Psychological Science
Volume 19, Number 4 ·April 2008
Research Reports
What Do Cross-National Comparisons of Personality Traits Tell Us? The Case of Conscientiousness
Steven J. Heine, Emma E. Buchtel, and Ara Norenzayan
Naming Practices and the Acquisition of Key Biological Concepts: Evidence From English and Indonesian
Florencia K. Anggoro, Sandra R. Waxman, and Douglas L. Medin
Individual Differences in Insular Sensitivity During Loss Anticipation Predict Avoidance Learning
Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Nick G. Hollon, Laura L. Carstensen, and Brian Knutson
Hedonic and Instrumental Motives in Anger Regulation
Maya Tamir, Christopher Mitchell, and James J. Gross
Short Report
Prescribed Optimism: Is It Right to Be Wrong About the Future?
David A. Armor, Cade Massey, and Aaron M. Sackett
Research Articles
First Impressions and Last Resorts: How Listeners Adjust to Speaker Variability
Tanya Kraljic, Arthur G. Samuel, and Susan E. Brennan
The Sunny Side of Fairness: Preference for Fairness Activates Reward Circuitry (and Disregarding Unfairness Activates Self-Control Circuitry)
Golnaz Tabibnia, Ajay B. Satpute, and Matthew D. Lieberman
Perceptual Mechanisms That Characterize Gender Differences in Decoding Women's Sexual Intent
Coreen Farris, Teresa A. Treat, Richard J. Viken, and Richard M. McFall
Personality Dominance and Preferential Use of the Vertical Dimension of Space: Evidence From Spatial Attention Paradigms
Sara K. Moeller, Michael D. Robinson, and Darya L. Zabelina
Beyond Fear: Rapid Spatial Orienting Toward Positive Emotional Stimuli
Tobias Brosch, David Sander, Gilles Pourtois, and Klaus R. Scherer
Is Happiness Having What You Want, Wanting What You Have, or Both?
Jeff T. Larsen and Amie R. McKibban
Why It Pays to Get Inside the Head of Your Opponent : The Differential Effects of Perspective Taking and Empathy in Strategic Interactions
Adam D. Galinsky, William W. Maddux, Debra Gilin, and Judith B. White
The Secret Life of Emotions
Kirsten I. Ruys and Diederik A. Stapel
The Representation of Simple Ensemble Visual Features Outside the Focus of Attention
George A. Alvarez and Aude Oliva
It Takes Two: The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy
Jamil Zaki, Niall Bolger, and Kevin Ochsner
"In-Group Love" and "Out-Group Hate" as Motives for Individual Participation in Intergroup Conflict: A New Game Paradigm
Nir Halevy, Gary Bornstein, and Lilach Sagiv
Commentary
Synaesthesia, Color Terms, and Color Space: Color Claims Came From Color Names in Beeli, Esslen, and Jancke (2007)
Julia Simner and Jamie Ward