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is a senior postdoctoral fellow associated with Ghent University in Belgium. His work has been published in Psychological Science and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and elsewhere. He ...

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A lifetime of pleasure and pain, beauty and misery, collapsed into a single scene in this sprawling animated artwork ...

is an associate professor of behavioural science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, US.