This target article is concerned with the implications of the surprisingly different experimental
practices in economics and in areas of psychology relevant to both economists and …

Developments in personality-social psychology, in social cognition, and in cognitive
neuroscience have led to an emerging conception of personality dynamics and dispositions …

Complex organizations exhibit surprising, nonlinear behavior. Although organization
scientists have studied complex organizations for many years, a developing set of …

A dynamic interactive theory of person construal is proposed. It assumes that the perception
of other people is accomplished by a dynamical system involving continuous interaction …

The affect system, in its position to monitor organismic–environmental transactions, may be
sensitive to the internal dynamics of information processing. Hence, the authors predicted …

We report the results of three experimental tests of the “hot cognition” hypothesis, which
posits that all sociopolitical concepts that have been evaluated in the past are affectively …

Findings from 3 experiments suggest that participants who were actively engaged in goal
pursuit, compared with those who were not pursuing the goal, automatically evaluated goal …

Discusses the self-concordance model of goal-striving (KM Sheldon and AJ Elliot, 1999),
which addresses questions such as how people decide what to strive for in their lives, and …

Traditional approaches to social psychology have proven highly successful in identifying
causal mechanisms underlying human thought and behavior. With the recent advent of the …

Psychologists and nonpsychologists alike assume that people have distinct, enduring
personalities. Ample evidence exists that individuals do differ reliably in what they do and …