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Ian McGregor is a researcher affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Their research also intersects with sociology and political science, applied psychology, and health.

Their main research topics include death anxiety and social exclusion, social and intergroup psychology, behavioral health and interventions, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, cultural differences and values, religion, spirituality and psychology, and mental health research.

Ian McGregor has published several papers, including:

  • A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect (2021) in Psychological Science
  • Hate and meaning in life: How collective, but not personal, hate quells threat and spurs meaning in life (2021) in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Reactive Risk-Taking: Anxiety Regulation Via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-Taking Behavior (2021) in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspire approach motivation and magnanimity (2022) in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • You can't reason with them: Dismissing religious defectors as irrational (2022) in Asian Journal Of Social Psychology

Frequent co-authors with whom Ian McGregor has collaborated include:

  • Abdo Elnakouri
  • Konstantyn Sharpinskyi
  • Kathleen D. Vohs
  • Brandon J. Schmeichel
  • Sophie Lohmann

Ian McGregor's publications have appeared in several academic venues, with regular contributions to the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Other publication venues include Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Asian Journal Of Social Psychology, and Personal Relationships.

Best Publications

  • Personal projects, happiness, and meaning: On doing well and being yourself.

    Ian McGregor;Brian R. Little

  • Compensatory conviction in the face of personal uncertainty: going to extremes and being oneself.

    Ian McGregor;Mark P. Zanna;John G. Holmes;Steven J. Spencer

  • Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach

    Eva Jonas;Ian McGregor;Johannes Klackl;Dmitrij Agroskin

  • Thinking and caring about cognitive inconsistency: When and for whom does attitudinal ambivalence feel uncomfortable?

    Ian R. Newby-Clark;Ian McGregor;Mark P. Zanna

  • Religious Belief as Compensatory Control

    Aaron C Kay;Danielle Gaucher;Ian McGregor;Kyle Nash

  • Neural Markers of Religious Conviction

    Michael Inzlicht;Ian McGregor;Jacob B. Hirsh;Kyle Nash

  • Threat causes liberals to think like conservatives

    Paul R. Nail;Ian McGregor;April E. Drinkwater;Garrett M. Steele

  • Defensive Zeal and the Uncertain Self: What Makes You So Sure?

    Ian McGregor;Denise C. Marigold

  • Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited: the roles of implicit and explicit self-esteem in mortality salience effects.

    Brandon J. Schmeichel;Matthew T. Gailliot;Emily-Ana Filardo;Ian McGregor

  • Anxious uncertainty and reactive approach motivation (RAM).

    Ian McGregor;Kyle Nash;Nikki Mann;Curtis E. Phills

  • How storytelling shapes memory and impressions of relationship events over time

    Ian McGregor;John G. Holmes

  • Defensive pride and consensus: strength in imaginary numbers.

    Ian McGregor;Paul R. Nail;Denise C. Marigold;So-Jin Kang

  • Offensive Defensiveness: Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Compensatory Zeal After Mortality Salience, Personal Uncertainty, and Other Poignant Self-Threats

    Ian McGregor

  • Conservative shift among liberals and conservatives following 9/11/01.

    Paul R. Nail;Ian McGregor

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

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

  • Reactive approach motivation (RAM) for religion

    Ian McGregor;Kyle Nash;Mike Prentice

  • Ideological and Personal Zeal Reactions to Threat Among People With High Self-Esteem: Motivated Promotion Focus

    Ian McGregor;Matthew T. Gailliot;Noelia A. Vasquez;Kyle A. Nash

  • Religious Zeal and the Uncertain Self

    Ian McGregor;Reeshma Haji;Kyle A. Nash;Rimma Teper

  • Dimensions of perfectionism, behavioral inhibition, and rumination

    Daniel Randles;Gordon L. Flett;Kyle A. Nash;Ian D. McGregor

  • "Remembering" dissonance: Simultaneous accessibility of inconsistent cognitive elements moderates epistemic discomfort.

    Ian McGregor;Ian R. Newby-Clark;Mark P. Zanna

  • Anxious Uncertainty and Reactive Approach Motivation (RAM) for Religious, Idealistic, and Lifestyle Extremes

    Ian McGregor;Mike Prentice;Kyle Nash

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht University of Toronto
Jacob B. Hirsh
Jacob B. Hirsh University of Toronto
Brandon J. Schmeichel
Brandon J. Schmeichel Texas A&M University
John G. Holmes
John G. Holmes University of Waterloo
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Eva Jonas
Eva Jonas University of Salzburg
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania
Dianne M. Tice
Dianne M. Tice Brigham Young University
Aaron C. Kay
Aaron C. Kay Duke University
Gordon L. Flett
Gordon L. Flett York University

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