Publications

Below are publications associated with work done in the Behavioral Lab.

Recent Publications

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When Individual Goal Pursuit Turns Competitive: How We Sabotage and Coast

Szu-chi Huang, Stephanie C. Lin, Ying Zhang

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. September

2019, Vol. 117, Issue 3, Pages 605-620

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The Solitude of Secrecy: Thinking About Secrets Evokes Goal Conflict and Feelings of Fatigue

Nir Halevy, Michael L. Slepian, Adam D. Galinsky

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. July

1, 2019, Vol. 45, Issue 7, Pages 1129-1151

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It’s Not Going to Be That Fun: Negative Experiences Can Add Meaning to Life

Kathleen D. Vohs, Jennifer Aaker, Rhia Catapano

Current Opinion in Psychology. April

2019, Vol. 26, Pages 11-14

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Acting on Authenticity: Individual Interpretations and Behavioral Responses

David W. Lehman, Kieran O'Connor..., Glenn R. Carroll

Review of General Psychology. March

1, 2019, Vol. 23, Issue 1, Pages 19-31

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Intersectional Escape: Older Women Elude Agentic Prescriptions More Than Older Men

Ashley Martin, Michael S. North, Katherine W. Phillips

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. March

1, 2019, Vol. 45, Issue 3, Pages 342-359

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Does Private Regulation Preempt Public Regulation?

Neil Malhotra, Benoît Monin, Michael Tomz

American Political Science Review. February

2019, Vol. 113, Issue 1, Pages 19–37

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Understanding Diversity Ideologies From the Target’s Perspective: A Review and Future Directions

Seval Gündemir, Ashley Martin, Astrid C. Homan

Frontiers in Psychology. February

2019, Vol. 10

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Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why “Putting Yourself in Their Shoes” Reduces Openness to Attitude Change

Rhia Catapano, Zakary Tormala, Derek Rucker

Psychological Science. January

29, 2019, Vol. 30, Issue 3, Pages 424-435

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Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence

Nir Halevy, Eliran Halali, Julian J. Zlatev

Academy of Management Annals. January

1, 2019, Vol. 13, Issue 1, Pages 215-239

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Economic Reasoning with a Racial Hue: Is the Immigration Consensus Purely Race Neutral?

Benjamin J. Newman, Neil Malhotra

The Journal of Politics. January

2019, Vol. 81, Issue 1

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Leveraging Means – Goal Associations to Boost Children’s Water Consumption: Persuasion in a Four-School Three-Month Field Experiment

Szu-chi Huang, Daniella Kupor, Michal Maimaran, Andrea Weihrauch, (All authors contributed equally)

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. January

2019, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Pages 77-86

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Predispositions and the Political Behavior of American Economic Elites: Evidence from Technology Entrepreneurs

David Broockman, Gregory Ferenstein, Neil Malhotra

American Journal of Political Science. January

2019, Vol. 63, Issue 1, Pages 212-233

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Latent Human Traits in the Language of Social Media: An Open-Vocabulary Approach

Vivek Kullkarni, Margaret L. Kern, David Stillwell, Michal Kosinski, Sandra Matz, Lyle Ungar, Steven Skiena, H. Andrew Schwartz

PLoS ONE. November

28, 2018, Vol. 13, Issue 11

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Once in the Door: Gender, Tryouts, and the Initial Salaries of Managers

Adina Sterling, Roberto M. Fernandez

Management Science. November

2018, Vol. 64, Issue 11, Pages 4967-5460

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The Delegate Paradox: Why Polarized Politicians Can Represent Citizens Best

Douglas Ahler, David Broockman

Journal of Politics. October

2018, Vol. 80, Issue 4, Pages 1117-1133

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The Effect of Economic Consequences on Social Judgment and Choice: Reward Interdependence and the Preference for Sociability versus Competence

Peter Belmi, Jeffrey Pfeffer

Journal of Organizational Behavior. October

2018, Vol. 39, Issue 8, Pages 990-1007

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When moderation fosters persuasion: The persuasive power of deviatory reviews

