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Overview

Joshua M. Ackerman is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a significant focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, with key areas including Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Cultural Differences and Values, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Social and Intergroup Psychology, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Eating Disorders and Behaviors.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Joshua M. Ackerman include the following:

  • Common Academic Experiences No One Talks About: Repeated Rejection, Impostor Syndrome, and Burnout (2020), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • What Role Does Pathogen-Avoidance Psychology Play in Pandemics? (2020), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • COVID-19 stress and eating and drinking behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic (2021), published in Appetite
  • Medication and substance use increases among people using cannabis medically during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), published in International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Sounds of sickness: can people identify infectious disease using sounds of coughs and sneezes? (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Joshua M. Ackerman has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers. These frequent co-authors include Wilson N. Merrell, Soyeon Choi, Oliver Sng, George Cybenko, and Joshua M. Tybur.

The scientist often publishes work in various venues. The most frequent publication outlets for Joshua M. Ackerman are arXiv (Cornell University), Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Appetite.

Best Publications

  • Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Christopher C. Nocera;John A. Bargh

  • When the Economy Falters, Do People Spend or Save? Responses to Resource Scarcity Depend on Childhood Environments

    Vladas Griskevicius;Joshua M. Ackerman;Stephanie M. Cantú;Andrew W. Delton

  • Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies

    Chad R. Mortensen;D. Vaughn Becker;Joshua M. Ackerman;Steven L. Neuberg

  • They All Look the Same to Me (Unless They're Angry): From Out-Group Homogeneity to Out-Group Heterogeneity

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Jenessa R. Shapiro;Steven L. Neuberg;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • The financial consequences of too many men: sex ratio effects on saving, borrowing, and spending.

    Vladas Griskevicius;Joshua M. Tybur;Joshua M. Ackerman;Andrew W. Delton

  • A pox on the mind: Disjunction of attention and memory in the processing of physical disfigurement

    Joshua M. Ackerman;D. Vaughn Becker;Chad R. Mortensen;Takao Sasaki

  • You Wear Me Out The Vicarious Depletion of Self-Control

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Noah J. Goldstein;Jenessa R. Shapiro;John A. Bargh

  • The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Sarah E. Hill;Damian R. Murray

  • Immunizing Against Prejudice Effects of Disease Protection on Attitudes Toward Out-Groups

    Julie Y. Huang;Alexandra Sedlovskaya;Joshua M. Ackerman;John A. Bargh

  • Is friendship akin to kinship

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Douglas T. Kenrick;Mark Schaller

  • Let's get serious: communicating commitment in romantic relationships.

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Vladas Griskevicius;Norman P. Li

  • Common Academic Experiences No One Talks About: Repeated Rejection, Impostor Syndrome, and Burnout:

    Lisa M Jaremka;Joshua M Ackerman;Bertram Gawronski;Nicholas O Rule

  • The Infectiousness of Crowds: Crowding Experiences Are Amplified by Pathogen Threats

    Iris M Wang;Joshua M Ackerman

  • More Memory Bang for the Attentional Buck Self-Protection Goals Enhance Encoding Efficiency for Potentially Threatening Males

    D. Vaughn Becker;Uriah S. Anderson;Steven L. Neuberg;Jon K. Maner

  • I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men.

    Uriah S. Anderson;Elaine F. Perea;D. Vaughn Becker;Joshua M. Ackerman

  • The Costs of Benefits: Help-Refusals Highlight Key Trade-Offs of Social Life:

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • What Role Does Pathogen-Avoidance Psychology Play in Pandemics?

    Joshua M. Ackerman;Joshua M. Tybur;Aaron D. Blackwell

  • Signal detection on the battlefield: Priming self-protection vs. revenge-mindedness differentially modulates the detection of enemies and allies

    D. Vaughn Becker;Chad R. Mortensen;Joshua M. Ackerman;Jenessa R. Shapiro

  • No sign of quitting: incidental exposure to “no smoking” signs ironically boosts cigarette-approach tendencies in smokers

    Brian D. Earp;Brendan Dill;Jennifer L. Harris;Joshua M. Ackerman

  • Catching (Up with) Magical Contagion: A Review of Contagion Effects in Consumer Contexts

    Julie Y. Huang;Joshua M. Ackerman;George E. Newman

  • The Oxford handbook of evolutionary family psychology

    Justin H Park;JM Ackerman

  • The financial consequences of too many men: Sex ratio effects on saving, borrowing, and spending.

    Vladas Griskevicius;Joshua M. Tybur;Andrew W. Delton;Theresa E. Robertson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon K. Maner
Jon K. Maner Florida State University
Douglas T. Kenrick
Douglas T. Kenrick Arizona State University
Vladas Griskevicius
Vladas Griskevicius University of Minnesota
John A. Bargh
John A. Bargh Yale University
Steven L. Neuberg
Steven L. Neuberg Arizona State University
Joshua M. Tybur
Joshua M. Tybur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mark Schaller
Mark Schaller University of British Columbia
Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Ashley N. Gearhardt
Ashley N. Gearhardt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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