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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2000 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1996 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • 1940 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

E. Tory Higgins is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their academic work primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with significant contributions to social psychology, applied psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main research topics include behavioral health and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, decision-making and behavioral economics, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, media influence and health, and digital marketing and social media.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Merged minds: Generalized shared reality in dyadic relationships." (2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • "Regulatory Focus and Fit Effects in Organizations" (2020, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior)
  • "Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds" (2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
  • "How regulatory focus-mode fit impacts variety-seeking" (2022, Journal of Consumer Psychology)
  • "Leveraging Social Media Advertising to Foster Female Consumers' Empowerment and Engagement: The Role of Regulatory Mode" (2023, Journal of Advertising)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Higgins include:

  • Emily Nakkawita
  • Maya Rossignac-Milon
  • Federica Pinelli
  • James F. M. Cornwell
  • Frank Mathmann

Higgins's work is regularly published in several venues, including:

  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • Motivation Science
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Social Cognition

Throughout their career, Higgins has received multiple awards, such as the following:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA) (2000)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2000)
  • Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (1996)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1940)

Best Publications

  • Self-discrepancy: a theory relating self and affect.

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Promotion and Prevention: Regulatory Focus as A Motivational Principle

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Handbook of motivation and cognition : foundations of social behavior

    Richard M. Sorrentino;E. Tory Higgins

  • Regulatory Focus and Strategic Inclinations: Promotion and Prevention in Decision-Making

    Ellen Crowe;E.Tory Higgins

  • Category accessibility and impression formation

    E. Tory Higgins;William S. Rholes;Carl R. Jones

  • Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride

    E. Tory Higgins;Ronald S. Friedman;Robert E. Harlow;Lorraine Chen Idson

  • Emotional responses to goal attainment : Strength of regulatory focus as moderator

    E. Tory Higgins;James Y. Shah;Ronald S. Friedman

  • Social Cognition and Social Perception

    E. Tory Higgins;John A. Bargh

  • Shared reality: How social verification makes the subjective objective.

    Curtis D. Hardin;E. Tory Higgins

  • Regulatory fit and persuasion: transfer from "Feeling Right.".

    Joseph Cesario;Heidi Grant;E. Tory Higgins

  • Value from hedonic experience and engagement.

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Self-Concept Discrepancy Theory: A Psychological Model for Distinguishing among Different Aspects of Depression and Anxiety

    E. Tory Higgins;Ruth Klein;Timothy Strauman

  • Regulatory Focus Theory: Implications for the Study of Emotions at Work

    Joel Brockner;E.Tory Higgins

  • Self-discrepancy theory: What patterns of self-beliefs cause people to suffer?

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Self-discrepancies and emotional vulnerability: how magnitude, accessibility, and type of discrepancy influence affect.

    E Tory Higgins;Ronald N Bond;Ruth Klein;Timothy Strauman

  • The "self digest": self-knowledge serving self-regulatory functions.

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology

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

  • Individual construct accessibility and subjective impressions and recall.

    E. Tory Higgins;Gillian A. King;Gregory H. Mavin

  • Social Foundations of Cognition

    John M. Levine;Lauren B. Resnick;E. Tory Higgins

  • Transfer of value from fit.

    E. Tory Higgins;Lorraine Chen Idson;Antonio L. Freitas;Scott Spiegel

Frequent Co-Authors

Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
Antonio Pierro
Antonio Pierro Sapienza University of Rome
Nira Liberman
Nira Liberman Tel Aviv University
Daniel C. Molden
Daniel C. Molden Northwestern University
John M. Levine
John M. Levine University of Pittsburgh
Diane N. Ruble
Diane N. Ruble New York University
Timothy J. Strauman
Timothy J. Strauman Duke University
Jens Förster
Jens Förster RWTH Aachen University
Arthur B. Markman
Arthur B. Markman The University of Texas at Austin
Marlene M. Moretti
Marlene M. Moretti Simon Fraser University

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