Citizens who voted for a party ending up in government are more satisfied with democracy than those supported that ends the opposition. The assumption is voting included produces perception of having won election, which increases one’s level satisfaction democracy. This (assumed) mediation has never been directly tested. In this research note, we provide first empirical test using data from Mak...

generation gap is now taken for granted especially in a society with a young population. many believe that the transfer of values and culture from the former generation to the new generation is now facing serious problems, so much so that the new generation is no longer committed to the values of the former generation. this paper is concerned with the attitude of mothers and daughters towards t...

We use visual information to guide our grasping movements. When grasping an object with a precision grip, the two digits need to reach two different positions more or less simultaneously, but the eyes can only be directed to one position at a time. Several studies that have examined eye movements in grasping have found that people tend to direct their gaze near where their index finger will con...

We attempted to test Rogers' concept of the organismic valuing process (OVP) by assessing changes in peoples' goal choices over time. When changes occur, are they more or less random, or do people tend to move towards goals that are more likely to be beneficial, both for themselves and others? "Beneficial" goals were defined as goals typically associated with subjective well-being (SWB) and wit...

Four experiments identify a tendency for people to believe that their own lives are more guided by the tenets of free will than are the lives of their peers. These tenets involve the a priori unpredictability of personal action, the presence of multiple possible paths in a person's future, and the causal power of one's personal desires and intentions in guiding one's actions. In experiment 1, p...

The idea that people tend to like games that are alike is intuitive, even obvious. But is it true? Like many intuitive ideas, it may be wrong, and it could be challenging to test. While it is relatively straightforward to test how well a particular notion of game likeness predicts which games an individual will like, the difficulty lies in developing such a conceptualization that is robust enou...