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Eddie Harmon-Jones is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily centers on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work addresses a range of topics including neural and behavioral psychology studies, the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, misinformation and its impacts, behavioral health and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, mental health research topics, and issues related to bullying, victimization, and aggression.

Key recent publications by Eddie Harmon-Jones include:

  • "The Effect of Perceived Effort on Reward Valuation: Taking the Reward Positivity (RewP) to Dissonance Theory," 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "On defining positive affect (PA): considering attitudes toward emotions, measures of PA, and approach motivation," 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "The effect of perceived effort and perceived control on reward valuation: Using the reward positivity to test a dissonance theory prediction," 2020, Biological Psychology

Their research frequently appears in several publication venues, notably:

  • Motivation Science
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Psychophysiology
  • Motivation and Emotion

Eddie Harmon-Jones has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Cindy Harmon-Jones, Kinga Szymaniak, Thomas F. Denson, Sylvia K. Harmon-Jones, and Gabriel Sebban.

Best Publications

  • Anger Is an Approach-Related Affect: Evidence and Implications.

    Charles S. Carver;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Empathy and Attitudes: Can Feeling for a Member of a Stigmatized Group Improve Feelings Toward the Group?

    C D Batson;M P Polycarpou;E Harmon-Jones;H J Imhoff

  • 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

  • Anger and frontal brain activity: EEG asymmetry consistent with approach motivation despite negative affective valence

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;John J. B. Allen

  • Terror management theory and self-esteem: evidence that increased self-esteem reduces mortality salience effects.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Linda Simon;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

  • The role of asymmetric frontal cortical activity in emotion-related phenomena: a review and update.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Philip A. Gable;Carly K. Peterson

  • State anger and prefrontal brain activity: evidence that insult-related relative left-prefrontal activation is associated with experienced anger and aggression.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Jonathan Sigelman

  • Cognitive dissonance: Progress on a pivotal theory in social psychology.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Judson Mills

  • Toward an understanding of the determinants of anger.

    Leonard Berkowitz;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • An introduction to cognitive dissonance theory and an overview of current perspectives on the theory.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Judson Mills

  • Behavioral activation sensitivity and resting frontal EEG asymmetry: covariation of putative indicators related to risk for mood disorders.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;John J. B. Allen

  • Approach-Motivated Positive Affect Reduces Breadth of Attention

    Philip A. Gable;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Clarifying the emotive functions of asymmetrical frontal cortical activity

    Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Anger and the behavioral approach system

    Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Neural Signals for the Detection of Unintentional Race Bias

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

  • The motivational dimensional model of affect: Implications for breadth of attention, memory, and cognitive categorisation

    Philip Gable;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • The Discrete Emotions Questionnaire: A New Tool for Measuring State Self-Reported Emotions.

    Cindy Harmon-Jones;Brock Bastian;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Understanding all inconsistency compensation as a palliative response to violated expectations.

    Travis Proulx;Michael Inzlicht;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Cognitive Dissonance Theory After 50 Years of Development

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Cindy Harmon-Jones

  • Ventral striatal and medial prefrontal BOLD activation is correlated with reward-related electrocortical activity: a combined ERP and fMRI study.

    Joshua M. Carlson;Dan Foti;Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Contributions from research on anger and cognitive dissonance to understanding the motivational functions of asymmetrical frontal brain activity.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Social neuroscience : integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Piotr Winkielman

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Gable
Philip A. Gable University of Delaware
David M. Amodio
David M. Amodio University of Amsterdam
Lyn Y. Abramson
Lyn Y. Abramson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lauren B. Alloy
Lauren B. Alloy Temple University
Robin Nusslock
Robin Nusslock Northwestern University
Patricia G. Devine
Patricia G. Devine University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brandon J. Schmeichel
Brandon J. Schmeichel Texas A&M University
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht University of Toronto
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona

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