Interesting Readings

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.

Five Causes of Belief in God - Psychology Today (non academic summary)

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

Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief Will M. Gervais Ara Norenzayan - Science

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

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 Embodied Situation of our Cognitions

Adam & Galinsky 2012 JESP Enclothed Cognition

See more in Directions for future research

A field spotter's guide to embodied cognition

Slepian, M.L., Masicampo, E.J., Toosi, N.R., & Ambady, N. (in press). The physical burdens of secrecy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Slepian, M.L., Weisbuch, M., Rutchick, A.M., Newman, L.S., & Ambady, N. (2010). Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 696-700.

The Physical Burdens of Secrecy (general description)

Embodied Metaphors and Creative “Acts”

Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life Implications for Clinical Practice

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