Interesting Readings

Readings by Prasad

Impact:

• What makes research 'interesting'? - read “Six Guidelines for Interesting Research” (Gray & Wegner, 2013, PPS)
• Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact (Science, 2013)

Reviews:

• Overview by Schooler - What Science Tells Us about Free Will
• Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will (Nature reviews, Haggard, 2008)
• Free will debates: Simple experiments are not so simple (Klemm, Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 2010)
• Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates
• Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past, Seligman etal, 2013 PPS

Empirical articles - the belief in free will:

• How Thoughts Give Rise to Action - Conscious Motor Intention Increases the Excitability of Target-Specific Motor Circuits (PLOSOne, 2014) | Reviewed here
• Predicting free choices for abstract intentions, PNAS 2013
• Vohs, K. D., & Schooler, J. W. (2008). The value of believing in free will: Encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating. Psychological Science, 19, 49-54.
• Whatever Is Willed Will Be A Temporal Asymmetry in Attributions to Will (Helzer & Gilovich, 2012, PSPB)
• Inducing Disbelief in Free Will Alters Brain Correlates of Preconscious Motor Preparation: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not (Rigoni, Kühn, Sartori, and Brass, PsycSci, 2011)
• On the Foundations of Beliefs in Free Will : Intentional Binding and Unconscious Priming in Self-Agency (Aarts and van den Bos, PsycSci, 2011)
• More dead than dead: Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state (Gray, Knickman and Wegner, 2011 ; Cognition).
• It Was Meant to Happen: Explaining Cultural Variations in Fate Attributions (Norenzayan & Lee, 2010, JPSP)
• Predictable or Not? Individuals’ Risk Decisions Do Not Necessarily Predict Their Next Ones (Ellick Wong and Cheung, 2013, PLOSone)
• Loss of Control Increases Belief in Precognition and Belief in Precognition Increases Control (PLOSOne, 2013)
• Unconscious decisions and free will (Alfred Mele, 2013, PhiloPsyc)
• Staying the Course The Option of Doing Nothing and Its Impact on Postchoice Persistence (Pyscsci, 2014)
• Free Will and Punishment : A Mechanistic View of Human Nature Reduces Retribution (Shariff et al. 2014, PyscSci)
• Free to punish: A motivated account of free will belief (JPSP, 2014)[Covered on The Surprising Link Between Homicide Rates and…Belief in Free Will (Mother Jones)]

Link to responsibility:

• The Triangle Model of Responsibility (PsycReview, 1994)

Links to performance:

• Exposure to Scientific Theories Affects Women's Math Performance (Science, 2006)

Fate:

• Do Difficult Decisions Motivate Belief in Fate? A Test in the Context of the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election (PsycSci, 2014)

Self control:

• Creeping Moralism There is no one-to-one relationship between self-control and morality.(Psychology Today , 2016) about this paper - Role of self-control failure in immoral and unethical actions (Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015)

• Great intro video - Free Will - Waking Life
• Does Contemporary Neuroscience Support or Challenge the Reality of Free Will? (Eddy Nahmias)
• “Do You Really Have Free Will? Of course. Here’s how it evolved” Roy Baumeister on popular media Slate
• Does Belief in Free Will Make Us Better People (Schooler blog post)
• BBC - Does non-belief in free will make us better or worse? (popular media)
• Reflections on FREE WILL A Review by Daniel C. Dennett
• Free Will 101: Part One
• Free will without metaphysics - Inmind blog
• What Happens to a Society That Does Not Believe in Free Will? (Scientific American, Shariff & Vohs, 2014)
• Why the Free Will Debate Never Ends (Philosopher's magazine, 2015)

• Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? AMeta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload (JCR, 2010, reviewed in “More Is More: Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth”)
• Social Defaults: Observed Choices Become Choice Defaults (JCR, 2014)

