Leaf Van Boven

University of Colorado Boulder

Associate Professor

University of Colorado Boulder

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB

Boulder, CO 80309

United States

http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/

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1.

The Effort Heuristic

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 40, pp. 91-98, 2004
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
Derrick Wirtz, Justin Kruger, Justin Kruger, William Altermatt and Leaf Van Boven
affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan-Flint and University of Colorado Boulder
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Judgment and decision-making, Heuristics and biases, Social cognition, Effort

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Experientialism, Materialism, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Review of General Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 132-142, 2005
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven
University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 485 (82,248)
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Perceiving Political Polarization in the United States: Party Identity Strength and Attitude Extremity Exacerbate the Perceived Partisan Divide

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2014
Jacob Westfall, Leaf Van Boven, John R. Chambers and Charles M. Judd
University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Boulder, St. Louis University and University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Psychology
Downloads 445 (91,116)
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attitudes, identities, political psychology, polarization, politics, American National Election Study

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Pluralistic Ignorance and Political Correctness: The Case of Affirmative Action

Political Psychology, Vol. 21, pp. 267-276, 2002
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2011
Leaf Van Boven
University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 384 (108,055)

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pluralistic ignorance, political correctness, affirmative action

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What’s Next? Judging Sequences of Binary Events

Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 135, No. 2, pp. 262-285, 2009
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven, An T. Oskarsson, Gary McClelland and Reid Hastie
University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Psychology and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 343 (122,482)
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hot hand, streaks, gambler’s fallacy, binary sequence, Markov process

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Donate Different: External and Internal Influences on Emotion-Based Donation Decisions

THE SCIENCE OF GIVING: EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF CHARITY, D.M. Oppenheimer & C.Y. Olivola, eds., Taylor & Francis, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2012
Michaela Huber, Leaf Van Boven and A. Peter McGraw
University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado Boulder and University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Marketing
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Boys Don't Cry: Cognitive Load and Priming Increase Stereotypic Sex Differences in Emotion Memory

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Boys Don't Cry: Cognitive Load and Priming Increase Stereotypic Sex Differences in Emotion Memory

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 48, p. 303, 2012
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 31 Jan 2012
Leaf Van Boven and Michael D. Robinson
University of Colorado Boulder and North Dakota State University
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accessibility, cognitive load, emotion, memory, sex differences, stereotypes

Boys Don't Cry: Cognitive Load and Priming Increase Stereotypic Sex Differences in Emotion Memory

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 48, p. 303, 2012
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 09 Dec 2012
Leaf Van Boven and Michael D. Robinson
University of Colorado Boulder and North Dakota State University
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Mobilization, Polarization, and Compromise: The Effect of Political Moralizing on Climate Change Politics

APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Jul 2014
Sarah Anderson, Matthew Potoski, Alex DeGolia, Dena Gromet, David Sherman and Leaf Van Boven
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and University of Colorado Boulder
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A Look into the Mind of the Negotiator: Mental Models in Negotiation

Group Processes and Interpersonal Relations, Vol. 6, pp. 387-404, 2003
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Leigh Thompson and Leaf Van Boven
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 230 (183,827)

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experience, integrative, mental models, negotiation, problem-solving, training

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Identifiable but Not Identical: Combining Social Identity and Uniqueness Motives in Choice

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 39, October 2012
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Dec 2012
Cindy Chan, Cindy Chan, Jonah A. Berger and Leaf Van Boven
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton SchoolUniversity of Toronto - Marketing, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 220 (191,702)
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Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 87, pp. 327-339, 2004
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Nicholas Epley, Boaz Keysar, Thomas Gilovich and Leaf Van Boven
Harvard University, University of Chicago - Department of Psychology, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 179 (230,853)
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Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Underestimation of Owners' Selling Prices by Buye's Agents

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Feb 2002
Leaf Van Boven, David Dunning and George Loewenstein
University of Colorado Boulder, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 178 (231,968)
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Behavioral economics, endowment effect, experimental economics

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Consumer Choice and Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

Customer Needs and Solutions, Forthcoming , INSEAD Working Paper , Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Research Paper No. 18-03
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 Feb 2018
Quentin André, Ziv Carmon, Klaus Wertenbroch, Alia Crum, Frank Douglas, William Goldstein, Joel Huber, Leaf Van Boven, Bernd Weber and Haiyang Yang
Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, INSEAD, INSEAD - Marketing, Stanford University, Analysis Group, Inc., University of Chicago - Department of Psychology, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Bonn and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Consumer Autonomy, Big Data, Consumer Choice, Micro-Targeting

