Do Males and Females Really Communicate in Different Ways?
Why do men and women sometimes find it so difficult to communicate? Do they communicate differently, or is that just a stereotype?
Social Psychology
Humor Connects People: The Laughing and Liking Principle
Humor and laughter are prevalent in most people’s daily lives. According to Treger and colleagues (2013), some estimates suggest that we laugh an average of …
Extreme Political Attitudes are Difficult to Change for 5 Reasons
Why is it that some people hold extreme political or religious attitudes? First, we need to understand the nature of such attitudes. Here are two quotes, …
Can Evolution Explain Why Women Become Attracted by Some Men Over Others?
Why is it that women prefer some men over others? I guess that many people, especially men, want to know this. In this article, I sum up the …
Instincts Might Explain Why People Hold Prejudices
Prejudices have plausibly existed since the origins of humanity. In an evolutionary sense, prejudices might have solved an adaptive problem.
A Study of 65,000 Participants Shows How People are Attachted to Their Partners
A study by Mickelson and colleagues (1997) examined 65,000 participants and their attachment styles, with an equal distribution of men and women.
How Attachment Styles Affect Relationships
Klohnen & Bera (1998) conducted a longitudinal study over a period of 31 years. 142 women were involved, and they were interviewed in a time interval …
Does the Apple Fall Far From the Tree? Parent-Child Similarities in Attitudes
This article considers a strongly disputed topic in social psychology: the formation of attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes. A new meta-analysis by Degner & Dalege (2013) …
4 Elementary Ways of Relating to Others
Fiske (1992) posits that there are four elementary forms of sociality, which will be described below. Fiske’s theory suggests that human beings are fundamentally social, and people of …
8 Psychological Mechanisms that Enable People to Hurt Others (The Psychology of Evilness)
It seems like most people are capable of doing harm to others, as shown in Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment. However, self-reports have also revealed that obeying to hurt …