Financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive adults have been documented in the
labor market, in social transactions in everyday life, and in studies involving experimental …

People routinely manage the impressions they make on others, attempting to project a
favorable self‐image. The bulk of the literature has portrayed people as savvy self …

Transactive goal dynamics (TGD) theory conceptualizes 2 or more interdependent people
as 1 single self-regulating system. Six tenets describe the nature of goal interdependence …

Financial Times: One of the Best Books of 2017 Business Insider: One of the Best Science
Books of 2017 Dr. John Bargh, the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents …

Mindful attention, a central component of mindfulness meditation, can be conceived as
becoming aware of one's thoughts and experiences and being able to observe them as …

Welcome to the fourth edition of Essential Social Psychology! As in previous editions, we
have held strong and true to the ESP ethos we laid out in our very first edition over 10 years …

Working memory, our ability to work with information, plays an important role in learning from
kindergarten to the college years. In this article, we review the what, the why, and the how of …

In the present research, we examined why some people have more difficulty than others in
staying faithful to their romantic partners. Three studies supported our main prediction that …

In the new millennium, scholars have built a robust intersection between close-relationships
research and self-regulation research. However, virtually no work has investigated how the …

The present research addresses the question of how romantically involved individuals are
able to shield their ongoing romantic relationship from the temptation of attractive alternative …