Traditionally, research on superstition and magical thinking has focused on people's
cognitive shortcomings, but superstitions are not limited to individuals with mental deficits …

People spend a considerable amount of their time mentally simulating experiences other
than the one in which they are presently engaged, as a means of distraction, co**, or …

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings,
with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variation in effect magnitudes …

A paper from the Open Science Collaboration (Research Articles, 28 August 2015, aac4716)
attempting to replicate 100 published studies suggests that the reproducibility of …

We argue that because of a long history of intergroup conflict and competition, humans
evolved to be tribal creatures. Tribalism is not inherently bad, but it can lead to ideological …

Replication studies in psychological science sometimes fail to reproduce prior findings. If
these studies use methods that are unfaithful to the original study or ineffective in eliciting …

People often believe that significant life events happen for a reason. In three studies, we
examined evidence for the view that teleological beliefs reflect a general cognitive bias to …

Over the past thirty years, and particularly within the last ten years, researchers in the areas
of social psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience have …

We test whether large language models (LLMs) can be used to simulate human participants
in social-science studies. To do this, we ran replications of 14 studies from the Many Labs 2 …

How do people balance intuition and reason when making decisions? We report 6 studies
that indicate that people are cued by the features of the decision problem to follow intuition …