study results - p1

Bandura et al

Live models were the most influential. 2x more aggression with the cartoon/film models than the control group. gender also influenced imitations

Antonova

significant reduction in hippocampus activation when injected with scopolamine

Ronay and von Hippel

participants took greater risks in front of the researcher. Higher testosterone, same heart rate.

levine

3x less likely to help confederate with rival t-shirt, but similar in both out-group shirts

Martin and Halverson

children mostly distorted images with gender inconsistent role stereotypes

Caspi

Statistically significant interaction between life events and depression for sl and ss. No interaction with stressors and depression for ll

Englich and Mussweiler

the average rating for the low anchor condition had an average sentencing of 19 months, and the higher anchor group had an average sentencing of 29 months

berry

Temne culture had a much higher rate of conformity

shaw and porter

3^rd interview 70% of participants in the criminal memory had a false memory.

lueck and wilson

70% of participants were reported to be experiencing acculturative stress. Lower acculturative stress – bilingual. Negative treatment higher acculturative stress

maguire

taxi drivers had a higher amount of grey matter in the posterior hippocampus compared to control, and correlation between size and years of taxi driving. Control had higher amount of grey matter in the anterior hippocampus

kearins

on all recognition tasks group 1 correctly relocated more objects. Group 2 scored highest in artificial different. 75% of group 1 and 18% of group 2 achieved a perfect score

sharot

Those who were closer increased flashbulb memory in September compared to summer and higher in amygdala activation. No significance in those who were further

lamm

70% of the Cameroonian children waited and 30% of the German children waited. 1/3 of Cameroonian and ½ of German children tasted the treat

Park and Rothbart

 females viewed the in-group as being more dissimilar than the outgroup members were. Ranked the two unfavourable characteristics lower for their own group and the eight favourable characteristics higher.

Milner

could not acquire episodic or semantic knowledge but could form a cognitive map. Procedural skills maintained. Parts of the temporal lobe had the most damage.

Weissman et al

Lower risk with depressed grandparent and healthy parent, and no increased risk with depressed parent and healthy grandparent. Additionally, severity of a parents’ depression correlated with an increased rate of mood disorders within the children.

Landry and Bartling

group 1 scored lower than group 2. Group 1 had 45% accuracy and group 2 had 76% accuracy.

Zhou

Those attracted to males and were exposed to AND had a higher rate of identifying the stick figures as male. But no effect on those attracted to females. But EST biases heterosexual males to perceiving walkers as more feminine. No statistical significance in lesbian women.

pitman

one month, PTSD rates with placebo was 30%, and propranolol was 10% (no outliers). At 3 months one (11%) of the propranolol patients (the outlier) had met the criteria for chronic PTSD and two of the placebo patients

charlton

good behaviour was maintained even after 5 years with tv. No increase in anti social behaviour, or aggression. Backed up by teachers’ interviews

kulkofsky

China (collectivist) showed less flashbulb memory formation to personal and emotional events when compared to the UK and the US (individualistic). The national importance was equal.

becker

1995 group dieting was rare, in the 1998 group 70% of participants had dieted to lose weight, with 75% feeling too big or too fat and 77% reported that television made them think differently about their body shape. However, self-reported binge eating did not change significantly. Participants looked up to the models on TV.

Novotny and Polonsky

One’s level of knowledge about Islam negatively correlated with a perceived threat, the more the participants knew about Islam, the less they felt threatened by Muslims.  This correlation was also found in the level of personal contact with Muslims and the amount of travel to Muslim countries. 

Draganski

at the end of the first part, the jugglers showed a significantly larger amount of grey matter in the mid-temporal area in both hemispheres. Three months after they stopped the amount of grey matter decreased. No change throughout the non-juggling group.

Wang et al

biculturalism is associated with better outcomes, higher levels of self esteem, lower depression, lower and anxiety.

Hamilton and Gifford

Participants overestimated the number of negative traits in the minority group. They correctly recalled more positive traits for group A, 74%, than B, 54%.

Steele and Aronson

The African Americans performed poorly when they believed the test was of intellectual ability but did just as well when they believed it was a test of problem solving.