Spirituality of Science: Implications for Meaning, Well-Being, and Learning.

Scientists often refer to spiritual experiences with science. This research addresses this unique component of science attitudes-: feelings of meaning, awe, and connection derived through scientific ideas. Three studies ( = 1,197) examined individual differences in Spirituality of Science (SoS) and its benefits for well-being, meaning, and learning.

Evaluation of the Feasibility and Perceived Value of Integrating Developmental Monitoring Resources in Early Head Start.

Many children with developmental disabilities are not identified before age 3 years old preventing them from being able to fully benefit from early intervention services. Early childhood educators, particularly those in Early Head Start (EHS) programs, are important partners in the early identification of children with developmental delays. (LTSAE) is a program of the U.

Attitudes, behavior, and institutional inversion: The case of debt.

Psychologists often posit relatively straightforward attitude-behavior links. They also often study cultural arrangements as manifestations of attitudes and values writ large. However, we illustrate some difficulties with scaling up attitude-behavior principles from the individual-level to the cultural-level: Historical attitudes and values can lead to the creation of intermediating institutions, whose value-expressive functions may be at odds with the behavioral outcomes they produce.

The Hedonics of Debt.

Psychologists and economists often discuss the "pain" of paying for our purchases. Four experiments examine how people evaluate prospective debt payments, analyzing how different features of a loan (down payment, final payment, duration, monthly payments) affect willingness to accept the loan. Akin to previous findings on physical pain, participants exhibited duration neglect and overweighted final moments.

Anthropocentric biases in teleological thinking: How nature seems designed for humans.

People frequently see design in nature that reflects intuitive teleological thinking-that is, the order in nature that supports life suggests it was designed for that purpose. This research proposes that inferences are stronger when nature supports human life specifically. Five studies (N = 1,788) examine evidence for an anthro-teleological bias.

Institutional inversion and the connection between collective attitudes and behavior.

Most psychologists assume a harmonious correspondence between attitudes, behavior, and cultural institutions. However, institutions often act as intermediating forces between collective attitudes and behavior, and institutions' value-expressive function may be at-odds with the actual behavioral outcomes they produce. We illustrate this with the paradox-of-debt: Protestant cultures have traditionally been relatively less sympathetic to debtors than Catholic cultures have been.

Meanings and Functions of Money in Different Cultural Milieus.

We explore the psychological meanings of money that parallel its economic functions. We explore money's ability to ascribe value, give autonomy, and provide security for the future, and we show how each of these functions may play out differently in different cultural milieus. In particular, we explore the meanings and uses of money across ethnic groups and at different positions on the socioeconomic ladder, highlighting changes over the last 50 years.

Defining Social Class Across Time and Between Groups.

We examined changes over four decades and between ethnic groups in how people define their social class. Changes included the increasing importance of income, decreasing importance of occupational prestige, and the demise of the "Victorian bargain," in which poor people who subscribed to conservative sexual and religious norms could think of themselves as middle class. The period also saw changes (among Whites) and continuity (among Black Americans) in subjective status perceptions.