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  • People often believe what they want to believe rather than what the evidence implies. Here Melnikoff and Strohminger find that this seemingly irrational tendency may emerge from fully rational Bayesian calculations.

    • David E. Melnikoff
    • Nina Strohminger
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 8, P: 692-701

  • When a person assumes the role of advocate, can they keep their personal beliefs separate from their role? This paper suggests not: merely accepting the role of advocate shifts people’s beliefs into alignment with their cause.

    • David E. Melnikoff
    • Nina Strohminger
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 4, P: 1258-1264

  • Flow is a desired but elusive state characterized by the subjective experience of immersion and engagement in an activity. Here, the authors develop and empirically validate a formal model that specifies variables and computations involved in the subjective experience of flow.

    • David E. Melnikoff
    • Ryan W. Carlson
    • Paul E. Stillman
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-13