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Research paper – Similar outgroups: threatening or likeable?

Similar outgroups: Threatening or likable? Do we like or dislike members of outgroups who seem similar to our ingroup? The psychological literature has offered two opposing answers. Research on distinctiveness threat suggests that we are more...

Ten feel-good science stories you might have missed in 2021.

Ten feel-good science stories you might have missed in 2021 Proof it hasn't been all bad.

Research paper – Regrets over “me” versus regrets over “us”: the influence of culture on action versus inaction regrets.

Regrets over “me” versus regrets over “us”: The influence of culture on action versus inaction regrets As with other cognitively determined emotional experiences, regret is shaped by and expressed in a particular cultural milieu. However, past research on regret has primarily been conducted in Western...

Māori Sports Awards: A record-breaking Olympics for Māori athletes.
The number of Māori athletes who attended the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was the highest in history.

Māori Sports Awards: A record-breaking Olympics for Māori athletes The number of Māori athletes who attended the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was the highest in history. Olympic Sevens gold medalists Tyla Nathan-Wong and Stacey...

Research paper – ‘There is No (Where a) Face like Home’: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.
Study participants were from New Zealand, Britain, Chile and Singapore.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures - Myron Tsikandilakis, Zhaoliang Yu, Leonie Kausel, Gonzalo Boncompte, Renzo C. Lanfranco, Matt.. The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturall...

Aged care report looks at benefits of adapting tikanga Māori.

Aged care report looks at benefits of adapting tikanga Māori The quality of care for older Māori and aged residential care is under the spotlight in a new report from the University of Auckland published this week. The...