Electronic media are pervasive in daily communication. But how well can personality traits be perceived through a short e-mail message? Working independently and under experimenter supervision, thirty judges each rated 18 short e-mail texts. These texts were written under experimental conditions by authors of known personality, who briefly described their recent activities, and were collected a...

Why do we tend to think that phenomenal consciousness poses a hard problem? The answer seems lie in part the fact have impression experiences are presented us particularly immediate and revelatory way: sense of acquaintance with our experiences. Recent views offered resources explain such persisting impression, by hypothesizing very design cognitive systems inevitably leads hold beliefs about o...

We address the general problem of how best to attack and destroy a network by node removal, given limited or no prior information about the edges. We consider a family of strategies in which nodes are randomly chosen, but not removed. Instead, a random acquaintance (i.e., a first neighbour) of the chosen node is removed from the network. By assigning an informal cost to the information about th...

The social identity approach makes a distinction between behavior motivated by intergroup versus interpersonal identities, which may be relevant to victim blaming in the case of rape. Using a mock jury paradigm, we examined the impact of defining rape as an act of interpersonal violence (personal assault) versus intergroup violence (a "hate crime"), crossed with a manipulation describing the at...

The authors report that beliefs favoring the reciprocation of unfavorable treatment form a unitary factor that is distinct from beliefs favoring the reciprocation of favorable treatment. Individual differences in endorsement of this negative reciprocity norm were related to (a) beliefs that people are generally malevolent; (b) inclination toward anger in everyday life; (c) anger, disagreement, ...

The article is devoted to the problem of familiarization preschool children with works art. It has been established that fine art directly influence formation system values and meanings in children. Modern previous studies aesthetic development preschoolers are analyzed. compares reveals concept education peculiarities education. was found pedagogy always given a lot attention. In terms pedagog...

This research focused on the target effect on a perceiver's judgments of personality when the perceiver and the target are unacquainted. The perceiver was given no opportunity to interact with the target, a condition we refer to as zero acquaintance. We reasoned that in order to make personality judgments, perceivers would use the information available to them (physical appearance). Consensus i...