People typically believe they are more likely to engage in selfless, kind, and generous behaviors than their peers, a result...
We provide an integrative account of temporal biases (confidence changes, planning fallacy, impact bias, and hindsight bias). Students listed either...
Most people believe that they should avoid changing their answer when taking multiple-choice tests. Virtually all research on this topic,...
In five studies, university students predicted their affective reactions to a wide variety of positive and negative future events. In...
In three studies, we explored how the ending of a life influences the perceived desirability of that life. We consistently...
Participants included 46 European American, 33 Asian American, 91 Japanese, 160 Indian, and 80 Hispanic students (N = 416). Discrete...
For the past decade, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that when individuals write about emotional experiences, significant physical...
The words people use in disclosing a trauma were hypothesized to predict improvements in mental and physical health in 2...
The authors hypothesized that uncertainty following a positive event prolongs the pleasure it causes and that people are generally unaware...
Three studies examine the hypothesis that people spontaneously (i.e., unintentionally and without awareness of doing so) infer causes (the Spontaneous...