Are highly intelligent people less risk averse? Over the last two decades scholars have
argued the existence of a negative relationship between cognitive ability and risk aversion …

When making risky decisions, people should evaluate the consequences and the chances
of the outcome occurring. We examine the risk-preference hypothesis, which states that …

Trust and trustworthiness form the basis for continued social and economic interactions, and
they are also fundamental for cooperation, fairness, honesty, and indeed for many other …

The use of the Cognitive Reflection Test as a covariate to explain behavior in Economics
and Psychology experiments has significantly increased in the past few years. Experiments …

The attempts to mitigate the unprecedented health, economic, and social disruptions caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic are largely dependent on establishing compliance to behavioral …

Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern clean energy is essential
for economic development, making energy poverty a pressing matter for both developing …

Background An international valuation protocol exists for obtaining societal values for each
of the 3125 health states of the five-level EuroQol-five dimensions (EQ-5D-5L) …

The purpose of this study is to examine whether there is an association between intelligence
and prosocial behavior (PSB), and whether this association is mediated by empathy and …

Gullibility as a scientific concept does not currently feature prominently in social psychology
research, and one would search in vain the subject indexes of many social psychology …

Bullshit-sensitivity is the ability to distinguish pseudo-profound bullshit sentences (eg “Your
movement transforms universal observations”) from genuinely profound sentences (eg “The …