Search Results - "BROWN, GORDON D. A"

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Income Inequality and Status Seeking: Searching for Positional Goods in Unequal U.S. States

by Lukasz Walasek Gordon D. A. Brown Published in Psychological science (01.04.2015)

“...It is well established that income inequality is associated with lower societal well-being, but the psychosocial causes of this relationship are poorly...”

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Money, Well-Being, and Loss Aversion: Does an Income Loss Have a Greater Effect on Well-Being Than an Equivalent Income Gain?

by Christopher J. Boyce Alex M. Wood James Banks Andrew E. Clark Gordon D. A. Brown Published in Psychological science (01.12.2013)

“...Higher income is associated with greater well-being, but do income gains and losses affect well-being differently? Loss aversion, whereby losses loom larger...”

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Why does Income Relate to Depressive Symptoms? Testing the Income Rank Hypothesis Longitudinally

by Hilda Osafo Hounkpatin Alex M. Wood Gordon D. A. Brown Graham Dunn Published in Social indicators research (01.11.2015)

“...This paper reports a test of the relative income rank hypothesis of depression, according to which it is the rank position of an individual's income amongst a...”

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A rank based social norms model of how people judge their levels of drunkenness whilst intoxicated

by Moore, Simon C Wood, Alex M Moore, Laurence Shepherd, Jonathan Murphy, Simon Brown, Gordon D A Published in BMC public health (13.09.2016)

“...A rank based social norms model predicts that drinkers' judgements about their drinking will be based on the rank of their breath alcohol level amongst that of...”

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Serotonin and Social Norms: Tryptophan Depletion Impairs Social Comparison and Leads to Resource Depletion in a Multiplayer Harvesting Game

by Amy C. Bilderbeck Gordon D. A. Brown Judi Read Mark Woolrich Phillip J. Cowen Tim E. J. Behrens Robert D. Rogers Published in Psychological science (01.07.2014)

“...How do people sustain resources for the benefit of individuals and communities and avoid the tragedy of the commons, in which shared resources become...”

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A Temporal Ratio Model of Memory

by Brown, Gordon D. A Neath, Ian Chater, Nick Published in Psychological review (01.07.2007)

“...A model of memory retrieval is described. The model embodies 4 main claims: (a) temporal memory -traces of items are represented in memory partly in terms of...”

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Decision by sampling

by Stewart, Neil Chater, Nick Brown, Gordon D.A Published in Cognitive psychology (2006)

“...We present a theory of decision by sampling (DbS) in which, in contrast with traditional models, there are no underlying psychoeconomic scales. Instead, we...”

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Does the brain calculate value?

by Vlaev, Ivo Chater, Nick Stewart, Neil Brown, Gordon D.A Published in Trends in cognitive sciences (2011)

“...How do people choose between options? At one extreme, the ‘value-first’ view is that the brain computes the value of different options and simply favours...”

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Benchmarks for Models of Short-Term and Working Memory

by Oberauer, Klaus Lewandowsky, Stephan Awh, Edward Brown, Gordon D. A Conway, Andrew Cowan, Nelson Donkin, Christopher Farrell, Simon Hitch, Graham J Hurlstone, Mark J Ma, Wei Ji Morey, Candice C Nee, Derek Evan Schweppe, Judith Vergauwe, Evie Ward, Geoff
edited by Albarracín, Dolores
Published in Psychological bulletin (01.09.2018)

“...Any mature field of research in psychology-such as short-term/working memory-is characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to...”

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Contextual Diversity, Not Word Frequency, Determines Word-Naming and Lexical Decision Times

by James S. Adelman Gordon D. A. Brown José F. Quesada Published in Psychological science (01.09.2006)

“...Word frequency is an important predictor of word-naming and lexical decision times. It is, however, confounded with contextual diversity, the number of...”

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Contextual effects on the perceived health benefits of exercise: The exercise rank hypothesis

by Maltby, John Wood, Alex M Vlaev, Ivo Taylor, Michael J Brown, Gordon D A Published in Journal of sport & exercise psychology (01.12.2012)

“...Many accounts of social influences on exercise participation describe how people compare their behaviors to those of others. We develop and test a novel...”

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Individual-Level Analyses of the Impact of Parasite Stress on Personality: Reduced Openness Only for Older Individuals

by Mullett, Timothy L Brown, Gordon D. A Fincher, Corey L Kosinski, Michal Stillwell, David Published in Personality & social psychology bulletin (01.01.2020)

“...The parasite stress hypothesis predicts that individuals living in regions with higher infectious disease rates will show lower openness, agreeableness, and...”

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No temporal decay in verbal short-term memory

by Lewandowsky, Stephan Oberauer, Klaus Brown, Gordon D.A Published in Trends in cognitive sciences (2008)

“...Many models of short-term memory (STM) ascribe an important role to temporal decay and forgetting because of the passage of time alone. We argue against decay...”

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Money and Happiness: Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction

by Christopher J. Boyce Gordon D.A. Brown Simon C. Moore Published in Psychological science (01.04.2010)

“...Does money buy happiness, or does happiness come indirectly from the higher rank in society that money brings? We tested a rank-income hypothesis, according to...”

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Income Inequality, Income, and Internet Searches for Status Goods: A Cross-National Study of the Association Between Inequality and Well-Being

by Walasek, Lukasz Walasek, Lukasz Brown, Gordon D. A Brown, Gordon D. A Published in Social indicators research (01.12.2016)

“...Is there a positive association between a nation’s income inequality and concerns with status competition within that nation? Here we use Google Correlate and...”

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Scaling laws in cognitive sciences

by Kello, Christopher T Brown, Gordon D.A Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon Holden, John G Linkenkaer-Hansen, Klaus Rhodes, Theo Van Orden, Guy C Published in Trends in cognitive sciences (2010)

“...Scaling laws are ubiquitous in nature, and they pervade neural, behavioral and linguistic activities. A scaling law suggests the existence of processes or...”

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Absolute Identification by Relative Judgment

by Stewart, Neil Brown, Gordon D. A Chater, Nick Published in Psychological review (01.10.2005)

“...In unidimensional absolute identification tasks, participants identify stimuli that vary along a single dimension. Performance is surprisingly poor compared...”

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Being paid relatively well most of the time: Negatively skewed payments are more satisfying

by Tripp, James Brown, Gordon D. A Published in Memory & cognition (01.08.2016)

“...How does the structure of a series of payments influence its recipient’s satisfaction? A common hypothesis is that each payment will be compared with a single...”

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Measuring Implicit Attitudes: A Positive Framing Bias Flaw in the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP)

by O'Shea, Brian Watson, Derrick G Brown, Gordon D. A
edited by Ben-Porath, Yossef S
Published in Psychological assessment (01.02.2016)

“...How can implicit attitudes best be measured? The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP), unlike the Implicit Association Test (IAT), claims to measure...”

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Does Wage Rank Affect Employees’ Well‐being?

by BROWN, GORDON D. A GARDNER, JONATHAN OSWALD, ANDREW J QIAN, JING Published in Industrial relations (Berkeley) (01.07.2008)

“...How do workers make wage comparisons? Both an experimental study and an analysis of 16,000 British employees are reported. Satisfaction and well‐being levels...”

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