Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as
perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical …

These meta-analyses of 60+ years of social comparison research focused on 2 issues: the
choice of a comparison target (selection) and the effects of comparisons on self-evaluations …

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously
assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The …

Priming has emerged as a valuable tool within the psychological study of religion, allowing
for tests of religion's causal effect on a number of psychological outcomes, such as prosocial …

In very general terms, an agent is a being with the capacity to act, and 'agency'denotes the
exercise or manifestation of this capacity. The philosophy of action provides us with a …

A meta-analysis assessed the behavioral impact of and psychological processes associated
with presenting words connected to an action or a goal representation. The average and …

Psychological scientists have recently started to reconsider the importance of close
replications in building a cumulative knowledge base; however, there is no consensus about …

There has been increasing criticism of the way psychologists conduct and analyze studies.
These critiques as well as failures to replicate several high-profile studies have been used …

The authors evaluate the quality of research reported in major journals in social-personality
psychology by ranking those journals with respect to their N-pact Factors (NF)—the …

Although psychology's recent crisis has been attributed to various scientific practices, it has
come to be called a “replication crisis,” prompting extensive appraisals of this putatively …