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Perspective taking as egocentric anchoring and adjustmentNicholas Epley
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:327-39. 2004..Finally, adjustments tend to be insufficient, in part, because people stop adjusting once a plausible estimate is reached (Study 5)...- Putting adjustment back in the anchoring and adjustment heuristic: differential processing of self-generated and experimenter-provided anchorsN Epley
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 12:391-6. 2001..These results suggest it is time to reintroduce anchoring and adjustment as an explanation for some judgments under uncertainty... - Empathy neglect: reconciling the spotlight effect and the correspondence biasNicholas Epley
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:300-12. 2002.... - Are adjustments insufficient?Nicholas Epley
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:447-60. 2004.... 
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...- Do others judge us as harshly as we think? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, and mishapsK Savitsky
Department of Psychology, Bronfman Science Center, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 81:44-56. 2001..Discussion focuses on additional mechanisms that may contribute to overly pessimistic expectations as well as the role of such expectations in producing unnecessary social anxiety... - Causes and consequences of mind perceptionAdam Waytz
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Northwest Science Building Ste 290, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 14:383-8. 2010..Ascribing mind confers an entity moral rights and also makes its actions meaningful. Understanding the causes and consequences of mind perception can explain when this most social of cognitive skills will be used, and why it matters... - Explanations versus applications: the explanatory power of valuable beliefsJesse Preston
Harvard University, USA
Psychol Sci 16:826-32. 2005..Discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for people's resistance to explaining their own beliefs, for the perceived value of science and religion, and for culture wars between people holding opposing beliefs... - Making sense by making sentient: effectance motivation increases anthropomorphismAdam Waytz
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 99:410-35. 2010..Anthropomorphizing nonhuman agents seems to satisfy the basic motivation to make sense of an otherwise uncertain environment... - The costs and benefits of undoing egocentric responsibility assessments in groupsEugene Caruso
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:857-71. 2006..Some members who look beyond their own perspective may not like what they see... - Knowing too much: using private knowledge to predict how one is viewed by othersJohn R Chambers
Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Psychol Sci 19:542-8. 2008..This tendency can help explain why people's beliefs about how they are judged by others often diverge from how they are actually judged... - Feeling "holier than thou": are self-serving assessments produced by errors in self- or social prediction?N Epley
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 7601, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 79:861-75. 2000.... - When perspective taking increases taking: reactive egoism in social interactionNicholas 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 biasNicholas 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... - Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoningAdam L Alter
Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 136:569-76. 2007..Metacognitive experiences of difficulty or disfluency appear to serve as an alarm that activates analytic forms of reasoning that assess and sometimes correct the output of more intuitive forms of reasoning... - Creating social connection through inferential reproduction: loneliness and perceived agency in gadgets, gods, and greyhoundsNicholas 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)... - The anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic: why the adjustments are insufficientNicholas Epley
University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 17:311-8. 2006.... - Egocentrism over e-mail: can we communicate as well as we think?Justin Kruger
New York University, Leonard N Stern School of Business, NY 10012, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:925-36. 2005..Because e-mail communicators "hear" a statement differently depending on whether they intend to be, say, sarcastic or funny, it can be difficult to appreciate that their electronic audience may not...