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Psychology of Behavior and Perception
Behavioral and perceptual psychology, broadly construed.
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- How common is shouting and swearing behind the wheel according to the Spanish survey of motorists?
- How did Chris Moulin's team induce jamais vu experimentally in volunteers?
- How did John Senders measure how much visual attention driving actually requires?
- How did Murakami's team test the effect of phone distraction on pedestrian flow?
- How did Zajenkowski and Gignac test whether narcissists more readily accept flattering but false feedback?
- How did holding a live crocodile change gambling behavior differently for problem and non-problem gamblers?
- How did researchers measure narcissism independently before testing whether it showed in the face?
- How did the newly infatuated group's results differ from people in long-term relationships?
- How do the private stories people tell about being wronged at work go on to shape their later behaviour?
- How might the emotional escalation behind cursing at other drivers affect actual driving behavior?
- How well could participants in Giacomin and Rule's study identify narcissism from eyebrows alone?
- Into how few dimensions do voters compress their image of political candidates, and what are they?
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- What Italian election data did Caprara, Barbaranelli, and Zimbardo analyze for the study?
- What central idea does Canetti's Crowds and Power argue about how individual minds dissolve inside a mass?
- What did Canetti mean by treating the fear of death as the primal political fact behind crowd behavior?
- What did David Sims's paper 'You Bastard' examine about how employees narrate their own workplace indignation?
- What did Ivette Bassa's blue Jell-O experiment reveal about food color and perceived edibility?
- What did Marazziti's study compare between newly infatuated people and OCD patients?
- What did high-narcissism participants report feeling after being told they scored above average on an intelligence test?
- What did the AutoVision device actually do inside a moving car?
- What did the serotonin transporter levels reveal about people newly in love?
- What did the study find about the relationship between dark triad traits and preferring to stay up late?
- What did the visor experiment reveal about how long a road can safely go unwatched?
- What does the commercial success of Neuticles suggest about pet owners rather than about veterinary need?
- What does the crocodile experiment suggest about the relationship between emotional arousal and compulsive betting?
- What eyebrow features were the strongest signal of higher narcissism scores?
- What is jamais vu, and how does it differ from déjà vu?
- What methods did Oppenheimer use across his five studies to test this effect?
- What psychological effects does workplace injustice typically produce in employees?
- What three traits make up the 'dark triad' of personality psychology?
- Why are people more suspicious of foods colored outside the natural palette?
- Why did the researchers choose physiological arousal from a crocodile rather than a more conventional stressor?
- Why does a single distracted walker degrade traffic flow for everyone nearby, not just themselves?
- Why had road-safety research largely ignored driver cursing in favor of speed and alcohol?
- Why might weaker social norms at night appeal particularly to people high in dark triad traits?
- Why was studying happiness in children considered less conventional than studying distress?
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