Daniella Kupor, Zakary Tormala

Journal of Consumer Research. October

2018, Vol. 45, Pages 490-510

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Intergroup Conﬂict is Our Business: CEOs’ Ethical Intergroup Leadership Fuels Stakeholder Support for Corporate Intergroup Responsibility

Nir Halevy, Sora Jun, Eileen Y. Chou

Journal of Business Ethics. September

18, 2018, Pages 1-18

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To Delegate or not to Delegate: Gender Differences in Affective Associations and Behavioral Responses to Delegation

Modupe Akinola, Ashley Martin, Katherine Y. Phillips

Academy of Management Journal. August

16, 2018, Vol. 61, Issue 4

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In Your Eyes Only? Discrepancies and Agreement Between Self- and Other-Reports of Personality From Age 14 to 29

J.M. Rohrer, B. Egloff, Michal Kosinski, S.C. Schmukle

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. August

2018, Vol. 115, Issue 2, Pages 304–320

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Musical Preferences Predict Personality: Evidence From Active Listening and Facebook Likes

Gideon Nave, Juri Minxha, David M. Greenberg, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, Jason Rentfrow

Psychological Science. July

2018, Vol. 29, Issue 7, Pages 1145–1158

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Social Information Avoidance: When, Why, and How it is Costly in Goal Pursuit

Szu-chi Huang

Journal of Marketing Research. June

2018, Vol. 55, Issue 3, Pages 382-395

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When inter-team conflict spirals into intra-team power struggles: The pivotal role of team power structures

Lisanne Van Bunderen, Lindred Greer, Daan Van Knippenberg

Academy of Management Journal. June

2018, Vol. 61, Pages 1100-1130

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Herd Invisibility: The Psychology of Racial Privilege

L. Taylor Phillips, Brian Lowery

Safe Journals. May

1, 2018, Vol. 27, Issue 3, Pages 156-162

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One Size Fits All: Context Collapse, Self-Presentation Strategies and Language Styles on Facebook

Teresa Gil-Lopez, Cuihua Shen, Grace Benefield, Nicholas Palomares, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. May

1, 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 2, Pages 127-145

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Donn, Vic and Tiki Bar Authenticity

Glenn R. Carroll, Dennis Ray Wheaton

Consumption, Markets & Culture. April

27, 2018, Vol. 22, Issue 2, Pages 157-182

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The Asymmetric Impact of Context on Advantaged Versus Disadvantaged Options

Ioannis Evangelidis, Jonathan Levav, Itamar Simonson

Journal of Market Research. April

2018, Vol. 55, Issue 2, Pages 239-253

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Bringing (Contingent) Loss Aversion Down to Earth — A Comment on Gal & Rucker’s Rejection of “Losses Loom Larger Than Gains”

Itamar Simonson, Ran Kivetz

Journal of Consumer Psychology. March

30, 2018

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More for Us or More for Me? Social Dominance as Parochial Egoism

Eliran Halali, Anna Dorfman, Sora Jun, Nir Halevy

Social Psychological and Personality Science. March

2018, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Pages 254-262

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Disasters and Community Resilience: Spanish Flu and the Formation of Retail Cooperatives in Norway

Hayagreeva Rao, Henrich R. Greve

Academy of Management Journal. February

28, 2018, Vol. 61, Issue 1, Pages 5-25

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Personalization in Email Marketing: The Role of Non-Informative Advertising Content

Navdeep S. Sahni, S. Christian Wheeler, Pradeep Chintagunta

Marketing Science. February

27, 2018, Vol. 37, Issue 2, Pages 177-331

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Organizations Appear More Unethical than Individuals

Arthur S. Jago, Jeffrey Pfeffer

Journal of Business Ethics. February

3, 2018, Pages 1-17

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Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate Than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation From Facial Images

Michal Kosinski, Yilun Wang

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. February

2018, Vol. 114, Issue 2, Pages 246-257

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Attitude Certainty: Antecedents, Consequences, and New Directions

Zakary Tormala, Derek D. Rucker

Consumer Psychology Review. January

2018, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Pages 72-89

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Judgments of Taste and Judgments of Quality

Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Priya Raghubir, S. Christian Wheeler

Journal of Consumer Psychology. January

2018, Vol. 28, Issue 1, Pages 1-4

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Rethinking Time: Implications for Well-Being

Cassie Mogilner, Hal E. Hershfield, Jennifer Aaker

Consumer Psychology Review. January

2018, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Pages 41-53

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Why and when hierarchy impacts team effectiveness: A meta-analytic examination

Lindred Greer, Bart De Jong, Maartje Schouten, Jennifer Dannals

Journal of Applied Psychology.

