Highlights•In recent decades, communication has shifted from in-person to online.•Today,
people communicate more online than offline.•We propose 4 structural differences between …

Highlights•We review the cognitive processes supporting mind attribution to animals.•Mind
attributions result from a set of automatic and reflective processes.•Autonomously moving …

Although the act of dehumanizing an outgroup is a pervasive and potent intergroup process
that drives discrimination and conflict, no formal research has examined the consequences …

The successful introduction of public policies to prompt behavior change hinges on the
degree to which citizens endorse the proposed policies. Although there is a large body of …

People may want deep and meaningful relationships with others, but may also be reluctant
to engage in the deep and meaningful conversations with strangers that could create those …

This paper investigates what it is to understand human differences in terms of deficits and
examines criticisms of this approach. In the past few decades, across many fields of inquiry …

From computers to cars to cell phones, consumers interact with inanimate objects on a daily
basis. Despite being mindless machines, consumers nevertheless routinely attribute …

A person's speech communicates his or her thoughts and feelings. We predicted that
beyond conveying the contents of a person's mind, a person's speech also conveys mental …

People behave differently when at work than not at work; for example, they are less
interested in making close friends and use more transactional language (networking vs …

A person's mental capacities, such as intellect, cannot be observed directly and so are
instead inferred from indirect cues. We predicted that a person's intellect would be conveyed …