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Interesting Readings
Impact:
- What makes research 'interesting'? - read “Six Guidelines for Interesting Research” (Gray & Wegner, 2013, PPS)
- Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact (Science, 2013)
Free will
Free Will / Willpower - academic
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)
- Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past, Seligman etal, 2013 PPS
Empirical articles - the belief in free will:
- 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)
- Unconscious decisions and free will (Alfred Mele, 2013, PhiloPsyc)
- 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:
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)
Free Will / Willpower - popular media & opinion columns
- Great intro video - Free Will - Waking Life
- “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)
- 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)
Choice
Ethics / Morality
- Game Theory and Morality (book chapter, Hoffman)
- Dan Ariely's new book - A tissue of lies / Why So Many of Us Lie, Cheat, and Steal
- Moral Machines about Google's driver-less car, The Newyorker, with references to Colin Allen's work.
- 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)
- 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)
How/why/when we cheat:
- Cheating at the End to Avoid Regret (Effron, 2015, JPSP)
- “I cheated, but only a little”: Partial confessions to unethical behavior Peer, Acquist Shalvi JPSP Feb 2014
- 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)
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:
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
Belief in God / Religion / Soul / After life / Science
Beliefs in general
- 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)
Implicit theories
- Is it Time for a Personal Growth Mindset? (Scientific American)
Dualism
- Adults Are Intuitive Mind-Body Dualists (JEP-G, 2014)
Belief in God / religion
- Five Causes of Belief in God - Psychology Today (non academic summary)
- Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events (Dijksterhuis etal, 2008, JESP)
- The Cultural evolution of Prosocial Religions (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014)
- How Children and Adults Represent God's Mind (Cognitive Science, 2015)
Belief in supernatural / luck
- Beliefs in moral luck: When and why blame hinges on luck (British Journal of Psychology, 2014)
Belief in science / atheism
- Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion? (Boston Review, popular media)
- Scientific faith: Belief in science increases in the face of stress and existential anxiety (JESP, 2013forthcoming)
Belief in good and evil
- Experiencing Awe Increases Belief in the Supernatural review / Article (PsycSci, 2013inpress)
Other
- 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)
- The new mind control (Aeon, 2016) about tech companies manipulating minds
Money / Social class
- Money Priming - great little video by BBC
- 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)
Meaning in life
- The meanings of life (Baumeister, Aeon Magazine, Sep2013)
Personal/Cultural Values
- 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)?
- Why Men Need Women - Adam Grant (hint : giving)
Self disclosure
Leadership
- Leadership is associated with lower levels of stress (PNAS, 2012)
Gender / Relationships
Other
- 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)
- The temporal Doppler effect: When the future feels closer than the past (Psyc Science, 2013)
- 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
Innovative methodology
- 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)
- 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
What's going on with ego depletion?
- 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)
- 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)
General business readings
Mind perception
- Neurodegeneration and Identity (PsycSci, 2015)
Biases
- Framing effects - How psychological framing affects economic market prices in the lab and field (PNAS, 2013)
- 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)
Issues with research
- Life after P-Hacking Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn @SPSP
- 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
- How to Cook up Your Own Social Priming Article (Rolf Zwaan's blog post)
- Publication and other reporting biases in cognitive sciences: detection, prevalence, and prevention (Trends in Cognitive Psychology, March 2014)
- An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values (Royal Society open science)
- Questionable research practives revisited (SPPS, 2015)
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- 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)
Solutions / platforms:
Issues with management research
- Ruminations on How We Became a Mystery House and How We Might Get Out (Barley, JOM, 2016)
Affect
- Bodily maps of emotions (PNAS, 2013)
Methods
- 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
- 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.
- 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)
- 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)
- p=.20, what now? Adventures of the Good Ship DataPoint (Rolf Zwaan, 2015)
- A pre-registration primer (OSF presentation)
- Statistically controlling for confounding constructs is harder than you think Jacob WestfallTal Yarkoni