This article seeks to further our understanding of self-protective behavior by examining the
effects of a particularly powerful stimulus to action: personal experience. It reviews the …

Although social psychology has been traditionally focused on interpersonal relationships,
the cognitive revolution in psychology has had the effect of refocusing some social …

Foreseeing the future is one of the most appealing of all psychic powers. Who has not
dreamed of making millions by predicting which new offering on Wall Street will be the next …

This study tested 3 main hypotheses concerning people's predictions of task completion
times:(a) People underestimate their own but not others' completion times,(b) people focus …

Abstract [This book] packages the discipline [of social psychology] in thirty-one crisp and
playful essays (" modules"). This is the ultimate brief text in social psychology—a quick …

A distinction is made between decision utility, experienced utility, and predicted utility and an
experiment is reported addressing people's ability to forecast experienced utility. Subjects in …

Enough: The Failure of the Living Will - Fagerlin - 2004 - Hastings Center Report - Wiley Online
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Experts are often called on to predict the performance of novices, but cognitive heuristics
may interfere with experts' ability to capitalize on their superior knowledge in predicting …

This article examines the antecedents and outcomes of forgiveness. The interpersonal
forgiveness literature is qualitatively reviewed. Antecedents to forgiveness are classified by …

People's beliefs about their personality, or how they typically think, feel, and behave,
correspond somewhat to objective accuracy criteria. Yet recent research has highlighted the …