One of the ongoing themes in my blog is impulsivity. Expending willpower can make us more impulsive, and affirming our core values, being in a good mood, or consuming glucose can reduce that effect.

Data from more than 4 million tests completed between 2004 and 2016 show that Americans' explicit and implicit attitudes toward certain social groups are becoming less biased over time. Data from more ...

One of the most important issues we face today is climate change. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded not only are human activities changing the climate, but also that ...

Ebersole said response time studies have been predictive in many other areas — testing students on their implicit attitudes toward math and science, for example, is a good predictor of test scores.

While previous research on immigration attitudes among the American public has focused on factors such as economic threat, social context, and racial prejudice, fewer studies have examined the ...

New research from Harvard University finds that Americans' unconscious bias on the basis of sexual orientation and race dropped dramatically over a decade. The study in the journal Psychological ...

As much as social equality is advocated in the United States, a new study suggests that besides evaluating their own race and religion most favorably, people share implicit hierarchies for racial, ...

Despite the recent surge of interest in sexuality, asexuality has remained relatively underresearched. Distinct from abstinence or chastity, asexuality refers to a lack of sexual attraction toward ...

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from National University, "We also explored the methodological benefits of using implicit measures to complement conventional self-reporting ...