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Allen R. McConnell

Allen R. McConnell

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
10951
World Ranking
8083
National Ranking
4327

Overview

Allen R. McConnell is affiliated with Miami University in the United States. Their work spans several intersecting disciplines, primarily Psychology and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, and Genetics.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of themes including Environmental Education and Sustainability, Animal and Plant Science Education, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Media Influence and Health, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Climate Change Communication and Perception.

McConnell has contributed to the academic community through publications in various venues. Most frequently, their work appears in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, where they have published three articles. Other venues include Sustainability, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Information Systems Research, and Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by McConnell include:

  • Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior (2022, Journal of Environmental Psychology)
  • Too Tired and in Too Good of a Mood to Worry About Privacy: Explaining the Privacy Paradox Through the Lens of Effort Level in Information Processing (2022, Information Systems Research)
  • Self-nature representations: On the unique consequences of nature-self size on pro-environmental action (2020, Journal of Environmental Psychology)
  • Race Deficits in Pain Detection: Medical Providers and Laypeople Fail to Accurately Perceive Pain Authenticity Among Black People (2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science)
  • Nature's Best Friend: Viewing Pets as Having Greater Emotional Experience Increases Ecological Concern (2023, Anthrozoös)

Frequent collaborators in McConnell's work include Tyler P. Jacobs, Kurt Hugenberg, LaCount J. Togans, Tawfiq Alashoor, and Mark Keil. Tyler P. Jacobs is the most frequent coauthor, collaborating on six publications.

Best Publications

  • Relations among the Implicit Association Test, Discriminatory Behavior, and Explicit Measures of Racial Attitudes

    Allen R. McConnell;Jill M. Leibold

  • Understanding implicit and explicit attitude change : A systems of reasoning analysis

    Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell

  • Friends with benefits: On the positive consequences of pet ownership.

    Allen R. McConnell;Christina M. Brown;Tonya M. Shoda;Laura E. Stayton

  • Stereotype threat and working memory: mechanisms, alleviation, and spillover.

    Sian L. Beilock;Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell

  • The Multiple Self-Aspects Framework: Self-Concept Representation and Its Implications

    Allen R. McConnell

  • Of two minds: forming and changing valence-inconsistent implicit and explicit attitudes.

    Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell;Diane M. Mackie;Laura M. Strain

  • Multiple social identities and stereotype threat: Imbalance, accessibility, and working memory.

    Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell;Sian L. Beilock

  • On the Causal Mechanisms of Stereotype Threat: Can Skills That Don't Rely Heavily on Working Memory Still Be Threatened?

    Sian L. Beilock;William A. Jellison;Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell

  • Research Commentary—Informing Privacy Research Through Information Systems, Psychology, and Behavioral Economics: Thinking Outside the “APCO” Box

    Tamara Dinev;Allen R. McConnell;H. Jeff Smith

  • Target entitativity: implications for information processing about individual and group targets.

    Allen R. McConnell;Steven J. Sherman;David L. Hamilton

  • Do Racial Minorities Respond in the Same Way to Mainstream Beauty Standards? Social Comparison Processes in Asian, Black, and White Women

    Peggy Chin Evans;Allen R. McCONNELL

  • Implicit and Explicit Measures of Sexual Orientation Attitudes: In Group Preferences and Related Behaviors and Beliefs among Gay and Straight Men

    William A. Jellison;Allen R. McConnell;Shira Gabriel

  • Implicit and explicit attitudes respond differently to increasing amounts of counterattitudinal information

    Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell;Laura M. Strain;Heather M. Claypool

  • On-line and memory-based aspects of individual and group target judgments.

    Allen R. McConnell;Steven J. Sherman;David L. Hamilton

  • Reactance, Compliance, and Anticipated Regret ☆

    Matthew T. Crawford;Allen R. McConnell;Amy C. Lewis;Steven J. Sherman

  • Dysfunctional implications of counterfactual thinking: When alternatives to reality fail us.

    Steven J. Sherman;Allen R. McConnell

  • What if I find it cheaper someplace else?: Role of prefactual thinking and anticipated regret in consumer behavior

    Allen R. McConnell;Keith E. Niedermeier;Jill M. Leibold;Amani G. El-Alayli

  • Consequences of discrepant explicit and implicit attitudes: Cognitive dissonance and increased information processing

    Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell;Diane M. Mackie

  • Stereotype threat and sport: can athletic performance be threatened?

    Sian L. Beilock;Allen R. McConnell

  • We Are Family: Viewing Pets as Family Members Improves Wellbeing

    Allen R. McConnell;E. Paige Lloyd;Brandon T. Humphrey

  • Forming implicit and explicit attitudes toward individuals: social group association cues.

    Allen R. McConnell;Robert J. Rydell;Laura M. Strain;Diane M. Mackie

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Rydell
Robert J. Rydell Indiana University
Steven J. Sherman
Steven J. Sherman Indiana University
Kurt Hugenberg
Kurt Hugenberg Indiana University
Sian L. Beilock
Sian L. Beilock Barnard College
Diane M. Mackie
Diane M. Mackie University of California, Santa Barbara
David L. Hamilton
David L. Hamilton University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas H. Carr
Thomas H. Carr Michigan State University
Elizabeth W. Dunn
Elizabeth W. Dunn University of British Columbia
Russell H. Fazio
Russell H. Fazio The Ohio State University

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