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		<title>Are Nobel Laureates Smarter than APA Distinguished Scientist Award Winners?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shige Oishi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn&#8217;t Bask In Reflected Glory (known, in social psychological circles, as BIRGing), from time to time, by mentioning our connection to others who have succeeded in their pursuits, righted a wrong, or generally done something good?  By the way, did I mention that my advisor at the University of Illinois, Ed Diener, won the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=311&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Science of Love Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donelson Forsyth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary on and Analysis of World Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research Findings and Implications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/?p=237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1779 Benjamin Franklin, when serving as the U.S. envoy to France, fell in love with Anne Catherine Helvétius, the widow of the Swiss-French philosopher, Claude-Adrien Helvétius. In an attempt to win her affections, Franklin sent her many letters expressing his love, admiration, and passion for her. In one he claimed that in a dream [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=237&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sense-Making of Joe Paterno’s Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Allison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Penn State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Paterno, arguably the greatest college football coach in history, died Sunday, January 22, 2012, from cancer. His passing will set in motion a process that is a quite natural one for human beings when contemplating another&#8217;s demise: The forming of a final impression of the person and his significance.  Such a cognitive task would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=224&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of the Missing, or Peyton Manning for 2011 NFL MVP!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dunning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me get in on a joke before it gets stale.  In a few days, American sports writers will weigh the statistics, talk among other writers and players, review the events of the latest American football season, and vote to decide the National Football Leagues most prestigious individual honor:  Who is the 2011 NFL Most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=210&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Problems are People Problems</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/most-problems-are-people-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Leary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary on and Analysis of World Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social problems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Romans named the first month of the year January for Janus, the god of beginnings.  The Romans worshipped Janus for his ability to look back into the past and take stock of what had been accomplished, but to also look to the future to set new goals and resolve to change for the better. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=189&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference Between a Placebo and a Caring Relationship</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-difference-between-a-placebo-and-a-caring-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry T. Reis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research Findings and Implications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinical trials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[placebos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific method]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the modern-day analysis of placebos usually begins with Dr. Henry Beecher. Dr. Beecher, while treating wounded soldiers during World War II, ran desperately short of morphine—so desperate, in fact, that he administered saline solution to the injured who thought they were being dosed with morphine. Beecher was amazed that this treatment, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=197&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Paradoxes of Heroism</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/the-seven-paradoxes-of-heroism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Allison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generosity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals Abraham Lincoln, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Kowalski (in Gran Torino), Margaret Thatcher, Batman&#8211;why are some people considered heroes? What qualities do we see in them?  Do people, given the failures of so many of so many contemporary leaders and so-called role models, still believe in heroes?  What must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=178&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About that Reality Distortion Field</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/about-that-reality-distortion-field/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dunning</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judgment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social cognition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few months have provided a fascinating opportunity, albeit one borne out of a personal tragedy, to reflect on the value of unbridled optimism.  In the weeks after Steve Jobs’ all-too-soon demise at the age of 56, a surfeit of blogs, YouTube videos , television shows, print media, and even a rushed-out biography have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=152&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groundbreaking or Definitive? Journals Need to Pick One</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/groundbreaking-or-definitive-journals-need-to-pick-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjay Srivastava</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[journals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[replication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do our top journals need to rethink their missions of publishing research that is both groundbreaking and definitive? And as a part of that, do they &#8212; and we scientists &#8212; need to reconsider how we engage with the press and the public? 2011 was bookended by two extraordinary events for social and personality psychologists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=137&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bathsheba Syndrome:  When a Leader Fails</title>
		<link>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/the-bathsheba-syndrome-when-a-leader-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/the-bathsheba-syndrome-when-a-leader-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donelson Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bathsheba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paterno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penn State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another leader—no, an entire cadre of leaders—has been found to be a moral failure. Legal authorities have charged Jerry Sandusky, who retired as the defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team in 1999, with the sexual abuse of children who he targeted through his involvement in the charitable organization The Second Mile. Additionally, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spsptalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24239078&amp;post=125&amp;subd=spsptalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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