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Bullying or Hate Crimes in Our Schools?
When youth are harassed in schools because of their race, gender, or sexual orientation, is it really “just” bullying?
Guilted into Sustainability?
Have you ever been tempted to do something you knew you really shouldn’t? And then decided not to do it in order to avoid the guilt?
Who Has Different-Race Friends?
What patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors encourage the development of cross-race relationships?
Why Are Women More Fearful Than Men?
Rather than a gender difference in innate brain programming, women’s greater fearfulness is partly an adjustment to their lower levels of physical strength.
How Are Your Personality and Health Interconnected Over Time?
Positive personality development and health improvement can reinforce each other over time.
When Positive Emotion Is Bad and Negative Emotion Is Good
Feeling proud today may lead people to coast tomorrow.
Do We Pick Up on How Others Express Their Positive Emotions?
People from a variety of cultures agree on how specific positive emotions are displayed, with each emotion having its own set of expressive cues.
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Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.