Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

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?
Jan 08, 2021 The More You Have, the More You Want? by Zhechen Wang, Jolanda Jetten, & Niklas Steffens The more that wealthy people use wealth to define themselves, the more wealth they want.	Jan 06, 2021 Using Self-Control Strategies to Resist Temptations by Marina Milyavskaya People can use different strategies to resist temptations, but do some strategies work better than others?

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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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