Why do innovation projects fail? The most common answers are (A) the implementation differs from what was planned; (B) despite positive expected payoffs, there is an ex-ante probability that payoff can be negative (risk). As a third option, we consider fallibility of individuals who evaluate using their limited information-processing capabilities (bounded rationality). Furthermore, compare over...

The contributions of digit ratio (2D:4D), emotional intelligence (EI) and parenting styles to social aggression were examined. Females (n = 215 emerging adults) completed 5 aggression measures, an EI measure, 2 parenting measures, and had their hands measured. Aggression correlated with each of the predictors. Left hand 2D:4D, EI, and parental authoritarianism resulted in the most robust model ...

The current proliferation of authoritarianism across both core and periphery is one political articulation the crisis capitalist world-system. Authoritarianism similarly proliferated in previous periods crisis, 1970s 1980s peripheries, 1930s 1940s core. In Part I this essay, detail how world-systems analysts have long been attuned to describing analyzing chaotic moments between systemic cycles ...

We investigated individual difference predictors of ascribing ingroup characteristics to negative and positive ambiguous targets. Studies 1 and 2 investigated events involving negative targets whose status as racial (Tsarnaev brothers) or national (Woolwich attackers) ingroup members remained ambiguous. Immediately following the attacks, we presented White Americans and British individuals with...

Disgust is a basic emotion characterized by revulsion and rejection, yet it is relatively unexamined in the literature on prejudice. In the present investigation, interpersonal-disgust sensitivity (e.g., not wanting to wear clean used clothes or to sit on a warm seat vacated by a stranger) in particular predicted negative attitudes toward immigrants, foreigners, and socially deviant groups, eve...