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Why Don’t Men Ever Stop to Ask for Directions? Gender, Social Influence, and Their Role in Technology Acceptance and Usage Behavior1
2000 Standout
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
2012 Standout
Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences
2007 StandoutNobel
User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
2003 Standout
Psychology and Economics
1997
Some perspectives on positive affect and self-regulation.
2000
Image theory: Principles, goals, and plans in decision making
1987
Distinguishing defensive pessimism from depression: Negative expectations and positive coping mechanisms
1990
A hot/cool-system analysis of delay of gratification: Dynamics of willpower.
1999 Standout
The impact of prenatal maternal stress and optimistic disposition on birth outcomes in medically high-risk women.
2000
Discriminant validity of well-being measures.
1996
Mood and the use of scripts: Does a happy mood really lead to mindlessness?
1996
Hedonic tone and activation level in the mood-creativity link: Toward a dual pathway to creativity model.
2008
A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description.
1995 Standout
The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.
2001 Standout
Irrational reactions to negative outcomes: Evidence for two conceptual systems.
1992
Power and the objectification of social targets.
2008 Standout
The cognitive neuroscience of creativity
2004
A meta-analysis of 25 years of mood-creativity research: Hedonic tone, activation, or regulatory focus?
2008 Standout
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
1988 Standout
Counterfactual thinking and ascriptions of cause and preventability.
1996
Explanation, imagination, and confidence in judgment.
1991
The dark side of self- and social perception: Black uniforms and aggression in professional sports.
1988
Ideal versus ought predilections for approach and avoidance distinct self-regulatory systems.
1994
Processing goals, task interest, and the mood-performance relationship: A mediational analysis.
1996
Private self-consciousness and the five-factor model of personality: Distinguishing rumination from reflection.
1999
Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate?
2000 Standout
Contingencies of self-worth.
2001
The influence of positive affect on the components of expectancy motivation.
2002
Feature binding and affect: Emotional modulation of visuo-motor integration
2006
How goal instrumentality shapes relationship evaluations.
2008
Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
2003 Standout
Risk as feelings.
2001 Standout
From Wishing to Intending: Differences in Salience of Positive versus Negative Consequences
1994
Defensive pessimism, optimism, and stimulating alternatives: Some ups and downs of prefactual and counterfactual thinking.
1996
A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition.
1999 Standout
Asymmetry of doubt in medical self-diagnosis: The ambiguity of "uncertain wellness."
1991
Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model.
1991 Standout
Sustained helping without obligation: Motivation, longevity of service, and perceived attitude change among AIDS volunteers.
1995
Frequency, Probability, and Prediction: Easy Solutions to Cognitive Illusions?
1999
Emotional convergence between people over time.
2003
Women's theories of menstruation and biases in recall of menstrual symptoms.
1989
When openness to experience and conscientiousness are related to creative behavior: An interactional approach.
2001
How Positive Affect Modulates Cognitive Control: Reduced Perseveration at the Cost of Increased Distractibility.
2004
The correspondence bias.
1995
The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?
2005 Standout
The self-reference effect in memory: A meta-analysis.
1997 Standout
Statistical Issues in the Study of Temporal Data: Daily Experiences
1991
Goals as Reference Points
1999
Appraising the threat of illness: A mental representational approach.
1988
Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing
2014 StandoutNobel
Intuition: A social cognitive neuroscience approach.
2000
A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.
1995 Standout
Mental contamination and mental correction: Unwanted influences on judgments and evaluations.
1994 Standout
Constructive and unconstructive repetitive thought.
2008 Standout
The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system.
2000 Standout
The positive psychology of negative thinking
2002
The motivational and emotional consequences of considering positive or negative possibilities for an upcoming event.
1992
The case for motivated reasoning.
1990 Standout
The relational self: An interpersonal social-cognitive theory.
2002
Why some are perceived as more confident and more insecure, more reckless and more cautious, more trusting and more suspicious, than others: Enriched and impoverished options in social judgment
1999
Self‐Regulation Processes and Health: The Importance of Optimism and Goal Adjustment
2006
Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgment
1989 StandoutScience
A 2 × 2 achievement goal framework.
2001 Standout
Beyond pleasure and pain.
1997 Standout
The precaution adoption process.
1988
Beyond attentional strategies: A cognitive-perceptual model of somatic interpretation.
1991
Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition.
2001 Standout
Influences of socioeconomic status, social network, and competence on subjective well-being in later life: A meta-analysis.
