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Peter H. Ditto is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their primary field of study centers on Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Political Science and International Relations, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Education.

The scientist's research work spans various key topics, including:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Social Media and Politics

Peter H. Ditto has published extensively across several venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • Science
  • Journal of Environmental Psychology

Recent significant publications include the paper titled Political sectarianism in America (2020) published in Science, Influencing climate change attitudes in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021) in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, and Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda (2023) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Other notable works are Political differences in free will belief are associated with differences in moralization. (2020) published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Nevertheless, partisanship persisted: fake news warnings help briefly, but bias returns with time (2021) in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications.

Among frequent coauthors who have collaborated multiple times with Peter H. Ditto are Jared Celniker, Jacob B. Rode, Daniel P. Relihan, Elizabeth F. Loftus, and Azim Shariff.

Best Publications

  • Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism

    Jesse Graham;Jonathan Haidt;Sena Koleva;Matt Motyl

  • Mapping the Moral Domain

    Jesse Graham;Brian A. Nosek;Jonathan Haidt;Ravi Iyer

  • Motivated Skepticism: Use of Differential Decision Criteria for Preferred and Nonpreferred Conclusions

    Peter H. Ditto;David F. Lopez

  • Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism

    Jesse Graham;Jonathan Haidt;Sena Koleva;Sena Koleva;Sena Koleva;Matt Motyl

  • Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes

    Spassena P. Koleva;Jesse Graham;Ravi Iyer;Peter H. Ditto

  • Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians

    Ravi Iyer;Spassena Koleva;Jesse Graham;Peter Ditto

  • Political sectarianism in America

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

  • Motivated sensitivity to preference-inconsistent information.

    Peter H. Ditto;James A. Scepansky;Geoffrey D. Munro;Anne Marie Apanovitch

  • At Least Bias Is Bipartisan: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Partisan Bias in Liberals and Conservatives.

    Peter H. Ditto;Brittany S. Liu;Cory J. Clark;Sean P. Wojcik

  • Advance Directives as Acts of Communication A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Peter Ditto;Joseph Danks;William Smucker;J. Bookwala

  • Biased Assimilation, Attitude Polarization, and Affect in Reactions to Stereotype-Relevant Scientific Information

    Geoffrey D. Munro;Peter H. Ditto

  • The motivated use of moral principles

    Eric Luis Uhlmann;David A. Pizarro;David Tannenbaum;Peter H. Ditto

  • Judging health status: effects of perceived prevalence and personal relevance.

    John B. Jemmott;Peter H. Ditto;Robert T. Croyle

  • Projection in surrogate decisions about life-sustaining medical treatments.

    Angela Fagerlin;Peter H. Ditto;Joseph H. Danks;Renate M. Houts

  • Free to punish: a motivated account of free will belief.

    Cory J. Clark;Jamie B. Luguri;Peter H. Ditto;Joshua Knobe

  • Micromanaging Death: Process Preferences, Values, and Goals in End-of-Life Medical Decision Making

    Nikki Ayers Hawkins;Peter H. Ditto;Joseph H. Danks;William D. Smucker

  • Spontaneous Skepticism: The Interplay of Motivation and Expectation in Responses to Favorable and Unfavorable Medical Diagnoses

    Peter H. Ditto;Geoffrey D. Munro;Anne Marie Apanovitch;James A. Scepansky

  • Biased Assimilation of Sociopolitical Arguments: Evaluating the 1996 U.S. Presidential Debate

    Geoffrey D. Munro;Peter H. Ditto;Lisa K. Lockhart;Angela Fagerlin

  • What Dilemma? Moral Evaluation Shapes Factual Belief

    Brittany S. Liu;Peter H. Ditto

  • From rarity to evaluative extremity: effects of prevalence information on evaluations of positive and negative characteristics.

    Peter H. Ditto;John B. Jemmott

  • Accuracy of primary care and hospital-based physicians' predictions of elderly outpatients' treatment preferences with and without advance directives.

    Kristen M. Coppola;Peter H. Ditto;Joseph H. Danks;William D. Smucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt New York University
Renate Houts
Renate Houts Duke University
David A. Pizarro
David A. Pizarro Cornell University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Jamila Bookwala
Jamila Bookwala Gettysburg College
Sapna Cheryan
Sapna Cheryan University of Washington
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Andrei Cimpian
Andrei Cimpian New York University

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