• Game Theory and Morality (book chapter, Hoffman)
• Piff etal (2012, PNAS) Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
• Good Lamps Are the Best Police: Darkness Increases Dishonesty and Self-Interested Behavior
• Is It Light or Dark? Recalling Moral Behavior Changes Perception of Brightness
• The abundance effect: Unethical behavior in the presence of wealth
• Shalvi S, Eldar O, & Bereby-Meyer Y (March 2012): Honesty requires time (and lack of justifications), Psychological Science.
• Fast Thought Speed Induces Risk Taking, Psychological Science, 2012
• The Counterfeit Self : The Deceptive Costs of Faking It
• Dan Ariely's new book - A tissue of lies / Why So Many of Us Lie, Cheat, and Steal
• 6 Weird Things That Influence Bad Behaviour More Than Laws
• Reminders of physical cleanliness influence moral and political attitudes, PsycPsi 2011
• Moral Machines about Google's driver-less car, The Newyorker, with references to Colin Allen's work.
• Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism
• Are moral philosophers better people (hint - no) (NPR)
• Bad to the bone: facial structure predicts unethical behaviour (ProceedingsRoyalSocietyBiology, 2011)
• Social Class and (Un)Ethical Behavior A Framework, With Evidence From a Large Population Sample (Trautmann, van de Kuilen, & Zeckhauser, 2013, PPS)
• The cheater’s high: The unexpected affective benefits of unethical behavior. (JPSP, 2013)
• A non academic review of academic findings - “Why Can't We All Just Get Along? The Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality”
• Botsourcing and Outsourcing: Robot, British, Chinese, and German Workers Are for Thinking—Not Feeling—Jobs (Watyz & Norton, in press2013, Emotion)
• A Lack of Material Resources Causes Harsher Moral Judgments (psycsci, 2004, supp)
• The Rejection of Moral Rebels: Resenting Those Who Do the Right Thing (Monin et al., 2008, JPSP)
• Religion and morality (PsycBull, 2015)
• Hormones may be partners in crime for unethical behavior (JEP-G summarized on Cnet)
• The inhibitory spillover effect: Controlling the bladder makes better liars (Consciousness and Cognition, 2015)
• Immorality East and West : Are Immoral Behaviors Especially Harmful, or Especially Uncivilized? (PSPB, 2015)

How/why/when we cheat:

• Cheating at the End to Avoid Regret (Effron, 2015, JPSP)
• Are liars ethical? On the tension between benevolence and honesty (JESP, 2014)
• “I cheated, but only a little”: Partial confessions to unethical behavior Peer, Acquist Shalvi JPSP Feb 2014
• Underestimating Our Influence Over Others’ Unethical Behavior and Decisions (PSPB, 2013) | Review on NYT
• Winning a competition predicts dishonest behavior (PNAS, 2016) (explained here)

Attributions :

• Moral Typecasting: Divergent Perceptions of Moral Agents and Moral Patients (Gray & Wegner, 2009, JPSP)
• The rise of moral cognition (Cognition, 2014)
• Group-based discrimination in judgments of moral purity-related behaviors: Experimental and archival evidence. (JEPG,2015)

Accepting responsibility:

• Who Accepts Responsibility for Their Transgressions? (PSPB, 2014)

Norms:

• “Who Doesn’t?”—The Impact of Descriptive Norms on Corruption (PlosOne, 2015)
• Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry (Nature, 2014)

Organizatoinal:

• MORAL SYMBOLS: A NECKLACE OF GARLIC AGAINST UNETHICAL REQUESTS (AMJ, 2016)
• Anxious, Threatened, and Also Unethical: How Anxiety MakesIndividuals Feel Threatened and Commit Unethical Acts (JAP, 2015)

Popular media:

• The uncensored truth about morality (The psychologist UK, 2015)

Other:

• Hiding personal information reveals the worst (PNAS, 2016)
  • reviewed on LATimes - On job applications and dating websites, it's better to reveal than to hide

• Explanations Versus Applications : The Explanatory Power of Valuable Beliefs (Preston & Epley, 2005, psycsci)
• The Ethics of Belief, Cognition, and Climate Change Pseudoskepticism: Implications for Public Discourse (Topics in Cognitive Science, 2016)

• Is it Time for a Personal Growth Mindset? (Scientific American)

• Adults Are Intuitive Mind-Body Dualists (JEP-G, 2014)
• Mind vs. Body? Dualist Beliefs Linked with Less Concern for Healthy Behavior (PsycSci, 2012)

