American political parties continue to grow more polarized, but the extent of ideological
polarization among the public is much less than the extent of perceived polarization (what …

Social perceivers tend to exaggerate existing differences between groups, a phenomenon
known as intergroup accentuation. In two preregistered experiments, we tested the …

Nonconformity––the act of deviating from established norms and expectations of one's
group––is often evaluated negatively, despite its potential benefits for society. Three …

Relationships between Religious and Scientific Worldviews in the Narratives of Western
Buddhists Reporting Meditation-Related Ch Page 1 Published by the Journal of …

Self‐reported lost memory of child sexual abuse (CSA) can be mistaken for “repressed
memory.” Based on our longitudinal studies of memory and disclosure in child maltreatment …

People learn about social groups by reading and hearing verbal statements. We
investigated if the perceived truth and acceptability of such statements depend on whether …

Abstract Participants were 82 children aged 9–11 and 169 adults aged 18–65, majority
White European; data were collected in Northern Ireland between January and June 2022 …

Social categorization involves two crucial processes: First, children seek properties on which
they can categorize individuals, ie, they learn to form social categories; then children make …

Many philosophers hold that generics (ie, unquantified generalizations) are pervasive in
communication and that when they are about social groups, this may offend and polarize …

The psychological mechanisms that subserve inductions about novel social categories in
childhood are hotly debated. While research demonstrated that language, and in particular …