepler, J., & Tannenbaum, M. (2011) General Action and Inaction Goals: Their Behavioral, Cognitive, and Affective Origins and Influences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(2), 119-123. DOI: 10.1177/0963721411402666
- January 17, 2013
- 01:23 PM
- 86 views
Just because it’s “moral” doesn’t mean it’s “right.”
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
“I don’t always think about morality…but when I do, I think Dick Cheney.” Thus opened Peter Ditto’s talk at the SPSP Political Psychology pre-conference, greeted with a laugh from a largely-left-leaning audience. Yet as Ditto continued speaking, it became clear … Continue reading →... Read more »
Liu, B., & Ditto, P. (2012) What Dilemma? Moral Evaluation Shapes Factual Belief. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2071478
- January 2, 2013
- 12:52 PM
- 188 views
Should you tell Facebook about your resolutions?
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
Now that you’ve set your difficult, specific, and attainable resolutions for 2013, should you tell people about your plans? Before you update your Facebook status proclaiming your intention to lose 15 pounds, run a marathon, or publish 20 papers, you … Continue reading →... Read more »
Gollwitzer, P., Sheeran, P., Michalski, V., & Seifert, A. (2009) When Intentions Go Public: Does Social Reality Widen the Intention-Behavior Gap?. Psychological Science, 20(5), 612-618. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02336.x
Hollenbeck, J. R., Williams, C. R., & Klein, H. J. (1989) An empirical investigation of the antecedents of commitment to difficult goals. Journal of Applied Psychology, 18-23. info:/
Gopinath, M., & Nyer, P. (2009) The effect of public commitment on resistance to persuasion: The influence of attitude certainty, issue importance, susceptibility to normative influence, preference for consistency and source proximity. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 26(1), 60-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2008.08.003
Fishbach, A., Dhar, R., & Zhang, Y. (2006) Subgoals as substitutes or complements: The role of goal accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(2), 232-242. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.2.232
- January 1, 2013
- 04:20 PM
- 162 views
Set SMART resolutions in 2013!
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
Many people around the world woke up this morning with a renewed determination to tackle a long list of resolutions. But as we head into 2013, it’s worth noting that some of these resolutions will be better than others. Psychological … Continue reading →... Read more »
Locke, E., & Latham, G. (2002) Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey. American Psychologist, 57(9), 705-717. DOI: 10.1037//0003-066X.57.9.705
Locke, E., & Latham, G. (2006) New Directions in Goal-Setting Theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(5), 265-268. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00449.x
- December 13, 2012
- 03:04 PM
- 169 views
Stocking Stuffers For The PsycHoliday Season
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
This post is the first of a “PsycHoliday Season” series that I will be posting throughout the rest of December. Enjoy! If there are four things that people tend to have on their minds during the holiday season, it’s a) … Continue reading →... Read more »
Algoe SB, Haidt J, & Gable SL. (2008) Beyond reciprocity: gratitude and relationships in everyday life. Emotion, 8(3), 425-9. PMID: 18540759
Algoe, Sara B., Gable, Shelly L., & Maisel, Natalya C. (2010) It's the little things: Everyday gratitude as a booster shot for romantic relationships. Personal Relationships. info:/
McCullough, M., Tsang, J., & Emmons, R. (2004) Gratitude in Intermediate Affective Terrain: Links of Grateful Moods to Individual Differences and Daily Emotional Experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86(2), 295-309. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.295
Grant, A., & Gino, F. (2010) A little thanks goes a long way: Explaining why gratitude expressions motivate prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(6), 946-955. DOI: 10.1037/a0017935
- November 6, 2012
- 06:28 PM
- 122 views
Did you vote? Wear your sticker! Update your status! Send all the tweets!
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
Many polls are still open, meaning it’s not too late to encourage your friends and family to get out and rock the vote! Yesterday I mentioned that using channel factors to make voting seem easy and convenient can increase voter … Continue reading →... Read more »
Goldstein, N., Cialdini, R., & Griskevicius, V. (2008) A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels. Journal of Consumer Research, 35(3), 472-482. DOI: 10.1086/586910
Cialdini, R., Demaine, L., Sagarin, B., Barrett, D., Rhoads, K., & Winter, P. (2006) Managing social norms for persuasive impact. Social Influence, 1(1), 3-15. DOI: 10.1080/15534510500181459
- November 6, 2012
- 12:32 AM
- 175 views
Where will you be voting? Figure it out now!
