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Overview

Lowell Gaertner is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a notable emphasis on social and intergroup psychology and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment. Additional focus areas include cultural differences and values, neural and behavioral psychology studies, terrorism and political violence, face recognition and perception, as well as evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Gaertner's work has been published in several academic venues, including multiple contributions to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Affective Science. Other frequent publication venues include Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, and Social Cognition.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with peers such as David S. March, Michael A. Olson, Jolanda Jetten, Michael J. A. Wohl, and Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti. These collaborations have contributed to the depth and scope of Gaertner's research output.

Significant recent publications by Lowell Gaertner include:

  • A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants' beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience., 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Danger or dislike: Distinguishing threat from negative valence as sources of automatic anti-Black bias., 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • On the Automatic Nature of Threat: Physiological and Evaluative Reactions to Survival-Threats Outside Conscious Perception, 2022, Affective Science
  • Lions, and Tigers, and Implicit Measures, Oh My! Implicit Assessment and the Valence vs. Threat Distinction, 2020, Social Cognition

Best Publications

  • Pancultural self-enhancement.

    Constantine Sedikides;Lowell Gaertner;Yoshiyasu Toguchi

  • Pancultural self-enhancement reloaded: a meta-analytic reply to Heine (2005).

    Constantine Sedikides;Lowell Gaertner;Jack L. Vevea

  • Intergroup discrimination in the minimal group paradigm: categorization, reciprocation, or fear?

    Lowell Gaertner;Chester A. Insko

  • Perceived ingroup entitativity and intergroup bias: an interconnection of self and others

    Lowell Gaertner;John Schopler

  • In search of self-definition: motivational primacy of the individual self, motivational primacy of the collective self, or contextual primacy?

    Lowell Gaertner;Constantine Sedikides;Kenneth Graetz

  • Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?

    Huajian Cai;Constantine Sedikides;Lowell Gaertner;Chenjun Wang

  • The "I," the "We," and the "When": a meta-analysis of motivational primacy in self-definition

    Lowell Gaertner;Constantine Sedikides;Jack L. Vevea;Jonathan Iuzzini

  • Self-esteem and favoritism toward novel in-groups: the self as an evaluative base.

    Richard H. Gramzow;Lowell Gaertner

  • A Three-Tier Hierarchy of Self-Potency: Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self

    Constantine Sedikides;Lowell Gaertner;Michelle A. Luke;Erin M. O’Mara

  • Nostalgia as enabler of self continuity.

    Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Lowell Gaertner;Clay Routledge

  • When rejection by one fosters aggression against many: Multiple-victim aggression as a consequence of social rejection and perceived groupness

    Lowell Gaertner;Jonathan Iuzzini;Erin M. O’Mara

  • Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity reduction through the anticipation of future interaction.

    Chester A. Insko;John Schopler;Lowell Gaertner;Tim Wildschut

  • “Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader:

    Stefanie Sprong;Jolanda Jetten;Zhechen Wang;Kim Peters

  • A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self?

    Lowell Gaertner;Constantine Sedikides;Michelle A. Luke;Erin M. O'Mara

  • On Pancultural Self-Enhancement Well-Adjusted Taiwanese Self-Enhance on Personally Valued Traits

    Lowell Gaertner;Constantine Sedikides;Kirk Chang

  • Mechanisms of moral disengagement and their differential use by right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in support of war.

    Lydia Eckstein Jackson;Lowell Gaertner

  • Us without them: Evidence for an intragroup origin of positive in-group regard.

    Lowell Gaertner;Jonathan Iuzzini;Melissa Guerrero Witt;M. Minda Oriña

  • Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self: Hierarchical Ordering of the Tripartite Self

    Constantine Sedikides;Lowell Gaertner;Erin M. O’Mara

  • Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition.

    Tim Wildschut;Chester A. Insko;Lowell Gaertner

  • On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem

    Constantine Sedikides;Lowell Gaertner;Huajian Cai

  • My head says yes but my heart says no: cognitive and affective attraction as a function of similarity to the ideal self.

    Kenneth C. Herbst;Lowell Gaertner;Chester A. Insko

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Chester A. Insko
Chester A. Insko University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
Huajian Cai
Huajian Cai University of Oklahoma
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fabrizio Butera
Fabrizio Butera University of Lausanne
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Olivier Klein
Olivier Klein Université Libre de Bruxelles
Mario Gollwitzer
Mario Gollwitzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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