• Five Causes of Belief in God - Psychology Today (non academic summary)
• The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations (PSPR, 2013)
• Activating Christian religious concepts increases intolerance of ambiguity and judgment certainty (JESP, 2013)
• Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs (PNAS)
• Death anxiety increases atheists’ unconscious belief in God
• Shenhav, A., Rand, D. G., & Greene, J. D. (2011, September 19). Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events (Dijksterhuis etal, 2008, JESP)
• Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief Will M. Gervais Ara Norenzayan - Science
• Different Effects of Religion and God on Prosociality With the Ingroup and Outgroup (2013, PSPB)
• The Cultural evolution of Prosocial Religions (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014)
• Without God, Everything Is Permitted? The Reciprocal Influence of Religious and Meta-Ethical Beliefs (JESP, 2015)
• How Children and Adults Represent God's Mind (Cognitive Science, 2015)
• Anticipating Divine Protection? Reminders of God Can Increase Nonmoral Risk Taking (PsycSci, 2015)
• Thinking from God’s perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever (PNAS, 2015)
• Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality (Nature, 2016)

• Divergent Effects of Beliefs in Heaven and Hell on National Crime Rates - PLoS One (press release)
• Neuroscience and the soul: Competing explanations for the human experience (Cognition, 2013)
• Beliefs in moral luck: When and why blame hinges on luck (British Journal of Psychology, 2014)
• Reliance on Luck - Identifying Which Achievement Goals Elicit Superstitious Behavior (PSPB, 2015) (covered here)
• It’s the End of the World and I Feel Fine Soul Belief and Perceptions of End-of-the-World Scenarios (PSPB, 2016)
• Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics: a large-scale testof the cognitive differences hypothesis (Mem Cog, 2016) (reviewed in BPS)

• Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion? (Boston Review, popular media)
• Professional Physical Scientists Display Tenacious Teleological Tendencies: Purpose-Based Reasoning as a Cognitive Default (JEP-G, 2013, Supplement).
• No Faith in Science - Why the Higgs boson is not like a sea of milk that sustains the gods (Slate, 2013)
• Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety (JESP, 2013forthcoming)
• Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice (JPSP, 2011)
• Override the controversy: Analytic thinking predicts endorsement of evolution (Cognition, 2015)

• Experiencing Awe Increases Belief in the Supernatural review / Article (PsycSci, 2013inpress)
• Fighting the Good Fight The Relationship Between Belief in Evil and Support for Violent Policies (PSPB, 2013)
• Moral Vitalism Seeing Good and Evil as Real, Agentic Forces Brock Bastian (PSPB, 2015)

• Windows to the soul: Children and adults see the eyes as the location of the self (Starmans & Bloom, 2012, Cognition).
• Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement (Psychological Science, 2015)
• 1050Long Ago It Was Meant to Be: The InterplayBetween Time, Construal, and Fate Beliefs (PSPB, 2006)
• The new mind control (Aeon, 2016) about tech companies manipulating minds

• Zhou, X. Vohs, K. D., & Baumeister, R. F. (2009). The symbolic power of money: Reminders of money alter social distress and physical pain. Psychological Science, 20, 700-706.
• Vohs, K. D., Mead, N. L., & Goode, M. R. (2006). The psychological consequences of money. Science, 314, 1154-1156.
• Money Priming - great little video by BBC
• Michael W. Kraus, Stéphane Côté, and Dacher Keltner - Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy 2010 Psyc Sci
• Seeing green: Mere exposure to money triggers a business decision frame and unethical outcomes (Kouchaki etal. 2013, OBHDP)
• How Money Worries Can Scramble Your Thinking (Science, 2013)
• Using abstract language signals power. Wakslak, Smith, & Han (JPSP, 2014)

• The meanings of life (Baumeister, Aeon Magazine, Sep2013)

• The price of your soul: How the brain decides whether to ‘sell out’ (very interesting approach to 'selling' your values, and to differentiate what is an important value or not (can be done with Free Will)?
• The Implications of Value Conflict How Disagreement on Values Affects Self-Involvement and Perceived Common Ground
• The Foreign-Language Effect Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases, reviewed on The Benefits of Being Bilingual (Wired Science)
• Why Men Need Women - Adam Grant (hint : giving)
• Do we become a different person when hitting the road? Personality development of sojourners (JPSP, 2013)

• Disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewarding - PNAS

• Creativity is More Than Thinking Outside the Box
• Leadership is associated with lower levels of stress (PNAS, 2012)

• Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (PNAS, 2012)
• People With Dark Personalities Tend to Create a Physically Attractive Veneer (SPPS, 2012)
• Though They May Be Unaware, Newlyweds Implicitly Know Whether Their Marriage Will Be Satisfying (Science, 2013)

• Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust
• How the Rich are Different from the Poor I: Choice
• Investing in Karma When Wanting Promotes Helping (PsycSci, 2012)
• Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online Social Networks, Self-Esteem, and Self-Control (Keith Wilcox & Andrew T. Stephen, JCR, 2012)
• Reading and doing arithmetic nonconsciously
• The temporal Doppler effect: When the future feels closer than the past (Psyc Science, 2013)
• After 2,500 Studies, It's Time to Declare Animal Sentience Proven (Op-Ed)
• Smile Intensity in Photographs Predicts Longevity (PsycSci, 2013), see review here.
• Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity (JAP, 2014 | suppl)
• A “Present” for the Future - The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery (Zhang et al., 2014, PsycSci)
• The distributional preferences of an elite (Fisman, Science, 2015)
• Inhibited from Bowling Alone (Ratner & Hamilton, 2015, JCR) / video

• Temporal Distance and Discrimination An Audit Study in Academia
• MTurk - Buhrmester, M. D., Kwang, T., & Gosling, S. D. (2011). Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: A new source of inexpensive, yet high-quality, data? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 3-5. (blog about the methods)
• I like IAT in general. Just heard of pencil-n-paper IAT, which is a clever twist to the whole thing.
• Flows of Research Manuscripts Among Scientific Journals Reveal Hidden Submission Patterns (Science, 2012), covered here.
• Selfless giving (Cognition, 2013)
• ‘Give’ Gives Way as Word Usage Reflects Shift in Values (covering a research published in psycsci)
• Hierarchical cultural values predict success and mortality in high-stakes teams (PNAS, 2015)
• Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze (PNAS, 2015)
• Who you are is where you are: Antecedents and consequences of locating the self in the brain or the heart (OBHDP, 2015)
• The Sound of Intellect Speech Reveals a Thoughtful Mind, Increasing a Job Candidate’s Appeal (Psychological Science, 2015)
• Group discussion improves lie detection (PNAS, 2015)
• Local Warming: Daily Temperature Change Influences Belief in Global Warming (Li, Johnson, & Zaval, 2015, PsycSci)
• Conservatives report, but liberalsdisplay, greater happiness (Science, 2015) | Supplementary

• A Series of Meta-Analytic Tests of the Depletion Effect: Self-Control does not Seem to Rely on a Limited Resource (JEP:G, EC Carter, LM Kofler, DE Forster, & ME McCullough, 2015)
• Direct reply to Kurzban - Is ego depletion too incredible? Evidence for the overestimation of the depletion effect (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Carter & McCullough, 2013)
• Ego depletion—Is it all in your head? Implicit theories about willpower affect self-regulation (Psychological science, V Job, CS Dweck, GM Walton, 2010)
• Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control (PNAS, Job, Walton, Bernecker, & Dweck, 2013)
• What is ego depletion? Toward a mechanistic revision of the resource model of self-control (Perspectives on Psychological Science, Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012)
• On conceptualizing self-control as more than the effortful inhibition of impulses (PSPR, Fujita 2011)
• Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control (JESP, Vohs, Baumeister, Schmeichel, et al., 2012)
• Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited (Trends in cognitive sciences, Inzlicht, Schmeichel, Macrae, , 2014)
• Implicit theories about willpower predict the activation of a rest goal following self-control exertion (JPSP, Job, Bernecker, Miketta, 2015)
• Publication bias and the limited strength model of self-control: has the evidence for ego depletion been overestimated? (Frontiers in psychology, Carter & McCullough, 2014)
• Bias-Correction Techniques Alone Cannot Determine Whether Ego Depletion is Different from Zero: Commentary on Carter, Kofler, Forster, & McCullough, 2015

• China: innovating more than copying
• 6 Ways to Get Me to Email You Back

• The Ascent of Man: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence for Blatant Dehumanization (JPSP, 2015)
• Neurodegeneration and Identity (PsycSci, 2015)

• Framing effects - How psychological framing affects economic market prices in the lab and field (PNAS, 2013)
• Secrecy heuristic - Travers, M. W., Van Boven., L, & Judd, C. J. (in press). The secrecy heuristic: Inferring quality from secrecy in foreign policy contexts. Political Psychology
• Inattentional blindness - The Invisible Gorilla Strikes Again Sustained Inattentional Blindness in Expert Observers (PsycSci, 2013)
• Overclaiming - When Knowledge Knows No Bounds Self-Perceived Expertise Predicts Claims of Impossible Knowledge (PyscSci, 2016)

