Samuel G B Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4436740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel G B Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel G B |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON S G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Psychology University of Warwick Coventry UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1825-5979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asymmetric Anticipatory Emotions and Economic Preferences
We are often preoccupied with the future, experiencing dread at the thought of future misery and savoring the thought of future pleasure. Prior lab studies have found that these anticipatory emotions influence decision‐making. In this article, using economic survey data to estimate individual differences in anticipatory emotions, we find that the tendency to feel displeasure from anticipating future losses outweighs the pleasure from anticipating…
When Certainty Backfires
Consumers are drawn to the promise of certainty that precise forecasts seem to provide, even though they are often misleading. Yet we know less about how consumers respond when precise forecasts prove inaccurate. In this paper, we investigate how inaccurate precise compared to range forecasts affect consumer judgments and decisions over time in an investment context. Specifically, we assess how they affect consumers' loyalty towards the forecaste…
The latent scope bias
Principles of moral accounting
Narrative expectations in financial forecasting
How do people form expectations about the future? We use amateur and expert investors' expectations about financial asset prices to study this question. Three experiments contrast the rational expectations assumption from neoclassical economics (investors forecast according to neoclassical financial theory) against two psychological theories of expectation formation— behaviorally informed expectations (investors understand empirical market anomal…
Moral tribalism and its discontents
We study the psychology at the intersection of two social trends. First, as markets become increasingly specialized, consumers must increasingly defer to outside experts to decide among complex products. Second, people divide themselves increasingly into moral tribes, defining themselves in terms of shared values with their group and often seeing these values as being objectively right or wrong. We tested how and why these tribalistic tendencies …
Optimality bias in moral judgment
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 18
Optimality bias in moral judgment
Moral tribalism and its discontents
We study the psychology at the intersection of two social trends. First, as markets become increasingly specialized, consumers must increasingly defer to outside experts to decide among complex products. Second, people divide themselves increasingly into moral tribes, defining themselves in terms of shared values with their group and often seeing these values as being objectively right or wrong. We tested how and why these tribalistic tendencies …
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 18
Optimality bias in moral judgment
Moral tribalism and its discontents
We study the psychology at the intersection of two social trends. First, as markets become increasingly specialized, consumers must increasingly defer to outside experts to decide among complex products. Second, people divide themselves increasingly into moral tribes, defining themselves in terms of shared values with their group and often seeing these values as being objectively right or wrong. We tested how and why these tribalistic tendencies …
Principles of moral accounting
Narrative expectations in financial forecasting
How do people form expectations about the future? We use amateur and expert investors' expectations about financial asset prices to study this question. Three experiments contrast the rational expectations assumption from neoclassical economics (investors forecast according to neoclassical financial theory) against two psychological theories of expectation formation— behaviorally informed expectations (investors understand empirical market anomal…
The latent scope bias
When Certainty Backfires
Consumers are drawn to the promise of certainty that precise forecasts seem to provide, even though they are often misleading. Yet we know less about how consumers respond when precise forecasts prove inaccurate. In this paper, we investigate how inaccurate precise compared to range forecasts affect consumer judgments and decisions over time in an investment context. Specifically, we assess how they affect consumers' loyalty towards the forecaste…
Asymmetric Anticipatory Emotions and Economic Preferences
We are often preoccupied with the future, experiencing dread at the thought of future misery and savoring the thought of future pleasure. Prior lab studies have found that these anticipatory emotions influence decision‐making. In this article, using economic survey data to estimate individual differences in anticipatory emotions, we find that the tendency to feel displeasure from anticipating future losses outweighs the pleasure from anticipating…
Psychology (5 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Blame (2 works) · Business (2 works)