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Overview

Eric D. Knowles is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields within the social sciences, with a primary focus on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main areas of study emphasize social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, racial and ethnic identity research, and the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional focal topics include the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and cultural dynamics, and mental health related to the pandemic.

Recent scholarly contributions by Eric D. Knowles include:

  • Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Economic system justification predicts muted emotional responses to inequality, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Social Class Predicts Emotion Perception and Perspective-Taking Performance in Adults, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Political polarization and health, 2024, Nature Medicine
  • Precarious Manhood Predicts Support for Aggressive Policies and Politicians, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (4 publications)
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (3 publications)
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science (2 publications)
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2 publications)
  • Nature Human Behaviour (1 publication)

Eric D. Knowles collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Pia Dietze (4 coauthored works)
  • Jay Joseph Van Bavel (3 coauthored works)
  • Shahrzad Goudarzi (3 coauthored works)
  • Sarah H. DiMuccio (3 coauthored works)
  • Anton Gollwitzer (2 coauthored works)

Their research covers diverse dimensions of social behavior and political psychology, contributing to understanding how group identities, social class, and political polarization influence health, emotions, and social cognition.

Best Publications

  • Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Anton Gollwitzer;Cameron Martel;William J. Brady;Philip Pärnamets;Philip Pärnamets

  • Deny, Distance, or Dismantle? How White Americans Manage a Privileged Identity

    Eric D. Knowles;Brian S. Lowery;Rosalind M. Chow;Miguel M. Unzueta

  • On the malleability of ideology: Motivated construals of color blindness.

    Eric D. Knowles;Brian S. Lowery;Caitlin M. Hogan;Rosalind M. Chow

  • Concern for the in-group and opposition to affirmative action.

    Brian S. Lowery;Miguel M. Unzueta;Eric D. Knowles;Phillip Atiba Goff

  • Implicit motivation to control prejudice.

    Jack Glaser;Eric D. Knowles

  • Framing Inequity Safely: Whites' Motivated Perceptions of Racial Privilege

    Brian S. Lowery;Eric D. Knowles;Miguel M. Unzueta

  • White selves: conceptualizing and measuring a dominant-group identity.

    Eric D. Knowles;Kaiping Peng

  • False memories of fabricated political events

    Steven J. Frenda;Eric D. Knowles;William Saletan;Elizabeth F. Loftus

  • Social Class and the Motivational Relevance of Other Human Beings: Evidence From Visual Attention.

    Pia Dietze;Eric D. Knowles

  • Meritocracy, Self-Concerns, and Whites' Denial of Racial Inequity

    Eric D. Knowles;Brian S. Lowery

  • Culture, Education, and the Attribution of Physical Causality

    Kaiping Peng;Eric D. Knowles

  • Racial prejudice predicts opposition to Obama and his health care reform plan

    Eric D. Knowles;Brian S. Lowery;Rebecca L. Schaumberg

  • Culture and the Process of Person Perception: Evidence for Automaticity among East Asians in Correcting for Situational Influences on Behavior

    Eric D. Knowles;Michael W. Morris;Chi Yue Chiu;Ying Yi Hong

  • Paying for Positive Group Esteem: How Inequity Frames Affect Whites' Responses to Redistributive Policies

    Brian S. Lowery;Rosalind M. Chow;Eric D. Knowles;Miguel M. Unzueta

  • The Racial and Economic Context of Trump Support: Evidence for Threat, Identity, and Contact Effects in the 2016 Presidential Election

    Eric D. Knowles;Linda R. Tropp

  • iMPlicit Motivation to control PreJudice Moderates the effect of cognitive dePletion on unintended discriMination

    Sang Hee Park;Jack Glaser;Eric D. Knowles

  • Diversity Is What You Want It to Be How Social-Dominance Motives Affect Construals of Diversity

    Miguel M. Unzueta;Eric D. Knowles;Geoffrey C. Ho

  • Fundamental(ist) Attribution Error: Protestants Are Dispositionally Focused

    Yexin Jessica Li;Kathryn A. Johnson;Adam B. Cohen;Melissa J. Williams

  • Economic system justification predicts muted emotional responses to inequality.

    Shahrzad Goudarzi;Ruthie Pliskin;John T. Jost;Eric D. Knowles

  • How believing in affirmative action quotas protects White men's self-esteem

    Miguel M. Unzueta;Brian S. Lowery;Eric D. Knowles

  • Entitativity and intergroup bias: How belonging to a cohesive group allows people to express their prejudices.

    Daniel A. Effron;Eric D. Knowles

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Morris
Michael W. Morris Columbia University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Daniel R. Ames
Daniel R. Ames Columbia University
Kaiping Peng
Kaiping Peng Tsinghua University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Linda R. Tropp
Linda R. Tropp University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peter H. Ditto
Peter H. Ditto University of California, Irvine
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chuansheng Chen
Chuansheng Chen University of California, Irvine

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