2018, Vol. 103, Pages 591-613

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Work Hours and Health: A Comment on "Beyond Nine to Five"

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Academy of Management Discoveries.

2018, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Pages 94-96

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Cultivating Optimism: How to Frame Your Future during a Health Challenge

Donnel A. Briley, Melanie Rudd, Jennifer Aaker

Journal of Consumer Research. December

1, 2017, Vol. 44, Issue 4, Pages 895-915

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Self-Expression Cues in Product Rating Distributions: When People Prefer Polarizing Products

Bella Rozenkrants, S. Christian Wheeler, Baba Shiv

Journal of Consumer Research. December

1, 2017, Vol. 44, Issue 4, Pages 759-777

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Default Neglect in Attempts at Social Influence

Julian J. Zlatev, David P. Daniels, Hajin Kim, Margaret Ann Neale

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. December

2017, Vol. 114, Issue 52, Pages 13643-13648

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Building a Profile of Subjective Well-Being for Social Media Users

Lushi Chen, Tao Gong, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, Robert L. Davidson

PLoS ONE. November

14, 2017, Vol. 12, Issue 11

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Facial Width-to-Height Ratio Does Not Predict Self-Reported Behavioral Tendencies

Michal Kosinski

Psychological Science. November

1, 2017, Vol. 28, Issue 11, Pages 1675-1682

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Conservative Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Political Elites

David Broockman, Christopher Skovron

American Political Science Review (conditionally accepted). October

2017

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Self-reliance: A Gender Perspective on its Relationship to Communality and Leadership Evaluations

Rebecca L. Schaumberg, Francis J. Flynn

Academy of Management. October

2017, Vol. 60, Issue 5, Pages 1859-1881

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Frankly, We Do Give a Damn: The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty

Gilad Feldman, Huiwen Lian, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell

Social Psychological and Personality Science. September

1, 2017, Vol. 8, Issue 7, Pages 816-826

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The Goldilocks Contract: The Synergistic Benefits of Combining Structure and Autonomy for Persistence, Creativity, and Cooperation

Nir Halevy, EY Chou, AD Galinsky, JK Murninghan

Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. September

2017, Vol. 113, Issue 3, Pages 393-412

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Step by Step: Sub-Goals as a Source of Motivation

Szu-chi Huang, Liyin Jin, Ying Zhang

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. July

2017, Vol. 141, Pages 1-15

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Clarifying the Link Between Job Satisfaction and Absenteeism: The Role of Guilt Proneness

Francis J. Flynn, RL Schaumberg

The Journal of Applied Psychology. June

2017, Vol. 102, Issue 6, Pages 982-992

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How Winning Changes Motivation in Multiphase Competitions

Szu-chi Huang, Jordan Etkin, Liyin Jin (First two authors contributed equally)

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . June

2017, Vol. 112, Issue 6, Pages 813-837

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Behavioral Processes in Long-Lag Intervention Studies

Dale T. Miller, Jennifer E. Dannals, Julian J. Zlatev

Perspectives on Psychological Science. May

2017, Vol. 12, Issue 3, Pages 454-467

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Healthier Than Thou? “Practicing What You Preach” Backfires by Increasing Anticipated Devaluation.

