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Steven J. Sherman

Steven J. Sherman

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Psychology

D-Index
93
Citations
31604
World Ranking
844
National Ranking
533

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Steven J. Sherman is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, gender studies, and language and linguistics.

The scientist's research topics focus on law, economics, and judicial systems, as well as social and intergroup psychology. Additional areas of interest include gender studies in language and linguistics, language diversity, and identity.

Recent publications by Steven J. Sherman include:

  • Underestimating the unrepresented: Cognitive biases disadvantage pro se litigants in family law cases., 2020, Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • The Spatial Ingroup Bias: Ingroup Teams Are Positioned Where Writing Starts, 2021, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sherman are:

  • Kathryn M. Kroeper
  • Victor D. Quintanilla
  • Michael B. Frisby
  • Nedim Yel
  • Amy G. Applegate

The scientist has published in venues such as Psychology Public Policy and Law and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, each hosting at least one of their scholarly articles.

Steven J. Sherman received recognition as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1988, marking a notable point in their professional career.

Best Publications

  • PERCEIVING PERSONS AND GROUPS

    David L. Hamilton;Steven J. Sherman

  • Varieties of groups and the perception of group entitativity.

    Brian Lickel;David L. Hamilton;Grazyna Wieczorkowska;Amy Lewis

  • Attitude accessibility, attitude-behavior consistency, and the strength of the object-evaluation association

    Russell H. Fazio;Jeaw-mei Chen;Elizabeth C. McDonel;Steven J. Sherman

  • Imagination Inflation: Imagining a Childhood Event Inflates Confidence That It Occurred

    Maryanne Garry;Charles G. Manning;Elizabeth F. Loftus;Steven J. Sherman

  • On the consequences of priming: Assimilation and contrast effects

    Paul M Herr;Steven J Sherman;Russell H Fazio

  • Economic Preferences or Attitude Expressions?: An Analysis of Dollar Responses to Public Issues

    Daniel Kahneman;Ilana Ritov;David Schkade;Steven J. Sherman

  • The Mental Simulation of Better and Worse Possible Worlds

    Keith D. Markman;Igor Gavanski;Steven J. Sherman;Matthew N. McMullen

  • On the self-erasing nature of errors of prediction.

    Steven J. Sherman

  • The Natural History of Cigarette Smoking: Predicting Young-Adult Smoking Outcomes From Adolescent Smoking Patterns

    Laurie Chassin;Clark C. Presson;Steven J. Sherman;Debra A. Edwards

  • The natural history of cigarette smoking from adolescence to adulthood: demographic predictors of continuity and change.

    Laurie Chassin;Clark C. Presson;Jennifer S. Rose;Steven J. Sherman

  • The natural history of cigarette smoking from adolescence to adulthood in a midwestern community sample: multiple trajectories and their psychosocial correlates.

    Laurie Chassin;Clark C. Presson;Steven C. Pitts;Steven J. Sherman

  • Imagining Can Heighten or Lower the Perceived Likelihood of Contracting a Disease The Mediating Effect of Ease of Imagery

    Steven J. Sherman;Robert B. Cialdini;Donna F. Schwartzman;Kim D. Reynolds

  • Changes in peer and parent influence during adolescence: Longitudinal versus cross-sectional perspectives on smoking initiation.

    Laurie Chassin;Clark C. Presson;Steven J. Sherman;Daniel Montello

  • Stereotype-Based Expectancies: Effects on Information Processing and Social Behavior

    David L. Hamilton;Steven J. Sherman;Catherine M. Ruvolo

  • The effect of level of construal on the temporal distance of activity enactment

    Nira Liberman;Yaacov Trope;Sean M. McCrea;Steven J. Sherman

  • Predicting the Onset of Cigarette Smoking in Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study

    Laurie Chassin;Clark C. Presson;Steven J. Sherman;Eric Corty

  • Constructing and reconstructing the past and the future in the present.

    Marcia K. Johnson;Steven J. Sherman

  • Information-gathering processes: Diagnosticity, hypothesis-confirmatory strategies, and perceived hypothesis confirmation.

    Richard B Skov;Steven J Sherman

  • The Role of Counterfactual Thinking in Judgments of Affect

    Faith Gleicher;Kathryn A. Kost;Sara M. Baker;Alan J. Strathman

  • Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Cigarette Smoking: the Effects of Context and Motivation

    Steven J. Sherman;Jennifer S. Rose;Kelly Koch;Clark C. Presson

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurie Chassin
Laurie Chassin Arizona State University
Clark C. Presson
Clark C. Presson Arizona State University
David L. Hamilton
David L. Hamilton University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeffrey W. Sherman
Jeffrey W. Sherman University of California, Davis
Allen R. McConnell
Allen R. McConnell Miami University
Luigi Castelli
Luigi Castelli University of Padua
Russell H. Fazio
Russell H. Fazio The Ohio State University
Brian Lickel
Brian Lickel University of Massachusetts Amherst
David M. Sanbonmatsu
David M. Sanbonmatsu University of Utah
Nira Liberman
Nira Liberman Tel Aviv University

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