A5046859430- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Law in Society and Culture
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Legal principles and applications
Toronto Metropolitan University
2021-2024
University of Waterloo
2021-2024
The Keats heuristic suggests that people find esthetically pleasing expressions more accurate than mundane expressions. We test this notion with chiastic statements. Chiasmus is a stylistic phenomenon in which at least two linguistic constituents are repeated reverse order, conventionally represented by the formula A-B-B-A. Our study focuses on specific form of chiasmus known as antimetabole, reverse-repeated words (e.g., All for one and all; A = all, B one). In three out four experiments (N...
How well can social scientists predict societal change, and what processes underlie their predictions? To answer these questions, we ran two forecasting tournaments testing accuracy of predictions change in domains commonly studied the sciences: ideological preferences, political polarization, life satisfaction, sentiment on media, gender-career racial bias. Following provision historical trend data domain, submitted pre-registered monthly forecasts for a year (Tournament 1; N=86 teams/359...
While researchers have linked adult age differences in hindsight bias to shifts cognitive and motivational processes, the association between bias, emotion, aging remains relatively underexplored. We examined emotion younger older adults (N = 272) against backdrop of 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Participants predicted electoral college votes for two candidates before election were asked remember their predictions approximately three weeks later, after results had been finalized....
<p>Adult age differences in hindsight bias (HB) have been attributed to age-related changes cognitive and motivational processes. However, little is known about the effect of emotion on HB. Using a memory paradigm HB, with two three weeks between Time 1 2, we were interested studying whether emotional valence information can influence HB younger older adults. We tested this question context an emotionally charged real-world event -- 2020 U.S. Presidential Election (Study 1A) as well...
<p>Adult age differences in hindsight bias (HB) have been attributed to age-related changes cognitive and motivational processes. However, little is known about the effect of emotion on HB. Using a memory paradigm HB, with two three weeks between Time 1 2, we were interested studying whether emotional valence information can influence HB younger older adults. We tested this question context an emotionally charged real-world event -- 2020 U.S. Presidential Election (Study 1A) as well...
Hindsight bias – also known as the knew-it-all-along effect is a ubiquitous judgment error affecting decision makers. has been shown to vary across age groups and function of contextual factors, such maker's emotional state. Despite theoretical reasons why emotions might have stronger impact on hindsight in older than younger adults, differences for events remain relatively underexplored. We examined emotion adults (N = 272) against backdrop 2020 U.S. presidential election. Participants...
One of the markers human cognitive agency is capacity for moral cognition. Across a range societies, older adults are perceived as more than younger adults. Interestingly, research shows that compared to adults, likely endorse deontological (as opposed utilitarian) ethics. This age difference has been explained in terms decline and socioemotional shifts. In this paper, I consider Exploration-Exploitation (EE) model aging, well Relevance Realization (RR) framework, explaining decision-making...
Does the legal status of an action shape how morally wrong people perceive it to be? Across three experiments (N = 1,226), we find that participants judged actions be more when labelled as “illegal” opposed “not illegal.” Furthermore, demonstrate robustness this effect, revealing impact act legality on moral evaluations across manipulations agent intentionality and type law-making process. Notably, influence was not restricted judgments actions, but also guided perceptions others’ character....
The Keats heuristic suggests that people find aesthetically pleasing expressions more accurate than mundane expressions. We test this notion with chiastic statements. Chiasmus is a stylistic phenomenon in which at least two linguistic constituents are repeated reverse order, conventionally represented by the formula A-B-B-A. Our study focuses on specific form of chiasmus known as antimetabole, reverse-repeated words (e.g., “All for one and all;” A = all, B one). In 3 out 4 experiments (N...
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Wisdom has been a central theme in the philosophical inquiry of human experience for centuries, with earliest written teachings dating back to ancient Egyptian vizier, Ptahhotep 25-24 century BCE. The virtue wisdom attributed great deities various cultures and mythologies (e.g., Anahit Armenia, Athena Greece), quality humankind is encouraged embody millennia later. In more recent decades, psychological scientists have begun study concept wisdom, exploring characteristics wise person as well...
How do people reason in response to ambiguous messages shared by admirable individuals? Using behavioral markers and self-report questionnaires, two experiments (N = 571) we examined the influence of speakers’ admirability on meaning-seeking wise reasoning pseudo-profound bullshit. In both studies, statements that sounded superficially impressive but lacked intent communicate meaning generated meaning-seeking, only when delivered high speakers (e.g., Dalai Lama) as compared low Kim...