Romantic love is a phenomenon of immense interest to the general public as well as to
scholars in several disciplines. It is known to be present in almost all human societies and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global societal, economic, and social upheaval
unseen in living memory. There have been substantial cross-national differences in the …

Even though the motivation to feel worthy, to be respected, and to matter to others has been
identified for centuries by scholars, the antecedents, consequences, and conditions of its …

Many researchers have turned to evolutionary theory to better understand diversity in
leadership. Evolutionary theories of leadership, in turn, draw on ethnographic cases of …

Competing theories of status allocation posit divergent conceptual foundations upon which
human status hierarchies are built. We argue that the three prominent theories of status …

Standard definitions of social psychology, such as “the study of the way in which people's
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other …

Despite substantial literature surrounding how people process and perceive faces, there is
very little research investigating how people evaluate their own faces. We examined how …

Spending is influenced by many factors. One that has received little attention is the meaning
that people give to the act of spending. Spending money might imply that someone is …

Over 5 days at the Nag's Head Conference Center, USA in 1987, social and cross-cultural
psychologists discussed what would be required if research relating to culture were to gain …

The behavioral and neural responses to social exclusion were examined in women
randomized to four conditions, varying in levels of attractiveness and friendliness. Informed …