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George E. Newman

George E. Newman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
8330
World Ranking
4706
National Ranking
2235

Overview

George E. Newman is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas in psychology, with a primary focus on marketing, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. They have contributed to fields including sociology and political science as well as gender studies.

Their work covers various key topics such as the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, environmental sustainability in business, death anxiety and social exclusion, psychology of social influence, environmental education and sustainability, and the interplay of religion, spirituality, and psychology.

Newman has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Consumer Psychology Review
  • Psychological Science
  • Journal of Consumer Research

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Newman include:

  • Inauthenticity aversion: Moral reactance toward tainted actors, actions, and objects (2020), Consumer Psychology Review
  • An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures (2022), Psychological Science
  • The Curse of the Original: How and When Heritage Branding Reduces Consumer Evaluations of Enhanced Products (2021), Journal of Consumer Research
  • Exalted Purchases or Tainted Donations? Self-signaling and the Evaluation of Charitable Incentives (2020), Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • Seeking Stability: Consumer Motivations for Communal Nostalgia (2021), Journal of Consumer Psychology

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Joshua Knobe
  • Natalie O. Fedotova
  • Paul Rozin
  • Minju Han
  • Jin Kim

Newman's research contributes to understanding complex psychological phenomena within consumer culture and social behavior by integrating perspectives across subfields such as marketing, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation

    David G. Rand;Alexander Peysakhovich;Alexander Peysakhovich;Gordon T. Kraft-Todd;George E. Newman

  • Celebrity Contagion and the Value of Objects

    George E. Newman;Gil Diesendruck;Paul Bloom

  • Art and authenticity: the importance of originals in judgments of value.

    George E. Newman;Paul Bloom

  • The True Self: A Psychological Concept Distinct From the Self:

    Nina Strohminger;Joshua Knobe;George Newman

  • Authenticity Is Contagious: Brand Essence and the Original Source of Production

    George E. Newman;Ravi Dhar

  • When Going Green Backfires: How Firm Intentions Shape the Evaluation of Socially Beneficial Product Enhancements

    George E. Newman;Margarita Gorlin;Ravi Dhar

  • Value Judgments and the True Self

    George E. Newman;Paul Bloom;Joshua Knobe

  • Authenticity

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  • The psychophysics of chasing: A case study in the perception of animacy

    Tao Gao;George E. Newman;Brian J. Scholl

  • Tainted Altruism When Doing Some Good Is Evaluated as Worse Than Doing No Good at All

    George E. Newman;Daylian M. Cain

  • Beliefs About the True Self Explain Asymmetries Based on Moral Judgment

    George E. Newman;Julian De Freitas;Joshua Knobe

  • Dual character concepts and the normative dimension of conceptual representation

    Joshua Knobe;Sandeep Prasada;George E. Newman

  • The effects of system-justifying motives on endorsement of essentialist explanations for gender differences

    Victoria Brescoll;Eric Luis Uhlmann;George E. Newman

  • Tracing the identity of objects.

    Lance J. Rips;Sergey Blok;George Newman

  • Giving Versus Giving In

    Daylian M. Cain;Jason Dana;George E. Newman

  • Individuals and Their Concepts.

    Sergey V. Blok;George Newman;Lance Jeffrey Rips

  • Kinds of Authenticity

    George E. Newman;Rosanna K. Smith

  • Early understandings of the link between agents and order

    George E. Newman;Frank C. Keil;Valerie A. Kuhlmeier;Karen Wynn

  • The pipeline project : Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline

    Martin Schweinsberg;Nikhil Madan;Michelangelo Vianello;S. Amy Sommer

  • Social Context and the Dynamics of Cooperative Choice

    David G. Rand;George E. Newman;Owen M. Wurzbacher

  • Consistent Belief in a Good True Self in Misanthropes and Three Interdependent Cultures

    Julian De Freitas;Hagop Sarkissian;George E. Newman;Igor Grossmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravi Dhar
Ravi Dhar Yale University
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Lance J. Rips
Lance J. Rips Northwestern University
Brian J. Scholl
Brian J. Scholl Yale University
Frank C. Keil
Frank C. Keil Yale University
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Karen Wynn
Karen Wynn Yale University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

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