A growing body of research shows that older adults, Black women, and other groups often
encounter stigmatization that manifests not as negative prejudice, but as indifference and …

The authors examine two kinds of factors that affect students' motivation to engage in critical-
analytic thinking. The first, which includes ability beliefs, achievement values, and …

Human motivation is sensitive to value—to the outcomes of actions. People invest mental
and physical resources for obtaining desired results or for stop** and reversing undesired …

People seek to detect who facilitates and who impedes their goal pursuit. The resulting
relevance appraisals of opportunity and threat, respectively, can strongly shape subsequent …

Social connection can be a rich source of happiness. Humans routinely go out of their way to
seek out social connection and avoid social isolation. What are the proximal forces that …

A funny thing happened along the way of researchers using priming techniques to study
psychological questions. Rather than priming being just a tool to study mind—dealing with …

Cognitive consistency theories have been traditionally conceived of at the intrapersonal
level: consonance/dissonance, balance/imbalance, congruity/incongruity, and so on, are …

To what degree does our representation of the immediate world depend solely on its
relevance to what we are currently doing? We examined whether relevance per se can …

People pursue goals. They seek to build friendships, find romantic partners, maintain close
relationships, gain social status and resources, and stay healthy and safe. But pursuing …

Three studies explored academic test performance in the context of regulatory focus theory
(Higgins, 1997), which posits that individuals pursue goals with a focus on growth and …