This article addresses methodological issues in the description and evaluation of nonverbal behavior (NVB) in cross-cultural studies. Videos containing cultural samples of NVB are of little use when analyzing the effects of NVB across cultures. Since video recordings confuse visible behavior...

This article details two studies investigating the proximal role of social projection (i.e., assumed similarity) in judgments of sexual intent. Study 1 demonstrates that men and women who have a greater desire for casual sex are more likely to perceive sexual intent in others. Study 2 replicates...

TV news are essentially cultural phenomena. Previous research suggests that the often-overlooked formal and implicit characteristics of newscasts may be systematically related to culture-specific characteristics. Investigating these characteristics by means of a frame-by-frame content analysis...

The concepts of motivation and job satisfaction are currently being re-discovered by both academia and commercial market research. This article reviews recent developments in this area and gives an assessment of the main results. Although the research tradition in the field of motivation and job...

Representative studies show that the majority of the population in Germany perceive the current tax system as lacking legitimacy and would prefer an increase in the redistribution of income. Tax on high incomes is considered too low, whereas tax on low incomes is considered too high. A closer...

After a brief review of the main economic dimensions of the financial crisis, this analysis introduces and applies a framework of economic and financial psychology. This discussion focuses on two main dimensions: The transparency of available financial products (i.e. whether they can be easily...