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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....- 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... 
Mirror, mirror on the wall: enhancement in self-recognitionNicholas 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...- 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... - The anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic: why the adjustments are insufficientNicholas Epley
University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 17:311-8. 2006.... - 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)... - Self-centered social exchange: differential use of costs versus benefits in prosocial reciprocityYan 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... - 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... 
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...- In the mood to get over yourself: mood affects theory-of-mind useBenjamin 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... - The intentional mind and the hot hand: Perceiving intentions makes streaks seem likely to continueEugene M Caruso
The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Cognition 116:149-53. 2010.... - 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... - 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... - 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)... - Are adjustments insufficient?Nicholas Epley
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:447-60. 2004.... - 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.... - 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... - 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...