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120
Citations
76863
World Ranking
252
National Ranking
160

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Overview

Arie W. Kruglanski is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States and has an extensive record of research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Applied Psychology.

Their research covers a wide range of topics such as Social and Intergroup Psychology, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Cultural Differences and Values, Behavioral Health and Interventions, and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Among recent papers, the following were published:

  • Habitual Behavior Is Goal-Driven, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Significance-Quest Theory, 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • On the psychology of extremism: How motivational imbalance breeds intemperance., 2020, Psychological Review
  • Ideologies that justify political violence, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • All Thinking is 'Wishful' Thinking, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Kruglanski frequently publishes in specialized venues, with multiple contributions to the following journals:

  • European Journal of Social Psychology (6 publications)
  • Motivation and Emotion (4 publications)
  • The Journal of Social Psychology (4 publications)
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (4 publications)
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (3 publications)

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Antonio Pierro, Erica Molinario, Molly Ellenberg, Ewa Szumowska, and Daniela Di Santo, reflecting sustained partnerships in scholarly work.

Among honors received, Kruglanski was awarded the Donald T. Campbell Award by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.

    John T. Jost;Jack Glaser;Arie W. Kruglanski;Frank J. Sulloway

  • Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles.

    Edward Tory Higgins;Arie W. Kruglanski

  • Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing."

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Donna M. Webster

  • Individual differences in need for cognitive closure

    Donna M. Webster;Arie W. Kruglanski

  • Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge: Cognitive and Motivational Bases

    Arie W. Kruglanski

  • A theory of goal systems.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;James Y. Shah;Ayelet Fishbach;Ron Friedman

  • The freezing and unfreezing of lay-inferences: Effects on impressional primacy, ethnic stereotyping, and numerical anchoring ☆

    Arie W Kruglanski;Tallie Freund

  • Value from hedonic experience and engagement.

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Leading us not unto temptation: momentary allurements elicit overriding goal activation.

    Ayelet Fishbach;Ronald S. Friedman;Arie W. Kruglanski

  • Forgetting all else: on the antecedents and consequences of goal shielding.

    James Y. Shah;Ron Friedman;Arie W. Kruglanski

  • The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Michele J. Gelfand;Jocelyn J. Bélanger;Anna Sheveland

  • Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology

    Paul A.M. Van Lange;Arie W. Kruglanski;E. Tory Higgins

  • Motivated resistance and openness to persuasion in the presence or absence of prior information.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Donna M. Webster;Adena Klem

  • Intuitive and deliberate judgments are based on common principles.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The Psychology of Closed Mindedness

    Arie W. Kruglanski

  • To "do the right thing" or to "just do it": locomotion and assessment as distinct self-regulatory imperatives.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Erik P. Thompson;E. Tory Higgins;M. Nadir Atash

  • The Psychology of Being "Right": The Problem of Accuracy in Social Perception and Cognition

    Arie W. Kruglanski

  • Groups as epistemic providers: need for closure and the unfolding of group-centrism.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Antonio Pierro;Lucia Mannetti;Eraldo De Grada

  • Persuasion by a Single Route: A View From the Unimodel

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Erik P. Thompson

  • The effects of extrinsic incentive on some qualitative aspects of task performance1

    Arie W. Kruglanski;Irith Friedman;Gabriella Zeevi

  • Lay epistemics and human knowledge

    Arie W. Kruglanski

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Pierro
Antonio Pierro Sapienza University of Rome
E. Tory Higgins
E. Tory Higgins Columbia University
Lucia Mannetti
Lucia Mannetti Sapienza University of Rome
Jocelyn J. Bélanger
Jocelyn J. Bélanger New York University
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Ayelet Fishbach
Ayelet Fishbach University of Chicago
Wolfgang Stroebe
Wolfgang Stroebe University of Groningen
Daniel Bar-Tal
Daniel Bar-Tal Tel Aviv University
Ofra Mayseless
Ofra Mayseless University of Haifa

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