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Overview

Mark D. Alicke is affiliated with Ohio University in the United States. Their research intersects multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, with particular attention to cognitive neuroscience and social psychology subfields.

The researcher has contributed notably to the study of social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and cultural differences and values. Additional topics in their work include free will and agency, deception detection and forensic psychology, personality traits, and crime patterns and interventions.

Mark D. Alicke has recent publications that demonstrate engagement with these themes. These include:

  • "My True Self is Better Than Yours: Comparative Bias in True Self Judgments" (2020), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "The Reasonable Person Standard: Psychological and Legal Perspectives" (2021), published in Annual Review of Law and Social Science
  • "Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge" (2020), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
  • "The reasonably prudent person, or me?" (2020), published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • "Explaining the better-than-average effect among prisoners" (2020), published in Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mark D. Alicke include Yiyue Zhang, Constantine Sedikides, Nicole Stephenson, Stephanie H. Weigel, and John J. Skowronski.

Their work is often published in venues such as the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Global self-evaluation as determined by the desirability and controllability of trait adjectives.

    Mark D. Alicke

  • Culpable control and the psychology of blame.

    Mark D. Alicke

  • Personal contact, individuation, and the better-than-average effect.

    Mark D. Alicke;M. L. Klotz;David L. Breitenbecher;Tricia J. Yurak

  • Self-enhancement and self-protection: what they are and what they do

    Mark D. Alicke;Constantine Sedikides

  • Effectiveness of psychotherapy with children and adolescents: a meta-analysis for clinicians

    John R. Weisz;Bahr Weiss;Mark D. Alicke;M. L. Klotz

  • The Better-Than-Average Effect.

    Mark D. Alicke;Olesya Govorun

  • The better-than-average effect in comparative self-evaluation: A comprehensive review and meta-analysis.

    Ethan Zell;Jason E Strickhouser;Constantine Sedikides;Mark D Alicke

  • Handbook of self-enhancement and self-protection

    Mark D. Alicke;Constantine Sedikides

  • The Local Dominance Effect in Self-Evaluation: Evidence and Explanations

    Ethan Zell;Mark D. Alicke

  • Complaining Behavior in Social Interaction

    Mark D. Alicke;James C. Braun;Jeffrey E. Glor;M. L. Klotz

  • Causation, Norm violation, and culpable control

    Mark D. Alicke;David Rose;Dori Bloom

  • Culpable Control and Counterfactual Reasoning in the Psychology of Blame

    Mark D. Alicke;Justin Buckingham;Ethan Zell;Teresa Davis

  • Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection Motives

    Constantine Sedikides;Mark D. Alicke

  • The person who outperforms me is a genius : Maintaining perceived competence in upward social comparison

    Mark D. Alicke;Frank M. LoSchiavo;Jennifer Zerbst;Shaobo Zhang

  • Deconstructing the better-than-average effect.

    Corey L. Guenther;Mark D. Alicke

  • The Self in Social Judgment

    Mark D. Alicke;David A. Dunning;Joachim I. Krueger

  • Conformity and Group Size: The Concern with Being Right and the Concern with Being Liked

    Chester A. Insko;Richard H. Smith;Mark D. Alicke;Joel Wade

  • Judgments of Physical Attractiveness: The Role of Faces and Bodies

    Mark D. Alicke;Richard H. Smith;M. L. Klotz

  • The influence of individual versus aggregate social comparison and the presence of others on self-evaluations.

    Justin T. Buckingham;Mark D. Alicke

  • Self-Evaluative Effects of Temporal and Social Comparison

    Ethan Zell;Mark D. Alicke

  • Contextual neglect, self-evaluation, and the frog-pond effect.

    Ethan Zell;Mark D. Alicke

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Chester A. Insko
Chester A. Insko University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bahr Weiss
Bahr Weiss Vanderbilt University
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University
John J. Skowronski
John J. Skowronski Northern Illinois University
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David A. Lagnado
David A. Lagnado University College London
John R. Weisz
John R. Weisz Harvard University

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