There is always room for moral improvement. However, very few prior reviews have focused
on the phenomenon of moral improvement of self, social relations, or society. We first …

Self-protection and self-enhancement, once depicted as biases that impede accurate self-
knowledge and hinder effective environmental control, have more recently been viewed as …

Loyalty is often touted as a moral principle, or virtue, worth exemplifying in social and
business relations. But is it always beneficial to be loyal? We investigate possible negative …

Euphemism—that is, softening words or phrases substituted for more direct language—has
become pervasive in our everyday personal and professional lives. Leveraging theory and …

People spend much of their time engaged in mental time travel. They revisit past
experiences and imagine how future experiences may unfold. On these travels, emotion is a …

Some researchers assert that the psychological impact of negative information is more
powerful than that of positive information. This assertion is qualified in the domain of human …

People are motivated to punish others who commit immoral actions when they believe the
person willingly committed such an act. Compared with European American individuals …

Remembering unpleasant events can trigger negative feelings. Fortunately, research
indicates that unwanted retrieval can be suppressed to prevent memories from intruding into …

This chapter describes the Egocentric Tactician Model. The model purports to account for
the influence of the self on social thought. Such thought refers to the social world and those …

Moral, social, political, and other “nonepistemic” values can lead to bias in science, from
prioritizing certain topics over others to the rationalization of questionable research …