It makes sense to dislike someone when they’ve harmed or wronged you. But why would you dislike someone who hasn’t wronged you in any way? You know you| PsychMechanics
As much as well-intentioned people try to create an equal society, it simply cannot happen. People organize themselves into status hierarchies wherever| PsychMechanics
Smartness or intelligence can be defined in several ways. I won’t bore you with all the definitions. No matter how you slice and dice it, smartness boils| PsychMechanics
Successful navigation of our complex social world requires the capability to recognize and judge the relative status of others. Hence, social comparison processes are of great importance in our interactions, informing us of our relative standing and in turn potentially motivating our behavior. However, so far few studies have examined in detail how social comparison can influence interpersonal decision-making. One aspect of social decision-making that is of particular importance is cooperativ...| journals.plos.org
Projection in psychology means projecting your own mental states and traits onto others- traits that they don’t possess. Just as a movie projector| PsychMechanics
To understand what causes nationalism and explore in-depth the psychology of nationalists, we have to start with understanding what the term nationalism means.| PsychMechanics
Scrolling media is not a recent phenomenon, as many would think. Scrolling behavior appeared when remote controls for TVs were invented. Before that, people| PsychMechanics
Before we talk about the reasons for fundamental attribution error, let's properly understand what it means. Consider the following scenario:| PsychMechanics