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Taking One for the Team, Even on Your Way Out of the Door

... Basic Books.   Blau, P. (1964).  Exchange and power in social life.  New York: Wiley. Cardona, P., Lawrence, B. S., ... / more

The Naked Power: Understanding Nonverbal Communications of Power

Because power is something we often avoid discussing openly, its nonverbal ... many different nonverbal signs as indicating high or low power – unfortunately, these ideas are often exaggerated and misguided. ... still have no good understanding of the nonverbal cues to power. This article sheds more light on what is actually underlying nonverbal ... / more

The Media: Carriers of Contagious Information

... marketing professionals understand how to harness this power. Television commercials depict crowds rushing into stores and hands ... / more

The Double Edged Passion

... of the need for authorities to aggressively apply their power. He called it the F-scale, because he thought it would pick out people ... / more

From Heavens to Hells to Heroes

... the majority conform, comply, yield, and succumb to the power of the situation, there are always some who refuse, resist, and disobey. ... Just as with the psychology of evil, situations have immense power to bring out heroic actions in people who never would have considered ... / more

Five Social Psychology Essentials

... because they are politically convenient for those in power. The course should also consider more directly the assumptions ... that maintain national and global political and economic power – everything is up for discussion if we take social psychology’s ... / more

Evolution of Religion

... of invisible agent. Getting deeper into the matter: the power of counter-intuitive thoughts We have now elaborated on a framework ... them? One particularly interesting answer describes the power of counterfactual and counterintuitive beliefs. What are these ... / more

High Maintenance Interaction

... This strength is limited and varies as a function of will-power, stress and exhaustion. Consequently, after regulating yourself at a ... / more

Engagement: A Source of Value, Quality of Life, or Both?

... yielded an almost perfect hit, namely a book called “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High ... would litteraly absorb. But the very title, proclaiming the power of engagement, also compelled me to take a closer look - I just ... / more

Fifty Shades of arousal misattribution and cognitive associations: How Christian Grey is making us believe that women find BDSM “hot”

... and pain and (b) sexual pleasure. Effects of Power-Arousal and Pain-Arousal Associations Cognitive associations of power and sex in men, especially in men who endorse rape-supportive attitudes, ... / more