It is often said that there are two types of psychological processes: one that is intentional,
controllable, conscious, and inefficient, and another that is unintentional, uncontrollable …

Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to processing
mechanisms of low computational expense. Such a tendency leads to suboptimal outcomes …

Why do people believe blatantly inaccurate news headlines (“fake news”)? Do we use our
reasoning abilities to convince ourselves that statements that align with our ideology are …

Strategic interactions arise in all domains of life. This form of competition often plays out in
dynamically changing environments. The strategies employed in a population may alter the …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

Moralistic punishment can confer reputation benefits by signaling trustworthiness to
observers. However, why do people punish even when nobody is watching? We argue that …

We present a large exploratory study (N= 15,001) investigating the relationship between
cognitive reflection and political affiliation, ideology, and voting in the 2016 Presidential …

Social decision making involves balancing conflicts between selfishness and pro-sociality.
The cognitive processes underlying such decisions are not well understood, with some …

Are impulsive behaviors an adaptive response to living in harsh or unpredictable
environments? Formal models help address this question by providing cost–benefit …

Intelligence tests are often treated as if they encompassed all cognitive abilities. Our goal in
this chapter is to challenge this assumption by showing that an important class of cognitive …