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The psychology of self-defense: self-affirmation theory
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
, 2006
"... In major league baseball, a hitter could have a long and productive career by maintaining a.300 average, that is, by getting a base hit 30 % of the time. A great deal of money could be earned and fame accrued. Yet the other 70% of the time, this player would have failed. The vast majority of attempt ..."
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In major league baseball, a hitter could have a long and productive career by maintaining a.300 average, that is, by getting a base hit 30 % of the time. A great deal of money could be earned and fame accrued. Yet the other 70% of the time, this player would have failed. The vast majority of attempts to
Dishonesty in everyday life and its policy implications
- Journal Public Policy and Marketing
, 2006
"... Dishonest acts are all too prevalent in day-to-day life. This article examines some possible psychological causes for dishonesty that go beyond the standard economic considerations of probability and value of external payoffs. The authors propose a general model of dishonest behavior that includes i ..."
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Dishonest acts are all too prevalent in day-to-day life. This article examines some possible psychological causes for dishonesty that go beyond the standard economic considerations of probability and value of external payoffs. The authors propose a general model of dishonest behavior that includes internal psychological reward mechanisms for honesty and dishonesty, and they discuss the implications of this model in terms of curbing dishonesty.
Educating the evolved mind: Conceptual foundations for an evolutionary educational psychology
- In J.S. Carlson & J.R. Levin (Eds.), Educating the evolved mind (pp. 1–100). Greenwich, CT: Information Age
, 2007
"... It is widely accepted that all children in modern societies will receive for-mal and extended instruction in a variety of core domains, such as mathe-matics, and at the very least they will acquire the basic skills, as in being able to read and write, necessary for employment and day-to-day living i ..."
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It is widely accepted that all children in modern societies will receive for-mal and extended instruction in a variety of core domains, such as mathe-matics, and at the very least they will acquire the basic skills, as in being able to read and write, necessary for employment and day-to-day living in these societies. Unfortunately, the instructional approaches used to achieve these goals and in fact the details of the goals themselves are points of continued and often divisive debate (Hirsch, 1996). At the very least, these debates date to Rousseau’s 1762 publication of Emile, and are framed by basic assumptions about how children learn and how adults should motivate children to engage in this learning (Rousseau, 1979). At one extreme is a child-centered approach, whereby adults should come to understand how children learn and then construct educational goals and instructional methods around children’s learning biases (e.g., McLellan & Dewey, 1895). At the other extreme is the assumption that adults should CHAPTER 1
Morality. An evolutionary account
- Perspectives on Psychological Science
, 2008
"... ABSTRACT—Refinements in Darwin’s theory of the origin of a moral sense create a framework equipped to organize and integrate contemporary theory and research on mo-rality.Morality originated in deferential, cooperative, and altruistic ‘‘social instincts,’ ’ or decision-making strategies, that enable ..."
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ABSTRACT—Refinements in Darwin’s theory of the origin of a moral sense create a framework equipped to organize and integrate contemporary theory and research on mo-rality.Morality originated in deferential, cooperative, and altruistic ‘‘social instincts,’ ’ or decision-making strategies, that enabled early humans to maximize their gains from social living and resolve their conflicts of interest in adaptive ways. Moral judgments, moral norms, and con-science originated from strategic interactions among members of groups who experienced confluences and con-flicts of interest. Moral argumentation buttressed bymoral reasoning is equipped to generate universal and impartial moral standards. Moral beliefs and standards are prod-ucts of automatic and controlled information-processing and decision-making mechanisms. To understand how
Modularity and the Social Mind: Are Psychologists Too Self-ish?
- PERS SOC PSYCHOL REV
, 2007
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2009 Planned, motivated and habitual hygiene behaviour: an eleven country review. Health Educ. Res
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Are Disagreements Honest
, 2002
"... Yudkowsky, and participants of the Virginia Tech economics department seminar for useful comments and discussion. We thank the Center for Study of Public Choice and the Mercatus Center for financial support. ..."
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Yudkowsky, and participants of the Virginia Tech economics department seminar for useful comments and discussion. We thank the Center for Study of Public Choice and the Mercatus Center for financial support.
A User’s Reference
"... Overconfidence in wargames: experimental evidence on expectations, aggression, gender and testosterone ..."
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Overconfidence in wargames: experimental evidence on expectations, aggression, gender and testosterone
Self-Deception as the Root of Political Failure
, 2003
"... *I am more than usually indebted to others for useful discussions. This paper sprang from numerous lunchtime arguments with Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson. Many others have given useful comments or insights, including Donald Boudreaux, Geoff ..."
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*I am more than usually indebted to others for useful discussions. This paper sprang from numerous lunchtime arguments with Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson. Many others have given useful comments or insights, including Donald Boudreaux, Geoff
