Publications: Jay J. Van Bavel

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  • Affiliation: New York University, Norwegian School of Economics
  • Author ID: 116250487
  • Total Publications: 126

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Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Science Advances, 2024
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2024 198 99.9%
Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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2021 442 99.9%
Using natural language processing to analyse text data in behavioural science
Nature Reviews Psychology, 2025
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2025 94 99.9%
Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
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2017 951 99.9%
GPT is an effective tool for multilingual psychological text analysis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
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2024 316 99.9%
The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2018
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2018 531 99.8%
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Nature Communications, 2022
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2022 265 99.8%
Negativity drives online news consumption
Nature Human Behaviour, 2023
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2023 207 99.8%
Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Tracks Real-World Dynamic Group Interactions in the Classroom.
Current Biology, 2017
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2017 663 99.8%
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
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2020 510 99.8%
Political sectarianism in America
Science, 2020
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2020 620 99.8%
Stewardship of global collective behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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2021 246 99.6%
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Science, 2024
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2024 79 99.5%
Contextual sensitivity in scientific reproducibility
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016
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2016 327 99.5%
Interventions to reduce partisan animosity
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022
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2022 132 99.4%
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures
2004
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2004 512 99.3%
A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation
2009
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2009 393 99.2%
How social media shapes polarization.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021
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2021 146 99.1%
The Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2014
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2014 261 99.1%
The differential impact of climate interventions along the political divide in 60 countries
Nature Communications, 2024
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2024 56 99.0%
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information
Nature Human Behaviour, 2023
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2023 82 99.0%
A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19
Nature, 2023
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2023 78 98.9%
The dark side of social movements: social identity, non-conformity, and the lure of conspiracy theories.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2020
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2020 158 98.8%
National Narcissism predicts the Belief in and the Dissemination of Conspiracy Theories During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From 56 Countries
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021
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2021 124 98.8%
Political polarization and health
Nature Medicine, 2024
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2024 48 98.7%
Political Psychology in the Digital (mis)Information age: A Model of News Belief and Sharing
Social Issues and Policy Review, 2020
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2020 147 98.6%
Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024
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2024 45 98.5%
Inter-brain synchrony in teams predicts collective performance
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2020
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2020 137 98.4%
Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy
PNAS Nexus, 2022
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2022 80 98.4%
Social Media and Morality.
Annual Review of Psychology, 2023
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2023 61 98.2%
Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2019
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2019 125 98.1%
An ideological asymmetry in the diffusion of moralized content on social media among political leaders.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2019
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2019 120 97.9%
Moral Perception.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2015
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2015 143 97.8%
Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries
Scientific Data, 2023
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2023 53 97.7%
When tonic cardiac vagal tone predicts changes in phasic vagal tone: the role of fear and perceptual load.
Psychophysiology, 2014
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2014 147 97.7%
Updating the identity-based model of belief: From false belief to the spread of misinformation.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2024
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2024 34 97.5%
Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
2014
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2014 133 97.3%
People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023
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2023 48 97.3%
Identity concerns drive belief: The impact of partisan identity on the belief and dissemination of true and false news
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2018
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2018 95 96.6%
Troll and divide: the language of online polarization
PNAS Nexus, 2020
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2020 82 96.5%
A Social Identity Approach to Person Memory
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2012
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2012 127 96.5%
The role of political devotion in sharing partisan misinformation and resistance to fact-checking.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2023
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2023 41 96.5%
Social identity shapes social valuation: evidence from prosocial behavior and vicarious reward
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2017
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2017 98 96.4%
Perceptual Contributions to Racial Bias in Pain Recognition
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2019
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2019 84 96.3%
“Not for All the Tea in China!” Political Ideology and the Avoidance of Dissonance-Arousing Situations
PLoS ONE, 2013
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2013 112 96.1%
In Defense of Tradition: Religiosity, Conservatism, and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage in North America
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2017
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2017 89 95.8%
Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results.
Psychological bulletin, 2020
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2020 72 95.7%
Cardiac vagal tone is correlated with selective attention to neutral distractors under load.
