Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Author "Cikara, Mina"
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Algorithmic ingredients of bounded prosociality: Affective signals, empathy, and episodic simulation
Vollberg, Marius Constantin (2022-11-23)Humans learn, use tools, communicate, and often act prosocially (i.e., benefit others). Prosociality may or may not be the most uniquely human of the four, but it is likely the most deservingly bounded (e.g., qualified ... -
Context-Dependence in Social Decision-Making
Chang, Linda Wang (2021-04-23)Many of society's most significant social decisions involve the joint evaluation of multiple candidates, and yet, we know that decision-makers consistently exhibit violations of rational choice theory when they choose among ... -
Gendered Measures & Outcomes: An Intersectional Investigation of Intergroup Religious Discrimination
Ghani, Asma (2022-09-16)Religious discourse in social psychology often erases issues of intersectionality by centering a single-axis framework, discounting the ways in which social identities intertwine with each other and broader systems of ... -
Representations of social and political attitudes, opinions, and facts in the mind and brain
Cetron, Joshua Satya (2023-05-16)Information abounds in our social world. But when we learn about the world through interactions with others, we rarely receive information without commentary: propositions about the world are so often presented alongside ... -
Stabilizing Inequality: Identifying Psychological Mechanisms That Underpin Group-Based Differences
Cotterill, Sarah Catherine (2017-05-12)In three papers, with data from three cultural contexts, and using both experimental and correlational methods, this dissertation addresses the psychological mechanisms that stabilize inequality. In Paper 1, I address the ...