Psychology News Round-Up: ICYMI April 20, 2018

This week's roundup is extra long and covers nudges, replication, professor evaluations, and a bit of Starbucks. Recently in the news, written a post, or have selections you'd like us to consider? Email us, use the hashtag #SPSPblog, or tweet us directly @spspnews.

On the Blogs

Nudging the City and Residents of Cape Town to Save Water via Character & Context

Leila Harris, Jiaying Zhao, and Martine Visser, on nudging water use as major city is on the verge of running out of water.

People Who Live In Diverse Neighborhoods Are More Helpful – Here’s How We Know via The Conversation

Jayanth Narayanan and colleagues take an empirical investigation into how diversity affects communities.

Research: When You Don’t Have an Alternative in a Negotiation, Try Imagining One via Harvard Business Review

Michael Schaerer, Martin Schweinsberg, and Roderick Swaab discuss the power of imagination when it comes to negotiating.

News and Commentary On Starbucks and IAT and Diversity Training

Starbucks’ Diversity Training Won’t Help Unless It Makes White People Uncomfortable via The Undefeated

What’s Unconscious Bias Training, and Does It Work? via The Conversation

Is Starbucks Implementing Flawed Science in Their Anti-Bias Training? via The Stranger

Companies Like Starbucks Love Anti-Bias Training. But It Doesn’t Work — And May Backfire. via Vox

Starbucks Is Turning to a Type of Workplace Training That ‘Really Took Off After Ferguson’ via The Washington Post

Starbucks Is Closing 8,000 Stores For One Day To Conduct 'Racial Bias Training' — Will It Actually Work? via Yahoo Lifestyle

In the News

What You See Is Shaped By Your Feelings Too, Not Just Eyes via Medical Daily

Becoming The Real You: Do We Become More Authentic As We Get Older? via BPS Research Digest

A Remedy for Broken Science, Or an Attempt to Undercut It? via UnDark

A Real-Life Lord of the Flies: The Troubling Legacy of the Robbers Cave Experiment via The Guardian (UK)

Equal Earnings May Affect Whether Cohabitating Couples Get Married via PsychCentral

What This Researcher Was Surprised To Learn About Trans Kids via KOUW

People Claiming Superior Beliefs Exaggerate Knowledge, Study Shows via Michigan Record

People with Less Political Knowledge Think They Know a Lot about Politics via PsyPost

Are Student Evaluations Really Biased by Gender? Nope, They’re Biased by “Hotness.” via Slate

Kristina Olson Is First Psychologist to Win NSF’s Waterman Award via Science

Government vs. God? People Are Less Religious When Government Is Bigger, Research Says via The Miami Herald

The Myth of the Online Echo Chamber via BBC Future

When Will the Gender Gap in Science Disappear? via The Atlantic

Study: Being Tall Is a Positive Trait for White Men; For Black Men, Not So Much via WTVD

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— Heidi Grant (@heidgrantphd) April 18, 2018

"It can't just be this one-day training ... this isn't a Pandora's Box you open for the day." -- @CalvinKLai, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University on Starbucks racial-bias training. https://t.co/TJLJHayDxt @KQEDForum
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