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World Ranking
5099
National Ranking
2800

Overview

David K. Sherman is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with notable contributions in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Applied Psychology, and Communication.

The main topics covered in Sherman's research include:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Their recent publication record features several papers including:

  • "Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy" (2021) published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy" (2022) published in Climatic Change
  • "Self-affirmation theory in educational contexts" (2021) published in Journal of Social Issues
  • "The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace: A Call for Integrating Basic and Applied Psychological Science" (2020) published in Perspectives on Psychological Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sherman include:

  • Leaf Van Boven
  • Kimin Eom
  • Heejung S. Kim
  • Alexandra Flores
  • Gabriela M. Jiga-Boy

Sherman's work is regularly published in several academic venues, notably:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Journal of Social Issues
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • The Psychology of Self‐defense: Self‐Affirmation Theory

    David K. Sherman;Geoffrey L. Cohen

  • The psychology of change: Self-affirmation and social psychological intervention.

    Geoffrey L. Cohen;David K. Sherman

  • Culture and social support.

    Heejung S. Kim;David K. Sherman;Shelley E. Taylor

  • Culture and social support: who seeks it and why?

    Shelley E. Taylor;David K. Sherman;Heejung S. Kim;Johanna Jarcho

  • Do Messages about Health Risks Threaten the Self? Increasing the Acceptance of Threatening Health Messages Via Self-Affirmation

    David A. K. Sherman;Leif D. Nelson;Claude M. Steele

  • Uncertainty, entitativity, and group identification

    Michael A. Hogg;David K. Sherman;Joel Dierselhuis;Angela T. Maitner

  • Affirmation of Personal Values Buffers Neuroendocrine and Psychological Stress Responses

    J. David Creswell;William T. Welch;Shelley E. Taylor;David K. Sherman

  • Accepting Threatening Information: Self–Affirmation and the Reduction of Defensive Biases

    David K. Sherman;Geoffrey L. Cohen

  • Cultural Differences in the Impact of Social Support on Psychological and Biological Stress Responses

    Shelley E. Taylor;William T. Welch;Heejung S. Kim;David K. Sherman

  • "Express yourself": culture and the effect of self-expression on choice.

    Heejung S. Kim;David K. Sherman

  • Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: how self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat.

    David K. Sherman;Kimberly A. Hartson;Kevin R. Binning;Valerie Purdie-Vaughns

  • Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles?

    Shelley E. Taylor;Jennifer S. Lerner;David K. Sherman;Rebecca M. Sage

  • Portrait of the Self-Enhancer: Well Adjusted and Well Liked or Maladjusted and Friendless?

    Shelley E. Taylor;Jennifer S. Lerner;David K. Sherman;Rebecca M. Sage

  • Pursuit of Comfort and Pursuit of Harmony: Culture, Relationships, and Social Support Seeking:

    Heejung S. Kim;David K. Sherman;Deborah Ko;Shelley E. Taylor

  • Culture, distress, and oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) interact to influence emotional support seeking

    Heejung S. Kim;David K. Sherman;Joni Y. Sasaki;Jun Xu

  • Dispositional motivations and message framing: A test of the congruency hypothesis in college students

    Traci Mann;David Sherman;John Updegraff

  • Bridging the partisan divide: Self-affirmation reduces ideological closed-mindedness and inflexibility in negotiation.

    Geoffrey L. Cohen;David K. Sherman;Anthony Bastardi;Lillian Hsu

  • Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is related to psychological resources

    Shimon Saphire-Bernstein;Baldwin M. Way;Heejung S. Kim;David K. Sherman

  • Affirmed Yet Unaware: Exploring the Role of Awareness in the Process of Self-Affirmation

    David K. Sherman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;Leif D. Nelson;A. David Nussbaum

  • “Green to be seen” and “brown to keep down”: Visibility moderates the effect of identity on pro-environmental behavior

    Cameron Brick;David K. Sherman;Heejung S. Kim

  • Approach/Avoidance Motivation, Message Framing, and Health Behavior: Understanding the Congruency Effect.

    David K. Sherman;Traci Mann;John A. Updegraff

Frequent Co-Authors

Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles
John A. Updegraff
John A. Updegraff Kent State University
Geoffrey L. Cohen
Geoffrey L. Cohen Stanford University
Leaf Van Boven
Leaf Van Boven University of Colorado Boulder
Traci Mann
Traci Mann University of Minnesota
Eunkook M. Suh
Eunkook M. Suh Yonsei University
J. David Creswell
J. David Creswell Carnegie Mellon University
Claude M. Steele
Claude M. Steele Stanford University
Ayse K. Uskul
Ayse K. Uskul University of Sussex
Charles M. Judd
Charles M. Judd University of Colorado Boulder

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