In this Academic Minute podcast clip, graduate student Shadrzad Goudarzi discusses a recent multi-part psychological study which examines Americans responses to and opinions of economic inequality. Goudarzi and collaborators found that for participants who endorsed "system-justifying ideology" had a "less negative" emotional response to a video of a houseless person describing their struggles.

Shahrzad Goudarzi, New York University – Economic Inequality

In this Academic Minute podcast clip, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Katie Nelson-Coffee discusses their research (three studies) on happiness amongst parents. In all three studies, they found that mothers were not as happy as fathers.

2 mins 30 secs

Katie Nelson-Coffey, University of the South – Happiness Gap for Mothers