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
With everyone talking about the importance of “voter turnout,” how do you make sure potential voters make it to the polls? Simple – make them figure out ahead of time how and when they’ll get there. In social psychology, we … Continue reading →... Read more »
Leventhal, H., Singer, R., & Jones, S. (1965) Effects of fear and specificity of recommendation upon attitudes and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2(1), 20-29. info:/
- November 5, 2012
- 03:25 PM
- 184 views
Can we predict the “undecided voters”?
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
Now that Election Day is upon us, can you remember way back (a whole few weeks ago!) when there were still those mystical Undecided Voters? Even aside from the sketch comedy skits that mocked their very existence, many people were still … Continue reading →... Read more »
Galdi, Silvia, Arcuri, Luciano, & Gawronski, Bertram. (2008) Automatic mental associations predict future choices of undecided decision-makers. Science, 321(1100), 1100-1102. info:/
- October 31, 2012
- 03:10 PM
- 235 views
The Zombies In Our Midst
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
Every Halloween, we find ourselves surrounded by zombies, vampires, ghouls, and other mythical monsters. But even though this is the one day each year that we consciously realize we are surrounded by these creatures (at least in their human-costumed forms), … Continue reading →... Read more »
Waytz, Adam, Gray, Kurt, Epley, Nicholas, & Wegner, Daniel M. (2010) Causes and consequences of mind perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(8). info:/
- October 1, 2012
- 04:16 PM
- 295 views
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Does Psych Reflect Us All?
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.” – Earl Nightingale, American motivational speaker In 1898, Norman Triplett stumbled upon an interesting observation as he watched a group of cyclists … Continue reading →... Read more »
Milgram, S. (1963) Behavioral Study of Obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67(4), 371-378. DOI: 10.1037/h0040525
Schachter, S., & Singer, J. (1962) Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state. Psychological Review, 379-399. DOI: 10.1037/h0046234
Latane, B., Williams, K., & Harkins, S. (1979) Many Hands Make Light The Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.37.6.822
- September 25, 2012
- 11:04 AM
- 323 views
Seeing psychology everywhere: The case of Gangnam Style
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
This semester, I’m teaching Intro to Social Psychology — which I pretty much see as an excuse to share my joint obsessions with social psychology and pop culture with a group of one hundred 18-to-21-year-olds who essentially have to be … Continue reading →... Read more »
Lord, Charles G., Ross, Lee, & Lepper, Mark R. (1979) Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently considered evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.37.11.2098
Cheng, Patricia W. (1997) From covariation to causation: A causal power theory. Psychological Review, 104(2), 367-405. info:/
Festinger, L. (1954) A theory of social comparison processes. Human Relations. DOI: 10.1177/001872675400700202
Mussweiler, T., & Rüter, K. (2003) What friends are for! The use of routine standards in social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.3.467
Aspinwall, L.G., & Taylor, S.E. (1993) Effects of social comparison direction, threat, and self-esteem on affect, self-evaluation, and expected success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.64.5.708
Helgeson, V.S., & Mickelson, K.D. (1995) Motives for social comparison. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/01461672952111008
Crocker, J., & Park, L.E. (2004) The Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem. Psychological Bulletin. DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.130.3.392
- September 11, 2012
- 11:23 AM
- 131 views
Are your 9/11 memories really your own?
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
I can remember exactly where I was eleven years ago when I learned why the sky was starting to fill with smoke about 30 miles to the west. Though I live in Illinois now, I’m originally from Long Island. In … Continue reading →... Read more »
Hirst W, Phelps EA, Buckner RL, Budson AE, Cuc A, Gabrieli JD, Johnson MK, Lustig C, Lyle KB, Mather M.... (2009) Long-term memory for the terrorist attack of September 11: Flashbulb memories, event memories, and the factors that influence their retention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(2), 161-76. PMID: 19397377
- August 20, 2012
- 07:11 PM
- 290 views
Sure, women cannot get pregnant from rape. Also, all mean people are ugly and puppies are immortal.
