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Melissa J. Ferguson

Melissa J. Ferguson

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Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
9823
World Ranking
8421
National Ranking
4495

Overview

Melissa J. Ferguson is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a research focus spanning social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience. Their work predominantly engages with social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and cultural differences and values. Additional themes include academic and historical perspectives in psychology, behavioral health and interventions, emotions and moral behavior, and electoral systems and political participation.

The scientist's subfields of study highlight a concentration in sociology and political science, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, alongside general and applied psychology.

Major publication venues for Melissa J. Ferguson include:

  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Psychological Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Notable recent papers reflect a range of topics across social and psychological science. These include:

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science (2020), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • How inferred motives shape moral judgements (2022), published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Changes in Americans' prejudices during the presidency of Donald Trump (2022), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Using dynamic monitoring of choices to predict and understand risk preferences (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study (2020), published in Psychological Science

The researcher has collaborated frequently with a set of co-authors, including Benedek Kurdi, Thomas C. Mann, Xi Shen, Paul E. Stillman, and Yochanan Bigman, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Beyond behaviorism: on the automaticity of higher mental processes.

    John A. Bargh;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • Everyday Sexism: Evidence for Its Incidence, Nature, and Psychological Impact From Three Daily Diary Studies

    Janet K. Swim;Lauri L. Hyers;Laurie L. Cohen;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • Liking Is for Doing: The Effects of Goal Pursuit on Automatic Evaluation.

    Melissa J. Ferguson;John A. Bargh

  • How social perception can automatically influence behavior

    Melissa J. Ferguson;John A. Bargh

  • The goal construct in social psychology.

    Ayelet Fishbach;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • On becoming ready to pursue a goal you don't know you have: Effects of nonconscious goals on evaluative readiness

    Melissa J. Ferguson

  • He did what? The role of diagnosticity in revising implicit evaluations.

    Jeremy Cone;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • Subliminal exposure to national flags affects political thought and behavior

    Ran R. Hassin;Melissa J. Ferguson;Daniella Shidlovski;Tamar Gross

  • Automatic goal inferences.

    Ran R. Hassin;Henk Aarts;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • Can we undo our first impressions? The role of reinterpretation in reversing implicit evaluations.

    Thomas C. Mann;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • A Single Exposure to the American Flag Shifts Support Toward Republicanism up to 8 Months Later

    Travis J. Carter;Melissa J. Ferguson;Ran R. Hassin

  • Mood as a resource in processing self-relevant information

    Yaacov Trope;Melissa Ferguson;Raj Raghunathan

  • How Mouse-tracking Can Advance Social Cognitive Theory

    Paul E. Stillman;Xi Shen;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • The Self-Organization of Explicit Attitudes

    Michael T. Wojnowicz;Melissa J. Ferguson;Rick Dale;Michael J. Spivey

  • Psychological distance can improve decision making under information overload via gist memory.

    Jun Fukukura;Melissa J. Ferguson;Kentaro Fujita

  • Avoiding Stigma by Association: Subtle Prejudice Against Lesbians in the Form of Social Distancing

    Janet K. Swim;Melissa J. Ferguson;Lauri L. Hyers

  • The cost of keeping it hidden: decomposing concealment reveals what makes it depleting.

    Clayton R. Critcher;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • On the automatic evaluation of end-states.

    Melissa J. Ferguson

  • After-affects: How automatic evaluations influence the interpretation of subsequent, unrelated stimuli

    Melissa J. Ferguson;John A. Bargh;David A. Nayak

  • Implicit motivation: Past, present, and future.

    Melissa J. Ferguson;Ran Hassin;John A. Bargh

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science

    June Gruber;Jane Mendle;Kristen A. Lindquist;Toni Schmader

Frequent Co-Authors

Ran R. Hassin
Ran R. Hassin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John A. Bargh
John A. Bargh Yale University
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope New York University
Janet K. Swim
Janet K. Swim Pennsylvania State University
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Tanya L. Chartrand
Tanya L. Chartrand Duke University
Christian Unkelbach
Christian Unkelbach University of Cologne
Miguel A. Vadillo
Miguel A. Vadillo Autonomous University of Madrid
Olivier Corneille
Olivier Corneille Université Catholique de Louvain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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