Samuel Johnson

University of Bath - School of Management

Division of Marketing, Business, & Society

Claverton Down

Bath, BA2 7AY

United Kingdom

http://www.sgbjohnson.com/

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (15)

1.

Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2018
Samuel Johnson, Jiewen Zhang and Frank Keil
University of Bath - School of Management, University of California, Davis - Department of Psychology and Yale University - Department of Psychology
Downloads 617 (90,487)
Citation 5

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Intuitive theories, Folk psychology, Judgment & decision-making, Behavioral economics

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Dimensions of Altruism: Do Evaluations of Prosocial Behavior Track Social Good or Personal Sacrifice?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Nov 2018
Samuel Johnson
University of Bath - School of Management
Downloads 540 (107,123)
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prosocial behavior, altruism, moral psychology, reputation, judgment and decision-making

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Narrative Decision-Making in Investment Choices: How Investors Use News About Company Performance

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Sep 2017
Samuel Johnson and David Tuckett
University of Bath - School of Management and University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty
Downloads 467 (128,283)
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Behavioral economics, Behavioral finance, Judgment & decision-making, Narratives

4.

The Aesthetic Psychology of Mathematics

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Feb 2020
Samuel Johnson and Stefan Steinerberger
University of Bath - School of Management and University of Washington
Downloads 393 (156,090)

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Psychology of mathematics, Explanation, Aesthetics, Reasoning, STEM education

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Belief Digitization: Do We Treat Uncertainty as Probabilities or as Bits?

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Jul 2018
Samuel Johnson, Tom Merchant and Frank Keil
University of Bath - School of Management, Brown University - Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Yale University - Department of Psychology
Downloads 304 (206,560)
Citation 1

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Probability, Bayesian Modeling, Judgment, Reasoning, Decision-Making, Prediction

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Impressed by Numbers: The Extent to Which Novice Investors Favor Precise Numerical Information in a Context of Uncertainty

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 04 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2020
University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, University of Bath - School of Management and University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty
Downloads 231 (274,981)
Citation 1

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financial communication, investment decision, forecasts, ambiguity

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Financial Alchemists and Financial Shamans

Forthcoming, Behavioral & Brain Sciences
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 26 Sep 2017
Samuel Johnson
University of Bath - School of Management
Downloads 150 (402,298)

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financial professionals, money management, cognitive illusions, shamanism, anthropology, psychological biases

8.

Ethical Values and Meta-Ethical Beliefs Guide Deference to Experts

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
Samuel Johnson, Max Rodrigues and David Tuckett
University of Bath - School of Management, Yale University - Department of Psychology and University College London - Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty
Downloads 149 (404,533)
Citation 1

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expertise, values, similarity, persuasion, moral psychology

9.

Optimality Bias in Moral Judgment

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 01 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2018
Julian De Freitas and Samuel Johnson
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and University of Bath - School of Management
Downloads 144 (415,799)

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Moral Judgment, Lay Decision Theory, Theory of Mind, Decision-Making, Causal Attribution

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Toward a Cognitive Science of Markets: Economic Agents As Sense-Makers

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Samuel Johnson
University of Bath - School of Management
Downloads 123 (470,579)

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Cognitive Science, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Finance, Economics Methodology, Information Processing, Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

11.

Moral Deteriorations Sever Firm Identity

Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 22-077, Harvard Business Working Paper No. 22-077
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Jul 2022
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Bath, Harvard University and University of Bath - School of Management
Downloads 120 (482,744)
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Corporate identity, morality, brand activism, social media, business ethics, firm stereotypes

12.

Dread Aversion and Economic Preferences

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Apr 2021
Chris Dawson and Samuel Johnson
University of Bath and University of Bath - School of Management
Downloads 116 (492,112)
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Anticipatory emotions, Time preferences, Risk preferences, Behavioral economics

13.

Simplicity and Complexity Preferences in Causal Explanation: An Opponent Heuristic Account

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Jun 2018
Samuel Johnson, J. J. Valenti and Frank Keil
University of Bath - School of Management, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Yale University - Department of Psychology
Downloads 115 (495,293)
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Causal reasoning, explanation, inference, understanding, simplicity

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Consumers’ Beliefs about the Effects of Trade

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Aug 2019
Samuel Johnson, Jiewen Zhang and Frank Keil
University of Bath - School of Management, University of California, Davis - Department of Psychology and Yale University - Department of Psychology
Downloads 81 (623,453)

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lay economics, intuitive theories, consumer beliefs, moral judgment and decision-making, international marketing, trade, country-of-origin effects

15.

The Latent Scope Bias: Robust and Replicable

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 May 2024
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), University of Bath - School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 29 (969,179)

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latent scope, explanatory reasoning, bias, causation, inferred evidence

Other Papers (2)

Total Downloads: 205
1.

Why Do People Believe in a Zero-Sum Economy?

Behavioral & Brain Sciences, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 09 Jan 2018
Samuel Johnson
University of Bath - School of Management
Downloads 113

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behavioral economics, economic psychology, intuitive theories, folk economics, zero-sum thinking

2.

Moral Evaluations of Time Versus Money Donations

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Mar 2019
Samuel Johnson and Seo Young Park
University of Bath - School of Management and University of Bath, School of management
Downloads 92 (564,397)

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prosocial behavior, altruism, moral psychology, reputation, judgment and decision-making