Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

Apr 16, 2021

Young Children Use Nonverbal Cues to Detect Deception

by Maliki E. Ghossainy

By the time they’re six, tricking your kids is not as easy as it used to be.

Mar 26, 2021 Has Society Changed in Implicit and Explicit Gender Stereotypes? by Tessa Charlesworth Data from 1.4 million people offer new evidence on the hopeful (and cautionary) trends of our society.	Mar 24, 2021 How Do Vulnerable Neighborhoods Shape Radicals? by Roberto M. Lobato, Manuel Moyano, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, & Humberto Trujillo Can where you live predict your support for violence?
Mar 22, 2021 Low-income Students in Higher Education by Sophie Trawalter, Kelly Hoffman and Lindsay Palmer The predicament of being an outsider on university campuses.	Mar 19, 2021 Living in a Chaotic Home isn’t Good for Children by Krysta Andrews Home routines can shape children’s skills and development.

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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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