Lauren C. Howe, Benoît Monin

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. May

2017, Vol. 112, Issue 5, Pages 718-735

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Moral Traps: When Self-Serving Attributions Backfire in Prosocial Behavior

Stephanie C. Lin, Julian J. Zlatev, Dale T. Miller

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. May

2017, Vol. 70, Pages 198-203

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On the Pursuit of Desired Attitudes: Wanting a Different Attitude Affects Information Processing and Behavior

Kenneth DeMarree, Cory Clark, S. Christian Wheeler, Pablo Briñol, Richard Petty

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. May

2017, Vol. 70, Pages 129-142

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The Economic Evaluation of Time Can Cause Stress

Jeffrey Pfeffer, Dana Carney

Academy of Management. February

27, 2017

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The dysfunctions of power in teams: A review and emergent conflict perspective

Lindred Greer, Lisanne Van Bunderen, Siyu Yu

Research in Organizational Behavior.

2017, Vol. 37, Pages 103-124

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The Positive Effect of Assortment Size on Purchase Likelihood: The Moderating Influence of Decision Order

Leilei Gao, Itamar Simonson

Journal of Consumer Psychology. October

2016, Vol. 26, Issue 4, Pages 542-549

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Power and Death: Mortality Salience Increases Power Seeking While Feeling Powerful Reduces Death Anxiety

Peter Belmi, Jeffrey Pfeffer

Journal of Applied Psychology. May

2016, Vol. 101, Issue 5, Pages 702-720

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Imperfect Progress: An Objective, Quality Assessment of the Role of User Reviews in Consumer Decision Making

Itamar Simonson

Journal of Consumer Research. April

19, 2016, Vol. 42, Issue 6, Pages 840-845

Book Chapter|

The Construction of the Consumer Decision Making Field by Jim Bettman – The Case of Preference Construction

Itamar Simonson

Legends in Consumer Behavior. March

2016

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Selfish Third Parties Act as Peacemakers by Transforming Conflicts and Promoting Cooperation

Nir Halevy, Eliran Halali

(PNAS) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . June

2, 2015, Vol. 112, Issue 22, Pages 6937–6942

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How “Organization” Can Weaken the Norm of Reciprocity: The Effects of Attributions for Favors and a Calculative Mindset

Peter Belmi, Jeffrey Pfeffer

Academy of Management Discoveries. June

1, 2015, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Pages 36-57

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Pressed for Time? Goal Conflict Shapes How Time Is Perceived, Spent, and Valued

Jennifer Aaker, Jordan Etkin, Ioannis Evangelidis

Journal of Marketing Research. June

2015, Vol. 52, Issue 3, Pages 394-406

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The Effect of Self-Control on the Construction of Risk Perceptions

Jayson S. Jia, Ab Litt

Management Science. April

17, 2015, Vol. 61, Issue 9, Pages 2259-2280

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Anticipating Divine Protection? Reminders of God Can Increase Nonmoral Risk Taking

Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin, Jonathan Levav

Psychological Science. April

2015, Vol. 26, Issue 4, Pages 374-384

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Threats to Social Identity Can Trigger Social Deviance

Peter Belmi, Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, Margaret Ann Neale, Geoffrey Lawrence Cohen

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. April

2015, Vol. 41, Issue 4, Pages 467-484

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From Close to Distant: The Dynamics of Interpersonal Relationships in Shared Goal Pursuit

Szu-chi Huang, Susan M. Broniarczyk, Ying Zhang, Mariam Beruchashvili

Journal of Consumer Research . February

2015, Vol. 41, Issue 5, Pages 1252-1266

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Conflict Templates in Negotiations, Disputes, Joint Decisions, and Tournaments

Nir Halevy, L. Taylor Phillips

Social Psychological and Personality Science. January

2015, Vol. 6, Issue 22, Pages 13-22

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Attitude certainty and attitudinal advocacy: The unique roles of clarity and correctness

Lauren Cheatham, Zakary Tormala

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

2015, Vol. forthcoming

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Mission (Largely) Accomplished: What’s Next for Consumer BDT-JDM Researchers?

Itamar Simonson

Journal of Marketing Behavior.

2015, Vol. 1, Pages 9-35

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Persuasion, interrupted: The effect of momentary interruptions on message processing and persuasion

Daniella Kupor, Zakary Tormala

Journal of Consumer Research.

2015, Vol. 42, Pages 300-315

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The BDT Effect and Future: A Reply to John Lynch and Norbert Schwarz

Itamar Simonson

Journal of Marketing Behavior.