2000 Standout
Motivated recruitment of autobiographical memories.
1990
Shaping perceptions to motivate healthy behavior: The role of message framing.
1997 Standout
Differential Premises Arising from Differential Socialization of the Sexes: Some Conjectures
1983
Attribution bias: On the inconclusiveness of the cognition-motivation debate
1982
The impact of prenatal maternal stress and optimistic disposition on birth outcomes in medically high-risk women.
2000
Self–other judgments and perceived vulnerability to victimization.
1986
Considering the opposite: A corrective strategy for social judgment.
1984
Norm theory: Comparing reality to its alternatives.
1986 StandoutNobel
Fear, anger, and risk.
2001 Standout
Fuzzy‐trace theory and framing effects in choice: Gist extraction, truncation, and conversion
1991
Confirmation, disconfirmation, and information in hypothesis testing.
1987 Standout
Explaining the evidence: Tests of the Story Model for juror decision making.
1992 Standout
Counterfactual reasoning and accuracy in predicting personal events.
1985
On the Social Psychology of Agency Relationships: Lay Theories of Motivation Overemphasize Extrinsic Incentives
1999
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
2000 Standout
Self-guides and emotionally significant childhood memories: A study of retrieval efficiency and incidental negative emotional content.
1990
Initial Trust Formation in New Organizational Relationships
1998 Standout
Imagining Can Heighten or Lower the Perceived Likelihood of Contracting a Disease
1985
A Longitudinal Field Investigation of Gender Differences in Individual Technology Adoption Decision-Making Processes
2000
Relational schemas and the processing of social information.
1992
Accountability and judgment processes in a personality prediction task.
1987
Effects of optimism on psychological and physical well-being: Theoretical overview and empirical update
1992 Standout
On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments.
2002
Attitude prototypes as determinants of attitude–behavior consistency.
1984
Presentation and content: The use of base rates as a continuous variable.
1988
Predicting Hunger: The Effects of Appetite and Delay on Choice
1998
Control theory: A useful conceptual framework for personality–social, clinical, and health psychology.
1982 Standout
Sensitivity to varying gains and losses: The role of self- discrepancies and event framing.
1995
When necessity is the mother of invention: Mood and problem solving
2003
Controlling teaching strategies: Undermining children's self-determination and performance.
1990
The role of cognition in depression: A critical appraisal.
1983
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning.
1983
Confidence, uncertainty, and the use of information.
1988
Comparative efficiency of informal (subjective, impressionistic) and formal (mechanical, algorithmic) prediction procedures: The clinical–statistical controversy.
1996
The weighing of evidence and the determinants of confidence
1992
Who commits the base rate fallacy?
1983
Self-prediction: Exploring the parameters of accuracy.
1986
Notes on the Practical and Theoretical Consequences of Implicit Leadership Theories for the Future of Leadership Measurement
1986
Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states.
2001
Theory and research concerning social comparisons of personal attributes.
1989
Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.
1991 Standout
Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment.
1983 StandoutNobel
Categorization of Natural Objects
1981
Correlated symptoms and simulated medical classification.
1982
Motivated changes in the self-concept
1989
Stereotypes as energy-saving devices: A peek inside the cognitive toolbox.
1994
A cybernetic model of self-attention processes.
1979
Anchoring, efficacy, and action: The influence of judgmental heuristics on self-efficacy judgments and behavior.
1986
Ducking the collection of costly evidence: Motivated use of statistical heuristics
1991
Evidence for the Self as a Cognitive Prototype: The "False Alarms Effect"
1979
Subjective Well‐Being: The Convergence and Stability of Self‐Report and Non‐Self‐Report Measures
1993
Who is this "We"? Levels of collective identity and self representations.
1996 Standout
Judging probable cause.
1986
The Influence of Approach and Avoidance Cues on Attentional Flexibility
2005
Seeing the past in the present: The effect of associations to familiar events on judgments and decisions.
1981
Affect and Creativity at Work
2005 Standout
A disconfirmation bias in the evaluation of arguments.
1996
The psychological trade-offs of goal investment.
2000
Classification of Childhood Psychopathology: A Developmental Perspective
1984
A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange
2001 StandoutNobel
Impact of personal goals on self-regulation processes elicited by daily negative events.
1995
The effects of statistical training on thinking about everyday problems
1986
The hot hand in basketball: On the misperception of random sequences
1985 Standout
The Influence of Positive Mood on Brand Extension Evaluations
2000
What Good Are Positive Emotions?
