Julian Scheffer, The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT: Is self-control a "moral muscle" that is required for moral behavior? In some cases, self-control seems necessary to override selfish impulses and act morally. In other cases, self-control...
View ArticleJason Clark, The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT:Social scientists have long been interested in the origin, content, and effects of group stereotypes.April 3, 2015 - 11:30am
View ArticleJi Xia, The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT: When one’s desired outcomes depend on another person, how would this knowledge influence a perceiver’s impressions of this individual? A large body of research has shown that outcome...
View ArticleBethany Lassetter, The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT: While research has historically focused on the origins of prejudice, much less is known about the experiences of stigmatized targets. The current research asks specifically, when and toward...
View ArticleAdam Waytz, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
ABSTRACT: Five studies across cultures involving 661 American Democrats and Republicans, 995 Israelis, and 1,266 Palestinians provide previously unidentified evidence of a fundamental bias, what we...
View ArticleMark S. Blumberg - The University of Iowa
Abstract: How are the “rudimentary” movements of fetuses and infants transformed into the coordinated, flexible, and adaptive movements of adults? Some believe that adult behaviors are built from...
View ArticleJason J. Radley, Ph.D., The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT: The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is implicated in the relapse of drug-seeking behavior. Optimal mPFC functioning relies on synaptic connections involving dendritic spines in pyramidal...
View ArticleJulie Gros-Louis, The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT: The interaction between children’s own communicative competence and responsiveness of social partners is an important process facilitating the transition from prelinguistic to linguistic...
View ArticleAnja Fiedler, The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT: Visual objects are defined over time and space on the basis of various factors, for instance surface features (e.g., color). However, it is unclear whether our perception of object coherence...
View ArticleKristin Shutts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
ABSTRACT: Young children have much to learn about the individuals, relationships, and groups that comprise the social world. In this talk, I will consider how children apprehend two important aspects...
View ArticleElizabeth O'Neal, The University of Iowa
ABSTRACT: Most studies of child pedestrians have focused on children aged 5-9 years. However, pedestrian injury is a leading cause of death and disability in children age 14 and under, which indicates...
View ArticlePeggy Nopoulos
DNA Simple Sequence Repeats have been theorized to be a genetic mechanism with an important role in the evolution from primate to human brain. Genes with triplet repeats, such as CAG, are common and...
View ArticleAndy Todd, The University of Iowa
Pervasive stereotypes linking Black men with violence and criminality can lead to implicit cognitive biases, including the misidentification of harmless objects (e.g., cellphones, hand tools) as...
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