Phoebe C. Ellsworth

TL;DR: The authors found that negative events such as romantic disappointment, social rejection or academic failure can influence how we feel and what we think, but in opposite ways: when sad feelings serve as a source of information, they give rise to negative evaluations; when current events serve as the standard of comparison, they gave rise to positive evaluations.

TL;DR: In criminal investigations, preference for hypothesis-consistent information could contribute to false convictions by leading investigators to disregard evidence that challenges their theory of a case as mentioned in this paper, which is the tendency to bolster a hypothesis by seeking consistent evidence while disregarding inconsistent evidence.

TL;DR: The authors found that pupil size is positively related to the evaluative (good-bad) dimension of meaning, but not to the good-bad dimension of the meaning of words.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the similarities and differences in Japanese and American reactions to requests for favors by examining whether increasing the size of the request can increase positive feelings, and the perceived closeness of the relationship and appraisals of control mediate the effect of request size on feelings.