Does it make sense for people to hold one another responsible for what they do, as happens in countless social interactions every day? One of the most unsettling lessons from recent psychological research is that people are routinely mistaken about the origins of their behavior. Yet philosophical orthodoxy holds that the exercise of morally responsible agency typically requires accurate self-aw...

This article presents a short review of dual-process and dual-system theories from social and cognitive psychology and comments on their relevance for research on economic behavior. We view dual-process theories as a theoretical scaffolding which helps structure and interpret experimental results and can deliver important insights on human behavior in economic contexts. Dual-process ideas and c...

Possible selves are the part of self that describe a person’s future self. The developed cognitive abilities and hypothetical thinking in adolescence allow them to conceptualize speculate about who they what hope be future. consist two selves, expected (hoped-for possible ) feared (feared selves). can provide an overview adolescent identity motivates their behavior at present. relationship betw...