Twenty-four million people suffer from eating disorders in the United States. To put that in perspective, that’s nearly twice the number of adults in the United States with major depression, and about two million more than the number of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer’s, generalized anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder combined. Women are particularly vulnerable to developing eating disorders due to the pervasiveness of an unrealistically thin standard of Read More…
Recent cross-cultural studies have found that Americans respond very differently to cognitive tasks than practically any other human population. A better understanding of these differences will allow us to improve our foreign policy, diplomacy, and business transactions. An exciting new framework for understanding cultural differences in behavior and cognition is relational mobility, which is a way of describing the fluidity of social boundaries within a community. If boundaries are fluid, Read More…
It is believed in social psychology that race is the first characteristic processed, which is suggestive that in some sense racism is inevitable. Rather, social grouping may be the marker of importance when forming impressions of individuals, with race often standing in as a proxy. Research has demonstrated that outgroup members are often stereotyped, while ingroup members are individuated, but when counterstereotypical information is presented an outgroup member receives more Read More…
