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According to the just-world theory, people need to – or rather want to – believe that they live in a just world where they will receive what they earn and consequently earn what they receive. In the present work, we examined the influence of people’s general and personal beliefs in a just world (BJW) on their (dis)honest behavior. Given that general BJW was found to be linked to antisocial tendencies, we expected stronger general BJW to be linked to more dishonesty. Given that personal BJW was found to be correlated with trust and justice striving, a negative link with dishonesty could b...

Here’s why we can’t get enough of those spooky, scary horror movies (and why watching them might even be healthy). Plus, expert recommendations on where to get started, from 'Night of the Living Dead' to 'Stranger Things.'

New research casts doubt on the conventional wisdom linking psychopathy to murder. The findings, which appear in the scientific journal Personality and Individual Differences, provide evidence that homicide offenders tend to be less psychopathic on average compared to other criminal offenders. ...

Researchers at Studio Psi.Co. investigated the connection between comic style descriptors and 'dark triad' personality traits - narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism.

The internet has come out in full force to support woman cancelled on by 'flakey' friend in favor of her daughter in laws birthday party.