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Most people believe in free will, but what happens when this belief is challenged? Psychologists have shown that reducing belief in free will causes a variety of behavioral consequences (Vohs & Schooler, 2008; Baumeister, Masicampo, &...
Recent research has demonstrated that social exclusion can increase the motivation to develop new affiliative bonds with others. The primary goal of the paper was to examine the effect that social exclusion would have on gratitude toward...
People judge others' harmful effects to be more intentional than their helpful effects (Knobe, 2003). The present work shows that two separate biases produce this side-effect effect: relative to morally neutral side effects, people judge...
What biological processes underlie self-control, such that this adaptive skill differs among people and appears to be functionally limited? The current research aims to answer this question by proposing that adenosine, an inhibitory...
Self-Regulation and Sexual Restraint: Dispositionally and Temporarily Poor Self-Regulatory Abilities Contribute to Failures at Restraining Sexual Behavior
The current work tested the hypothesis that failures in sexual restraint are caused by low self-control. Results based on dispositional differences in self-control, experimental manipulations of self-control, and narrative accounts of...
Prior findings of emotional numbness (rather than distress) among socially excluded persons led us to investigate whether exclusion causes a far-reaching insensitivity to both physical and emotional pain. Experiments 1-4 showed that...
Three experiments tested the effects of ego depletion on economic decision-making in the investment game. Participants completed a self-control task or simplified version not requiring self-control. Then participants divided $10 between...
Three experiments found that socially excluded participants spent money in whatever way best enhanced their chance of gaining social acceptance. Relative to participants who were socially accepted or given non-social negative news, ...
Three studies provide evidence that feeling uncertain impairs subsequent self-control. Participants were randomly assigned to either uncertain conditions (uncertain about how to complete a task; not knowing whether they would have to...
Research suggests that women gossip more often than men. We, along with previous researchers, argue that this exchange of information may be a means by which women compete for mates. That is, women use social information to besmirch the...
Evidence of an automatic tendency to think about and attend to one's unfulfilled goals led us to examine whether unfulfilled goals can distract from other, unrelated pursuits. In three studies, we manipulated goal frustration or goal...
Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleave: Information About a Target's Emotions Increases the Extent to Which Individuals Feel They Have Learned About That Target's Personality
Emotions are automatically expressed, automatically detected, and provide a glimpse into an individual's personality and motivations. Based on this, we hypothesized that providing individuals with information about a target's emotional...
Two studies tested the hypothesis that romantic partners function as hard-to-fake signals of status. In Study 1, participants rated the status of various professional men (CEO, professor, politician). The person was described as either...
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