Selfless Memories

Selfless giving.

In four studies, we show that people who anticipate more personal change over time give more to others. We measure and manipulate participants' beliefs in the persistence of the defining psychological features of a person (e.g., his or her beliefs, values, and life goals) and measure generosity, finding support for the hypothesis in three studies using incentive-compatible charitable donation d...

Survival of the selfless

Two selfless contributions to web search evaluation

We present our results for the Web Search track and the Federated Web Search track for the 23rd Text Retrieval Conference TREC.

Selfless assertions: some empirical evidence

It is increasingly recognized that knowledge is the norm of assertion. As this view has gained popularity, it has also garnered criticism. One widely discussed criticism involves thought experiments about “selfless assertion.” Selfless assertions are said to be intuitively compelling examples where agents should assert propositions that they don’t even believe and, hence, don’t know. This resul...

Selfless Interpolation for Infinite-State Model Checking

We present a new method for interpolation in satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) that is aimed at applications in model-checking and invariant inference. The new method allows us to control the finiteconvergence of interpolant sequences and, at the same time, provides expressive invariant-driven interpolants. It is based on a novel integration of model-driven quantifier elimination and abstrac...