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
[Potential trigger warning: Discussion of rape and sexual assault in this post.] Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: If you have vaginal sex without protection, you can get pregnant. For some reason, this concept can be remarkably difficult for people … Continue reading →... Read more »
Carli, L. L. (1999) Cognitive Reconstruction, Hindsight, and Reactions to Victims and Perpetrators. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. info:/
- August 14, 2012
- 05:47 PM
- 310 views
Why do swimmers hate Lane 8?
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
Before I went to college, I was never a big basketball fan (for those who know me now, I’m aware that this is probably surprising). As a result, when I arrived for my freshman year at Duke and began attending … Continue reading →... Read more »
Brehm, Jack W., & Self, Elizabeth A. (1989) The intensity of motivation. Annual Review of Psychology, 109-131. info:/
- August 14, 2012
- 02:58 PM
- 275 views
Blind athletes provide clues about the nature of our emotions.
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
One of the most important ways that we learn how to interact with the world around us is through observational learning. By watching how our friends and family members behave, we learn at a very young age how to do … Continue reading →... Read more »
Matsumoto, David, & Willingham, Bob. (2009) Spontaneous facial expressions of emotion of congenitally and noncongenitally blind individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(1), 1-10. info:/
- August 12, 2012
- 06:07 PM
- 260 views
The psychology of doping accusations: Which athletes raise the most suspicion?
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
Why do we immediately feel that “ping” of suspicion when some athletes achieve great Olympic feats? And why would certain athletes make us feel that way, while other record-breaking winners don’t inspire the same level of disbelief? According to covariation … Continue reading →... Read more »
Cheng, Patricia W. (1997) From covariation to causation: A causal power theory. Psychological Review, 104(2), 367-405. info:/
- August 11, 2012
- 07:37 PM
- 329 views
The benefits of seeing a “challenge” where others see a “threat.”
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
You ask [Aly Raisman] about feeling the pressure and she says, ‘I don’t really feel it,’ and you know, I think it’s because she labels it something different in her head. Some kids feel anxiety, feel pressure, she … Continue reading →... Read more »
Blascovich, Jim, Seery, Mark D., Mugridge, Carrie A., Norris, R. Kyle, & Weisbuch, Max. (2004) Predicting athletic performance from cardiovascular indexes of challenge and threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(5), 683-688. info:/
- August 7, 2012
- 03:32 PM
- 293 views
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Why Silver Medalists Look So Blue.
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
McKayla Maroney is not pleased. Can you blame her? After a solid week of being touted as the “world’s best vaulter,” she came up short at the individual vault event, earning a silver medal after an unanticipated fall during her … Continue reading →... Read more »
Medvec, Victoria Husted, Madey, Scott F., & Gilovich, Thomas. (1995) When less is more: Counterfactual thinking and satisfaction among Olympic medalists. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 603-610. info:/
- August 5, 2012
- 04:39 PM
- 301 views
Olympic Greatness: Biology or Motivation?
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
If you tried hard enough, could you have won Olympic gold in the 100 meter dash? If you’re an entity theorist, your answer is probably “no.” Entity theorists believe that attributes such as personality characteristics, athletic ability, or intelligence are relatively … Continue reading →... Read more »
Dweck, C. (1992) The study of goals in psychology. Psychological Science, 165-167. info:/
- July 31, 2012
- 11:40 AM
- 341 views
We Won. They Lost.
by Melanie Tannenbaum in PsySociety
A slightly different version of this post (pertaining to college basketball) was originally blogged at IonPsych on 3/29/2011. I’ve decided to re-post it from the archives today with some tweaks in honor of the Olympic Games. You can see the … Continue reading →... Read more »
Cialdini, R.B., Borden, R. J., Thorne, A., Walker, M.R., Freeman, S., & Sloan, L.R. (1976) Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(3), 366-375. DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.34.3.366
Newman ML, Pennebaker JW, Berry DS, & Richards JM. (2003) Lying words: predicting deception from linguistic styles. Personality , 29(5), 665-75. PMID: 15272998
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