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Overview

Mina Cikara is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, contributing 39 and 38 publications respectively. Within these disciplines, they focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Political Science and International Relations, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Their recent papers include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020) published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Political sectarianism in America (2020) published in Science
  • Strategic Regulation of Empathy (2020) published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • The Social Neuroscience of Prejudice (2020) published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures (2020) published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Cikara frequently publishes in venues such as Nature Human Behaviour, Cognition, SSRN Electronic Journal, Science, and Psychological Science. These represent some of the key platforms for their scholarly output.

Collaborations play a significant role in their research activities. Frequent coauthors of the scientist include James Druckman, David G. Rand, Jay Joseph Van Bavel, Eli J. Finkel, and Azim Shariff.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Us and Them: Intergroup Failures of Empathy

    Mina Cikara;Emile Gabriel Bruneau;Rebecca R. Saxe

  • Political sectarianism in America

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

  • Us Versus Them Social Identity Shapes Neural Responses to Intergroup Competition and Harm

    Mina Cikara;Matthew M. Botvinick;Susan T. Fiske

  • Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses

    Mina Cikara;E. Bruneau;J.J. Van Bavel;R. Saxe

  • The Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations An Integrative Review

    Mina Cikara;Jay J. Van Bavel

  • From agents to objects: Sexist attitudes and neural responses to sexualized targets

    Mina Cikara;Jennifer L. Eberhardt;Susan T. Fiske

  • Stereotypes and Schadenfreude: Affective and Physiological Markers of Pleasure at Outgroup Misfortunes

    Mina Cikara;Susan T. Fiske

  • Inaccurate group meta-perceptions drive negative out-group attributions in competitive contexts.

    Jeffrey Lees;Mina Cikara

  • On the wrong side of the trolley track: neural correlates of relative social valuation

    Mina Cikara;Rachel A. Farnsworth;Lasana T. Harris;Susan T. Fiske

  • Addressing Empathic Failures

    Jamil Zaki;Mina Cikara

  • Strategic Regulation of Empathy.

    Erika Weisz;Mina Cikara

  • Parochial Empathy Predicts Reduced Altruism and the Endorsement of Passive Harm

    Emile G Bruneau;Emile G Bruneau;Mina Cikara;Rebecca Saxe

  • Bounded empathy: Neural responses to outgroup targets' (mis)fortunes

    Mina Cikara;Susan T. Fiske

  • Their pain, our pleasure: stereotype content and schadenfreude

    Mina Cikara;Susan Tufts Fiske

  • Intergroup Schadenfreude: motivating participation in collective violence

    Mina Cikara

  • The Social Neuroscience of Prejudice.

    David M. Amodio;David M. Amodio;Mina Cikara

  • Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures.

    Indrajeet Patil;Micaela Maria Zucchelli;Wouter Kool;Stephanie Campbell

  • State-level macro-economic factors moderate the association of low income with brain structure and mental health in U.S. children

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  • Effects of intergroup threat on mind, brain, and behavior

    Linda W Chang;Amy R Krosch;Mina Cikara

  • Origins of the Belief in Good True Selves.

    Julian De Freitas;Mina Cikara;Igor Grossmann;Rebecca Schlegel

  • Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses

    M. Cikara;J.J. Van Bavel;Emile Gabriel Bruneau;Rebecca R Saxe

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University
Samuel J. Gershman
Samuel J. Gershman Harvard University
Jim Sidanius
Jim Sidanius Harvard University
Fiery Cushman
Fiery Cushman Harvard University
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Jason P. Mitchell
Jason P. Mitchell Harvard University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Eli J. Finkel
Eli J. Finkel Northwestern University
Linda J. Skitka
Linda J. Skitka University of Illinois at Chicago

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