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44
Citations
9880
World Ranking
4086
National Ranking
44

Overview

Denis J. Hilton was affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research primarily focused on social sciences, with an emphasis on areas such as management, monitoring, policy and law; cognitive neuroscience; sociology and political science; marketing; and social psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work included environmental education and sustainability, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, environmental sustainability in business, behavioral health and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, as well as agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Their publication record consisted of several recent papers spanning from 2020 to 2023, which covered a range of subjects related to sustainable consumption, social norms, and moral representations. Notable papers included:

  • Sustainable by Design: Choice Architecture and the Carbon Footprint of Grocery Shopping (2021) in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
  • Making the carbon basket count: Goal setting promotes sustainable consumption in a simulated online supermarket (2021) in the Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Mobility choices and climate change: Assessing the effects of social norms, emissions information and economic incentives (2020) in Research in Transportation Economics
  • Effects of intra- and inter-category traffic-light carbon labels and the presence of a social norm cue on food purchases (2023) in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour
  • Assigning moral roles within the Second World War in Europe: National similarities, differences, and implications for group-level moral representations (2020) in the Asian Journal Of Social Psychology

Denis J. Hilton collaborated frequently with several researchers, frequently co-authoring with Luca Panzone, Alistair Ulph, Laurent Waroquier, Hans-Peter Erb, and Christine Flaßbeck.

Their work was published across various academic venues that include:

  • Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
  • Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Research in Transportation Economics
  • Journal of Consumer Behaviour
  • Asian Journal Of Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • How the past weighs on the present : Social representations of history and their role in identity politics

    James H. Liu;Denis J. Hilton

  • THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF REASONING : CONVERSATIONAL INFERENCE AND RATIONAL JUDGMENT

    Denis J. Hilton

  • Judgemental Overconfidence, Self-Monitoring, and Trading Performance in an Experimental Financial Market

    Bruno Biais;Denis Hilton;Karine Mazurier;Sébastien Pouget

  • Knowledge-Based Causal Attribution: The Abnormal Conditions Focus Model

    Denis J. Hilton;Ben R. Slugoski

  • Conversational processes and causal explanation.

    Denis J. Hilton

  • Base Rates, Representativeness, and the Logic of Conversation - the Contextual Relevance of Irrelevant Information

    Norbert Schwarz;Fritz Strack;Denis J. Hilton;Gabi Naderer

  • Nudging sustainable consumption: The use of descriptive norms to promote a minority behavior in a realistic online shopping environment

    Christophe Demarque;Laetitia Charalambides;Denis J. Hilton;Laurent Waroquier

  • Determinants of diagnostic hypothesis generation: effects of information, base rates, and experience.

    Elke U. Weber;Ulf Böckenholt;Denis J. Hilton;Brian Wallace

  • Contextual effects in the interpretations of probability words: Perceived base rate and severity of events.

    Elke U. Weber;Denis J. Hilton

  • Conversational Implicature, Conscious Representation, and the Conjunction Fallacy

    Don E. Dulany;Denis J. Hilton

  • Social Representations of Events and People in World History Across 12 Cultures

    James H. Liu;Rebekah Goldstein-Hawes;Denis Hilton;Li-Li Huang

  • A Comparison of Protestant Work Ethic Beliefs in Thirteen Nations

    Adrian Furnham;Michael Bond;Patrick Heaven;Denis Hilton

  • The Psychology of Financial Decision-Making: Applications to Trading, Dealing, and Investment Analysis

    Denis J. Hilton

  • Socio-demographics, implicit attitudes, explicit attitudes, and sustainable consumption in supermarket shopping.

    Luca Panzone;Denis Hilton;Laura Sale;Doron Cohen

  • The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

    David R. Mandel;Denis J. Hilton;Patrizia Catellani

  • Knowledge-Based Causal Attribution : The Abnormal Conditions Focus Model

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  • Choice preferences without inferences: subconscious priming of risk attitudes

    Hans-Peter Erb;Antoine Bioy;Denis J. Hilton

  • Mental Models and Causal Explanation: Judgements of Probable Cause and Explanatory Relevance

    Denis J. Hilton

  • An agent harms a victim: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on specific moral emotions

    Gayannée Kédia;Sylvie Berthoz;Michele Wessa;Denis Hilton

  • Processes of causal explanation and dispositional attribution.

    Denis J. Hilton;Richard H. Smith;Sung Hee Kin

  • Base-rates, representativeness, and the logic of conversation

    Norbert Schwarz;Fritz Strack;Denis Hilton;Gabi Naderer

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Liu
James H. Liu Massey University
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Olivier Klein
Olivier Klein Université Libre de Bruxelles
John McClure
John McClure Victoria University of Wellington
Ulf Böckenholt
Ulf Böckenholt Northwestern University
Robbie M. Sutton
Robbie M. Sutton University of Kent
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland
Darío Páez
Darío Páez Andrés Bello University

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