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Cognitive Reflection Drives Utilitarian Judgment in Self-Sacrificial and Other-Sacrificial Dilemmas: Applying Process Dissociation and Behavioral Validation to Moral Dilemmas in Multiple Relational Contexts
DownloadFall 2024
There is considerable evidence linking cognitive reflection with utilitarian judgments in dilemmas that involve sacrificing someone else for the greater good. However, the evidence is mixed on the question of whether cognitive reflection is associated with utilitarian judgments in...
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Reactive Risk-taking: Anxiety Regulation via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-taking Behavior
DownloadFall 2020
Experimental research and real-world events demonstrate a puzzling phenomenon—anxiety, which primarily inspires caution, sometimes increases risk-taking. The goal of the present research was to test whether this phenomenon is due to the regulation of anxiety via reactive approach motivation...
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Fall 2023
Low childhood SES has been associated with diminished health and neurocognitive outcomes (Noble et al., 2005), though few studies have examined how the neurological stress response in adults is impacted by socioeconomic factors from childhood. This study uses EEG measures of frontal midline theta...