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Overview

Edward R. Hirt is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a particular focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics of their work include Social and Intergroup Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Mental Health Research Topics, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, and the Evaluation of Teaching Practices.

Edward R. Hirt has contributed to several publication venues, frequently publishing in Social Psychological and Personality Science, Psychological Science, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Scientific Reports, and Social Psychology.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Edward R. Hirt include:

  • "A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect" (2021), Psychological Science
  • "ManyClasses 1: Assessing the Generalizable Effect of Immediate Feedback Versus Delayed Feedback Across Many College Classes" (2021), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Political Ideology and Executive Functioning: The Effect of Conservatism and Liberalism on Cognitive Flexibility and Working Memory Performance" (2020), Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "Self-Regulatory Aspects of Bullshitting and Bullshit Detection" (2020), Social Psychology
  • "Descriptive norms caused increases in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2023), Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Edward R. Hirt include John V. Petrocelli, Samantha L. Heiman, Athena Aktipis, Peter M. Todd, and Antonio G. Viera.

Best Publications

  • Costs and benefits of allegiance : changes in fans' self-ascribed competencies after team victory versus defeat

    Edward R. Hirt;Dolf Zillmann;Grant A. Erickson;Chris Kennedy

  • The influence of mood on categorization: A cognitive flexibility interpretation.

    Noel Murray;Harish Sujan;Edward R. Hirt;Mita Sujan

  • Multiple explanation: A consider-an-alternative strategy for debiasing judgments.

    Edward R. Hirt;Keith D. Markman

  • When Perception Is More Than Reality: The Effects of Perceived Versus Actual Resource Depletion on Self-Regulatory Behavior

    Joshua J. Clarkson;Edward R. Hirt;Lile Jia;Marla B. Alexander

  • Processing goals, task interest, and the mood–performance relationship: A mediational analysis.

    Edward R. Hirt;R. Jeffrey Melton;Hugh E. McDonald;Judith M. Harackiewicz

  • I want to be creative: exploring the role of hedonic contingency theory in the positive mood-cognitive flexibility link.

    Edward R. Hirt;Erin E. Devers;Sean M. McCrea

  • Self-reported versus behavioral self-handicapping: empirical evidence for a theoretical distinction.

    Edward R. Hirt;Roberta K. Deppe;Lesley J. Gordon

  • The Role of Mood in Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Performance: Single or Multiple Mechanisms?

    Edward R. Hirt;Gary M. Levine;Hugh E. McDonald;R.Jeffrey Melton

  • Social explanation: The role of timing, set, and recall on subjective likelihood estimates.

    Steven J. Sherman;Kim S. Zehner;James Johnson;Edward R. Hirt

  • DIAGNOSTIC AND CONFIRMATION STRATEGIES IN TRAIT HYPOTHESIS TESTING

    Patricia G. Devine;Edward R. Hirt;Elizabeth M. Gehrke

  • Lessons from a Faraway land: The effect of spatial distance on creative cognition

    Lile Jia;Edward R. Hirt;Samuel C. Karpen

  • The Role of Ability Judgments in Self-Handicapping

    Sean M. McCrea;Edward R. Hirt

  • Processing goals, task interest, and the mood-performance relationship: a mediational analysis.

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  • Activating a mental simulation mind-set through generation of alternatives: Implications for debiasing in related and unrelated domains

    Edward R Hirt;Frank R Kardes;Keith D Markman

  • A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect:

    Kathleen D. Vohs;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Sophie Lohmann;Sophie Lohmann;Quentin F. Gronau

  • "I know you self-handicapped last exam": gender differences in reactions to self-handicapping.

    Edward R. Hirt;Sean M. McCrea;Hillary I. Boris

  • She works hard for the money: Valuing effort underlies gender differences in behavioral self-handicapping☆

    Sean M. McCrea;Edward R. Hirt;Bridgett J. Milner

  • Public Self-Focus and Sex Differences in Behavioral Self-Handicapping: Does Increasing Self-Threat Still Make it “Just a Man’s Game?”

    Edward R. Hirt;Sean M. McCrea;Charles E. Kimble

  • Exploring the Role of Emotions on Sport Consumers' Behavioral and Cognitive Responses to Marketing Stimuli

    Dae Hee Kwak;Yu Kyoum Kim;Edward R. Hirt

  • Do I see only what I expect? Evidence for an expectancy-guided retrieval model

    Edward R. Hirt

  • When expectancy meets desire: motivational effects in reconstructive memory.

    Hugh E. McDonald;Edward R. Hirt

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank R. Kardes
Frank R. Kardes University of Cincinnati
Steven J. Sherman
Steven J. Sherman Indiana University
Ayelet Fishbach
Ayelet Fishbach University of Chicago
Zakary L. Tormala
Zakary L. Tormala Stanford University
Leonard L. Martin
Leonard L. Martin University of Georgia
Patricia G. Devine
Patricia G. Devine University of Wisconsin–Madison
Akira Miyake
Akira Miyake University of Colorado Boulder
Steven Jay Lynn
Steven Jay Lynn Binghamton University
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania
Ian McGregor
Ian McGregor University of Waterloo

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