Inhalt:
1. Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice
Cindel White and Ara Norenzayan
- Introduction
- Karma, supernatural causation, and beliefs about justice and fairness
- Cognitive accounts of belief in karma and related forms of justice
- Motivational accounts of belief in karma and related forms of justice
- Limitations of cognitive and motivational accounts
- Cultural evolutionary accounts of belief in karma and related forms of justice
- How supernatural beliefs and morality converged in cultural evolution
- Conclusion

2. Through a looking glass, darkly: Using mechanisms of mind perception to identify accuracy, overconfidence, and underappreciated means for improvement
Nicholas Epley and Tal Eyal
- Introduction
- Does it have mind?: Activating mind perception
- What state in another mind in? Applying mind perception
Increasing mind perception accuracy: Strategies and awareness of effectiveness
- Conclusion

3. The advantages and disadvantages of self-insight: New psychological and neural perspectives
Jennifer S. Beer and Michelle A. Harris
- Self-concept: A developmental milestone
- What is the value of a self-concept?
- The path to accurate self-unsight: A plague of definitional issues
- The many paths to self-insight failure
- Distinguishing among types of self-insight failure
- Lessons from the neural underpinnings of self
- Why don't we have more insight into whether self-insight is advantageous?
- Conclusion

4. The mind is its own place: The difficulties and benefits of thinking for pleasure
Timothy D. Wilson, Erin C. Westgate and Nicholas R. Buttrick
- Introduction
- Research on daydreaming and mind wandering
- Initial studies of intentional thinking for pleasure
- A model of thinking for pleasure
- When people think for pleasure, what do they think about?
- Individual and cultural differences
- The value of thinking for pleasure
- Summary and future directions

5. The social creation of action and inaction: From concepts to goals to behaviors
Dolores Albarracín, Aashna Sunderrajan, Wenhao Dai and Benjamin X. White
- Action and inaction concepts
- Action and inaction attitudes
- Action and inaction goals
- Goal stages
Closing remarks

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Serie / Reihe: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Schlagwörter: Motivation Moral Selbstkonzept prosoziales Verhalten Positive Psychologie Gerechtigkeit Selbsteinschätzung Gedanken Stereotype Karma Egozentrik Menschenkenntnis Mind Perception

Interessenkreis: Fremdsprachig