The words that people use in everyday life tell us about their psychological states: their
beliefs, emotions, thinking habits, lived experiences, social relationships, and personalities …

Evolutionary psychology is the second wave of the cognitive revolution. The first wave
focused on computational processes that generate knowledge about the world: perception …

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 …

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One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the role of the mind in one's apprehension of the
world is the existence of cognitive biases. This chapter presents a three‐category framework …

In this article we argue that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by
allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent …

The “behavioral immune system” is a motivational system that evolved as a means of
inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies …

Can we better understand modern consumer behavior by examining its links to our ancestral
past? We consider the underlying motives for consumption and choice from an evolutionary …

Despite an influx of ecotourism research since the term was first coined, it is still not entirely
clear why tourists choose ecotourism over other tourism experiences. While most of the …

Interpersonal trust is an important source of social and economic development. Over
decades, researchers debated the question whether and how public institutions influence …