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Overview

Stephen J. Read is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research contributions span various areas within psychology and social sciences, with multiple publications emphasizing clinical and social psychology domains.

Their recent papers illustrate a broad scope of topics and collaboration with diverse authors. Notable publications include:

  • The Dynamics of Personality Approach (DPA): 20 Tenets for Uncovering the Causal Mechanisms of Personality, 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning, 2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The adversarial mindset., 2020, Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Parental psychological control perceived in adolescence predicts jealousy toward romantic partners in emerging adulthood via insecure attachment, 2021, Social Development

Stephen J. Read frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Lynn C. Miller
  • John F. Rauthmann
  • So Young Choe
  • Jungeun Olivia Lee
  • David C. Jeong

Their work is often published in a select group of scholarly venues, such as:

  • Social Development
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law

Stephen J. Read's research fields include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study focus on:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The primary topics addressed in their work cover a range of areas:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.

    Nancy L. Collins;Stephen J. Read

  • HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH? A PSYCHOMETRIC STUDY OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGICAL RISKS AND BENEFITS

    Baruch Fischhoff;Paul Slovic;Sarah Lichtenstein;Stephen Read

  • Self-verification processes: How we sustain our self-conceptions

    William B Swann;Stephen J Read

  • Prediction and control under uncertainty: Outcomes in angel investing

    Robert Wiltbank;Stuart Read;Nicholas Dew;Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Acquiring Self-Knowledge: The Search for Feedback That Fits

    William B. Swann;Stephen J. Read

  • The redux of cognitive consistency theories: evidence judgments by constraint satisfaction.

    Dan Simon;Chadwick J. Snow;Stephen J. Read

  • Constructing causal scenarios: A knowledge structure approach to causal reasoning.

    Stephen J. Read

  • Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development:

    Anna Baumert;Anna Baumert;Manfred Schmitt;Marco Perugini;Wendy Johnson

  • Present versus future time perspective and HIV risk among heterosexual college students.

    Sadina Rothspan;Stephen J. Read

  • Connectionism, Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes, and Gestalt Principles: (Re)Introducing Cognitive Dynamics to Social Psychology

    Stephen J. Read;Eric J. Vanman;Lynn C. Miller

  • The Dynamical Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology

    Robin R. Vallacher;Stephen J. Read;Andrzej Nowak

  • Explanatory coherence in social explanations : a parallel distributed processing account

    Stephen J. Read;Amy Marcus-Newhall

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Human Goals

    Ada S. Chulef;Stephen J. Read;David A. Walsh

  • Revisiting the role of the insula in addiction

    Vita Droutman;Stephen J. Read;Antoine Bechara

  • Reading people’s minds from emotion expressions in interdependent decision making.

    Celso M. de Melo;Peter J. Carnevale;Stephen J. Read;Jonathan Gratch

  • A neural network model of the structure and dynamics of human personality.

    Stephen J. Read;Brian M. Monroe;Aaron L. Brownstein;Yu Yang

  • Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior

    Stephen John Read;Lynn C. Miller

  • The effects of expertise on financial problem solving: Evidence for goal-directed, problem-solving scripts

    Douglas A Hershey;David A Walsh;Stephen J Read;Ada S Chulef

  • Traits as Goal-Based Categories: The Importance of Goals in the Coherence of Dispositional Categories

    Stephen J. Read;David K. Jones;Lynn C. Miller

  • Inter-personalism: Toward a goal-based theory of persons in relationships.

    Stephen John Read;Lynn Carol Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynn C. Miller
Lynn C. Miller University of Southern California
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
Zhong-Lin Lu
Zhong-Lin Lu New York University Shanghai
Robin R. Vallacher
Robin R. Vallacher Florida Atlantic University
Michael D. Robinson
Michael D. Robinson North Dakota State University
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter J. Carnevale
Peter J. Carnevale University of Southern California
Nancy L. Collins
Nancy L. Collins University of California, Santa Barbara
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson University of Edinburgh

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