Individuals value the opportunity to make choices and exert control over their environment. This perceived sense of agency has been shown to have broad influences on cognition, including preference, decision-making, and valuation. However, it is unclear whether perceived control influences memory. Using a combined behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging approach, we investigated wh...

1 Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, CIICAp, Av. Universidad 1001, 62209 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 2 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Fisicas, Av. Universidad s/n, 62210 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 3 Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Reforma 113, 62490 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 4 Corrosión y Protección (CyP), Buffon 46, 11590 Mexico City, DF, Me...

How individuals think about opposing or paradoxical categories influences their social relationships. We found that Chinese managers were more likely than US managers to categorize attempts to outperform others as an instance of both competition and cooperation. Further, the Chinese managers were more likely than the US managers to perceive a given working relationship as being both cooperative...

Affective states of the same valence may have distinct, yet predictable, influences on decision processes. Results from three experiments show that, in gambling decisions, as well as in job-selection decisions, sad individuals are biased in favor of high-risk/high-reward options, whereas anxious individuals are biased in favor of low-risk/low-reward options. We argue that these biases occur bec...