1998 Standout
The effect of message framing on breast self-examination attitudes, intentions, and behavior.
1987
The social context of reasoning: Conversational inference and rational judgment.
1995
Basic Research and Practical Problems: The Promise of a "Functional" Personality and Social Psychology
1993
How alike is it versus how likely is it: A disjunction fallacy in probability judgments.
1993
Building Theories from Case Study Research
1989 Standout
Effects of involvement on persuasion: A meta-analysis.
1989
Scripts in Organizational Behavior
1984
The controversy about irrationality
1983
Effects of self-esteem, hypothetical explanations, and verbalization of expectancies on future performance.
1985
Investor Psychology and Asset Pricing
2001 Standout
First Impressions Matter: A Model of Confirmatory Bias
1999
Reflection and Distraction Defensive Pessimism, Strategic Optimism, and Performance
1996
Perspective-Taking in Communication: Representations of Others' Knowledge in Reference
1991
Mood and performance among defensive pessimists and strategic optimists
2003
The dilution effect: Nondiagnostic information weakens the implications of diagnostic information
1981
Ease of retrieval as information: Another look at the availability heuristic.
1991 Standout
Inductive reasoning: Competence or skill?
1983
Hoping, Performing, learning, and Predicting: Changes in the Accuracy of Self-Evaluations of Peformance
1996
Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Prediction in Parole Decision Making
1982
“You Are What You Eat”: Applying the Demand‐Free “Impressions” Technique to an Unacknowledged Belief
1989
The sinister attribution error: Paranoid cognition and collective distrust in organizations
1994
A hypothesis-confirming bias in labeling effects.
1983
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
1986 Standout
The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others
2002
Mood and Flexibility in Categorization: A Conceptual Replication
2003
Accountability: A Social Check on the Fundamental Attribution Error
1985
The Effects of Mood on Individuals' Use of Structured Decision Protocols
1999
Approaches to studying formal and everyday reasoning.
1989
Gender stereotypes: Perception or rationalization?
1990 Standout
Mood and the impact of category membership and individuating information
1996
Incrimination through innuendo: Can media questions become public answers?
1981
Languages and Designs for Probability Judgment*
1985
Hindsight: Biased judgments of past events after the outcomes are known.
1990
The psychic costs of intense positive affect.
1991
Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: traits as density distribution of states.
2001
Problem solving in judgment under uncertainty.
1987
You don't know me, but I know you: The illusion of asymmetric insight.
2001
WHEN EMPLOYEES FEEL BETRAYED: A MODEL OF HOW PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT VIOLATION DEVELOPS
1997 Standout
Biased evaluation and persistence in gambling.
1983
Categorizing Strategic Issues: Links to Organizational Action
1987
Thinking the Unthinkable: The Effects of Anchoring on Likelihood Estimates of Nuclear War1
1989
Evaluation of evidence in causal inference.
1981
Positive affect improves creative problem solving and influences reported source of practice satisfaction in physicians
1994
Just a Mirage: The Search for Dispositional Effects in Organizational Research
1989
Group Representations and Intergroup Bias: Positive Affect, Similarity, and Group Size
1995
Twenty years of cognitive dissonance: Case study of the evolution of a theory.
1978
Stability and malleability of the self-concept.
1986
Children and adults as intuitive scientists.
1989
Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health.
1988 Standout
The effect of performance cues and leader behavior on questionnaire ratings of leadership behavior
1978
Can irrationality be intelligently discussed?
1983 StandoutNobel
Mood and memory: Evaluating the network theory of affect
1988
Social stereotypes and judgments of individuals: An instance of the base-rate fallacy
1982
Knowledge-based causal attribution: The abnormal conditions focus model.
1986
Self-knowledge and social inference: I. The impact of cognitive/affective and behavioral data.
1984
"They saw a negotiation": Partisanship and involvement.
1995
Goal constructs in psychology: Structure, process, and content.
1996 Standout
Judgmental extrapolation and the salience of change
1990
How to Make Cognitive Illusions Disappear: Beyond “Heuristics and Biases”
1991
Social Cognition and Social Perception
1987
The effects of how and why thinking on perceptions of future negative events
1988
Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions.
1990
Personal involvement and strategies for making contingency judgments: A stake in the dating game makes a difference.
1985
Contacts of cognitive psychology with social learning theory
1978
How we know—and sometimes misjudge—what others know: Imputing one's own knowledge to others.
