"Female candidates aren't simply choosing to be more positive—they're responding to a different set of incentives," Dr. Crabtree said. "We found that when women used negative language, they were more ...

Intergroup bias is the tendency for people to inflate positive regard for their in-group and derogate the out-group. Across two online experiments (N = 922) this study revisits the methodological ...

Mount Sinai researchers have identified for the first time the neural mechanisms in the brain that regulate both positive and negative impressions of a social encounter, as well as how an imbalance ...