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Target and observer differences in the acceptance of questionable apologiesJane L Risen
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:418-33. 2007..Study 5 suggests that social scripts constrain the responses of targets more than those of observers...
Another look at why people are reluctant to exchange lottery ticketsJane L Risen
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:12-22. 2007..The authors provide evidence that this effect occurs because the act of imagining an exchanged ticket winning the lottery increases the belief that such an event is likely to occur...
One-shot illusory correlations and stereotype formationJane L Risen
Cornell University, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:1492-502. 2007..The authors contend that one-shot illusory correlations arise because unusual pairings of behaviors and groups uniquely prompt people to entertain group membership as an explanation of the unusual behavior...
Looking forward to looking backward: the misprediction of regretDaniel T Gilbert
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 15:346-50. 2004..These results suggest that people are less susceptible to regret than they imagine, and that decision makers who pay to avoid future regrets may be buying emotional insurance that they do not actually need...
