Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

Jan 17, 2022

Improving Accuracy in Memory Recall: The Particular Case of Alibi Generation

by Hyungwook Yim and Simon Dennis

“Where were you at 9pm on the night of the crime?” You might not remember.

Jan 14, 2022 Anger Damns the Innocent by Katy DeCelles, Gabrielle Adams, Holly Howe, and Leslie John Our intuition that people who are angry are guilty could be incorrect.	Jan 12, 2022 The Unexpected Joy of Memories by Shriya Sekhsaria and Emily Pronin Creating—and revisiting—“memory jars” has more benefits than you expect.
Jan 10, 2022 Have to Help or Want to Help? by Johanna Peetz There are different reasons to help others and they are all good.	Jan 07, 2022 It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It by Robin Dunbar It can be so difficult to express what we want to say in language. So what’s the point of having language at all?

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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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