Thoughts on Directed Verdicts and Summary Judgments

the effects of cooperative versus individual directed reading thinking activities on students inferential and referential questions

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

JUDGMENTS OVER TIME The Interplay of Thoughts , Feelings , and Behaviors

Counterfactual thoughts and judgments about morally good actions

Evaluating the morality of an action is affected by thoughts about whether the outcome might have turned out differently. We report experimental results that show a moral action effect occurs for judgments about morally good actions. Participants read stories about a morally elevating situation, e.g., an agent is found to be a match as a bone-marrow donor for someone else. The agent decided to ...

Verdicts on the High Life

People rehoused in tower blocks are usually glad to be out of sub-standard housing but may soon long for the way of life that died when tenements and terraces were demolished.

Turning Hope Thoughts Into Goal-Directed Behavior

well-being might result. Similarly, insofar as perceiving the good things in one's life as the result of the intentional benevolence of another person or persons makes those benefits even more enjoyable, it is easy to imagine how one might be happier and healthier as a result. Obviously, much of daily life occurs without conscious control and without a second thought. Nonetheless, some people m...