A. Timur Sevincer

TL;DR: North Americans are more likely than Western Europeans to exhibit focused attention, experience emotions associated with independence, and associate happiness with personal achievement, according to a new theoretical framework that assigns a key role to cultural tasks.

TL;DR: Results imply that when expectations of success are high, mental contrasting provides the level of energy needed to commit to realizing desired futures.

TL;DR: A preregistered multilab replication of a recent preregistered experiment with the Stroop task as the depleting task and the antisaccadetask as the outcome task revealed a small and significant ego depletion effect.

TL;DR: It is found that people generally view familial motives as primary in importance and mate-seeking motives as relatively low in importance, and motives linked to long-term familial bonds are positively associated with psychological well-being, but mate- seeking motives are associated with anxiety and depression.

TL;DR: Investigating whether physiological energization elicited by mental contrasting a desired future of solving a given task transfers to effort in an unrelated task suggests that mental contrasting of solving one task triggers energization that may fuel effort for performing an unrelatedtask.