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The Unpacking Effect in Evaluative Judgments: When the Whole is Less than the Sum of its Parts

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 39, pp. 263–269, 2003
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 31 May 2012
Nicholas Epley and Leaf Van Boven
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Colorado Boulder
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Evaluation, Support theory, Unpacking effect

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Varieties of Happiness Experience: Review of Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness

Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol. 2, pp. 269-270, 2007
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 20 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven and Laura Johnson-Graham
University of Colorado Boulder and University of Colorado at Boulder
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Temporally Asymmetric Constraints on Mental Simulation: Retrospection is More Constrained than Prospection

The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation, pp. 131-149, 2008
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Joanne Kane, A. Peter McGraw and Leaf Van Boven
Princeton University - Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Marketing and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 137 (287,260)

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Stigmatizing Materialism: On Stereotypes and Impressions of Materialistic and Experiential Pursuits

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Thomas Gilovich, Margaret C. Campbell and Leaf Van Boven
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 137 (287,260)

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Feeling Close: Emotional Intensity Reduces Perceived Psychological Distance

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 98, pp. 872-885, 2010
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2012
Leaf Van Boven, Joanne Kane, A. Peter McGraw and Jeannette Dale
University of Colorado Boulder, Princeton University - Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Marketing and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 117 (322,750)
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emotion, intensity, judgment, psychological distance, subjective time

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What's Next? Judging Sequences of Binary Events

Psychological Bulletin, Vol.135, pp. 262–285
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2010
An T. Oskarsson, Leaf Van Boven, Gary McClelland and Reid Hastie
University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Psychology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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hot hand, streaks, gambler’s fallacy, binary sequence, Markov process

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Whom to Help? Immediacy Bias in Judgments and Decisions About Humanitarian Aid

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 115, pp. 283-293, 2011
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 01 Feb 2012
Leaf Van Boven, Michaela Huber, A. Peter McGraw and Laura Johnson-Graham
University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Marketing and University of Colorado at Boulder
Downloads 99 (361,461)
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decision making, order effects, serial position, affect, emotion, charitable giving

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Empathy Gaps in Emotional Perspective Taking

OTHER MINDS: HOW HUMANS BRIDGE THE DIVIDE BETWEEN SELF AND OTHERS, S. Hodges, B. Malle, eds., Guilford Press, 2005
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven and George Loewenstein
University of Colorado Boulder and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 97 (366,134)

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Abstract Construal Makes the Emotional Rewards of Prosocial Behavior More Salient

Journal of Positive Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Sep 2014
Lara B. Aknin, Leaf Van Boven and Laura Johnson-Graham
University of British Columbia, University of Colorado Boulder and University of Colorado at Boulder
Downloads 89 (386,167)

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prosocial behavior, construal level, well-being, volunteerism

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Looking Forward, Looking Back: Anticipation is More Evocative than Retrospection

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 136, pp. 289-300, 2007
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Laurence Ashworth and Leaf Van Boven
Queen's University - Smith School of Business and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 82 (405,666)
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affective forecasting, anticipation, emotion, memory, simulation

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Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Underestimation of Owners’ Selling Prices by Buyer’s Agents

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 51, pp. 351-365, 2003
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein, David Dunning and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 80 (411,502)

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Behavioral economic, Endowment effect, Experimental economics

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Egocentric Empathy Gaps between Owners and Buyers: Misperceptions of the Endowment Effect

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 66-76, 2000
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 73 (433,144)
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The Illusion of Transparency in Negotiations

Negotiation Journal, Vol. 19, pp. 117-131, 2003
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
Thomas Gilovich, Victoria Husted Medvec and Leaf Van Boven
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and University of Colorado Boulder
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Political Polarization Projection: Social Projection of Attitude Extremity and Attitudinal Processes

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 103, No. 1, pp. 84–100, 2012
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2012
Leaf Van Boven, Charles M. Judd and David Sherman
University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Psychology and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Downloads 60 (478,861)
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attitude extremity, egocentrism, projection, polarization, politics

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Oppositional Projection in Perceived Support for Cap and Trade

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 May 2014
Dena M. Gromet and Leaf Van Boven
University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado Boulder
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attitude, projection, politics, polarization, oppositeness, climate change

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Values and Preferences: Defining Preference Contruction

Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Vol. 2, pp. 193-205, March/April 2011
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Feb 2012
Leaf Van Boven, A. Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren
University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Marketing and Bocconi University - Department of Marketing
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values, preferences, constructs, judgment, choice

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The Perceiver as Perceived: Everyday Intuitions About the Correspondence Bias

