When individuals experience empathy, they often seek to bolster others' well-being. But
what do empathizers want others to feel? Though psychologists have studied empathy and …

Almost everyone struggles to act in their individual and collective best interests, particularly
when doing so requires forgoing a more immediately enjoyable alternative. Other than …

This research draws on protection motivation theory, temporal construal theory, and self‐
determination theory to understand consumption practices during a pandemic crisis by …

People are capable of thinking about the future, the past, remote locations, another person's
perspective, and counterfactual alternatives. Without denying the uniqueness of each …

Many people fail to save what they will need for retirement. Research on excessive
discounting of the future suggests that removing the lure of immediate rewards by …

Perceiving others' minds is a crucial component of social life. People do not, however,
always ascribe minds to other people, and sometimes ascribe minds to non-people (eg God …

In its widesr possible sense... a man's Self is the sum toral of all that he can call his, not only
his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his …

Conflicts between immediately rewarding activities and more enduringly valued goals
abound in the lives of school-age children. Such conflicts call upon children to exercise self …

With life expectancy dramatically increasing throughout much of the world, people have to
make choices with a longer future in mind than they ever had to before. Yet, many indicators …

Some people find it more difficult to delay rewards than others. In three experiments, we
tested a “future self-continuity” hypothesis that individual differences in the perception of …