This chapter began with a brief history of the self, noting that in recent decades social
psychology has at long last embraced some seminal conceptions of the self offered by …

Gaining insight into the nature and consequences of people's global self-evaluations (ie,
their self-esteem) has been fraught with difficulty. Nearly 2 decades ago, researchers …

Although the concept of mindfulness has attracted scholarly attention across multiple
disciplines, research on mindfulness in the field of management remains limited. In …

Research on implicit attitudes has raised questions about how well people know their own
attitudes. Most research on this question has focused on the correspondence between …

Despite a growing body of scholarship on the concept of intuition, there is a scarcity of
empirical research spotlighting the circumstances in which intuitive decision making is …

RICHARD E. PETTY PABLO BRIñOL CHRIS LOERSCH MICHAEL J. MCCASLIN as
conceptualized by Cacioppo and Petty (1982), the need for cognition (NC) re-fers to the …

Within the space of two decades, virtually every intellectual question in social psychology,
and many outside of it, has been shaped by the theories and methods of implicit social …

Discussion surrounding intuition has burgeoned in a variety of arenas in recent years. In
popular writings, for example, a number of authors have pointed to the role that intuition may …

Despite decades of research demonstrating a dedicated link between positive and negative
affect and specific cognitive processes, not all research is consistent with this view. We …

Three studies tested the roles of implicit and/or explicit self-esteem in reactions to mortality
salience. In Study 1, writing about death versus a control topic increased worldview defense …