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Overview

Linda J. Skitka is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans several main fields, predominantly Social Sciences and Psychology. Subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their work addresses multiple interconnected topics such as Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Mina Cikara, James Druckman, Eli J. Finkel, David G. Rand, and Joshua A. Tucker.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Political sectarianism in America (2020, Science)
  • The Psychology of Moral Conviction (2020, Annual Review of Psychology)
  • A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19 (2023, Nature)
  • Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Their publications frequently appear in journals such as the British Journal of Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, PLoS ONE, Psychological Inquiry, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Moral conviction: another contributor to attitude strength or something more?

    Linda J. Skitka;Christopher W. Bauman;Edward G. Sargis

  • Social and cognitive strategies for coping with accountability: conformity, complexity, and bolstering.

    Philip E. Tetlock;Linda Skitka;Richard Boettger

  • Political sectarianism in America

    Eli J. Finkel;Christopher A. Bail;Mina Cikara;Peter H. Ditto

  • Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction

    Christopher W. Bauman;Linda J. Skitka

  • Does automation bias decision-making?

    Linda J. Skitka;Kathleen L. Mosier;Mark Burdick

  • The Psychology of Moral Conviction

    Linda J. Skitka

  • Morality in everyday life

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Daniel C. Wisneski;Mark J. Brandt;Linda J. Skitka

  • Providing public assistance: Cognitive and motivational processes underlying liberal and conservative policy preferences.

    Linda J. Skitka;Philip E. Tetlock

  • Dispositions, scripts, or motivated correction? Understanding ideological differences in explanations for social problems

    Linda J. Skitka;Elizabeth Mullen;Thomas D. Griffin;Susan Hutchinson

  • Political Tolerance and Coming to Psychological Closure Following the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks: An Integrative Approach

    Linda J. Skitka;Christopher W. Bauman;Elizabeth Mullen

  • The Internet as Psychological Laboratory

    Linda J. Skitka;Edward G. Sargis

  • AUTOMATION BIAS: DECISION MAKING AND PERFORMANCE IN HIGH-TECH COCKPITS

    Kathleen L. Mosier;Linda J. Skitka;Susan Heers;Mark Burdick

  • Do the Means Always Justify the Ends, or Do the Ends Sometimes Justify the Means? A Value Protection Model of Justice Reasoning

    Linda J. Skitka

  • Human Decision Makers and Automated Decision Aids: Made for Each Other?

    Kathleen L. Mosier;Linda J. Skitka

  • Allocating scarce resources : a contingency model of distributive justice

    Linda J Skitka;Philip E Tetlock

  • Exploring the psychological underpinnings of the moral mandate effect: motivated reasoning, group differentiation, or anger?

    Elizabeth Mullen;Linda J. Skitka

  • Liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another's opinions

    Jeremy A. Frimer;Linda J. Skitka;Matt Motyl

  • Confrontational and Preventative Policy Responses to Terrorism: Anger Wants a Fight and Fear Wants "Them" to Go Away

    Linda J. Skitka;Christopher W. Bauman;Nicholas P. Aramovich;G. Scott Morgan

  • Moral Conviction and Political Engagement

    Linda J. Skitka;Christopher W. Bauman

  • The Psychology of Moral Conviction.

    Linda J Skitka;Brittany E Hanson;G Scott Morgan;Daniel C Wisneski

Frequent Co-Authors

Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Mario Gollwitzer
Mario Gollwitzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Eli J. Finkel
Eli J. Finkel Northwestern University
Christina Maslach
Christina Maslach University of California, Berkeley
Mina Cikara
Mina Cikara Harvard University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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