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Open AccessTo vaccinate or not to vaccinate? The interplay between pro- and against- vaccination reasons
By mid 2023, European countries reached 75% of vaccine coverage for COVID-19 and although vaccination rates are quite high, many people are still hesitant. A plethora of studies have investigated factors assoc...
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Open AccessEffects of Socioeconomic Status, Parental Stress, and Family Support on Children’s Physical and Emotional Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the current study, we conduct an exploratory study on children’s emotional and physical health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The direct and interactive effects of parental stress, family socioeconom...
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Open AccessJoint analysis of the intention to vaccinate and to use contact tracing app during the COVID-19 pandemic
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures will overlap for a period after the onset of the pandemic, playing a strong role in virus containment. We explored which factors influence the likelihood to ado...
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Heuristics
Heuristics are strategies that allow individuals to reach a conclusion for themselves or to fill a gap when information is not available. In the past 25 years or so, the empirical study of heuristics showed th...
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Dehumanization after terrorism: the role of psychophysiological emotion regulation and trait emotional intelligence
In recent years, numerous terrorist attacks have been perpetrated, inducing a reaction even in people who were not directly exposed. In this scenery, we measured people’s blatant dehumanization of Arabs in the...
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Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk
Prospect theory is among the most influential frameworks in behavioural science, specifically in research on decision-making under risk. Kahneman and Tversky’s 1979 study tested financial choices under risk, c...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Heuristics
Heuristics are strategies that allow individuals to reach a conclusion for themselves or to fill a gap when information is not available. In the past 25 years or so, the empirical study of heuristics showed th...
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How Do You Manage Evaluation? Attentive and Affective Constituents of Creative Performance Under Perceived Frustration or Success
The interactive relationship between the individual and the social constituents of the creative process emerges strongly during the evaluation of the outcomes of the process. In fact, the contrast with social ...
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Open AccessEmotional intelligence buffers the effect of physiological arousal on dishonesty
We studied the emotional processes that allow people to balance two competing desires: benefitting from dishonesty and kee** a positive self-image. We recorded physiological arousal (skin conductance and hea...
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Open AccessImpulsivity influences betting under stress in laboratory gambling
Although recent research suggests that acute stress influences subsequent decision-making under ambiguity, less is known about the role of personality variables in this relationship. This study tested whether ...
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The relationship between attention allocation and cheating
Little is known about the relationship between attention allocation and dishonesty. The goal of the present work was to address this issue using the eyetracking methodology. We developed a novel task in which ...
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Exploring Selfish versus Altruistic Behaviors in the Ultimatum Game with an Agent-Based Model
In the present study we developed a simulation where agents play repeatedly the ultimatum game with the aim of exploring their earnings for several thresholds of willingness to accept proposals. At the same ti...
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Designing a Homo Psychologicus More Psychologicus: Empirical Results on Value Perception in Support to a New Theoretical Organizational-Economic Agent Based Model
The study presents a new approach of modelling human behavior based on empirical evidence on individual differences in cognitive science and behavioral economics fields. Compared to classical studies of econom...
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Mental accounting and cause related marketing strategies
The aim of the present study is to verify if people’s perception of cause related marketing (CRM) strategies is influenced by the mental accounting format used to present the price of the product and the amoun...
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Do ambiguity avoidance and the comparative ignorance hypothesis depend on people’s affective reactions?
Previous work has showed that people are averse to ambiguity and prefer to bet on known probabilities over unknown probabilities. There is also evidence that ambiguity aversion is stronger in comparative conte...
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When happiness pays in negotiation
Previous research on the interpersonal effects of emotions in negotiation suggested that bargainers obtain higher outcomes expressing anger, when it is not directed against the counterpart as a person and it i...