2015, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Pages 59-73

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The Influence of Initial Possession Level on Consumers' Adoption of a Collection Goal: A Tipping Point Effect

Leilei Gao, Yanliu Huang, Itamar Simonson

Journal of Marketing. November

2014, Vol. Vol. 78, Issue 6, Pages 143-156

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Money in the Bank: Feeling Powerful Increases Saving

Emily N. Garbinsky, Anne-Kathryn Klesse, Jennifer Aaker

Journal of Consumer Research. October

1, 2014, Vol. 41, Issue 3, Pages 610-623

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A Relationship with God? Connecting with the Divine to Assuage Fears of Interpersonal Rejection

Kristin Laurin, Karina Schumann, John G. Holmes

Social Psychological & Personality Science. September

2014, Vol. 5, Issue 7, Pages 777-785

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Getting the Most out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Presocial Goal Maximizes Happiness

Melanie Rudd, Jennifer Aaker, Michael I. Norton

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. September

2014, Vol. 54, Pages 11-24

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Hierarchy, Leadership, and Construal Fit

Yair Berson, Nir Halevy

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. September

2014, Vol. 20, Issue 3, Pages 232-246

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Thought calibration: How thinking just the right amount increases one’s influence and appeal

Daniella M. Kupor, Zakary Tormala, Michael I. Norton, Derek D. Rucker

Social Psychological and Personality Science. April

2014, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Pages 263-270

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How Decisions Happen: Focal Points and Blind Spots in Interdependent Decision Making

Nir Halevy, Taya R. Cohen, Eileen Y. Chou, James J. Katz, A. T. Panter

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. March

2014, Vol. 106, Issue 3, Pages 398-417

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Meaningful Choice

Jennifer Aaker

Journal Consumer Research.

2014

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Mental Models at Work: Cognitive Causes and Consequences of Conflict in Organizations

Nir Halevy, Taya Cohen, Eileen Chou, James Katz, A. T. Panter

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

2014, Vol. 40, Issue 1, Pages 92-110

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? Thinking that one is attractive increases the tendency to support inequality.

Margaret Ann Neale, Peter R. Belmi

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

2014

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The allure of unknown outcomes: Exploring the role of uncertainty in the preference for potential

Daniella Kupor, Zakary Tormala, Michael Norton

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

2014, Vol. 5, Pages 263-270

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Wanting other attitudes: Actual–desired attitude discrepancies predict feelings of ambivalence and ambivalence consequences

S. Christian Wheeler

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

2014, Vol. 53, Pages 5-18

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Beating the Market: The Allure of Unintended Value

Aner Sela, Itamar Simonson, Ran Kivetz

Journal of Marketing Research. December

2013, Vol. 50, Issue 6, Pages 691-705

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Prominence Versus Dominance: How Relationships Between Alternatives Drive Decision Strategy and Choice

Ioannis Evangelidis, Jonathan Levav

Journal of Marketing Research. December

2013, Vol. 50, Issue 6, Pages 753-766

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Weak > strong: The ironic effect of argument strength on supportive advocacy

Omair Akhtar, David Paunesku, Zakary Tormala

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. September

2013, Vol. 39, Issue 9, Pages 1214-26

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Comparing Apples to Apples or Apples to Oranges: The Role of Mental Representation in Choice Difficulty

Eunice Kim Cho, Ravi Dhar

Journal of Marketing Research. August

2013, Vol. 50, Issue 4, Pages 505-516

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Power, moral clarity, and punishment in the workplace

Scott S. Wiltermuth, Francis J. Flynn

Academy of Management Journal. August

2013, Vol. 56, Issue 4, Pages 1002-1023

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Here Is a Tip: Prosocial Gratuities Are Linked to Corruption

Magnus Thor Torfason, Francis J. Flynn, Daniella Kupor

Social Psychological and Personality Science. May

2013, Vol. 4, Issue 3, Pages 348-354

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The Unhealthy Road Not Taken: Licensing Indulgence by Exaggerating Counterfactual Sins

Daniel A. Effron, Benoît Monin, Dale T. Miller

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. May

2013, Vol. 49, Issue 3, Pages 573–578

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Eternal Quest for the Best: Sequential (vs. Simultaneous) Option Presentation Undermines Choice Commitment

