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Joel Cooper is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, predominantly in the social sciences, psychology, and medicine, with a strong focus on sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, surgery, epidemiology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main topics of work include social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, crime patterns and interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, suicide and self-harm studies, and behavioral health and interventions.

Joel Cooper has published several recent papers, including:

  • "Physicians' and Attorneys' Beliefs and Attitudes Related to the Brain Disease Model of Addiction" (2020) in American Journal on Addictions
  • "Fostering COVID-19 Safe Behaviors Using Cognitive Dissonance" (2021) in Basic and Applied Social Psychology
  • "Race and Perceived Immorality in Stereotypes of Criminal Subtypes" (2021) in Basic and Applied Social Psychology
  • "Is your own team against you? Implicit bias and interpersonal regard in criminal defense" (2020) in The Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Lumbar Neuraxial Procedures in Thrombocytopenic Patients Across Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (2020) in Obstetric Anesthesia Digest

The frequent publication venues where Joel Cooper has contributed include:

  • Basic and Applied Social Psychology
  • American Journal on Addictions
  • The Journal of Social Psychology
  • Obstetric Anesthesia Digest
  • The Journal of Legal Studies

Joel Cooper often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include Joseph J. Avery, Jonathan Avery, DongWon Oh, Joseph Mouallem, and Adam Demner.

Best Publications

  • A New Look at Dissonance Theory

    Joel Cooper;Russell H. Fazio

  • The Nonverbal Mediation of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction.

    Carl O Word;Mark P Zanna;Joel Cooper

  • Dissonance and the pill: an attribution approach to studying the arousal properties of dissonance.

    Mark P. Zanna;Joel Cooper

  • A Self-Standards Model of Cognitive Dissonance

    Jeff Stone;Joel Cooper;Joel Cooper

  • The digital divide: the special case of gender

    J. Cooper

  • Cognitive Dissonance: Fifty Years of a Classic Theory

    Joel Cooper

  • Dissonance and Self-perception: An integrative View of Each Theory's Proper Domain of Application

    Russell H Fazio;Mark P Zanna;Joel Cooper

  • Gender and computers : understanding the digital divide

    Joel Cooper;Kimberlee D. Weaver

  • Gender and Computers: Two Surveys of Computer-Related Attitudes.

    Gita Wilder;Diane Mackie;Joel Cooper

  • Decision freedom as a determinant of the role of incentive magnitude in attitude change.

    Darwyn E. Linder;Joel Cooper;Edward E. Jones

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology

    Michael A. Hogg;Joel Cooper

  • When exemplification fails: hypocrisy and the motive for self-integrity.

    Jeff Stone;Andrew W. Wiegand;Joel Cooper;Elliot Aronson

  • From Dissonance To Disidentification: Selectivity in the Self-Affirmation Process

    Joshua Aronson;Hart Blanton;Joel Cooper

  • Vicarious Dissonance: Attitude Change from the Inconsistency of Others

    Michael I. Norton;Benoît Monin;Joel Cooper;Michael A. Hogg

  • A Threat in the Air

    Joel Cooper;Kimberlee D. Weaver

  • Attitudes and Attitude Change

    Joel Cooper;Robert T. Croyle

  • Understanding social psychology

    Stephen Worchel;Joel Cooper

  • When Bad Things Happen to Good Feedback: Exacerbating the Need for Self-Justification with Self-Affirmations

    Hart Blanton;Joel Cooper;Ian Slkurnik;Joshua Aronson

  • Direct Experience and Attitude-Behavior Consistency: An Information Processing Analysis

    Russell H. Fazio;Mark P. Zanna;Joel Cooper

  • Complex scientific testimony: How do jurors make decisions?

    Joel Cooper;Elizabeth A. Bennett;Holly L. Sukel

  • Dissonance arousal: physiological evidence.

    Robert T. Croyle;Joel Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Zanna
Mark P. Zanna University of Waterloo
Michael A. Hogg
Michael A. Hogg Claremont Graduate University
Jeff Stone
Jeff Stone University of Arizona
George R. Goethals
George R. Goethals University of Richmond
Russell H. Fazio
Russell H. Fazio The Ohio State University
Diane M. Mackie
Diane M. Mackie University of California, Santa Barbara
Joshua Aronson
Joshua Aronson New York University
John M. Darley
John M. Darley Princeton University
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland

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