• Psychology’s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness.
• Replication studies: Bad copy
• Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication
• Life after P-Hacking Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn @SPSP
• High Impact = High Statistical Standards? Not Necessarily So (PLOSOne)
• A Top 10 List of Psychology’s Big Questions, and the Answers
• Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank
• P-Curve: A Key to the File-Drawer JEP-G
• The famous debate - Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect (Bem 2011, JPSP) and the response - Why psychologists must change the way they analyze their data: The case of psi
• Just Post It The Lesson From Two Cases of Fabricated Data Detected by Statistics Alone (Psycsci, 2013)
• How to Cook up Your Own Social Priming Article (Rolf Zwaan's blog post)
• Psychology Disclosure project
• The Chrysalis Effect How Ugly Initial Results Metamorphosize Into Beautiful Articles (JOM, 2014)
• Publication and other reporting biases in cognitive sciences: detection, prevalence, and prevention (Trends in Cognitive Psychology, March 2014)
• People analyze dataset differently reaching different conclusions.
• Science Isn’t Broken It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for (538 science)
• An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values (Royal Society open science)
• The Prevalence of Statistical Reporting Errors in Psychology (1985-2013)
• Meta-analyses are no substitute for registered replications: a skeptical perspective on religious priming (Frontiers)
• 2 economists tried to replicate a bunch of published economic studies, and the results were disturbing (Business Insider, 2015)
• Questionable research practives revisited (SPPS, 2015)
• Research funding goes to rich clubs / Gender contributes to personal research funding success in The Netherlands (PNAS, 2015)
• Underreporting in Psychology Experiments Evidence From a Study Registry (SPPS, 2016)
• Benefits of Open and High-Powered Research Outweigh Costs (JPSP, 2016)
  • and this tool - True Scientific Discoveries: What Research Approach is Most Cost-Effective?
• Statistical & Methodological Consulting - center for open science
• Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors (Nature, 2016)
• Can you trust research? (in Hebrew, Haaretz, 2016)
• Are You Planning a 10-Study Article? You May Want to Read This First (replicability index, 2016)
• Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals (J R Soc Med , 2016)
• A Bayesian Perspective on the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (PLOSone, 2016)

Solutions / platforms:

• Curate Science

• Organizational sciences’ obsession with “that’s interesting!”, Consequences and an alternative
• Ruminations on How We Became a Mystery House and How We Might Get Out (Barley, JOM, 2016)

• Bodily maps of emotions (PNAS, 2013)

• Calculating and Reporting Effect Sizes to Facilitate Cumulative Science: A Practical Primer for t-tests and ANOVAs (Frontiers in Psychology, 2013)
• Increasing statistical power in psychological research without increasing sample size (blog post from the Open Science collaboration, Sean Mackinnon)
• Revised standards for statistical evidence (PNAS, 2013)
• Psychological Strategies for Winning a Geopolitical Forecasting Tournament (PsycSci, 2014) - competition in predicting future events
• Morality in everyday life (Science, 2014) - tracking everyday morality using mobile phones
• People search for meaning when they approach a new decade in chronological age (PNAS, 2014)
• Bosco, F. A., Aguinis, H., Singh, K., Field, J. G., & Pierce, C. A. (2014, October 13) Correlational Effect Size Benchmarks. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication.
• Direct and indirect punishment among strangers in the field (PNAS, 2014)
• Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks (Science, 2015)
• Using Nonnaive Participants Can Reduce Effect Sizes (PsycSci, 2015)
• I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How. (IO9 ; May, 2015)
• Using prediction markets to estimate thereproducibility of scientific research (PNAS, 2015)
• Three Guys Talking About Scales (Pysc your mind, 2015) - yes/no versus Likert
• Give p a chance: significance testing is misunderstood (the conversation, 2015)
• Confidence intervals? More like confusion intervals (psychometric society, 2015)
• What journalists get wrong about social science, according to 20 scientists (Vox, 2016)
• p=.20, what now? Adventures of the Good Ship DataPoint (Rolf Zwaan, 2015)
• Meta-analyses are no substitute for registered replications: a skeptical perspective on religious priming (Front. Psychol., 2015)
• A pre-registration primer (OSF presentation)
• Statistically controlling for confounding constructs is harder than you think Jacob WestfallTal Yarkoni

• The ‘Call for Participants’ platform connects researchers with participants so as to improve the efficiency and accuracy of research trials.