"It's not funny if they're laughing": Self-categorization, social influence, and responses to canned laughter

Article Abstract:

An unexplored moderator, hypothesizing that canned laughter would influence listeners only if they believed the laughter came fellow in-group members, is examined. The presence or absence of canned laughter in a potentially humorous recording and participants' beliefs about the in-group or out-group composition of the laughing audience is manipulated.

United Kingdom, Analysis, Laughter, Social influence

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Mental control and visual illusions: Toward explaining race-biased weapon misidentifications

Article Abstract:

People are biased to misidentify harmless objects as weapons when the objects are associated with African Americans. Two studies that examined the processes underlying this bias found that subjective confidence judgments were extremely well calibrated to accuracy, and participants virtually never believed their own mistakes.

Science & research, Visual perception, Stereotypes (Psychology), Stereotyped behavior (Psychiatry), Stereotyped behaviour

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The role of personality and group factors in explaining prejudice

Article Abstract:

Research presented concerns how authoritarianism in a subject's personality influences their level of prejudice. Topics addressed include self-categorization theory, group and individual identity, and social conflict.

Social aspects, Statistical Data Included, Emotions, Personality and emotions, Personality (Psychology)

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