2025
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
In recent years, universities have suffered a serious decline in their reputation and public support for their work. This paper suggests that this decline was largely caused by the spread of false beliefs among many academics and administrators that now see the …
2025
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
2025
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
False beliefs have always been with us and will remain so. The human mind and consciousness evolved not so much to discover objective reality but rather to promote the creation of highly cohesive groups, our primary means of survival, often at the …
2024
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
Abstract What is the point of sadness? The adaptive benefits of other negative emotions such as anger, disgust, and fear have long been recognized, yet the evolutionary functions of sadness remain poorly understood, even though many practicing psychologists deal with sadness and …
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2024
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
The universal human tendency to think and act in ways that promote tribal cooperation appears to be an inevitable part of the human condition and the source of much of our evolutionary success. This chapter reviews evidence for the ubiquitous human propensity …
2024
book-chapter
OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
Tribal conflict ideologies represent a serious challenge for liberal democracies, and none more so than various neo-Marxist theories in ascendancy today. Whereas liberal democracy is based on Enlightenment principles assuming that rational and pragmatic considerations by individuals will produce gradual social progress, …
2024
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
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2024
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Connie J. Clark, Musa al‐Gharbi, Roy Frederick Baumeister, April L. Bleske-Rechek et autres
Emotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving ...Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory …
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2024
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2023
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Connie J. Clark, Lee J. Jussim, Komi Frey, Sean T. Stevens et autres
Science is among humanity's greatest achievements, yet scientific censorship is rarely studied empirically. We explore the social, psychological, and institutional causes and consequences of scientific censorship (defined as actions aimed at obstructing particular scientific ideas from reaching an audience for reasons other …
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2023
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
The experience of insecurity plays an important role in political affairs, an issue already recognized in Plato’s Republic. The rise of social, economic, or existential insecurity often fuels populist movements, as long as effective propaganda can provide voters with a suitable psychological …
2023
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OpenAlex
Joseph P. Forgas
The experience of psychological insecurity is a defining feature of humans, as we are the only creatures with consciousness and the symbolic ability to imagine, forecast, and manipulate alternative realities. In this introductory chapter, we review the basic nature and sources of …