Upon a first encounter, individuals spontaneously associate faces with certain personality dimensions. Such first impressions can strongly impact judgments and decisions and may prove highly consequential. Researchers investigating the impact of facial information often rely on (a) real photographs that have been selected to vary on the dimension of interest, (b) morphed photographs, or (c) com...

Though this text raises several important issues, there is one aspect that I want to particularly interact with. It has do with a mode of valorizing anthropological inquiry in relation certain socio-political function it invited perform. While stressing they not imply “research should respond only current events,” Gupta and Stoolman nonetheless argue “the chase for novelty, which so often eleva...

Moderates are often overlooked in contemporary research on American voters. Many scholars who have examined moderates argue that these individuals only classified as such due to a lack of political sophistication or conflicted views across issues. We develop method distinguish three ways an individual might be moderate: having genuinely moderate issues, being inattentive politics surveys, holdi...

A consistent finding from recent research on harmful online behaviors is that they tend to be concentrated among a small number of individuals. Whether examining misinformation (Grinberg et al. 2019; Guess, Nagler, and Tucker Allen 2020), radicalizing or partisan content (Hosseinmardi 2021; Muise 2022), hate speech (Zannettou individuals typically accounts for the vast majority behavior. Despit...

Dvir, Maayan. M.S., Purdue University, August 2014. The Effect of Ostracism by Strangers on Romantic Relationship Evaluations. Major Professor: Kipling D. Williams. One behavioral consequence of ostracism is to seek and strengthen connections with others. The current research tests whether a brief episode of ostracism by strangers strengthens targeted individuals’ perceptions of their romantic ...

Traditional theories of animal rights are based upon the argument that species membership is a morally arbitrary feature in ethical reasoning. Rather than base moral standing upon common humanity, animal rights theorists have claimed that all sentient creatures, or creatures above a certain level of sentience, belong to the same ethical community, and thus are rights bearers. In this way, anima...

Novel Janji is one the novels that tell story of journey a religious school child who looking for former student decades ago. The author describes children being able to search someone disappeared ago according their teacher’s instructions. This study uses literary sociological analysis approach. results show in novel contains five dimensions religiosity, namely dimension belief, ritual, experi...