Given almost 50 years of research into the reasoning for poor decision-making, scholars have called for a renewed research effort at determining how we can move from explaining to improving decision making. This ambition presupposes a thorough understanding of the current biases and a focus on...

Social Comparisons are ubiquitous phenomenon, for some researchers the key to evolutionary survival, for others key to understanding depression. Anybody engaged in artistic endeavors understands the relevance comparisons play throughout the creative process. In this article we examine the...

Contrary to the assumption that vision worsens over time, the current experiments show that vision be improved by manipulating mindsets. Experiment 1 primed the mindset that pilots have excellent vision. Vision improved for participants who experientially became pilots through instructions and...

Ageism has resulted in overstated expectations regarding the inevitable deterioration in human capabilities, such as visual perception, with age (Rowe & Kahn, 1987; Grant, 1996). Human visual perception, however, is of a largely constructive nature, evidenced in the complementary interactions...