Darkness can conceal identity and encourage moral transgressions; it may also induce a psychological feeling of illusory anonymity that disinhibits dishonest and self-interested behavior regardless of actual anonymity. Three experiments provided empirical evidence supporting this prediction. In Experiment 1, participants in a room with slightly dimmed lighting cheated more and thus earned more ...

Darkness can conceal identity and encourage moral transgressions; it may also induce a psychological feeling of illusory anonymity that disinhibits dishonest and self-interested behavior regardless of actual anonymity. Three experiments provided empirical evidence for this prediction. In Experiment 1, participants in a slightly dim room cheated more and thus earned more underserved money than t...

In recent years “the Anthropocene” has come to represent a new milestone for human-induced destruction of the environment. There is widespread consensus that industrialization processes within capitalist modernity have ushered humanity into geological epoch bearing little resemblance climatic stability Holocene,” roughly 10,000-year span which all known human civilizations were established. Fur...

This paper reviewed definitions for four concepts related to the central concept of sociability (social cognition, social competence, social skills and social behavior). Cognitive psychologists have begun to address how motivational factors influence adults' performance on cognitive tasks. However, little researched has examined how different motivational factors interact with one another to af...

The ability to reason about mental states is critical for predicting and interpreting people’s behavior and for communicating effectively. Yet both children and adults exhibit some remarkable limitations in reasoning about mental states. In this article, I outline some of the parallels between children’s and adults’ fallacies in reasoning about the mind and suggest that a fundamental bias in so...

Behavioral synchrony, physically keeping together in time with others, is a widespread feature of human cultural practices. Emerging evidence suggests that the physical coordination involved in synchronizing one's behavior with another engages the cognitive systems involved in reasoning about others' mental states (i.e., mentalizing). In three experiments (N = 959), we demonstrate that physical...

In this article, we review and build on intergenerational and behavioral ethics research to consider how the motive to build a lasting legacy can impact ethical behavior in intergenerational decision making. We discuss how people can utilize their relationships to organizations to craft their legacies. Further, we elucidate how the legacy motive can enhance business ethics, incorporating theory...

thinking, language, cognition, the capacities for self-observation and self-evaluation, and the ability to project present conditions into the future. The child’s active participation in the process is perforce more sporadic and less reliable than that of the adult. (1978, p. 297) Finally, it is vital to stress that in addition to offering interpretations in the idiom of the play, the analyst m...

This article is part of the issue “Consumer Psychology for Greater Good” Action in service greater good, which we define as collective well-being broader social group, typically comes with associated costs. Sometimes, these costs can even outweigh benefits. Consider case Colonial India. To solve a problem too many venomous cobras on loose, British offered monetary reward to cull snakes. incenti...

Understanding of another person’s wrong belief requires explicit represer;tation of the wrongness of this person’s belief in relation to one’s own knowledge. Three to nine year old children’s understanding of two sketches was tested. In each sketch subjects observed how a protagonist put an object into a location x and then witnessed that in the absence of the protagonist the object was transfe...