Much recent work in epistemology has focused on the analysis of cognitive character traits. These traits comprise an important kind of intellectual virtue. 1 Among the intellectual virtues that have received extended treatment in the literature are responsibility, conscientiousness, honesty, courage, open-mindedness, firmness, humility, charity, and wisdom. 2 To my knowledge, no philosopher has...

The psychological model of thinking about money assumes that implicit reminders of money lead to self-sufficient motivation. Previous research has demonstrated that children react to money in similar ways to adults. The priming of young children with money related concepts or images has negatively affected their social behavior and social preferences, leading them to make more individualist and...

From the moment they make up their mind, people are reluctant to change it. We tested the hypothesis that people disposing of more cognitive resources—through circadian variations or socially distributed thinking—would engage in deliberative thinking and would consequently be less likely to exhibit belief perseverance. Perseverance was measured by the change in judgments related to a suspect in...