In choice between uncertain options, uncertainty may be eventually resolved for all options, or just for the chosen option. The...
Social comparison processes include the desire to affiliate with others, the desire for information about others, and explicit self-evaluation against...
Based on the traditional and attributional perspectives on social comparison, it was hypothesized that the search for social comparison information...
The tendency for people to rate attitude-confirming information more positively than attitude-disconfirming information (biased assimilation) was studied in a naturalistic...
This paper is concerned with the influence of scientists′ prior beliefs on their judgments of evidence quality. A laboratory experiment...
Three experiments show that information consistent with a preferred conclusion is examined less critically than information inconsistent with a preferred...
It is proposed that motivation may affect reasoning through reliance on a biased set of cognitive processes—that is, strategies for...
Three studies asked why people sometimes seek positive feedback (self-enhance) and sometimes seek subjectively accurate feedback (self-verify). Consistent with self-enhancement...
The results of a field investigation indicate that people who are highly invested in their self-views (confidently held or personally...
Hypothesized that an individual's reluctance to communicate news that is bad for the recipient (the MUM effect) is partially due...