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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 632-654, March 2025.ABSTRACT Existing research examines the relationship between personal life shocks and financial well‐being primarily through the lens of objective markers of the individual's financial situation (e.g., liquidity). Little attention has been paid to the relative roles of these objective markers and more intuitive or affect‐based factors in how an ...
Jordan Bell +2 more
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The Universal Optimism of the Self-Evidencing Mind
EntropyKarl Friston’s free-energy principle casts agents as self-evidencing through active inference. This implies that decision-making, planning and information-seeking are, in a generic sense, ‘wishful’.
Elizabeth L. Fisher, Jakob Hohwy
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How cult leader Charles Manson was able to manipulate his ‘family’ to commit murder [PDF]
, 2017 On the occasion of Charles Manson's death, this blog analysed the coercive control exerted by Manson on his followers which resulted in them committing numerous murders upon his instructions but without him being present when they occurred.
Dubrow-Marshall, LJ, Dubrow-Marshall, R
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Decoding Emotional Signatures of Ethical Ads: An Analysis of Actor‐Viewer Synchrony
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether ethical advertisements differ from conventional ads in their on‐screen emotional signatures and whether those signatures transfer to actor‐viewer synchrony. Study 1 analyses 138 professionally produced YouTube ads using Automated Facial Expression Recognition (AFER) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to quantify actor ...
Vik Naidoo, Nicolas Hamelin
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Who, me? Optimism bias about US teenagers' ability to quit vaping. [PDF]
Addiction, 2021 Strombotne K, Sindelar J, Buckell J.
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In many settings, human beings are boundedly rational. A distinctive and insufficiently explored legal response to bounded rationality is to attempt to "debias through law," by steering people in more rational directions.
Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls
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National Identity Meaning and Attitudes Toward War, Peace, and the Future of Ukraine
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The link between attitudes and social identity is complex, influencing perceptions, motivations, and actions. Social psychological research mainly focused on the role of attitude in identity formation, particularly in the contexts of social movements and collective action.
Karina V. Korostelina +6 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how three subtypes of narcissism—communal, antagonistic, and collective—relate to sustainability team members' willingness to misreport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Using survey‐based online experiments with experienced professionals from the United States and United Kingdom, we assess whether narcissistic traits predict
Eric N. Johnson, Matthias Sohn
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Can earnings forecasts be improved by taking into account the forecast bias? [PDF]
The recent period has highlighted a well-known phenomenon, namely the existence of a positive bias in experts' anticipations. Literature on this subject underlines optimism in the financial analyst community.
François DOSSOU +2 more
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What nudges will matter? An empirical study of female joblessness [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of this empirical study is to use an interdisciplinary approach across labour economics, behavioural economics and social economics to explain female labour market statuses, in particular joblessness choices and conditions.
Cagliesi, Gabriella, Hawkes, Denise
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