Maslow's pyramid of human needs, proposed in 1943, has been one of the most cognitively
contagious ideas in the behavioral sciences. Anticipating later evolutionary views of human …

Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to imbue the real or imagined behavior of
nonhuman agents with humanlike characteristics, motivations, intentions, or emotions …

Using a novel technique known as network meta-analysis, we synthesized evidence from
492 studies (87,418 participants) to investigate the effectiveness of procedures in changing …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

The belief that women are more emotional than men is one of the strongest gender
stereotypes held in Western cultures (Shields, 2002). And yet, gender stereotypes of …

Black men tend to be stereotyped as threatening and, as a result, may be disproportionately
targeted by police even when unarmed. Here, we found evidence that biased perceptions of …

Disputes between those holding differing political views are ubiquitous and deep-seated,
and they often follow common, recognizable lines. The supporters of tradition and stability …

This article reports a meta-analysis of studies examining the predictive validity of the Implicit
Association Test (IAT) and explicit measures of bias for a wide range of criterion measures of …

Soliciting and incorporating employee voice is essential to organizational performance, yet
some managers display a strong aversion to improvement-oriented input from subordinates …

Motivation has long been recognized as an important component of how people both differ
from, and are similar to, each other. The current research applies the biologically grounded …