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Vladas Griskevicius

Researcher at University of Minnesota

Publications -  112
Citations -  21880

Vladas Griskevicius is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Evolutionary psychology & Conspicuous consumption. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 112 publications receiving 18680 citations. Previous affiliations of Vladas Griskevicius include Arizona State University.

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Invoking Social Norms: A Social Psychology Perspective on Improving Hotels' Linen-Reuse Programs

TL;DR: Social psychology theory can be applied to such mundane purposes as encouraging guests to reuse their washroom towels as discussed by the authors, and it has been used to encourage people to reuse towels in the past.
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Economic decision biases and fundamental motivations: how mating and self-protection alter loss aversion.

TL;DR: Overall, loss aversion appears to be sensitive to evolutionarily important motives, suggesting that it may be a domain-specific bias operating according to an adaptive logic of recurring threats and opportunities in different evolutionary domains.
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Deep Rationality: The Evolutionary Economics of Decision Making

TL;DR: It is suggested that traditional psychological functions governing risk aversion, discounting of future benefits, and budget allocations to multiple goods, for example, vary in predictable ways as a function of the underlying motive of the decision-maker and individual differences linked to evolved life-history strategies.
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Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust

TL;DR: This article found that disgust sensitivity in the pathogen domain is positively correlated with facial masculinity preferences, but disgust sensitivity on the moral and sexual domains is not, which may reflect factors that influence how women resolve the tradeoff between the benefits and costs associated with choosing a masculine partner.