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- May 31, 2016
- Article
Memories of Unethical Actions Become Obfuscated over Time
By: Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
Despite our optimistic belief that we would behave honestly when facing the temptation to act unethically, we often cross ethical boundaries. This paper explores one possibility for why people engage in unethical behavior over time by suggesting that memory for their... View Details
Kouchaki, Maryam, and Francesca Gino. "Memories of Unethical Actions Become Obfuscated over Time." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 22 (May 31, 2016).
- Jan 2007 - 2007
- Conference Presentation
On the Goal-dependency of Unconscious Thought
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking
Bos, Maarten W., and Ap Dijksterhuis. "On the Goal-dependency of Unconscious Thought." Paper presented at the 8th Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN, January 2007.
- Feb 2008 - 2008
- Conference Presentation
Food for (unconscious) thought?
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking
Bos, Maarten W., Ap Dijksterhuis, and Rick B. Van Baaren. "Food for (unconscious) thought?" Paper presented at the 9th Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, February 2008.
- Jan 2010 - 2010
- Conference Presentation
Unconscious Thought Excels when Challenged: Unconscious Thought Does Not Choke under Pressure
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking
Bos, Maarten W., Ap Dijksterhuis, and Rick B. Van Baaren. "Unconscious Thought Excels when Challenged: Unconscious Thought Does Not Choke under Pressure." Paper presented at the 11th Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, January 2010.
- Article
On the Goal-dependency of Unconscious Thought
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking
Bos, Maarten W., Ap Dijksterhuis, and Rick B. Van Baaren. "On the Goal-dependency of Unconscious Thought." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44, no. 4 (July 2008): 1114–1120.
- 27 Apr 2007
- Conference Presentation
Frameworks for Thinking about Modularity, Industry Architecture, and Evolution
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Probabilities as Similarity-Weighted Frequencies in Presence of Irrelevant Observations
By: Jacob Dov Leshno
A decision maker is asked to express her beliefs by assigning probabilities to certain possible states. We focus on the relationship between her database and her beliefs. BGSS\cite{BGSS} show that if beliefs given a union of two databases are a convex combination of... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Channeled Attention and Stable Errors
By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
We develop a framework for assessing when somebody will eventually notice that she has
a misspecified model of the world, premised on the idea that she neglects information that
she deems—through the lens of her misconceptions—to be irrelevant. In doing so, we... View Details
Gagnon-Bartsch, Tristan, Matthew Rabin, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Channeled Attention and Stable Errors." Working Paper, August 2023. (Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics.)
- Feb 2009 - 2009
- Conference Presentation
Complexity and Unconscious Thought: To Go Where Conscious Thought Has Not Gone Before
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking
Bos, Maarten W., Ap Dijksterhuis, and Rick B. Van Baaren. "Complexity and Unconscious Thought: To Go Where Conscious Thought Has Not Gone Before." Paper presented at the 10th Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, February 2009.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Imagining the Future: Memory, Simulation and Beliefs
By: Pedro Bordalo, Giovanni Burro, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
How do people form beliefs about novel risks, with which they have little or no experience? Motivated by survey data on beliefs about Covid we collected in 2020, we build a model based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event,... View Details
Bordalo, Pedro, Giovanni Burro, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer. "Imagining the Future: Memory, Simulation and Beliefs." Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online June 27, 2024.)
- June 15, 2008
- Article
Think First, Bail Out Later
By: Robert C. Pozen
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking
Pozen, Robert C. "Think First, Bail Out Later." New York Times (June 15, 2008).
- 2005
- Chapter
Living and Thinking about It: Two Perspectives on Life
By: Daniel Kahneman and Jason Riis
- 2019
- Chapter
The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process
BOOK ABSTRACT: The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M. "The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process." Chap. 2 in The Creativity Reader, edited by Vlad P. Glăveanu. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
- Module Note
The Sweet Hereafter Summary: Reasoning from Personal Perspective
By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the sixth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
Sucher, Sandra J. "The Sweet Hereafter Summary: Reasoning from Personal Perspective." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-070, February 2007. (Revised March 2007.)
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
spurious face-like pattern in a rock than miss a predator," the researchers write in their paper "Multivoxel Patterns in Face-Sensitive Temporal Regions Reveal an Encoding Schema Based on Detecting Life in a Face," forthcoming in the journal View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the past few years, or the fantasy that the market for derivatives could somehow regulate itself—the consequences of all we are dealing with this very day. Denial is not merely being wrong. Everybody makes mistakes. Denial is falling into a View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
When Do Individuals Give Up Agency? The Role of Decision Avoidance
By: Holly Dykstra, Christine L. Exley and Muriel Niederle
A common policy problem is that individuals reject recommended options and insist on making their own choices. Via a large-scale experiment, we document and investigate what factors contribute to this preference for agency. Our main results show that individuals’... View Details
Dykstra, Holly, Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle. "When Do Individuals Give Up Agency? The Role of Decision Avoidance." Working Paper, October 2022.
- 01 Apr 1995
- Conference Presentation
Effects of Planning on Problem-Solving Creativity
By: D. Whitney, J. Ruscio, Teresa M. Amabile and M. Castle