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Overview

David M. Amodio is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily in the social sciences and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, safety research, and clinical psychology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, experimental behavioral economics studies, as well as COVID-19 related mental health and epidemiological research. Evolutionary psychology and human behavior also feature among their main topics of study.

Recent publications by David M. Amodio include:

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A computational reward learning account of social media engagement, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The Social Neuroscience of Prejudice, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Propagation of societal gender inequality by internet search algorithms, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reinforcement learning in social interaction: The distinguishing role of trait inference, 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

David M. Amodio has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Motivation Science
  • Annual Review of Psychology

Frequent co-authors in their research include Panagiotis Mitkidis, Petra C. Schmid, André Krouwel, Madalina Vlasceanu, and David Schultner.

Best Publications

  • Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition.

    David M. Amodio;Chris D. Frith

  • The regulation of explicit and implicit race bias: the role of motivations to respond without prejudice.

    Patricia G. Devine;E. Ashby Plant;David M. Amodio;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Stereotyping and evaluation in implicit race bias: evidence for independent constructs and unique effects on behavior

    David M. Amodio;Patricia G. Devine

  • Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism.

    David M Amodio;John T Jost;Sarah L Master;Cindy M Yee

  • Neurocognitive components of the behavioral inhibition and activation systems: implications for theories of self-regulation

    David M. Amodio;Sarah L. Master;Cindy M. Yee;Shelley E. Taylor

  • Political ideology as motivated social cognition: Behavioral and neuroscientific evidence.

    John T. Jost;David M. Amodio

  • The neuroscience of prejudice and stereotyping

    David M. Amodio

  • Neural Signals for the Detection of Unintentional Race Bias

    David M. Amodio;Eddie Harmon-Jones;Patricia G. Devine;John J. Curtin

  • Individual differences in the activation and control of affective race bias as assessed by startle eyeblink response and self-report.

    David M. Amodio;Eddie Harmon-Jones;Patricia G. Devine

  • A Dynamic Model of Guilt: Implications for Motivation and Self-Regulation in the Context of Prejudice

    David M. Amodio;Patricia G. Devine;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Chapter 3 Action‐Based Model of Dissonance: A Review, Integration, and Expansion of Conceptions of Cognitive Conflict

    Eddie Harmon‐Jones;David M. Amodio;Cindy Harmon‐Jones

  • Individual differences in the regulation of intergroup bias: the role of conflict monitoring and neural signals for control.

    David M. Amodio;Patricia G. Devine;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Economic scarcity alters the perception of race.

    Amy R. Krosch;David M. Amodio

  • Reducing the Expression of Implicit Stereotypes: Reflexive Control Through Implementation Intentions

    Saaid A. Mendoza;Peter M. Gollwitzer;David M. Amodio

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Attitudes Toward Emotions

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Cindy Harmon-Jones;David M. Amodio;Philip A. Gable

  • Implicit regulatory focus associated with asymmetrical frontal cortical activity.

    David M Amodio;James Y Shah;Jonathan Sigelman;Paige C Brazy

  • Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship

    John T. Jost;H. Hannah Nam;David M. Amodio;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • The social neuroscience of intergroup relations

    David M. Amodio

  • Tracking the dynamics of the social brain: ERP approaches for social cognitive and affective neuroscience

    David M. Amodio;Bruce D. Bartholow;Tiffany A. Ito

  • Alternative mechanisms for regulating racial responses according to internal vs external cues

    David M. Amodio;Jennifer T. Kubota;Eddie Harmon-Jones;Patricia G. Devine

Frequent Co-Authors

Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales
Patricia G. Devine
Patricia G. Devine University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Philippe N. Tobler
Philippe N. Tobler University of Zurich
Óscar F. Gonçalves
Óscar F. Gonçalves University of Coimbra
Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Diane N. Ruble
Diane N. Ruble New York University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles

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