Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

May 16, 2022

Do People Suffer From Unemployment in Their Everyday Life, or Only When Asked About It?

by T.T. An Hoang and Andreas Knabe

Young man sitting at table looking at laptop

Are unemployed persons less happy than the employed? Well… yes and no.

May 13, 2022 People Automatically Associate Black Men With Threat, Distinct From Negativity by David S. March It is important to distinguishing threat from negativity in anti-Black bias.	May 11, 2022 Can Your Personality Help You Optimize Your Cognitive Health as You Age? by Eileen K. Graham and Daniel K. Mroczek Cognitive decline might not be a predestined fate.
May 09, 2022 What Happens When Prejudice Research is Viewed as “Me-search”? by Michael Thai, Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, and Hema Preya Selvanathan Prejudice researchers who study the marginalization of their own groups face a double-edged sword in how their research is perceived.	May 06, 2022 Rethinking How to Make Your Workplace Environment Work for You by Paige Porter and Sara Aristizabal “Those plant moms on Instagram might be onto something.”

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Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.

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