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Social Psychology in the Information Age: June 2014

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Facebook's questionable psychological experiment. But few users expect that Facebook would change their News Feed in order to manipulate their emotional state. This tinkering was just revealed as part of a new study. Published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the meantime, I suppose many will be wondering. Sunday, June 22, 2014. Hosted at t...

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: February 2015

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Thursday, February 12, 2015. Documentary: The Mean World Syndrome. Here is a podcast based on a documentary, which itself is based in large part on interviews with George Gerbner toward the end of his life. If you have an interest in media psychology, or the effects of media violence more specifically, this podcast will be of interest to you. You might wish to seek out the original documentary. He ha...

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: Growing up in a pornified culture

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Growing up in a pornified culture. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Exposure to media manipulations (such as effectiveness framing) on attitudes toward violence and torture. He has also published research examining individual differences in social attitudes (such as authoritarianism) as predictors of attitudes toward violence and torture. Narcissists Are Aggressive Jerks!

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: March 2015

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Twenty years after Beijing conference on gender equality: violence against women still a problem. Has a brief article to read here. Even cockroaches show individual variations in personality. Saturday, March 14, 2015. Science and freedom of expression. Recently, there has been some question as to whether the state of Florida saw fit to ban. The use of the term, climate change.

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: July 2015

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. APA and Torture: Fallout From the Hoffman Report Begins. Earlier this month, the Hoffman Report. At this point, the fallout is still somewhat unclear. We do know that the findings in the report were sufficient to cause a handful of APA senior officials (including Norman Anderson, the CEO) to lose their positions. Whether APA is truly up to the task is questionable. The o...

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: May 2014

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Monday, May 5, 2014. One of the more exciting things to happen over the last few weeks was that I was invited to attend the George Gerbner Conference on Communication, Conflict, and Aggression. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Exposure to media manipulations (such as effectiveness framing) on attitudes toward violence and torture. This site serves as a personal blog for the author, and is completely indep...

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: From the "Apparently Too Good To Be True" Department

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. From the "Apparently Too Good To Be True" Department. Last December, a study. On how social contact makes lasting change in people’s attitudes towards gay marriage made headlines. On Tuesday, Donald Green, co-author of the paper, asked. To retract the paper. Following concerns raised by David Brockman, Joshua Kalla, and Peter Aronow. Green gave an interview. He has also publish...

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: July 2014

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Interesting new research on the psychology of ideology. I noticed this article. In my news feed this morning, and thought I would share it with you:. Most of us, anyway). The occasion of this revelation is a. Of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to n...

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Social Psychology in the Information Age: Think venting will calm you down? Think again.

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Social Psychology in the Information Age. The blog of Dr. Arlin James Benjamin, Jr., Social Psychologist. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Think venting will calm you down? Here's a news article. So where does this idea of venting come from? So what to do? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Exposure to media manipulations (such as effectiveness framing) on attitudes toward violence and torture. Much of his research intersects with other disciplines, such as Communication. My Social Psychology Network Profile.

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Arlin James Benjamin, Jr. Educator, parent, and former school board candidate. Saturday, October 27, 2012. Email: ajbenjaminjr at yahoo dot com. James Benjamin's Page on the Web.