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  • 8 Jan 2020
    Diane F. Halpern, Robert J. Sternberg

    Critical Thinking: Why We Need It Now More than Ever

    Fake news. Alternative Facts. Deep Fakes (videos and audios the make it appear that someone is saying something that person never said). An Army of Bots. Misinformation. Disinformation. Post truth. This is a short list of terms that entered our vocabulary in recent years. They all refer to attempts to mislead the audience and to […]

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  • 11 Nov 2019
    Ken Carter

    Buzz: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies

    Buzz: Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.

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  • 4 Jun 2019
    Karen L Blair

    Who will date a trans person? – Karen L. Blair

    In a recent study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 87.5% of the participants chose only cisgender people and excluded transgender and non-binary individuals from their hypothetical dating pool. This blog, written by chapter author of 'The Intimate Relationships of Sexual and Gender Minorities' from The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, 2E, looks at why...

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  • 3 Jun 2019
    Philip Graham

    Myths about Gay Men – Philip Graham

    Author of Men and Sex, Philip Graham, explores common myths about Gay Men to support Pride Month 2019. Visit www.cambridge.org/pride2019 to find out how Cambridge University Press are supporting Pride 2019.

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  • 9 Apr 2019
    Bonnie Berry

    Appearance Bias and Crime

    As strange as it may seem, there is very little research on the topic of physical appearance and its relationship to criminal involvement, criminal victimization, and the crime control process.   While it is popularly known that young Black men are disproportionately singled out for arrest and receive harsher sentences than those with other appearance traits, […]

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  • 19 Mar 2019
    Stephen Gibson

    Beyond Obedience?

    Look in any social psychology textbook and you’ll see that obedience is defined as a form of social influence elicited in response to direct orders. New research on the most (in)famous studies of obedience has begun to challenge this definition. obedience refers to a more diffuse process of subordination to authority through which we come […]

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  • 6 Mar 2019
    Meghan Gillen, Elizabeth Daniels, Charlotte Markey

    Reclaiming the Joy of Eating and Striving for Positive Body Image

    “One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”   ~Luciano Pavarotti We are all subject to cultural prescriptions about how we should eat and what we should weigh.  Some of these prescriptions come in the form of […]

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  • 27 Jul 2018
    Meghan Gillen, Elizabeth Daniels, Charlotte Markey

    Body Positive: What We Wish We Knew Back Then

    When we started studying body image, between 14 and 20 years ago, we had a personal interest in the topic.  In some ways, the work has become less personal across time and in some ways it has become more personal.  When middle age is just around the corner, it feels easier to care less about […]

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