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 77, pp. 1188-1199, 1999
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Akiko Kamada, Thomas Gilovich and Leaf Van Boven
Nihon University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Colorado Boulder
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The Illusion of Courage in Social Predictions: Underestimating the Impact of Fear of Embarrassment on Other People

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 96, pp. 130-141, 2005
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein and David Dunning
University of Colorado Boulder, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Cornell University
Downloads 55 (498,447)
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AVective forecasting, Decision making, Empathy gaps, Emotion, Judgment, Prediction, Perspective taking

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Immediacy Bias in Emotion Perception: Current Emotions Seem More Intense than Previous Emotions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 138, No. 3, 368-382, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
Michaela Huber, Katherine White and Leaf Van Boven
University of Colorado at Boulder, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 53 (506,664)
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emotion, judgment, heuristic, memory, perception

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Cross-Situational Projection

SELF AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT, M. Alicke, J. Krueger, D. Dunning, eds., pp. 43-64, Psychology Press, 2005
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Colorado Boulder
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The Unpacking Effect in Allocations of Responsibility for Group Tasks

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 41, pp. 447-457, 2005
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 08 Feb 2010
Kenneth Savitsky, Wayne Wight, Nicholas Epley and Leaf Van Boven
Williams College - Department of Psychology, Williams College - Department of Psychology, Harvard University and University of Colorado Boulder
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Contingent Social Utility in the Prisoners’ Dilemma

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 45, pp. 1-17, 2001
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
Robert S. Gibbons and Leaf Van Boven
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 30 (623,583)

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Prisoners’ dilemma, Social utility, Contingent utility, Behavioral game theory

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When Social Worlds Collide: Overconfidence in the Multiple Audience Problem

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When Social Worlds Collide: Overconfidence in the Multiple Audience Problem

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 26, 620-629, 2000
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Feb 2010
Kenneth Savitsky, Thomas Gilovich and Leaf Van Boven
Williams College - Department of Psychology, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Colorado Boulder
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When Social Worlds Collide: Overconfidence in the Multiple Audience Problem

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 26, pp. 620-629, 2000
Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven
University of Colorado Boulder

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Social Projection of Transient Drive States

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 29, pp. 1159-1168, 2003
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 19 (701,847)
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egocentrism, empathy gaps, perspective taking

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Values and Preferences: Defining Preference Construction

Mays Business School Research Paper No. 2015-8, Cognitive Science, Volume 2, Issue 2, pages 193-205, March/April 2011
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 Feb 2015
Caleb Warren, A. Peter McGraw and Leaf Van Boven
University of Arizona, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Marketing and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 18 (709,749)
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Feelings Not Foregone: Underestimating Affective Reactions to What Does Not Happen

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 May 2012
Eduardo B. Andrade, Eduardo B. Andrade and Leaf Van Boven
FGV/EBAPEaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Colorado Boulder
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affect, judgment, counterfactual thoughts, affective forecasting, choice, decision making

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Similarity on the Rebound: Inhibition of Similarity Assessment Leads to an Ironic Postsuppressional Rebound

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 64, pp. 1788-1796, 2011
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Feb 2012
Leaf Van Boven, Nicolas Geeraert and Vincent Yzerbyt
University of Colorado Boulder, University of Essex - Department of Psychology and Catholic University of Louvain
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similarity, categorization, false memory, rebound

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Immediacy Bias in Social-Emotional Comparisons

Emotion, 2012, Vol. 12, No. 4, 737-747
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Dec 2012
Katherine White and Leaf Van Boven
University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of Colorado Boulder
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Intuitions About Situational Correction in Self and Others

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 85, pp. 249-258, 2003
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Katherine White, Akiko Kamada, Thomas Gilovich and Leaf Van Boven
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Nihon University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Colorado Boulder
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Balance Where it Really Counts

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2004
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Nicholas Epley, Eugene M. Caruso and Leaf Van Boven
Harvard University, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Colorado Boulder
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The Illusion of Courage in Self-Predictions: Mispredicting One's Own Behavior in Embarrassing Situations

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-12, January 2012
Posted: 31 Jan 2012
Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein, Edward Welch and David Dunning
University of Colorado Boulder, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University

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affective forecasting, decision making, choice, embarrassment, empathy gaps, emotion, intuition, judgment, prediction

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Learning Negotiation Skills: Four Models of Knowledge Creation and Transfer

Management Science, Vol. 49, pp. 529-540, 2003
Posted: 20 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven
University of Colorado Boulder

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Learning, analogical reasoning, management skills

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To Do or to Have? That is the Question

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 85, pp. 1193-1202, 2003
Posted: 20 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven
University of Colorado Boulder

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