Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefsNicholas Epley
Booth School of Business, 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:21533-8. 2009
..Believers commonly use inferences about God's beliefs as a moral compass, but that compass appears especially dependent on one's own existing beliefs...
Reciprocity is not give and take: asymmetric reciprocity to positive and negative actsBoaz Keysar
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 5848 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 19:1280-6. 2008
..Reciprocity appears to operate on an exchange rate that assigns value to the meaning of events, in a fashion that encourages prosocial exchanges...
- Self-centered social exchange: differential use of costs versus benefits in prosocial reciprocity
Yan Zhang
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:796-810. 2009
..This research identifies 1 challenge to maintaining a sense of equity in social relations and predicts when people are likely to feel fairly versus unfairly valued in their relationships...
- Creating social connection through inferential reproduction: loneliness and perceived agency in gadgets, gods, and greyhounds
Nicholas Epley
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 19:114-20. 2008
..These results have important implications not only for understanding when people are likely to treat nonhuman agents as humanlike (anthropomorphism), but also for understanding when people treat human agents as nonhuman (dehumanization)...
- In the mood to get over yourself: mood affects theory-of-mind use
Benjamin A Converse
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Emotion 8:725-30. 2008
..These results provide both theoretical insight into the psychological mechanisms that govern theory of mind as well as practical insight into a common source of variability in its use...
On seeing human: a three-factor theory of anthropomorphismNicholas Epley
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Rev 114:864-86. 2007
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- The intentional mind and the hot hand: Perceiving intentions makes streaks seem likely to continue
Eugene M Caruso
The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Cognition 116:149-53. 2010
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- Mirror, mirror on the wall: enhancement in self-recognition
Nicholas Epley
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:1159-70. 2008
..Such enhancement was correlated with implicit measures of self-worth but not with explicit measures, consistent with this variety of enhancement being a relatively automatic rather than deliberative process...
- When perspective taking increases taking: reactive egoism in social interaction
Nicholas Epley
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:872-89. 2006
..This reactive egoism is attenuated in cooperative contexts. Discussion focuses on the implications of reactive egoism in social interaction and on strategies for alleviating its potentially deleterious effects...
- The mixed blessings of self-knowledge in behavioral prediction: enhanced discrimination but exacerbated bias
Nicholas Epley
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:641-55. 2006
..Discussion addresses the costs and benefits of self-knowledge in behavioral prediction and the broader implications of measuring judgmental accuracy of judgment in terms of bias versus discrimination...
