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		<title>Does trait anxiety make your more or less likely to support war &amp; aggression?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, one of the grad students in my department gave a brownbag talk about the relationship between fear and aggression.  On the one hand, one might expect fear to lead to aggression as one perceives threat to a greater extent and responds accordingly.  On the other hand, fear is associated with withdrawal and so we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/03/03/fear-war-aggressionsupport/</link>
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		<title>Democrats and Republicans agree that Justice &amp; Fairness are about Equity, not Equality or Impartiality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was browsing CNN today and I decided to expand my moral imagination by watching Glenn Beck Speak at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting.  I was surprised how reasonable his message sounded to me, as I my previous impression of him was not good.

I believe that people should be able to get what they deserve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/02/20/democrats-and-republicans-agree-that-justice-fairness-are-about-equity-not-equality-or-impartiality/</link>
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		<title>Religion does not cause racism, but group morality may underlie both.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the professors at my university co-authored a recent meta-analysis which found that there is a relatively robust correlation between religiosity and racism.  It's hard to dispute the methodology of the study, which included 55 studies with over 20,000 people.  Still, I can't help but cringe at what take home message people might get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/02/17/religion-does-not-make-people-racist/</link>
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		<title>A Difference Between Democrats and Republicans &#8211; The Effects of Empathy on Political Interest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a simple little graph of yourmorals.org data that I thought would be worth posting.  Interest in politics is positively correlated with empathic concern in liberals/democrats and not in conservatives/republicans.  It's somewhat self-evident in posts like this, or debates about the role of empathy from either the Democratic or Republican side.
Can this difference be used to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/02/12/a-difference-between-democrats-and-republicans-the-effects-of-empathy-on-political-interest/</link>
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		<title>Separating Pro-Peace from Anti-War Attitudes using Moral Psychology Measures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm off to SPSP 2010 and will be presenting the below poster at the morality and justice pre-conference.  It's based on a scale I found measuring separate war and peace attitudes (Vander Linden et. al, 2008) at the main political psychology conference 2 years ago.  The concept is pretty simple...I found scales that predicted pro-war and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/01/27/separating-pro-peace-from-anti-war-attitudes-using-moral-psychology-measures/</link>
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		<title>Methland by Nick Reding: Moral Maximizing and the Drug War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Methland, by Nick Reding, an in-depth portrait of the fall and hopeful rise of a small American town, Oelwein, Iowa, and a few individuals touched by the meth epidemic there.  What makes the book most powerful are the portraits that Reding is able to draw of the town having spent 4 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/01/15/methland-by-nick-reding-moral-maximizing-and-the-drug-war/</link>
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		<title>United States Gross Domestic Product vs. Gross National Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read this blog post by Justin Wolfers defending the use of United States gross domestic product rather than measures of subjective well being (e.g. gross national happiness) to measure how well our country is doing.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with this debate, you can see this below video or this link to the Sarkozy Commission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/01/05/united-states-gross-domestic-product-vs-gross-national-happiness/</link>
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		<title>What the positive psychology approach can learn from Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s Bright-Sided</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a liberal social psychologist who has helped create a science of positive psychology course at the University of Southern California, I could not help but be interested in Barbara Ehrenreich's new book, Bright-Sided, which states how the positive psychology approach (in academia, business, health, and economics) has undermined America.  First, I would think we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2009/12/18/what-the-positive-psychology-approach-can-learn-from-barbara-ehrenreichs-bright-sided/</link>
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		<title>Does gratitude promote a sense of fairness and equality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gratitude has been theorized to be a moral emotion, yet it has largely been studied for it's hedonic benefits rather than it's effect on moral reasoning.  I had done some previous analyses on our data at yourmorals.org where scores on the Gratitude quotient scale were positively related to most all measures of moral reasoning.  By [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2009/12/13/does-gratitude-promote-a-sense-of-fairness-and-equality/</link>
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		<title>Gratitude Video from Conan O&#8217;Brien and Louis CK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who study happiness can be annoying in their pollyannish prescriptions to just look on the bright side of life.  Just ask Barbara Ehrenreich, who wrote Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.  So it's always refreshing to see someone put basic research findings (being grateful is important) into more common [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2009/12/10/gratitude-video-from-conan-obrien-and-louis-ck/</link>
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