Dominance has been evolutionarily salient in shaping power relations across species, and recent social-psychological work has revived the concept in the study of human social hierarchies. Yet previou...

Program Registration Schedule Directions Home 7th – 11th September, 2026 The Center for Decision Sciences will host a Graduate Summer School during the second week of September, 2026 in Senat…

Social norms and group-bounded indirect reciprocity

Audience cost theory suggests that as a country increases its audience costs, it can send a credible threat to an opponent and prevail in an international crisi...

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Full-Time, Fixed-Term (48 months)Applications are invited for a 4-year, full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant position in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. The successful candidate will join Dr. Hirotaka...

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Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...

Anger and disgust often underlie responses to social transgressions, yet their links to aggressive punishments have been primarily studied in Western populations. Across two studies sampling from J...

Given ongoing debates about the nature and consequences of religious belief, effective procedures for experimentally controlling such beliefs are highly desirable. To date, however, there are few r...

Most people believe that biodiversity loss is human-caused, yet they may not realize how many others share this belief. Such collective misperceptions…

Most people believe that biodiversity loss is human-caused, yet they may not realize how many others share this belief. Such collective misperceptions…

The highly polarized nature of American politics today has been attributed, in part, to the power of partisanship as a social identity and the increasing alignment of party affiliation, political ide...

Two experimental studies using the intergenerational sustainable dilemma game found that people made more sustainable choices when future beneficiaries were ingroup members, and less when they were ou...

Two experimental studies using the intergenerational sustainable dilemma game found that people made more sustainable choices when future beneficiaries were ingroup members, and less when they were ou...

The social identity approach to health in social psychology (the so-called “social cure”) explores the capacity for group memberships that furnish people with a positive sense of social identity to e...

Confidence in institutions is a key predictor of civic honesty, yet evidence shows that this relationship varies across contexts and individuals. This study examined whether power-distance orientatio....

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Scientific Reports - Trait dissociation is associated with dissociative experiences arising from disrupted multisensory integration

The Centre of Excellence in the Social Sciences invites you to a workshop and seminar led by Hiro Imada from the University of London. The Interdisciplinary Seminar in Empirical Social Science (ISESS)...

While negative gossip serves important functions for groups, previous studies have revealed that individuals negatively evaluate negative gossipers. Given the ubiquity of gossip, there should be co...

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Ingroup favoritism in cooperation in a dynamic intergroup context: Data from Israeli professional volleyball players - Volume 20

We find evidence of belief in belief—intuitive preferences for religious belief over atheism, even among atheist participants—across eight comparat...

Perceived inequality and variability in the expression of parochial altruism - Volume 7