Psychology News Round-Up: ICYMI June 8, 2018

This week's roundup features the latest on personality and health behaviors. 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

To Forgive or Not to Forgive? Understanding Self-attitudes After Health Behavior Lapses via Character & Context

Leah Schumacher on attitudes and health behavior.

How Self-Compassion Can Fight Perfectionism via Brain Blogger
Nicholas Hobson covers research on behavior, motivation, and dealing with "high standards."

From the SPSP News Center

Want Narcissists to Donate to Your Cause? Make it About Them via The University at Buffalo

When narcissistic individuals are able to imagine themselves in a victim’s situation, they are more likely to donate to charity, according to new research published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

In the News

A new study claims that, under pressure, imposter syndrome hits men harder than women via Research Digest

White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says via The Washington Post

Yuck! Why there’s more to disgust than not getting sick via The Guardian US

People’s Intentions Affect Your Judgments of Wrongness via Psychology Today

“Myth-Busting” Can Impair, Rather Than Correct, Consumers Health Knowledge, Study Suggests via Observer Magazine

It's about time: Immediate rewards boost workplace motivation via PhysOrg

Uncertainty in a date dampens interest in a mate via MedicalXpress

The “marshmallow test” said patience was a key to success. A new replication tells us s’more. via Vox

Sharing Bad News Makes It More Inaccurate, Increasingly Negative, Resistant To Correction via Medical Daily

On Twitter

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— Amy Summerville (@RegretLab) June 5, 2018

A new study predicts that randomly auditing under 2 percent of all scientific studies could significantly improve science's credibility. @DalmeetS looks at whether more audits are the answer for science's reproducibility crisis. https://t.co/UCzbg48esJ
— Pacific Standard (@PacificStand) June 5, 2018

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— Sarah Gaither (@sarahegaither) June 6, 2018

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Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.