1999
The American Dream in Russia: Extrinsic Aspirations and Well-Being in Two Cultures
1999
Expanding the Mood-Creativity Equation
2003
Under what conditions does theory obstruct research progress?
1986
The "self digest": Self-knowledge serving self-regulatory functions.
1996
Hypothesis testing in rule discovery: Strategy, structure, and content.
1989
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
1981 StandoutScienceNobel
Bias and error in human judgment
1983
Thinking about the future: A cognitive perspective
1993
Operation of the laws of sympathetic magic in disgust and other domains.
1986
Relation of implicit theories to the construction of personal histories.
1989 Standout
Personality Strength and Social Capital
2000
The influence of abstract and concrete mindsets on anticipating and guiding others' self-regulatory efforts
2004
Not all happy people are lazy or stupid: Evidence of systematic processing in happy moods
2003
Self-discrepancy: A theory relating self and affect.
1987 Standout
Perceptions of the elderly: Stereotypes as prototypes.
1981
The psychometrics of everyday life
1986
Social Information-Processing Bases of Aggressive Behavior in Children
1990
On being happy and mistaken: Mood effects on the fundamental attribution error.
1998
The availability heuristic revisited: Experienced ease of retrieval in mundane frequency estimates
1995
Biased Questions in Judgment of Covariation Studies
1982
Evidence evaluation in complex decision making.
1986
The framing of relative performance feedback: Seeing the glass as half empty or half full.
1994
On the evaluation of one-sided evidence
1996
Hypothesis evaluation from a Bayesian perspective.
1983
The transparency of denial: Briefing in the debriefing paradigm.
1985
The Content of Our Categories: A Cognitive Bias Approach to Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunity
1995
Mood, self-efficacy, and performance standards: Lower moods induce higher standards for performance.
1994
The unbearable automaticity of being.
1999 Standout
Quest for accuracy in person perception: A matter of pragmatics.
1984
Adult Attachment Style and Cognitive Reactions to Positive Affect: A Test of Mental Categorization and Creative Problem Solving
2000
Self-verification processes: How we sustain our self-conceptions
1981
Variability in affective change among aging men: Longitudinal findings from the VA Normative Aging Study
2005
The role of theories in conceptual coherence.
1985 Standout
What is beautiful is good, but…: A meta-analytic review of research on the physical attractiveness stereotype.
1991 Standout
Relative importance of scenario information and frequency information in the judgment of risk
1989
The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms.
1998
Self-knowledge and social inference: II. The diagnosticity of cognitive/affective and behavioral data.
1984
Structure of gender stereotypes: Interrelationships among components and gender label.
1984
Attitude structure and belief accessibility
1991
The influence of mood on categorization: A cognitive flexibility interpretation.
1990
The affective priming effect: Automatic activation of evaluative information in memory
1994
Unpacking, repacking, and anchoring: Advances in support theory.
1997
EVOLVING INTERPRETATIONS AS A CHANGE UNFOLDS: HOW MANAGERS CONSTRUE KEY ORGANIZATIONAL EVENTS.
1990
The role of category accessibility in the interpretation of information about persons: Some determinants and implications.
1979
Gender Similarities in Mathematics and Science
2006 Science
Guess who might be coming to dinner?: Personal involvement and racial stereotyping
1988
Nonconscious biasing effects of single instances on subsequent judgments.
1985
Structural models for the mediation of salience effects on attribution
1982
Distributional versus singular approaches to probability and errors in probabilistic reasoning.
1993
The Acquisition and Use of Social Knowledge
1980
The Effects of Mood on Early and Late Idea Production
2002
A dark side of the American dream: Correlates of financial success as a central life aspiration.
1993
Pursuing Personal Goals: Skills Enable Progress, but Not all Progress is Beneficial
1998
Delay of Gratification in Children
1989 StandoutScience
"What, Me Worry?": Arousal, Misattribution, and the Effect of Temporal Distance on Confidence
1998
Motivated inference: Self-serving generation and evaluation of causal theories.
1987
Dissonance processes as self-affirmation.
1983
Unbelieving the unbelievable: Some problems in the rejection of false information.
1990
Abstract versus concrete goals: Personal striving level, physical illness, and psychological well-being.
1992
Heuristics and biases: Expertise and task realism in auditing.
