Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Su, Y.-H., & Shenhav, A. (2026). Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting. Nature Communications, 17(1), 1768.
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Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Park, A. B., Leng, Y., Gonzalez, F. J., Watson, J., Valsesia, F., & Cryder, C. (2026). Consumers Prefer that Corporations Donate Periodically. Journal of Marketing Research. https://t.co/ku4N62tTXS
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Maimone, G., & McKenzie, C. (2026). Whoever is Not With Me is Against Me: The “Moderate as Out-Group” Effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://t.co/Cy4N8YH0Ol
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This issue contains SJDM Featured Research Papers, announcements, jobs, and conferences!
What we love about this paper is that it begins with uncontroversial premises and builds a simple explanation for key features of human memory. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Connolly, D. J., & Loewenstein, G. (2026). How Memory Crystallizes the Past: Memories Become More Consistent Over Time Due to Differential, Nonconstant Change. SSRN. https://t.co/ECeMIiMr4G
What we love about this paper is that it identifies a novel error in consumer choice and offers a compelling explanation to account for it. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Sun, C., Cryder, C., & Rick, S. (2025). A Co-Branding Conundrum: Consumers Underuse Co-Branded Credit Cards Outside of Their Featured Brands. SSRN. https://t.co/lI6ypkr3kr
What we love about this paper is how it digs down into the processes that enable and constrain desirability biases and wishful thinking. Preregistration and open practices enhance credibility.
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Strueder, J. D., Looi, T., Clark, P. M., Cockburn, J., & Windschitl, P. D. (2026). Optimistic Predictions Under Uncertainty: Active Information Search Both Supports and Constrains Motivated Bias [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://t.co/aLU0ZeYBMQ