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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Nicholas Epley is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a specific focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics covered in Epley's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Among Epley's recent papers are:

  • "Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation." (2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • "Demeaning: Dehumanizing others by minimizing the importance of their psychological needs." (2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • "It's surprisingly nice to hear you: Misunderstanding the impact of communication media can lead to suboptimal choices of how to connect with others." (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)
  • "Undersociality: miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection" (2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • "Defining key concepts for mental state attribution" (2024, Communications Psychology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Epley include Amit Kumar, Michael Kardas, Juliana Schroeder, Xuan Zhao, and James Dungan.

Common publication venues for Epley's work include:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Psychological Science
  • Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

In 2015, Nicholas Epley was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • On seeing human: A three-factor theory of anthropomorphism.

    Nicholas Epley;Adam Waytz;John T. Cacioppo

  • Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

    Nicholas Epley;Boaz Keysar;Leaf Van Boven;Thomas Gilovich

  • The mind in the machine: Anthropomorphism increases trust in an autonomous vehicle

    Adam Waytz;Joy Heafner;Nicholas Epley

  • The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic Why the Adjustments Are Insufficient

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

  • Who Sees Human?: The Stability and Importance of Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism

    Adam Waytz;John Cacioppo;Nicholas Epley

  • Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning.

    Adam L. Alter;Daniel M. Oppenheimer;Nicholas Epley;Rebecca N. Eyre

  • Feeling "holier than thou": are self-serving assessments produced by errors in self- or social prediction?

    Nicholas Epley;David Dunning

  • WHEN WE NEED A HUMAN: MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM

    Nicholas Epley;Adam Waytz;Scott Akalis;John T. Cacioppo

  • Putting Adjustment Back in the Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic: Differential Processing of Self-Generated and Experimenter-Provided Anchors

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

  • Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction: Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds

    Nicholas Epley;Scott Akalis;Adam Waytz;John T. Cacioppo

  • Causes and consequences of mind perception

    Adam Waytz;Kurt James Gray;Nicholas Epley;Daniel M. Wegner

  • Perspective taking in children and adults: Equivalent egocentrism but differential correction

    Nicholas Epley;Carey K Morewedge;Boaz Keysar

  • Making sense by making sentient: Effectance motivation increases anthropomorphism.

    Adam Waytz;Carey K. Morewedge;Nicholas Epley;George Monteleone

  • Egocentrism over e-mail: Can we communicate as well as we think?

    Justin Kruger;Nicholas Epley;Jason Parker;Zhi-Wen Ng

  • When perspective taking increases taking: reactive egoism in social interaction.

    Nicholas Epley;Eugene M. Caruso;Max H. Bazerman

  • Reflexively mindblind: Using theory of mind to interpret behavior requires effortful attention

    Shuhong Lin;Boaz Keysar;Nicholas Epley

  • When effortful thinking influences judgmental anchoring: differential effects of forewarning and incentives on self-generated and externally provided anchors

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

  • Social Cognition Unbound Insights Into Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization

    Adam Waytz;Nicholas Epley;John T. Cacioppo

  • Mistakenly seeking solitude.

    Nicholas Epley;Juliana Schroeder

  • The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

  • Perspective Taking as Egocentric Anchoring and Adjustment

    Nicholas Epley;Boaz Keysar;Thomas Gilovich;Leaf Van Boven

  • The Anchoring-and-Adjustment Heuristic the Adjustments Are Insufficient

    Nicholas Epley;Thomas Gilovich

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Waytz
Adam Waytz Northwestern University
Thomas Gilovich
Thomas Gilovich Cornell University
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
Boaz Keysar
Boaz Keysar University of Chicago
Leaf Van Boven
Leaf Van Boven University of Colorado Boulder
David Dunning
David Dunning University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ayse K. Uskul
Ayse K. Uskul University of Sussex
Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir Princeton University
Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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