Sara D. Hodges

TL;DR: The authors tested the prediction that introspecting about the reasons for one's preferences would reduce satisfaction with a consumer choice and found that introspection about reasons would reduce the satisfaction with consumer choice.

TL;DR: The authors found that women perform better than men on an empathic accuracy task (inferring the thoughts and feelings of a target person) and that women's advantage held only when women were given a task assessing their feelings of sympathy toward the target prior to performing the empathic task.

TL;DR: Wilson and Hodges as mentioned in this paper showed that people often have a large, conflicting "data base" relevant to their attitudes on any given topic, and the attitude they have at any given time depends on the subset of these data to which they attend.

TL;DR: The authors found that prior expectations about an upcoming vacation accounted for a significant portion of the variance in their post-vacation evaluations, as did students' recall of specific experiences, and that people discount or reweigh memories of expectation-inconsistent events better than a selective memory or initial effects hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, a "constituent" approach to the study of perspective taking is presented, where the authors focus on the fundamental elements of perspective-taking, and discuss the relationship between perspective taking and mental health.