Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Psychology & Psychiatry

Want to be seen as a leader? Get some muscle

Forget intelligence or wisdom. A muscular physique might just be a more important attribute when it comes to judging a person's leadership potential.

Psychology & Psychiatry

How likely are you to take a bullet?

How likely are you to take a bullet for somebody? University of Queensland researchers have helped develop a way of predicting the strength of your convictions.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Self-esteem gender gap more pronounced in western nations

People worldwide tend to gain self-esteem as they grow older, and men generally have higher levels of self-esteem than women, but this self-esteem gender gap is more pronounced in Western industrialized countries, according ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Why do chronically lonely teens stay lonely?

For chronically lonely adolescents, even the rare invitation to a social event is likely to be met with suspicion: "It's not that I'm worthy, I just got lucky," they'll tell themselves.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Rates of narcissism lower than national perception

Americans consistently reported a perception of the typical U.S. citizen as highly narcissistic—even meeting diagnostic criteria for the psychiatric disorder, according to studies conducted by University of Georgia psychologists ...

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