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TL;DR: This article found that respondents were more critical in assessing their progress vis-a-vis others in their country versus those in their community, and that relative differences seem to matter more for those in the middle of the distribution than for the very wealthy or the very poor.

TL;DR: This paper reported a large-scale experiment on memory errors and their relation to preferential traits including time preference, attitudes toward risk, and time preference in a large scale experiment with a large number of participants.

TL;DR: In this article, a cue-triggered "wanting" mechanism was proposed as one potential explanation for the occurrence of such impulsive consumption, and three libertarian paternalistic means were discussed to foster an ethical way of impulsive behavior: strengthening willpower, reducing impulsive desires to consume, and guiding impulsive behaviour in ethical directions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider Newcomb's paradox and the Prisoners' Dilemma and argue that the decision maker can ascribe only a tiny weight to anticipatory emotions, and that it is possible to obtain cooperation in both games with probability arbitrarily close to unity.

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TL;DR: In this paper, Neuberg and Heine discuss the notion of belonging, acceptance, belonging, and belonging in the social world, and discuss the relationship between friendship, membership, status, power, and subordination.

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TL;DR: Research suggesting that certain illusions may be adaptive for mental health and well-being is reviewed, examining evidence that a set of interrelated positive illusions—namely, unrealistically positive self-evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism—can serve a wide variety of cognitive, affective, and social functions.