Almos C Molnar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4601769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Almos C Molnar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Almos C |
| FAMILY NAME | Molnar |
| SIGNATURE | MOLNAR A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences Brown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2559-428X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Zero-sum bias in politicized problem solving
Zero-sum bias refers to the tendency to believe that anything gained by one side is lost by the other when in fact win-win outcomes are available. Prior research has documented the bias in several domains but little is known about what triggers it. As politics is a hotbed of zero-sum beliefs, we hypothesized that politicizing problems would act as either a situational trigger or inhibitor for partisans and that this would lead them to propose qua…
Do We Appeal to the Knowledge of Our Political Rivals
Categorical explanations involve the use of labels to account for various properties of the explanandum. Prior research shows that the degree to which a label is perceived to be entrenched in society impacts the judged quality of the categorical explanation that invokes it regardless of how informative the explanation actually is. The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether the label entrenchment effect persists even when the label is …
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Zero-sum bias in politicized problem solving
Zero-sum bias refers to the tendency to believe that anything gained by one side is lost by the other when in fact win-win outcomes are available. Prior research has documented the bias in several domains but little is known about what triggers it. As politics is a hotbed of zero-sum beliefs, we hypothesized that politicizing problems would act as either a situational trigger or inhibitor for partisans and that this would lead them to propose qua…
Do We Appeal to the Knowledge of Our Political Rivals
Categorical explanations involve the use of labels to account for various properties of the explanandum. Prior research shows that the degree to which a label is perceived to be entrenched in society impacts the judged quality of the categorical explanation that invokes it regardless of how informative the explanation actually is. The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether the label entrenchment effect persists even when the label is …
Politics (2 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (2 works) · Appeal (1 works) · Categorical variable (1 works) · Cognitive bias (1 works) · Cognitive reframing (1 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (1 works) · Motivated reasoning (1 works) · Outcome (game theory) (1 works)