Science news articles about 'social judgments'

  • Tactile sensations influence social judgments and decisions

    ... throughout life as a scaffold upon which we build our social judgments and decisions. "Touch remains perhaps ... ' weight, texture, and hardness can unconsciously influence judgments about unrelated events and situations: To test the effects ...
  • Tactile sensations influence social judgments and decisions

    ... touch -- the first of our senses to develop -- may continue throughout life as a scaffold upon which we build our social judgments and decisions ...
  • Whom do we fear or trust?

    ... that, rightly or wrongly, people make instant judgments about faces that guide them in how they feel about that person ... out what facial features are critical for different social judgments. "If you can think of an emotion being communicated ...
  • With hot coffee, we see a warm heart, Yale researchers find

    ... judgment of a person's character can be influenced by something as simple as the warmth of the drink we hold in our hand. In the current ... that shows the physical distance between individuals also influences their social judgments about another person. The research suggests ...
  • Naps with rapid eye movement sleep increase receptiveness to positive emotion

    ... ," said Gujar. "Only through accurate recognition can cogent social judgments and subsequent actions be made. Nowhere are these accurate emotional face judgments more critical than in many professions that are associated with sleep curtailment ...
  • If you do good, you look good

    ... room, where participants did not have to contend with social judgment, they biked more miles on average when they were paid to do so. The Public Value of Personal Sacrifice ...
  • The magic touch

    ... paper, “Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions,” published this week in the journal Science, Ackerman and his co-authors, Christopher ...
  • Scientists glimpse dance of skeletons inside neurons

    ... ' perceptions of space as well as their ability to make social judgments, but tends to leave other functions relatively intact. Individuals with Williams syndrome are noted to have an affinity ...
  • Youths' social goals help determine response to bullying

    ... friend; 2) efforts to gain positive social judgments and prestige, such as having "cool" friends; and 3) efforts to minimize negative social judgments, such as avoiding being viewed as a "loser." Children who worked to acquire ...
  • Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer – review

    ... by mirroring the desire. It involves character assessment and social judgment too. Perhaps the banker has risked everything to reduce debt in a third-world country ...
  • Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'

    ... of an introvert?It's how you respond to stimulation, including social stimulation. So introverts prefer lower ... with being antisocial, and it's not that at all – it's just a preference.What's the relationship between shyness and introversion?Shyness is about the fear of social judgments ...
  • Ready for your close-up? Distance at which facial photos are taken influences perception, study shows

    ... a thousand words." Previous studies have examined how our social judgments of pictures of people are influenced by factors such as whether the person is smiling or frowning, but until now ...

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