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		<title>SPSP Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I will be at the annual conference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). I will still try to update at least a couple of times through the week, but it will more likely be conference photos than substantive articles. However, I will be covering the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=533&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Things Worth Reading covers critiques of the data interpretations behind popular stories, how atheism can be uplifting, how our ideology colors our interpretations of facts, and high heels: hot or not? Maybe you saw the rape infographic that was circulating recently—the one with the numbers of rapists, reported rapists, convicted rapists, and falsely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=530&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Racism: Psychological Essentialism, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I wrote about psychological essentialism, the idea that people tend to see certain categories as having an underlying essence that causes them to be what they are and to have the properties that they do. I gave the example of thinking that tigers are what they are because there is something inside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=524&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Racism: Psychological Essentialism, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a couple of posts that bring steady traffic to my blog, even though they written a long time ago and even though I have barely updated the blog since I wrote those posts. One of these is on the relationship between religion and racism. Racism is an important topic for psychologists, one with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=512&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things Worth Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Things Worth Reading covers science journalism, environmental effects on crome, and the New Year&#8217;s resolutions of famous people: Survival of the Wrongest – David H. Freedman explains why personal health journalism is so self-contradictory, confusing, and (often) wrong, and in doing so, he touches on how this reflects the realities of medical science. America&#8217;s Real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=508&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make the Most of Your Regrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regret feels bad. That fact is so obvious that it hardly needs explaining. When you think about how you could acted differently to make things better, that just feels bad. Perhaps because regret feels bad, you can find lots of people advocating living without regret. (A Google search for &#8220;live life without regrets&#8221; turns up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=506&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year; Old Regrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Year can be as much a time of regret as of renewal. While you are setting new resolutions, you might reflect on failed resolutions from the past—that weight you were supposed to lose or that language you were supposed to learn. And as you are returning to your normal schedule after the holidays, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=491&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Challenge</title>
		<link>http://atheoryofmind.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/new-years-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the last time I updated this blog, a lot has happened: I passed the qualifying exam in my doctoral program. The Religious Studies Project posted another podcast response by me, this time on why women are more religious than men. My husband and I adopted two dogs. I saw the Mississippi River for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=485&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Into Graduate School</title>
		<link>http://atheoryofmind.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/getting-into-graduate-school-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I posted some advice for applicants to graduate schools. Today, The Religious Studies Project has posted a revised and expanded version of this advice that includes links to other online resources for grad school applicants. Here is an excerpt of that new post: Generally speaking, the key to graduate admissions is fit—which means [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=480&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cognitive Approach to Religion</title>
		<link>http://atheoryofmind.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-cognitive-approach-to-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from SPSP! I&#8217;ve been quiet this week as I am at the largest conference in my field, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. It&#8217;s been a great experience so far. Yesterday, I attended a symposium on religion and prosociality that was extremely exciting and has inspired my next blog topic: the supernatural punishment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=475&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Studies Project</title>
		<link>http://atheoryofmind.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/religious-studies-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello again, Internets! Twice in the past week, someone has mentioned my blog to me, which, of course has made me feel terrible at its state of abandonment. So let&#8217;s get back into it. A new resource for those interested in the study of religion has just launched: The Religious Studies Project. It&#8217;s a fantastic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=472&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting into Graduate School</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first week of my first semester as a teaching assistant at Illinois. I held office hours this week, even before leading a discussion session, and was surprised to have a student use them. This student wanted advice on what steps he could take to make himself a strong applicant for a psychology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=466&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Journal: Secularism and Nonreligion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new interdisciplinary journal in the area of scientific study of religion (broadly defined) has begin accepting submissions. The journal Secularism and Nonreligion defines its scope as follows: Secularism and Nonreligion is an interdisciplinary journal published with the aim of advancing research on various aspects of &#8216;the secular.&#8217; The journal is interested in contributions from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=464&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychological Scales of Yesteryear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When psychologists create scales (such as the many personality tests you may be familiar with), they try to use language and examples that would be relevant and accessible to their participants. Although this helps in reducing the possibility that participants will be alienated or confused by the items in a scale, it also means that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=460&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update Schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Salomon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to evidence, this blog is not abandoned! I will be traveling quite a bit for the rest of the summer, so updates will likely be few until things stabilize. But I will try to do better than last week from here on out. In the meantime, please enjoy this photo of my cat:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=atheoryofmind.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6655941&#038;post=455&#038;subd=atheoryofmind&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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