Cassie Mogilner, Baba Shiv, Sheena S. Iyengar

Journal of Consumer Research. April

2013, Vol. 39, Issue 6, Pages 1300-1312

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Comparison selection: An approach to the study of consumer judgment and choice

Itamar Simonson, James R. Bettman, Thomas Kramer, John W. Payne

Journal of Consumer Psychology. January

2013, Vol. 23, Issue 1, Pages 137–149

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Some Key Differences between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life

Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs, Jennifer Aaker, Emily N. Garbinsky

Journal of Positive Psychology.

2013, Vol. 8, Issue 6, Pages 505-516

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When contradictions foster persuasion: An attributional perspective

Taly Reich, Zakary Tormala

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

2013, Vol. 9, Issue 3, Pages 426–439

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Inventing Racist Roads Not Taken: The Licensing Effects of Immoral Counterfactual Behaviors

Daniel A. Effron, Dale T. Miller, Benoît Monin

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. December

2012, Vol. 103, Issue 6, Pages 916-932

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The Effect of Ordering Decisions by Choice-Set Size on Consumer Search

Jonathan Levav, Nicholas Reinholtz, Claire Lin

Journal of Consumer Research. October

2012, Vol. 39, Issue 3, Pages 585-599

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The gifts we keep on giving: Documenting and destigmatizing the regifting taboo

Gabrielle S. Adams, Francis J. Flynn, Michael I. Norton

Psychological Science. October

2012, Vol. 23, Issue 10, Pages 1145-1150

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The Preference for Potential

Zakary Tormala, J.S. Jia, M.I. Norton

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. October

2012, Vol. 103, Issue 4, Pages 567-583

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‘We’ Are Not the Same as ‘You and I’: Causal Effects of Minor Language Variations on Consumers’ Attitudes Toward Brands

Aner Sela, S. Christian Wheeler, Gülen Sarial-Abi

Journal of Consumer Research. October

2012, Vol. 39, Issue 3, Pages 644-661

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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown: The link between guilt-proneness and leadership

Rebecca L. Schaumberg, Francis J. Flynn

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. August

2012, Vol. 103, Issue 2, Pages 327-342

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Inviting Questions

Uzma Khan, Zakary Tormala

Journal of Consumer Psychology. July

2012, Vol. 22, Issue 3, Pages 408-417

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How the Moralization of Issues Grants Social Legitimacy to Act on One's Attitudes

Daniel A. Effron, Dale T. Miller

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. May

2012, Vol. 38, Issue 5, Pages 690-701

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Exhausting or Exhilarating? Conflict as Threat to Interests, Relationships and Identities

Nir Halevy, Eileen Y. Chou, Adam D. Galinsky

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. March

2012, Vol. 48, Issue 2, Pages 530-537

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Status Conferral in Intergroup Social Dilemmas: Behavioral Antecedents and Consequences of Prestige and Dominance

Nir Halevy, Eileen Y. Chou, Taya R. Cohen, Robert W. Livingston,

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. February

2012, Vol. 102, Issue 2, Pages 351-366

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Asymmetric option effects on ease of consumer choice criticism and defense

Thomas Kramer, Michal Maimaran, Itamar Simonson

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. January

2012, Vol. 117, Issue 1, Pages 179–191

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Manipulating basic taste perception to explore how product information affects experience

Ab Litt, Baba Shiv

Journal of Consumer Psychology. January

2012, Vol. 22, Issue 1, Pages 55–66

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Mind Games: The Mental Representation of Conflict

Nir Halevy, Eileen Chou, J. Keith Murnighan

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. January

2012, Vol. 102, Issue 1, Pages 132-148

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The fluency of social hierarchy: the ease with which hierarchical relationships are seen, remembered, learned, and liked

E.M. Zitek,

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. January

2012, Vol. 102, Issue 1, Pages 98-115

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When Feeling Bad Leads to Feeling Good: Guilt-Proneness and Affective Organizational Commitment

Francis J. Flynn, Rebecca L. Schaumberg

Journal of Applied Psychology. January

2012, Vol. 97, Issue 1, Pages 124-133

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Compensatory Nonconformity: Self-Uncertainty and Low Implicit Self-Esteem Increase Adoption and Expression of Minority Opinions

Kimberly Rios, S. Christian Wheeler, Dale T. Miller

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

2012, Vol. 48, Issue 6, Pages 1300-1309

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Cultivating Admiration in Brands

Jennifer Aaker, Emily N. Garbinsky, Kathleen D. Vohs

Journal of Consumer Psychology.

