New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring GDP and science achievement, the effects of reward and punishment on information processing, emotion differentiation and regulation, and intrasexual aggression. More
A sample of research exploring GDP and science achievement, the effects of reward and punishment on information processing, emotion differentiation and regulation, and intrasexual aggression. More
Researcher Daeyeol Lee uses methods from economics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to understand the brain’s ability to make decisions. More
The 26th Annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI) will take place July 8-11, 2019, in Santa Monica, CA. Application Deadline: March 15, 2019 The RSI will consist of two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population: the Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 8-9 and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology More
THAT human beings often continue to pour money into bad projects because they have already invested in them and cannot bring themselves to lose that investment is well known. Indeed the sunk-cost fallacy, as this phenomenon is called, is frequently cited as an example of people failing to behave in More
The New York Times: Richard H. Thaler, whose work has persuaded many economists to pay more attention to human behavior, and many governments to pay more attention to economics, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday. Professor Thaler is the rare economist to win a measure More
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to economist Richard H. Thaler has its roots firmly planted in psychological science, particularly in the work of two of the world’s most renowned behavioral scientists. More