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10/2025

Starting early: How caregivers can support their children's emotion regulation
- by
- Katharina Demke,
- Mara Hüttner,
- Dr. Avelina Lovis Schmidt
Emotion regulation in children can be challenging: screaming, loud crying, temper tantrums at the supermarket checkout - many people are familiar with such situations. What role do caregivers play in these moments, and how can they effectively support their children? The good news is that even small actions can have a lasting positive effect, strengthening children’s emotion regulation for life.
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09/2025

Covert control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media
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- Meredith M. Turner,
- Sara Holland Levin
The popularity of users like politicians and political influencers on social media demonstrates their power and sway over public discourse today. But how do these political users gain and maintain power? This article explores how the current media landscape is dominated by political influencers and elites, making it harder for users to know what’s trustworthy and detect misinformation. By spotlighting the tactics that some of these sources use to build influence with their audiences, we bring attention to how political information is shared and processed in today’s digital landscape.
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09/2025

Scrolling against hate: Developing critical media competence to counter online antisemitism
- by
- Agata Maria Kraj,
- Özen Odağ,
- Larisa Buhin,
- Jannis Niedick,
- Justine Kohl,
- Linda P. Juang
Social media connects – but also divides. This article explores how antisemitism appears online, why young adults are especially vulnerable, and what we can do about it. Based on existing research, it offers practical tools to build media competence and promote responsible, intentional communication in the fight against online hate.
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Issue

09/2025

Social media use towards self-diagnosing and health anxiety
- by
- Lili R. Romann
Self-diagnosing occurs when individuals who are not medical professionals intrinsically establish themselves as living with a particular medical diagnosis. Self-diagnosing is becoming all the more prominent due to increasing communication about health, symptoms, and diagnoses online, namely on algorithmically-dominated social media platforms. While this can be an empowering process for individuals suffering from health issues, it can also perpetuate health anxiety. Users should carefully review health information which they consume on social media and online.
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Issue

09/2025

FOMO: The fun everybody else has
- by
- Carolin Lehmann
Have you ever felt that nagging sense of missing out on something exciting? Did you feel like you did not take on an opportunity that may never come again -a concert, party, or a meeting with friends?Then you probably know what it feels like to have FOMO.
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Magazine Issue 06/2015

From the Editors: Commentary for Mobility Special Issue

by: Dylan Selterman

Schug and Lu (this issue) present an overview of research on the similarity-attraction link, noting cultural differences in this phenomenon (e.g., in America & Japan). They note that variables...
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Magazine Issue 03/2015

A junior researcher's practical take on the why and how of open science.

by: Elizabeth Gilbert

If you are a social psychologist, it’s probably old news to you that the field is in the midst of a revolution. As a fifth-year grad student, this is all...
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Magazine Issue 03/2015

The perverse incentives that stand as a roadblock to scientific reform

by: Brent W. Roberts

Four pillars of perverse incentives stand strong against efforts to make our science more transparent and reproducible. Arguments against these changes, by their nature conservative arguments to keep the status... more
Magazine Issue 03/2015

A Perfect Storm: The Record of a Revolution

by: Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

At some point in their past, almost every country has witnessed a political revolution, a change of government following a dramatic and sometimes violent expression of discontent. As a result...
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Magazine Issue 01/2015

Children are poor witnesses. Or are they?

by: Nathalie Brackmann, Henry Otgaar, Melanie Sauerland, Harald Merckelbach

In a recent murder case, a 6-year-old girl claimed immediately upon arrival of the ambulance and police to have witnessed her father stabbing her mother (Brackmann, Otgaar, Sauerland, & Jelicic...
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Magazine Issue 01/2015

On kissing in elevators and flirting in the office: A cross-cultural perspective on normative behavior.

by: Marieke van Egmond

Imagine you are walking around the city center. It is a warm summer evening and the street is deserted, no children or cars are around. The pedestrian light to cross...
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In-Mind Blog

01.03.2014 | Political Psychology

Political convictions emerge from the gut

by: Matt Motyl

In the first part of this three part series, my colleague Ellie Shockley described how rational thinking may drive political attitudes and voting behavior. In this second part of... more
27.02.2014 | Violence & Aggression

Fifty Shades of arousal misattribution and cognitive associations: How Christian Grey is making us believe that women find BDSM “hot”

by: Kathryn Bartlett Anderson

Does Fifty Shades of Grey make you wonder if BDSM is arousing? If women secretly want to be spanked? This post explains how Fifty Shades readers may develop this... more
24.02.2014 | Political Psychology

Are voters rational?

by: Ellie Shockley

Are voters rational? There is, unfortunately, no easy answer to the question. Social psychological science, like all science, is a quest for knowledge in a complicated world. However, research helps... more
20.02.2014 | Political Psychology

Everyone is prejudiced, too

by: Jarret Crawford

In this blog post, I will discuss new research in political psychology that is changing our understanding of what prejudice is, and who is prejudiced.When you think of victims... more
12.02.2014 | Culture

Re-thinking how we think about conformity

by: Robert Thomson

In this post, I recount part of my journey into the nitty-gritty of cross-cultural differences in behavior. More specifically, I discuss the link between skateboarding across the USA, attractive Japanese... more
06.02.2014 | Romance & Friendship

Does parental disapproval lead to love or dissolution? The Romeo and Juliet effect vs. the social network effect

by: Chelsea Ellithorpe

In this post, I assert that two opposing theories about how opinions friends and family hold affect one’s romantic relationship (Romeo and Juliet effect vs. social network effect) can actually... more

Book Reviews

Psychology for You!

Starting early: How caregivers can support their children's emotion regulation

Covert control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media

Scrolling against hate: Developing critical media competence to counter online antisemitism

Social media use towards self-diagnosing and health anxiety

FOMO: The fun everybody else has

Starting early: How caregivers can support their children's emotion regulation

Covert control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media

Scrolling against hate: Developing critical media competence to counter online antisemitism

Social media use towards self-diagnosing and health anxiety

From the Editors: Commentary for Mobility Special Issue

A junior researcher's practical take on the why and how of open science.

The perverse incentives that stand as a roadblock to scientific reform

A Perfect Storm: The Record of a Revolution

Children are poor witnesses. Or are they?

On kissing in elevators and flirting in the office: A cross-cultural perspective on normative behavior.

In-Mind Blog

Political convictions emerge from the gut

Fifty Shades of arousal misattribution and cognitive associations: How Christian Grey is making us believe that women find BDSM “hot”

Are voters rational?

Everyone is prejudiced, too

Re-thinking how we think about conformity

Does parental disapproval lead to love or dissolution? The Romeo and Juliet effect vs. the social network effect

Book Reviews

Buried Secrets: Rememberance of Things Past, a Review by Christopher Perez

The Coddling of the American Mind, reviewed by Dylan Selterman

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, reviewed by Andrew Archer

The Quelling, reviewed by Katharine Coldiron

The Hope Circuit, Reviewed by Joe Smith

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