2012, Vol. 22, Issue 2, Pages 191–194

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Divergent Effects of Activating Thoughts of God on Self-Regulation

Kristin Laurin, Aaron Kay, Gráinne Fitzsimons

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

2012, Vol. 102, Issue 1, Pages 4-21

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GOING

Gabrielle S. Adams, Francis J. Flynn, Michael I. Norton

Business Strategy Review.

2012, Vol. 23, Issue 2, Pages 80

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How Happiness Affects Choice

Cassie Mogilner, Jennifer Aaker, Sepandar D. Kamvar

Journal of Consumer Research.

2012, Vol. 39, Issue 2, Pages 429-443

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How power corrupts relationships: Cynical attributions for others' generous acts

M. Ena Inesi, Deborah H. Gruenfeld, Adam D. Galinsky

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

2012, Vol. 48, Issue 4, Pages 795-803

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Not All Selves Feel the Same Uncertainty: Motivated Assimilation to Primes among Individualists and Collectivists

Kimberly Rios Morrison, Camille S. Johnson, S. Christian Wheeler

Social Psychological and Personality Science.

2012, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Pages 118-126

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When Blemishing Leads to Blossoming: The Positive Effect of Negative Information

Baba Shiv, Zakary Tormala

Journal of Consumer Research.

2012, Vol. 38, Issue 5, Pages 846-859

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Food, sex and the hunger for distinction

Jonah Berger, Baba Shiv

Journal of Consumer Psychology. October

2011, Vol. 21, Issue 4, Pages 464–472

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Give them what they want: The benefits of explicitness in gift exchange

Francesca Gino, Francis J. Flynn

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. September

2011, Vol. 47, Issue 5, Pages 915-922

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The Repetition-Break Plot Structure Makes Effective Television Advertisements

Jeffrey Loewenstein, Rajagopal Raghunathan, Chip Heath

Journal of Marketing. September

2011, Vol. 75, Issue 5, Pages 105-119

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Multiple routes to self- versus other-expression in consumer choice

Michal Maimaran, Itamar Simonson

Journal of Marketing Research. August

2011, Vol. 48, Issue 4, Pages 755-766

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Religiosity and Social Welfare: Competing Influences of Cultural Conservatism and Prosocial Value Orientation

Ariel Malka, Christopher J. Soto, Adam B. Cohen, Dale T. Miller

Journal of Personality. August

2011, Vol. 79, Issue 4, Pages 763-792

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The Mainstream Is Not Electable: When Vision Triumphs Over Representativeness in Leader Emergence and Effectiveness

Nir Halevy, Yair Berson, Adam D. Galinsky

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. April

5, 2011, Pages 13

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Diffusion of Entitlement: An Inhibitory Effect on the Consumption of Scarce Commodities

Daniel A. Effron, Dale T. Miller

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. March

2011, Vol. 47, Issue 2, Pages 378–383

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Common Ground and Cultural Prominence: How Conversation Reinforces Culture

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Is the Pain Worth the Gain? The Advantages and Liabilities of Agreeing With Socially Distinct Newcomers

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Psychological Science. January

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Jonah Berger, Marc Meredith, S. Christian Wheeler

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Distinguishing Between Silent and Vocal Minorities: Not All Deviants Feel Marginal

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2008, Vol. 94, Issue 5, Pages 871-882

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Does self-consciousness increase or decrease behavioral priming effects? It depends

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The Happiness of Giving: The Time-Ask Effect

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Journal of Consumer Research.

2008, Vol. 34, Issue 5, Pages 670-681

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“If you need help, just ask”: Underestimating compliance with direct requests for help

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