When individuals experience empathy, they often seek to bolster others' well-being. But
what do empathizers want others to feel? Though psychologists have studied empathy and …

How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying
account of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processing view. We start from …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Organisms with conspicuous patterns are more easily detected by their predators and/or
prey, with consequences for their success when fleeing or preying, respectively …

Episodic future thinking (EFT) denotes our capacity to imagine prospective events. It has
been suggested to promote farsighted decisions that entail a trade-off between short-term …

Most authors who discuss willpower assume that everyone knows what it is, but our
assumptions differ to such an extent that we talk past each other. We agree that willpower is …

We outline a dual systems approach to temporal cognition, which distinguishes between two
cognitive systems for dealing with how things unfold over time–a temporal updating system …

The purpose of this article was to explore how individuals' position in a socioeconomic
hierarchy is related to health behaviours that are related to socioeconomic disparities in …

In the research reported here, we compared how future-oriented cognitive processes
underpin differences in the quality of new venture ideas (NVIs) generated by respondents …

Many fundamental choices in life are intertemporal: they involve trade-offs between sooner
and later outcomes. In recent years there has been a surge of interest into how people make …