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Overview

Adrian Bangerter is affiliated with the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a notable focus on social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their main research topics include misinformation and its impacts, child and animal learning development, primate behavior and ecology, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, language, metaphor, and cognition, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, as well as language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Bangerter has contributed to recent publications such as:

  • "Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries," 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity," 2020, Political Psychology
  • "Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes," 2021, iScience
  • "Bonobos engage in joint commitment," 2020, Science Advances
  • "How apes get into and out of joint actions," 2020, Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems

Frequent publication venues for Bangerter include:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Science Advances
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • International Journal of Selection and Assessment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Klaus Zuberbühler, Émilie Genty, Raphaela Heesen, Federico Rossano, and Pascal Wagner-Egger.

Best Publications

  • Personnel Selection as a Signaling Game

    Adrian Bangerter;Nicolas Roulin;Cornelius J. König

  • The Mozart effect: Tracking the evolution of a scientific legend

    Adrian Bangerter;Chip Heath

  • Navigating joint projects with dialogue

    Adrian Bangerter;Herbert H. Clark

  • Using Pointing and Describing to Achieve Joint Focus of Attention in Dialogue

    Adrian Bangerter

  • Conspiracy theories as quasi-religious mentality: an integrated account from cognitive science, social representations theory, and frame theory

    Bradley Franks;Adrian Bangerter;Martin W. Bauer

  • Changing Ideas about Reference

    Herbert H. Clark;Adrian Bangerter

  • Beyond “Monologicality”? Exploring Conspiracist Worldviews

    Bradley Franks;Adrian Bangerter;Martin W. Bauer;Matthew Hall

  • Students’ use of extra-curricular activities for positional advantage in competitive job markets

    Nicolas Roulin;Adrian Bangerter

  • Honest and deceptive impression management in the employment interview: : Can it be detected and how does it impact evaluations?

    Nicolas Roulin;Adrian Bangerter;Julia Levashina

  • Implications of the behavioural immune system for social behaviour and human health in the modern world.

    Mark Schaller;Damian R. Murray;Adrian Bangerter

  • The Interplay Between Gesture and Speech in the Production of Referring Expressions: Investigating the Tradeoff Hypothesis

    Jan Peter De Ruiter;Adrian Bangerter;Paula Dings

  • The influence of personality and life events on subjective well-being from a life span perspective

    Veronica Gomez;Franciska Krings;Adrian Bangerter;Alexander Grob

  • Life Markers in Biographical Narratives of People from Three Cohorts: A Life Span Perspective in Its Historical Context

    Alexander Grob;Franciska Krings;Adrian Bangerter

  • Storytelling as Adaptive Collective Sensemaking

    Lucas M. Bietti;Ottilie Tilston;Adrian Bangerter

  • Transformation between scientific and social representations of conception: The method of serial reproduction

    Adrian Bangerter

  • Interviewers' perceptions of impression management in employment interviews

    Nicolas Roulin;Adrian Bangerter;Julia Levashina

  • Flexible Coordination of Stationary and Mobile Conversations with Gaze

    Eric Mayor;Adrian Bangerter

  • Lay perceptions of collectives at the outbreak of the H1N1 epidemic: heroes, villains and victims

    Pascal Wagner-Egger;Adrian Bangerter;Ingrid Gilles;Eva G. T. Green

  • Social Networking Websites in Personnel Selection A Signaling Perspective on Recruiters' and Applicants' Perceptions

    Nicolas Roulin;Adrian Bangerter

  • Keeping the vermin out: Perceived disease threat and ideological orientations as predictors of exclusionary immigration attitudes

    Eva G. T. Green;Franciska Krings;Christian Staerklé;Adrian Bangerter

  • Navigating Joint Projects in Telephone Conversations

    Adrian Bangerter;Herbert H. Clark;Anna R. Katz

Frequent Co-Authors

Cornelius J. König
Cornelius J. König Saarland University
Marianne Schmid Mast
Marianne Schmid Mast University of Lausanne
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Viren Swami
Viren Swami Anglia Ruskin University
Olivier Klein
Olivier Klein Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Jan-Willem van Prooijen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Karen M. Douglas
Karen M. Douglas University of Kent
Gilad Hirschberger
Gilad Hirschberger Reichman University
Roland Imhoff
Roland Imhoff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Mark Schaller
Mark Schaller University of British Columbia

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