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S. Christian Wheeler

S. Christian Wheeler

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
8185
World Ranking
9716
National Ranking
5129

Overview

S. Christian Wheeler is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and psychology, focusing on applied psychology, marketing, sociology and political science, social psychology, and safety research.

The scientist's work often addresses behavioral health and interventions, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, experimental behavioral economics studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, and media influence and health.

Recent publications by Wheeler include:

  • Objects and self-identity, 2020, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Reputational costs of receptiveness: When and why being receptive to opposing political views backfires., 2024, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Tailoring recommendation algorithms to ideal preferences makes users better off, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries?, 2024, Journal of Consumer Research
  • Listen to this: Why consumer behavior researchers should care about listening, 2023, Consumer Psychology Review

Common co-authors in Wheeler's work include:

  • Mohamed A. Hussein
  • Christopher J. Bechler
  • Courtney Lee
  • Poruz Khambatta
  • Shwetha Mariadassou

Wheeler's research has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Consumer Psychology
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Journal of Consumer Research
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The effects of stereotype activation on behavior: a review of possible mechanisms.

    S. Christian Wheeler;Richard E. Petty

  • Material priming: The influence of mundane physical objects on situational construal and competitive behavioral choice ☆

    Aaron C. Kay;S.Christian Wheeler;John A. Bargh;Lee Ross

  • Understanding the Role of the Self in Prime-to-Behavior Effects: The Active-Self Account

    S. Christian Wheeler;Kenneth G. DeMarree;Richard E. Petty

  • The “Shaken Self”: Product Choices as a Means of Restoring Self‐View Confidence

    Leilei Gao;S. Christian Wheeler;Baba Shiv

  • Self‐Schema Matching and Attitude Change: Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Message Elaboration

    S. Christian Wheeler;Richard E. Petty;George Y. Bizer

  • The Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion: Developing health promotions for sustained behavioral change.

    Richard E. Petty;Jamie Barden;S. Christian Wheeler

  • Discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-concepts: Consequences for information processing.

    Pablo Briñol;Richard E. Petty;S. Christian Wheeler

  • Contextual priming: Where people vote affects how they vote

    Jonah Berger;Marc Meredith;S. Christian Wheeler

  • Persuasion and Attitude Change

    Richard E. Petty;S. Christian Wheeler;Zakary L. Tormala

  • Resistance to persuasion as self-regulation: Ego-depletion and its effects on attitude change processes

    S. Christian Wheeler;Pablo Briñol;Anthony D. Hermann

  • Think Unto Others: The Self-Destructive Impact of Negative Racial Stereotypes ☆ ☆☆

    S.Christian Wheeler;W.Blair G. Jarvis;Richard E. Petty

  • Priming a new identity: self-monitoring moderates the effects of nonself primes on self-judgments and behavior.

    Kenneth G. DeMarree;S. Christian Wheeler;Richard E. Petty

  • Fictional narratives change beliefs: replications of Prentice, Gerrig, and Bailis (1997) with mixed corroboration.

    S. Christian Wheeler;Melanie C. Green;Timothy C. Brock

  • Personalization in Email Marketing: The Role of Noninformative Advertising Content

    Navdeep S. Sahni;S. Christian Wheeler;Pradeep Chintagunta

  • The Impact of Personality on Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective Political Processes: The Effects of Need to Evaluate

    George Y. Bizer;Jon A. Krosnick;Allyson L. Holbrook;S. Christian Wheeler

  • When the Same Prime Leads to Different Effects

    S. Christian Wheeler;Jonah Berger

  • We Are Not the Same as You and I: Causal Effects of Minor Language Variations on Consumers' Attitudes toward Brands

    Aner Sela;S. Christian Wheeler;Gülen Sarial-Abi

  • Attitude functions and persuasion: An elaboration likelihood approach to matched versus mismatched messages.

    Richard E. Petty;S. Christian Wheeler;George Y. Bizer

  • Circles, Squares, and Choice: The Effect of Shape Arrays on Uniqueness and Variety Seeking

    Michal Maimaran;S. Christian Wheeler

  • Is There One Persuasion Process or More? Lumping Versus Splitting in Attitude Change Theories

    Richard E. Petty;S. Christian Wheeler;George Y. Bizer

  • Multiple Mechanisms of Prime‐to‐Behavior Effects

    S. Christian Wheeler;Kenneth G. DeMarree

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Petty
Richard E. Petty The Ohio State University
Baba Shiv
Baba Shiv Stanford University
Aaron C. Kay
Aaron C. Kay Duke University
Pablo Briñol
Pablo Briñol Autonomous University of Madrid
Zakary L. Tormala
Zakary L. Tormala Stanford University
Timothy C. Brock
Timothy C. Brock The Ohio State University
Melanie C. Green
Melanie C. Green University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Lee Ross
Lee Ross Stanford University
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
Dale T. Miller
Dale T. Miller Stanford University

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