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List of works by Nicholas Epley

Are adjustments insufficient?

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs

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Causes and consequences of mind perception

scientific article published on 25 June 2010

Creating social connection through inferential reproduction: loneliness and perceived agency in gadgets, gods, and greyhounds

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Demeaning: Dehumanizing others by minimizing the importance of their psychological needs

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Disfluency prompts analytic thinking--but not always greater accuracy: response to Thompson et al. (2013)

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Egocentric Ethics

Egocentrism over e-mail: can we communicate as well as we think?

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Empathy neglect: reconciling the spotlight effect and the correspondence bias

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Endorsing help for others that you oppose for yourself: Mind perception alters the perceived effectiveness of paternalism

scientific article published on 29 May 2017

Exaggerated, mispredicted, and misplaced: when "it's the thought that counts" in gift exchanges

scientific article published on 9 July 2012

Exaggerating Accessible Differences: When Gender Stereotypes Overestimate Actual Group Differences

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Explanations versus applications: the explanatory power of valuable beliefs

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Group discussion improves lie detection

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How to seem telepathic: enabling mind reading by matching construal.

scientific article published on 31 March 2010

In the mood to get over yourself: mood affects theory-of-mind use.

scientific article published on October 2008

Inferring Perspective Versus Getting Perspective: Underestimating the Value of Being in Another Person's Shoes

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It's surprisingly nice to hear you: Misunderstanding the impact of communication media can lead to suboptimal choices of how to connect with others

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Knowing too much: using private knowledge to predict how one is viewed by others

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Less Evil Than You: Bounded Self-Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Making sense by making sentient: effectance motivation increases anthropomorphism

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Many hands make overlooked work: Over-claiming of responsibility increases with group size.

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Maybe holier, but definitely less evil, than you: Bounded self-righteousness in social judgment

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Mirror, mirror on the wall: enhancement in self-recognition

scientific article published on 11 June 2008

Mistakenly seeking solitude

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

Mistaking minds and machines: How speech affects dehumanization and anthropomorphism

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Motivated mind perception: treating pets as people and people as animals

scientific article published in January 2013

On seeing human: a three-factor theory of anthropomorphism

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Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Perspective mistaking: Accurately understanding the mind of another requires getting perspective, not taking perspective

scientific article published in April 2018

Perspective taking as egocentric anchoring and adjustment

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Perspective taking in children and adults: Equivalent egocentrism but differential correction

Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy

Reciprocity is not give and take: asymmetric reciprocity to positive and negative acts

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Self-centered social exchange: differential use of costs versus benefits in prosocial reciprocity

scientific article published in November 2009

Social Cognition Unbound: Insights Into Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization

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Social connection enables dehumanization

The Humanizing Voice: Speech Reveals, and Text Conceals, a More Thoughtful Mind in the Midst of Disagreement

scientific article published on October 2017

The Sound of Intellect: Speech Reveals a Thoughtful Mind, Increasing a Job Candidate's Appeal

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The anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic: why the adjustments are insufficient

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The costs and benefits of undoing egocentric responsibility assessments in groups

scientific article published on November 2006

The intentional mind and the hot hand: Perceiving intentions makes streaks seem likely to continue

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The mixed blessings of self-knowledge in behavioral prediction: enhanced discrimination but exacerbated bias

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

The topography of generosity: asymmetric evaluations of prosocial actions

scientific article published on 13 October 2014

Undervaluing Gratitude: Expressers Misunderstand the Consequences of Showing Appreciation

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

When effortful thinking influences judgmental anchoring: differential effects of forewarning and incentives on self-generated and externally provided anchors

When perspective taking increases taking: reactive egoism in social interaction

scientific article published in November 2006

Who Sees Human? The Stability and Importance of Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism

scientific article published on May 2010