Tag: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

  • Nation & World

    Smelling sweetheart’s shirt may lower stress

    Reducing stress might be as simple as sniffing a loved one’s T-shirt, according to new research from Harvard Business School.

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    Dirty laundry
  • Nation & World

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists

    Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

    4 minutes