1991
A Reflection and Evaluation Model of Comparative Thinking
2003
Mental Simulations, Affect, and Subjective Confidence: Timing Is Everything
1999
Organizational Learning: The Contributing Processes and the Literatures
1991 Standout
Analogical reasoning in social judgment: The importance of causal theories.
1984
On the conflict between logic and belief in syllogistic reasoning
1983
On the study of statistical intuitions
1982 StandoutNobel
Person memory: Personality traits as organizing principles in memory for behaviors.
1979
The Future Is Now: Prospective Temporal Self-Appraisals Among Defensive Pessimists and Optimists
2006
A review and reformulation of social information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment.
1994 Standout
Approach and avoidance achievement goals and intrinsic motivation: A mediational analysis.
1996 Standout
In search of the false-uniqueness phenomenon: Fear and estimates of social consensus.
1987
Psychological and implied contracts in organizations
1989 Standout
A Theory of the Effects of Advanced Information Technologies on Organizational Design, Intelligence, and Decision Making
1990
Social Information Processing and Survey Methodology.
1989
Appraising and Amending Theories: The Strategy of Lakatosian Defense and Two Principles that Warrant It
1990
On the interface of cognition and personality: Beyond the person–situation debate.
1979
Support theory: A nonextensional representation of subjective probability.
1994 Standout
A snapshot of the age distribution of psychological well-being in the United States
2010 StandoutNobel
On cognitive busyness: When person perceivers meet persons perceived.
1988
Self-reference and the encoding of personal information.
1977 Standout
Strategy-dependent effects of reflecting on self and tasks: Some implications of optimism and defensive pessimism.
1993
From Thought to Action: Effects of Process-Versus Outcome-Based Mental Simulations on Performance
1999
Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty
1996
The myths of coping with loss.
1989
Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
2004 StandoutNobel
Blurry words and fuzzy deeds: The attribution of obscure behavior.
1992
Imagination and expectation: The effect of imagining behavioral scripts on personal influences.
1983
Are People Programmed to Commit Fallacies? Further Thoughts about the Interpretation of Experimental Data on Probability Judgment
1982
On Avoiding the Influence of Implicit Leadership Theories in Leader Behavior Descriptions
1985
Understanding and assessing the motivations of volunteers: A functional approach.
1998 Standout
Abandoning unrealistic optimism: Performance estimates and the temporal proximity of self-relevant feedback.
1996
The Attractiveness Stereotype: Goodness or Glamour?
1981
Works of Nancy Cantor being referenced
Still participating after all these years: A study of life task participation in later life.
1996
Defensive pessimism: Harnessing anxiety as motivation.
1986
Personal construal of life tasks: Those who struggle for independence.
1990
An influence of positive affect on social categorization
1992
From thought to behavior: "Having" and "doing" in the study of personality and cognition.
1990
Testing hypotheses about other people: The use of historical knowledge
1979
Traits as prototypes: Effects on recognition memory.
1977
More Women in Science
2005 Science
Personality, Strategic Behavior, and Daily-Life Problem Solving
1994
Life tasks, self-concept ideals, and cognitive strategies in a life transition.
1987
Life tasks, self-concept ideals, and cognitive strategies in a life transition.
1987
Life Tasks and Daily Life Experience
1991
Anticipatory and post hoc cushioning strategies: Optimism and defensive pessimism in ?risky? situations
1986
Defensive pessimism: Harnessing anxiety as motivation.
1986
Traits as prototypes: Effects on recognition memory.
1977
Affective responses as guides to category-based inferences
1986
Personality Psychology : Recent Trends And Emerging Directions
1989
Human Personality: Asocial and Reflexive?
1993
Choice and Attitude Attributions: The Influence of Constraint Information on Attributions Across Levels of Generality
1982
Personality, cognition, and purposive behavior.
1990
Personality and social intelligence
1987
Goal relevance and the affective experience of daily life: Ruling out situational explanations
1995
Still participating after all these years: A study of life task participation in later life.
1996
Prototypicality and personality: Effects on free recall and personality impressions
1979
A prototype analysis of psychological situations
1982
Prototype matching: A strategy for social decision making.
1985
Social Cognition: A Look at Motivated Strategies
1985
Life Task Problem Solving: Situational Affordances and Personal Needs
1994
Psychiatric diagnosis as prototype categorization.
1980
Book Review Nisbett, R. , & Ross, L.Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment.Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
1982 Standout
Effects of Responsiveness and Sex of Children on Adult Males' Behavior
1977
Defensive Pessimism and Stress and Coping
1989