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Kasper J, Gilovich T
J Exp Psychol Gen . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39869697
Recent analyses of social media activity indicate that outgroup animosity drives user engagement more than ingroup favoritism, with content that derogates the outgroup tending to generate more viral responses online....
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Tepper S, Gilovich T
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2024 Oct; PMID: 39404822
The widely documented "outgroup homogeneity effect" refers to people's tendency to view members of groups to which they do not belong (outgroups) as more similar to one another than members...
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Richardson J, Gilovich T
R Soc Open Sci . 2023 Jun; 10(6):221574. PMID: 37351498
Most people recognize that mistaken actions generally sting more than equally mistaken and consequential failures to act (Gleicher 1990 , 284-295 (doi:10.1177/0146167290162009); Kruger 2005 , 725-735 (doi:10.1037/0022-3514.88.5.725); Landman 1987 ,...
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Walker J, Tepper S, Gilovich T
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2021 Oct; 118(43). PMID: 34663722
Despite the ever-growing economic gap between the very wealthy and the rest of the population, support for redistributive policies tends to be low. This research tested whether people's tolerance of...
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Rosenfeld D, Balcetis E, Bastian B, Berkman E, Bosson J, Brannon T, et al.
Perspect Psychol Sci . 2021 Oct; 17(2):311-333. PMID: 34597198
The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can use to investigate them. In this article,...
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Walker J, Gilovich T
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2020 Aug; 120(3):559-575. PMID: 32790471
We present evidence in 9 studies ( = 2,625) for the Streaking Star Effect-people's greater desire to see runs of successful performance by individuals continue more than identical runs of...
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Walker J, Risen J, Gilovich T, Thaler R
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2018 Jan; 115(3):363-378. PMID: 29337583
We present evidence of sudden-death aversion (SDA)-the tendency to avoid "fast" strategies that provide a greater chance of success, but include the possibility of immediate defeat, in favor of "slow"...
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Deri S, Davidai S, Gilovich T
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2017 Dec; 113(6):858-877. PMID: 29189037
Although decades of research show that people tend to see themselves in the best possible light, we present evidence that people have a surprisingly grim outlook on their social lives....
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Davidai S, Gilovich T
Emotion . 2017 May; 18(3):439-452. PMID: 28493750
Research on the structural features of people's most enduring regrets has focused on whether they result from having acted or having failed to act. Here we focus on a different...
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Davidai S, Gilovich T
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2016 Nov; 111(6):835-851. PMID: 27869473
Seven studies provide evidence of an availability bias in people's assessments of the benefits they've enjoyed and the barriers they've faced. Barriers and hindrances command attention because they have to...