The predominant normative justification for research on economic voting has been its essential role in shaping democratic accountability. A systematic examination of this literature reveals, however, that economic voting is highly contingent on two critical moderating factors: voters themselves...

This chapter argues for a broader consideration of the effects of emotion on decisions, called emotion-constructed decision making. Unlike the standard model, which views emotion as simply one input into decisions, the model advanced in this paper suggests that emotions influences decisions at...

Notes that the question of materialism's adequacy as a solution to the mind-body problem is important in psychology as fields supported by eliminative materialism (e.g. neuropsychology and sociobiology) aim to cannibalize psychology (E. O. Wilson, 1999). A common argument for adopting a...

Professor Martha C. Nussbaum is an accomplished scholar in an impressive variety of fields. Drawing on her diverse academic backgrounds, Nussbaum has written extensively about emotions and their importance for law from the perspective of her primary specialty, philosophy. Her book Hiding from...

This paper examines the relationship between labor market policies (dismissal protection and unemployment benefits) and workers' willingness to be flexible (e.g., accept lower pay or learn new skills) in order to remain gainfully employed. Drawing on the policy feedback literature, we argue that...

Does economic inequality diminish the capacity of democracies to extract voluntary sacrifice? And does inequality undermine citizen's willingness to do their civic duty when the state is under threat? We address these questions by linking income inequality with people's willingness to fight for...

The act/omission distinction is likely to lead to biases and be used as a moral heuristic. However, it is frequently difficult to determine whether this act-omission distinction is responsible for a judgment outside the lab. Furthermore, more encompassing theories of omission bias are needed to...

Prior research on autobiographical memory revealed that students typically report more memories from semester boundaries than from other times. Explanations for these calendar effects were examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, temporal cues were eliminated from the memory cueing task,...