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Brandon J. Schmeichel

Brandon J. Schmeichel

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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
22777
World Ranking
6512
National Ranking
3526

Overview

Brandon J. Schmeichel is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Sociology and Political Science. The primary disciplinary focus lies within Psychology, supported by 21 publications.

The scientist's recent published research covers a variety of topics and venues, notably in Behavioral Health and Interventions, Mental Health Research Topics, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics.

Key recent papers include:

  • A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect, 2021, Psychological Science
  • Getting over it: Working memory capacity and affective responses to stressful events in daily life, 2020, Emotion
  • Authentic for Thee But Not for Me: Perceived Authenticity in Self-Control Conflicts, 2022, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Making memorable choices: Cognitive control and the self-choice effect in memory, 2021, Self and Identity
  • The effects of mental fatigue on effort allocation: Modeling and estimation, 2022, Psychological Review

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Katie Garrison
  • Eddie Harmon-Jones
  • Cindy Harmon-Jones
  • Kathleen D. Vohs
  • Anna J Finley

Brandon J. Schmeichel's work is regularly published in specialist academic journals with multiple contributions to:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Psychological Science
  • Emotion

Best Publications

  • Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: A limited-resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative.

    Kathleen D. Vohs;Roy F. Baumeister;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Jean M. Twenge

  • Executive functions and self-regulation

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Alan D. Baddeley

  • Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: willpower is more than a metaphor.

    Matthew T. Gailliot;Roy F. Baumeister;C. Nathan DeWall;Jon K. Maner

  • What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control

    Michael Inzlicht;Brandon J. Schmeichel

  • Intellectual performance and ego depletion: role of the self in logical reasoning and other information processing.

    Brandon J. Schmeichel;Kathleen D. Vohs;Roy F. Baumeister

  • A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect

    Martin S. Hagger;Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis

  • Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited.

    Michael Inzlicht;Brandon J. Schmeichel;C. Neil Macrae

  • Self-affirmation and self-control: affirming core values counteracts ego depletion.

    Brandon J. Schmeichel;Kathleen D. Vohs

  • Attention control, memory updating, and emotion regulation temporarily reduce the capacity for executive control.

    Brandon J. Schmeichel

  • Working Memory Capacity and the Self-Regulation of Emotional Expression and Experience

    Brandon J. Schmeichel;Rachael N. Volokhov;Heath A. Demaree

  • Self-regulation and the executive function: The self as controlling agent.

    Roy F. Baumeister;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Kathleen D. Vohs

  • Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death: Effects of self-control depletion and trait self-control on thoughts and fears of dying.

    Matthew T. Gailliot;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Roy F. Baumeister

  • Self-regulation and the extended now: controlling the self alters the subjective experience of time.

    Kathleen D. Vohs;Brandon J. Schmeichel

  • Self-Affirmation and Mortality Salience: Affirming Values Reduces Worldview Defense and Death-Thought Accessibility

    Brandon J. Schmeichel;Andy Martens

  • Exercising Self-Control Increases Approach Motivation

    Brandon Schmeichel;Cindy Harmon-Jones;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited: the roles of implicit and explicit self-esteem in mortality salience effects.

    Brandon J. Schmeichel;Matthew T. Gailliot;Emily-Ana Filardo;Ian McGregor

  • Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control

    Kathleen D. Vohs;Roy F. Baumeister;Brandon J. Schmeichel

  • Collectors and Collecting: A Social Psychological Perspective

    William D. McINTOSH;Brandon Schmeichel

  • Working memory capacity and spontaneous emotion regulation: high capacity predicts self-enhancement in response to negative feedback.

    Brandon J Schmeichel;Heath A Demaree

  • Mortality Salience Increases Adherence to Salient Norms and Values

    Matthew T. Gailliot;Tyler F. Stillman;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Jon K. Maner

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen D. Vohs
Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales
Heath A. Demaree
Heath A. Demaree Case Western Reserve University
Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht University of Toronto
Jennifer L. Robinson
Jennifer L. Robinson Auburn University
C. Nathan DeWall
C. Nathan DeWall University of Kentucky
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Jon K. Maner
Jon K. Maner Florida State University
Dianne M. Tice
Dianne M. Tice Brigham Young University

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