Political applications:

• beauty and electoral success, 529

• blood diamonds, 153, 222

• border protection avatar, 318

• consumer sentiment on state of economy, 277–278

• countries allowing free press, 243

• electoral college votes, 208

• exit polls, 165

• Iraq War casualties, 102

• political poll size, 460

• political representation of religious groups, 469

• politics and religion, 489–490

• public opinion polls, 275

• rigged election, 495

• trust in president, 275

• U.S. Treasury deficit prior to Civil War, 21

• verifying voter petitions, 363

• voting for mayor, 190–191

• voting in primary elections, 193

• voting on women’s issues, 528

Psychological applications. See also Behavioral applications; Gender applications; Religion applications; Sociological applications

• alcohol, threats, and electric shocks, 209

• appraisals and negative emotions, 154

• attention time given to twins, 298

• birth order and IQ, 329

• body image dissatisfaction, 30, 35–37, 48, 75–76, 90

• bulimia, 383, 402

• characteristics of antiwar demonstrators, 77–78, 215, 238

• children’s perceptions of their neighborhood, 480

• children’s recall of TV ads, 383, 410

• choosing a mother, 23

• cognitive impairment of schizophrenics, 382

• cognitive skills for successful arguing, 385

• dental visit anxiety, 207, 336

• detecting rapid visual targets and attentional blink, 522

• divorced couples, 150–151

• eating disorders, 52, 243

• effectiveness of TV program on marijuana use, 464–465

• emotional empathy in young adults, 329, 356

• free recall memory strategy, 337, 357

• guilt in decision making, 22, 140, 153–154, 494

• influencing performance in a serial addition task, 456, 460, 482

• interactions in children’s museum, 41, 280, 469, 484

• Internet addiction, 15

• IQ and mental deficiency, 493

• irrelevant speech effects, 49, 77, 102–103, 171, 214–215, 261–262, 330, 350

• lie detector test, 162, 362

• listening time of infants, 317

• married women, 241

• money spent on gifts (buying love), 23

• motivation and right-oriented bias, 41

• motivation of drug dealers, 77, 82, 171, 237, 262, 293–294, 351

• music performance anxiety, 50, 61, 69, 272, 335–336, 355

• olfactory reference syndrome (ORS), 282, 288

• personality and aggressive behavior, 263–264

• pitch memory of amusiacs, 273, 288, 337

• post-traumatic stress of POWs, 360–361

• rat-in-maze experiment, 72–73

• recall of TV commercials, 432

• restoring self-control when intoxicated, 433

• rotating objects, view of, 540

• shock treatment to learners (Milgram experiment), 146

• shopping vehicle and judgment, 78, 207, 384

• sleep deprivation, 359

• social interaction of mental patients, 330

• spanking, parents who condone, 241, 362

• stimulus reaction, 87–88

• superstition survey, 192–193

• susceptibility to hypnosis, 15–16, 244, 493–494

• task deviations, 46–47

• time required to complete a task, 330

• “tip-of-the-tongue” phenomenon, 457

• undergraduate problem drinking, 264

• virtual reality hypnosis for pain, 318

• visual search and memory, 398

• water-level task, 46–47, 86