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In gauging beauty, congeniality counts

People judge others who have positive personality traits by more lenient physical criteria for attractiveness than they do those about whom they have no personality information.

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This article presumes that immanent-justice judgments are irrational. However, poor self-image and other psychosomatic stressors are already suspected of suppressing immunity. Many suspect that momentary emotional flare-ups precede cold and flu symptoms by a couple of days. An elaborate series of experiments might determine whether guilt over past crimes (or crime-motivating rage) made wrongdoers more […]

Older isn’t wiser in moral reasoning

Researchers find more endorsement of immanent justice, the belief that the natural world punishes human misdeeds, among college students than sixth-graders.