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)

• Free Will academic readings
• Free Will popular media readings
• Choice readings
• Ethics and Morality readings
• Beliefs readings
• Innovative methodology readings
• Ego depletion crisis readings
• Biases readings
• Issues with research readings
• Methods readings
• Experimental philosophy readings
• Other readings

• 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)

• 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)