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Ran R. Hassin is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Subfields of study also include sociology and political science, social psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, notably neural and behavioral psychology studies, psychological and educational research studies, neural dynamics and brain function, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, cultural differences and values, and action observation and synchronization.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ran R. Hassin are:

  • Disentangling perceptual awareness from nonconscious processing in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Minority salience and the overestimation of individuals from minority groups in perception and memory, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Political depression? A big-data, multimethod investigation of Americans' emotional response to the Trump presidency., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • From non-conscious processing to conscious events: a minimalist approach, 2021, Neuroscience of Consciousness
  • An energizing role for motivation in information-seeking during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ran R. Hassin include Asael Y. Sklar, Ariel Goldstein, Rasha Kardosh, Alon Goldstein, and Yaniv Abir.

The scientist's work has been published in several key venues, with the most frequent being the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, followed by Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Cognition, and Consciousness and Cognition.

Best Publications

  • The new unconscious.

    Ran R. Hassin;James S. Uleman;John A. Bargh

  • Goal contagion : perceiving is for pursuing

    Henk Aarts;Peter M. Gollwitzer;Ran R. Hassin

  • Angry, Disgusted, or Afraid? Studies on the Malleability of Emotion Perception

    Hillel Aviezer;Ran R. Hassin;Jennifer Ryan;Cheryl Grady

  • Facing faces : Studies on the cognitive aspects of physiognomy

    Ran Hassin;Yaacov Trope

  • Reading and doing arithmetic nonconsciously

    Asael Y. Sklar;Nir Levy;Ariel Goldstein;Roi Mandel

  • Inherently Ambiguous: Facial Expressions of Emotions, in Context

    Ran R. Hassin;Hillel Aviezer;Shlomo Bentin

  • Yes It Can: On the Functional Abilities of the Human Unconscious

    Ran R. Hassin

  • 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

  • Unconscious Goal Activation and the Hijacking of the Executive Function

    Hans Marien;Ruud Custers;Ran R. Hassin;Henk Aarts

  • Automatic and Flexible: The Case of Nonconscious Goal Pursuit

    Ran R. Hassin;John A. Bargh;Shira Zimerman

  • Implicit working memory

    Ran R. Hassin;John A. Bargh;Andrew D. Engell;Kathleen C. McCulloch

  • The Automaticity of Emotional Face-Context Integration

    Hillel Aviezer;Shlomo Bentin;Veronica Dudarev;Ran R. Hassin

  • 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

  • Can consumers make affordable care affordable? The value of choice architecture.

    Eric J. Johnson;Ran Hassin;Tom Baker;Allison T. Bajger

  • The inherently contextualized nature of facial emotion perception

    Hillel Aviezer;Noga Ensenberg;Ran R Hassin

  • Causal processes in psychology are heterogeneous.

    Niall Bolger;Katherine S. Zee;Maya Rossignac-Milon;Ran R. Hassin

  • Self control in society, mind, and brain

    Ran R. Hassin;Kevin N. Ochsner;Yaacov Trope

  • Nonconscious Goal Pursuit in Novel Environments: The Case of Implicit Learning

    Baruch Eitam;Ran R. Hassin;Yaacov Schul

  • Statistical learning shapes face evaluation

    Ron Dotsch;Ron Dotsch;Ran R. Hassin;Alexander T. Todorov

  • Implicit motivation: Past, present, and future.

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa J. Ferguson
Melissa J. Ferguson Yale University
John A. Bargh
John A. Bargh Yale University
Shlomo Bentin
Shlomo Bentin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope New York University
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
James S. Uleman
James S. Uleman New York University
Laurie R. Santos
Laurie R. Santos Yale University
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Alexander Todorov
Alexander Todorov University of Chicago
Yarrow Dunham
Yarrow Dunham Yale University

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