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		<title>Do Bad Interracial Interactions Shape Our Attitudes More than Good Interracial Interactions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fiona Kate Barlow (University of Queensland), Stefania Paolini (University of Newcastle, Australia), Anne Pedersen (Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia), Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland), Helena Radke (University of Queensland), Jake Harwood (University of Arizona), Mark Rubin (University of Newcastle, Australia), and Chris Sibley (University of Auckland). In 2013 American comedian Louis C.K. appeared on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=798&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;They&#8221; Become Part of &#8220;Us&#8221;,  “They” Don’t All Look Alike</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/socialidandpersonmemory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PSPConnections</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jay Van Bavel (New York University) and William Cunningham (University of Toronto) People are remarkably accurate at identifying other people, even after the passage of many years. But this accuracy is limited in one important circumstance:  When remembering people who belong to other racial groups. As the often-heard remark &#8220;they all look alike” suggests, perceivers often err when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=785&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of a Smile</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Soledad de Lemus (Universidad de Granada, Spain), Russell Spears (Groningen University, NL), &#38; Miguel Moya (Universidad de Granada, Spain) The smile remains something of a mystery.  We  smile when we feel happy, but smiles are more than just the outward display of an inner emotion. We are far more likely to smile when we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=745&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Independent Voter: Not So Middle-of-the-Road After All</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/the-independent-voter-not-so-middle-of-the-road-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PSPConnections</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carlee Beth Hawkins, University of Virginia Voters sometimes cross party lines, but not very often:  In U.S. elections, for example, people who label themselves Democrats usually vote for the Democratic candidate and Republicans vote Republican. The recent 2012 election  illustrated the power of political affiliation: the Republican candidate Governor Mitt Romney won Wyoming, where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=720&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Live with &#8216;em, You Can&#8217;t Live&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/you-cant-live-with-em-you-cant-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joshua Hart, Union College  “You can’t live with ‘em, and you can’t live without ‘em.” To modern ears, the old cliché about relationship ambivalence has a sexist ring to it—perhaps for good reason. New research by Joshua Hart and his colleagues Jacqueline Hung, Peter Glick, and Rachel Dinero (2012) suggests that men&#8217;s relationship insecurities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=708&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arabs as Terrorists: The Power of Media Images</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/arabs-as-terrorists-the-power-of-media-images/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 03:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PSPConnections</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Muniba Saleem, University of Michigan-Dearborn Many Americans learn most of what they know about Arabs and Muslims from the media, but television, newspapers, and movies do not always portray Arabs and Muslims positively.  Negative Arab stereotypes outnumber positive portrayals across media types, including newspapers, television and movies, children’s literature, and web animations and flash-based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=700&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a Religious Tolerant Past Affects the Present</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/how-a-religious-tolerant-past-affects-the-present/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PSPConnections</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by  Anouk Smeekes, Maykel Verkuyten and Edwin Poppe, Utrecht University “The Netherlands is characterized by a tradition of religious tolerance, respect and responsibility. The needless offending of certain convictions and communities does not belong to this. . . .The Dutch government will honor this tradition and issues an appeal to everyone to do the same.” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=684&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Works Harder?  Separating Claims of Conscientiousness from Nation-level Response Tendencies</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/who-works-harder-separating-claims-of-conscientiousness-from-nation-level-response-tendencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PSPConnections</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By René Mõttus, University of Tartu, Estonia Is there a kernel of truth at the root of people&#8217;s beliefs about &#8220;national character?&#8221; For example, are the English really more stalwart than Italians?  Are the Spanish, as a people, more affable than Bulgarians?   Do people&#8217;s personalities differ depending on the culture where they were raised? In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=670&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Claimed Inclusion: Not Quite as Good as You May Have Hoped</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/claimed-inclusion-not-quite-as-good-as-you-may-have-hoped/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wendy de Waal-Andrews and Ilja van Beest, Tilburg University Teenagers often try to be part of groups they admire by dressing in certain ways, by listening to certain music, or even by engaging in damaging behaviors like smoking, drinking or drug abuse. Later in life, people may work equally hard to be included, whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=643&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Shige Oishi, University of Virginia What is a good society? What is an ideal society? Every four years, the presidential election makes Americans think of this philosophical question. In the end, the choice of president reflects which America is the ideal America: the (pseudo-) meritocratic, winner-take-all, “strong” America or the egalitarian, “compassionate” America. One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24239078&#038;post=636&#038;subd=spsptalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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