One of the ongoing themes in my blog is impulsivity. Expending willpower can make us more impulsive, and affirming our core values, being in a good mood, or consuming glucose can reduce that effect.

In an international study of attitudes from 2009-2019, U. of I. psychology professor Benedek Kurdi and his colleagues found substantial reductions in self-reported bias against all categories of ...

Over the past few decades, psychologists have recognized that people have two kinds of attitudes toward objects, events, and people in the world. One type of attitude is explicit and durable. These ...