Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets Benedek Kurdi, Amy Krosch, and Melissa Ferguson Disseminating accurate information about past wrongdoing in intergroup contexts (including discrimination, slavery, or genocide) constitutes an indispensable first step toward reconciliation and restitution....

Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale Cameron Martel, Jennifer Allen, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand   Identifying successful approaches for reducing the belief and spread of online misinformation is of great importance. Social media companies currently rely largely on professional fact-checking as their primary mechanism...

The Role of Shame in the Sexual-Orientation Disparity in Mental Health: A Prospective Population-Based Study of Multimodal Emotional Reactions to Stigma John E. Pachankis, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Daniel N. Klein, and Richard Bränström Considering emotions such as shame as characteristic reactions to stigma might improve theories of stigma as well as...

Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance Roberta Klatzky and Mahadev Satyanarayanan  A wearable cognitive assistant (WCA) is a computer-based application that guides a user through a task with input from wearable devices, with the aid of computational resources in nearby locations (cloudlets). Psychological science informs...

Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors Markus Brauer   Decades of research on how to improve intergroup relations has primarily examined ways to change prejudiced attitudes. However, this focus on negative intergroup attitudes has yielded few effective solutions. Because intergroup relations...

Social Concepts Simplify Complex Reinforcement Learning Leor M. Hackel and David A. Kalkstein People often generalize rewarding experiences with individuals (“Lisa”) to abstract social roles (“mentors”). Hackel and Kalkstein propose that by quickly recognizing roles described by familiar concepts such as “helper” and associating these concepts directly...