How Other People’s Investments Can Elicit the Sunk-Cost Fallacy
You rent a movie, only to realize 20 minutes in that it’s a terrible film – but you keep watching it… More
Reasoning
New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring inspiration and belief in God, replicability of implicit theory of mind paradigms, and memory distortion resulting from context reinstatement… More
Watching Others Makes People Overconfident in their Own Abilities
Watching YouTube videos, Instagram demos, and Facebook tutorials may make us feel as though we’re acquiring all sorts of new skills but it probably won’t make us experts… More
People Rationalize Policies as Soon as They Take Effect
Findings from three field studies indicate that people report more favorable opinions about policies and politicians once they become the status quo… More
People Who Value Virtue Show Wiser Reasoning
We’re often better at working through our friends’ problems than our own—but people who are motivated to develop the best in themselves and others don’t show this bias… More
New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring continuous traumatic stress, biases in clinical paranoia, and the role of clinicians’ own theories in reasoning about interventions… More