Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Psychology

System Justification Theory (wikipedia.org)
System justification theory is a theory within social psychology that system-justifying beliefs serve a psychologically palliative function.

Social Psychology, Psychology, Theory

4 points by yamrzou 2 days ago | 0 comments

My Status Circles (overcomingbias.com)
Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our outer circles. And relative to conservatives, liberals care more about their outer circle folks.

Social Psychology, Political Science, Bias

26 points by galfarragem 30 days ago | 12 comments

Information Cascading – Herd mentality meets game theory (substack.com)

Information Cascades, Game Theory, Social Psychology

4 points by sidhantbansal 42 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion (talktomehuman.com)

Web Games, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

144 points by mbforbes 75 days ago | 53 comments

Why the powerful may be more likely to cheat (phys.org)
Being a captain of industry, a politician, or a celebrity won't automatically make you a cheat. But chances of infidelity are significantly higher among the more powerful, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Sex Research.

Social Psychology, Relationships, Power, Infidelity

18 points by PaulHoule 87 days ago | 12 comments

The Language of Faces (domofutu.substack.com)
Facial expressions and accents are like universal cues that connect us, allowing emotions to cross cultural boundaries. But it turns out even these instinctual ways of communicating carry subtle accents influenced by culture, social background, and the context around us. Just like spoken language varies across regions, our facial expressions reflect layers of identity, cultural norms, and social expectations.

Body Language, Communication, Culture, Social Psychology

40 points by domofutu 124 days ago | 15 comments

Why trolls, extremists, and others spread conspiracy theories they don't believe (theconversation.com)
There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle: My colleagues and I have found that there are a number of people sharing conspiracies online who don’t believe their own content.

Social Psychology, Misinformation, Online Behavior, Conspiracy Theories

14 points by thunderbong 150 days ago | 3 comments

Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers (arxiv.org)
Othering, the act of portraying outgroups as fundamentally different from the ingroup, often escalates into framing them as existential threats--fueling intergroup conflict and justifying exclusion and violence.

Russia-Ukraine War, Social Psychology, Discourse Analysis, Political Communication

45 points by PaulHoule 153 days ago | 111 comments

How We Sort the World (mitpress.mit.edu)
Despite the vast diversity and individuality in every life, we seek patterns, organization, and control. Or, as cognitive psychologist Gregory Murphy puts it: “We put an awful lot of effort into trying to figure out and convince others of just what kind of person someone is, what kind of action something was, and even what kind of object something is.”

Psychology, Cognitive Science, Categorization, Social Psychology, Human Behavior

43 points by r721 166 days ago | 19 comments

Self-Verification Theory (wikipedia.org)
Self-verification is a social psychological theory that asserts people want to be known and understood by others according to their firmly held beliefs and feelings about themselves,[1] that is self-views (including self-concepts and self-esteem).

Social Psychology, Self-Esteem, Social Cognition

10 points by yamrzou 174 days ago | 0 comments

The Vast Emptiness of Social Psychology (cremieux.xyz)

Social Psychology, Academia, Criticism

8 points by carderne 215 days ago | 3 comments

Social Trap (wikipedia.org)

Social Psychology, Game Theory, Economics

6 points by yamrzou 219 days ago | 0 comments

Friendship and Social Fitness (robkhenderson.com)

Friendship, Social Psychology, Personal Development

81 points by paulpauper 228 days ago | 26 comments

The nasty neighbor effect in humans (science.org)

Social Psychology, Human Behavior, Science

18 points by PaulHoule 241 days ago | 8 comments

Study Finds Today's Adolescents Are More Satisfied with Being Single (sagepub.com)