Negative attitudes towards predators do not necessarily result in their killing

Negative attitudes towards predators do not necessarily result in their killing

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The effects of physical attractiveness, warmth, and sex of an adult model on imitation behavior of adult males and females were investigated. Subject-were randomly paired with confederates of low or high facial k..,tractiveness who interacted with the subject in a cold-unfriendly or warm-friendly manner. The imitation task involvei the confederate lighting a specified colored light on the subje...

Do Intergroup Conflicts Necessarily Result from Outgroup Hate?

We developed a new experimental design to test whether or not individuals engage in conflict between social groups because they seek to harm outgroup members. Challenging prominent social psychological theories, we did not find support for such negative social preferences. Nevertheless, subjects heavily engaged in group conflict. Results support the argument that processes that act within socia...

Predictable or Not? Individuals’ Risk Decisions Do Not Necessarily Predict Their Next Ones

This research examines the extent to which people may be free to make choices by testing their consistency in choosing risk options. In two experiments, participants were instructed to make the "same" type of risk decisions repeatedly. Experiment 1 showed that when the information for decision is positively framed in terms of gain, the participant's choice in a particular decision could not be ...

Medications do not necessarily normalize cognition in ADHD patients.

OBJECTIVE Although ADHD medications are effective for the behavioral components of the disorder, little information exists concerning their effects on cognition, especially in community samples. METHOD A cross-sectional study of ADHD patients treated with three different ADHD drugs was conducted. Patients' performance on a computerized neurocognitive screening battery was compared to untreate...