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The Effect of Financial Stress on Inhibitory Control and Economic Decisions

Financial scarcity, both real and imagined, is associated with impaired executive functions and present-focused economic decisions. What is the mechanism that connects the lack of financial resources to these cognitive and behavioral effects? The …

The Computer-Mediated Online Round Robin (CMORR): An Online Method for Studying Impressions and Social Interactions

Research on impressions and social interactions has predominately examined perceptions of artificial stimuli or those made by convenience samples of undergraduates. In the present work, we introduce and validate a new experimental method, the …

Occupational Prestige: The Status Component of Socioeconomic Status

The relationship between life outcomes and an individual’s standing in the social and economic hierarchy of society is an important topic across the social sciences. Foundational to this work is assessing an individual’s standing in this hierarchy, …

The Big Five Across Socioeconomic Status: Measurement Invariance, Relationships, and Age Trends

Associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and personality traits have important implications for theory and application. Progress in understanding these associations depends on valid measurement, unbiased estimation, and careful assessment of …

Is perceived similarity more than assumed similarity? An interpersonal path to seeing similarity between self and others

People perceive similarity between their own personality characteristics and the personality characteristics of others. This association has sometimes been labeled “assumed similarity,” reflecting the interpretation that it is a cognitive bias. …