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Roy F. Baumeister
Researcher at University of Queensland
Publications - 670
Citations - 146163
Roy F. Baumeister is an academic researcher from University of Queensland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ego depletion & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 157, co-authored 650 publications receiving 132987 citations. Previous affiliations of Roy F. Baumeister include Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences & Princeton University.
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Diverging Effects of Clean Versus Dirty Money on Attitudes, Values, and Interpersonal Behavior
TL;DR: Evidence is found that people apparently have 2 contradictory sets of associations to money, which is a complex, powerful, and ubiquitous aspect of human social life and cultural organization.
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Social Exclusion Increases Aggression and Self-Defeating Behavior while Reducing Intelligent Thought and Prosocial Behavior
Jean M. Twenge,Roy F. Baumeister +1 more
TL;DR: A lmost everyone has had the experience of feeling socially excluded: being alone on a Saturday night and feeling lonely; being rejected by peers, perhaps by means of cruel teasing; experiencing a divorce or the breakup of a romantic relationship; or having a friend cancel a social occasion because she found something more interesting to do as discussed by the authors.
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Unfulfilled goals interfere with tasks that require executive functions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the processes associated with unfulfilled goals would interfere with tasks that require the executive function, which has a limited focal capacity and can pursue only one goal at a time.
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Too much of a good thing? Exploring the inverted-U relationship between self-control and happiness
Christopher W. Wiese,Louis Tay,Angela L. Duckworth,Sidney K. D'Mello,Lauren Kuykendall,Wilhelm Hofmann,Roy F. Baumeister,Kathleen D. Vohs +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that self-control positively predicted subjective well-being (cognitive and affective), but there was little evidence for an inverted U-shaped curve.
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Uncertainty, Belongingness, and Four Needs for Meaning
TL;DR: The Van den Bos research program is persuasive in demonstrating that when uncertainty arises, people cling to their cultural worldview as discussed by the authors, and that uncertainty increases worldview defense. But it is not clear why.