The problem of motivating people is a ubiquitous one. It is present in all situations where one person desires to affect or influence the behavior of others, including child training, education, politics, advertising, courtship, counseling and psychotherapy, and brainwashing. What can the psychology of motivation contribute to the solution of this problem? It is the purpose of this paper to rev...

During an interactive connguration session we may reach a point where our desires can not be met. At this point we can consider \tradeoos". Ideally, we would like the conngurator to suggest appropriate tradeoos to us. In this paper we have modeled tradeoos in constraint-based connguration as additional constraints, and begun to study the issues involved in generating and evaluating such tradeoo...

In response to concerns that jury awards in tort cases are excessive and unpredictable, nearly every state legislature has enacted some version of tort reform that is intended to curb extravagant damage awards. One of the most important and controversial reforms involves capping (or limiting) the maximum punitive damage award. We conducted a jury analogue study to assess the impact of this refo...

Researchers have long been interested in the relation between emotion understanding and theory of mind. This study investigates a cue to mental states that has rarely been investigated: the dynamics of valenced emotional expressions. When the valence of a character's facial expression was stable between an expected and observed outcome, children (N = 122; M = 5.0 years) recovered the character'...