Psychophysiology, 2013
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2013 99 95.3%
Perceiving the World Through Group-Colored Glasses: A Perceptual Model of Intergroup Relations
2016
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2016 81 95.0%
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change
2021
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2021 53 95.0%
Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership
Leadership Quarterly, 2022
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2022 42 95.0%
Fairness violations elicit greater punishment on behalf of another than for oneself
Nature Communications, 2014
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2014 87 94.8%
How social identity shapes conspiratorial belief.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022
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2022 41 94.8%
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning
2022
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2022 38 94.1%
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research
Nature Climate Change, 2023
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2023 30 94.1%
The psychology of virality.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2025
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2025 10 94.1%
Cardiac vagal tone predicts attentional engagement to and disengagement from fearful faces.
Emotion, 2013
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2013 83 93.9%
The moral pop-out effect: enhanced perceptual awareness of morally relevant stimuli.
Cognition, 2014
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2014 77 93.8%
A multi-national test on self-reported compliance with COVID-19 public health measures: The role of individual age and gender demographics and countries’ developmental status
Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2021
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2021 46 93.8%
Social identity shapes antecedents and functional outcomes of moral emotion expression.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2025
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2025 9 93.0%
Reflexive intergroup bias in third-party punishment.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2016
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2016 62 92.7%
Young children police group members at personal cost.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2020
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2020 50 92.6%
The Importance of Moral Construal: Moral versus Non-Moral Construal Elicits Faster, More Extreme, Universal Evaluations of the Same Actions
PLoS ONE, 2012
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2012 73 92.2%
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration
Psychology Science, 2024
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2024 17 92.1%
Is race erased? Decoding race from patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2013
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2013 66 91.7%
A social neuroscience approach to self and social categorisation: A new look at an old issue
2010
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2010 78 91.6%
The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries
Scientific Data, 2024
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2024 16 91.3%
The Misleading count: an identity-based intervention to counter partisan misinformation sharing
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2024
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2024 16 91.3%
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”
Psychology Science, 2024
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2024 15 90.5%
Shifting prosocial intuitions: neurocognitive evidence for a value-based account of group-based cooperation
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2020
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2020 40 90.0%
Collective narcissism predicts the belief and dissemination of conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic
2020
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2020 39 89.7%
Decoding “Us” and “Them”: Neural Representations of Generalized Group Concepts
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2017
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2017 46 89.3%
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023
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2023 20 89.2%
Rapid social perception is flexible: approach and avoidance motivational states shape P100 responses to other-race faces
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
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2012 54 88.7%
Morality in the anthropocene: The perversion of compassion and punishment in the online world
PNAS Nexus, 2024
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2024 13 88.3%
Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024
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2024 13 88.3%
At the heart of morality lies neuro-visceral integration: lower cardiac vagal tone predicts utilitarian moral judgment.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2016
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2016 42 87.8%
Cardiac Vagal Tone Predicts Inhibited Attention to Fearful Faces the Neurovisceral Integration Model and Hrv
2012
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2012 50 87.6%
The imperative of interpretable machines
Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020
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2020 33 87.2%
The Neural Development of ‘Us and Them’
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2016
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2016 36 85.4%
Preregistered Replication of “Feeling Superior Is a Bipartisan Issue: Extremity (Not Direction) of Political Views Predicts Perceived Belief Superiority”
Psychology Science, 2020
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2020 29 85.1%
From the heart to the mind's eye: cardiac vagal tone is related to visual perception of fearful faces at high spatial frequency.
Biological Psychology, 2012
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2012 38 83.4%
Dynamic representations of race: processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2014
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2014 34 83.0%
Cardiac vagal tone predicts inhibited attention to fearful faces.
Emotion, 2012
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2012 37 83.0%
A Value-Based Framework for Understanding Cooperation
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2019
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2019 26 81.9%
Racial bias in the sharing economy and the role of trust and self-congruence.
Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, 2021
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2021 20 81.4%
The psychology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2022
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2022 14 77.8%
Dissociable contributions of the prefrontal cortex in group-based cooperation
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2018
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2018 21 76.6%
Speaking my truth: Why personal experiences can bridge divides but mislead
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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2021 16 76.5%
Reply to Inbar: Contextual sensitivity helps explain the reproducibility gap between social and cognitive psychology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016
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2016 21 75.4%
Swiss identity smells like chocolate: Social identity shapes olfactory judgments
Scientific Reports, 2016
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2016 21 75.4%
Toward a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with frontal and midbrain lesions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021
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2021 15 75.0%
Proximity under Threat: The Role of Physical Distance in Intergroup Relations
PLoS ONE, 2016
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2016 19 73.3%
The Group Mind: The Pervasive Influence of Social Identity on Cognition
2014
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2014 20 73.0%
Social identity shapes antecedents and functional outcomes of moral emotion expression in online networks
2021
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2021 13 71.6%
Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2024
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2024 6 71.6%
The neural basis of ideological differences in race categorization
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021
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2021 12 69.7%
Sudden shifts in social identity swiftly shape implicit evaluation
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2018
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2018 14 67.7%
Is the Political Slant of Psychology Research Related to Scientific Replicability?
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019
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2019 13 66.9%
See for Yourself: Perception Is Attuned to Morality.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2016
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2016 13 65.3%
Breaking Groupthink: Why Scientific Identity and Norms Mitigate Ideological Epistemology
Psychological Inquiry, 2020
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2020 11 63.9%
The time course of moral perception: an ERP investigation of the moral pop-out effect
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2020
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2020 11 63.9%
Allocating moral responsibility to multiple agents
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019
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2019 11 63.1%
The role of political devotion in sharing partisan misinformation
2021
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2021 9 62.4%
Parents’ Political Ideology Predicts How Their Children Punish
Psychology Science, 2021
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2021 9 62.4%
Exposure to justice diminishes moral perception.
Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2016
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2016 11 61.8%
Political and nonpolitical belief change elicits behavioral change.
Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, 2021
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2021 8 59.4%
Estimating the effect size of moral contagion in online networks: A pre-registered replication and meta-analysis
2021
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2021 8 59.4%
A time for moral actions: Moral identity, morality-as-cooperation and moral circles predict support of collective action to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in an international sample
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2023
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2023 5 57.1%
Clarifying the Role of Perception in Intergroup Relations: Origins of Bias, Components of Perception, and Practical Implications
2016
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2016 8 55.1%
Varieties of Emotional Experience: Differences in Object or Computation?
2009
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2009 8 51.7%
Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference
PLoS ONE, 2015
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2015 7 51.6%
Data from a pre-publication independent replication initiative examining ten moral judgement effects
Scientific Data, 2016
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2016 6 49.2%
The psychology and neuroscience of partisanship
The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology, 2020
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2020 5 45.4%
The time-course of moral perception: An ERP investigation of the moral pop-out effect
2020
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2020 5 45.4%
More to morality than mutualism: consistent contributors exist and they can inspire costly generosity in others.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2013
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2013 5 44.8%
Estimating the effect size of moral contagion in online networks: A pre-registered replication and meta-analysis
PNAS Nexus, 2025
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2025 1 41.1%
Proximity Under Threat: Understanding the Role of Physical Distance in Intergroup Relations
2015
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2015 3 35.4%
Clarifying the relationship between randomness dismissal and conspiracist ideation: A preregistered replication and meta-analysis
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2022
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2022 2 29.6%
Correction: Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference
PLoS ONE, 2016
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2016 2 28.7%
The Social Neuroscience of Cooperation
2018
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2018 2 28.3%
The best-case heuristic: Relative optimism in a global health pandemic
2020
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2020 2 27.4%
Debate around leadership in the Stanford Prison Experiment: Reply to Zimbardo and Haney (2020) and Chan et al. (2020).
American Psychologist, 2020
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2020 2 27.4%
Shifting evaluative construal: Common and distinct neural components of moral, pragmatic, and hedonic evaluations.
Emotion, 2024
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2024 1 25.7%
Author Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Nature Communications, 2022
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2022 1 18.0%
Examining the plausibility of Donald Trump’s denial of responsibility for the 2020 assault on the U. S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership
2021
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2021 1 17.5%