Theories hold that autobiographical memory serves several broad functions (directive, self, and social). In the current study, items were derived...
The current work explored the relations among reactance, regret, and behavioral choice. A possible mechanism for reactance in opposition to...
Responses by humans to painful electric shocks are significantly modified at subjective, behavioral, and physiological levels by verbal manipulations of...
According to system justification theory, people are motivated to preserve the belief that existing social arrangements are fair, legitimate, justifiable,...
Intense hedonic states trigger psychological processes that are designed to attenuate them, and thus intense states may abate more quickly...
People prefer to make changeable decisions rather than unchangeable decisions because they do not realize that they may be more...
The present study examined the immediate and delayed effects of unobtrusive exposure to personality trait terms (e.g., “reckless”, “persistent”) on...
The authors tested and confirmed the hypothesis that priming a stereotype or trait leads to complex overt behavior in line...
Investigated the mental control of mood and mood-related thought. In Exp 1, Ss reminiscing about a happy or sad event...
Decisions are powerfully affected by anticipated regret, and people anticipate feeling more regret when they lose by a narrow margin...