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Publications


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* = Lead/contact authors. Otherwise, first author is lead/contact author.

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Key
Pubs
  • Cesario, J. (2022). Target Article: What can experimental studies of bias tell us about group disparities? Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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  • Cesario, J., Johnson, D.J., & Terrill, W. (2019). Is there evidence of racial disparity in police use of deadly force? Analyses of officer-involved shootings in 2015-2016. SPPS.

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  • Cesario, J. (2014). Priming, replication, and the hardest science. Persp. on Psyc Sci.

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  • Gawronski, B., & Cesario, J. (2013). Of mice and men: What animal research can tell us about context effects on automatic responses in humans. PSPR.

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  • Cesario, J., Grant, H., & Higgins, E. T. (2004). Regulatory fit and persuasion: Transfer from "feeling right." JPSP.

 

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All Pubs
by Date

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  • Pleskac, T. J., *Cesario, J., *Johnson, D. J., and Gagnon, G. (2024). Modeling
    police officers’ deadly force decisions in an immersive shooting simulator.
    PsyArXiv. [link] [pdf] [osf]

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  • Solanki, P., & Cesario, J. (2024). Stereotypes as Bayesian prediction of social
    groups. The Journal of Social Psychology. [link] [pdf] [osf]

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  • Solanki, P., & Cesario, J. (2024). The nature of racial superhumanization bias. The Journal of Social Psychology. [link] [pdf] [osf]

 

  • Cesario, J., & Carrillo, A. (in press). Racial bias in police officer deadly force decisions: What has Social Cognition learned? Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, 2nd ed.

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  • *Keller, V. N., & *Cesario, J. (2024). Replicability and reproducibility in psychology. In F. T.L. Leong & J. T. Austin (eds.), The Psychology Research Handbook, 3rd ed. (pp. 587-601). Sage Publications.​

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  • Cesario, J. (2022). So close, yet so far: Stopping short of killing implicit bias. Psychological Inquiry. [link] [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J. (2022). Target Article: What can experimental studies of bias tell us about group disparities? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e66: 1–71. [.pdf of full article]

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  • Cesario, J. (2022). Reply to the commentaries: A radical revision of experimental social psychology is still needed. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, 62-71. [.pdf of Commentaries plus Reply]

 

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  • *Todd, A. R., *Johnson, D. J., Lassetter, B., Simpson, A. J., Neel, R., and *Cesario, J. (2021). Category salience and racial bias in weapon identification: A diffusion modeling approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology [link] [.pdf] [osf]

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  • Johnson, D. J. et al. (2021). Sleep deprivation and racial bias in the decision to shoot: A diffusion model analysis. Social Psychological and Personality Science [link] [.pdf] [osf]

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  • Moss, T. et al. (2021). Attenuation of the Köhler effect in racially dissimilar partnered exercise is reversed using a simple team identity recategorization strategy. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology [link] [.pdf]

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  • Jonas, K. J., & Cesario, J. (2021). Introduction to the nudging special issue. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 5, 1-3. [link] [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J. (2020). On selective emphasis, broad agreement, and future directions: Reply to Ross, Winterhalder, & McElreath. [link]

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  • Cesario, J., Johnson, D.J., & Eisthen, H. (2020). Your brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside. Current Directions in Psychological Science. [link] [.pdf] [osf]

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  • Johnson, D.J., & Cesario, J. (2020). Reply to Knox and Mummolo and Schimmack and Carlsson: Controlling for crime and population rates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 1264-1265. [.pdf]

 

  • Aczel, B., et al. (2020). A Consensus-Based Transparency Checklist. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 4-6. [.pdf]

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  • RETRACTED // DO NOT CITE: Johnson, D.J., Tress, T., Burkel, N., Taylor, C., & Cesario, J. (2019). Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 15877–15882. [.pdf of article] [.pdf of Supplemental Material]

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  • Cesario, J., Johnson, D.J., & Terrill, W. (2019). Is there evidence of racial disparity in police use of deadly force? Analyses of officer-involved shootings in 2015-2016. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 586-595. [.pdf of article] [.pdf of Supplemental Material]

    • Schimmack's first critique of our paper is available [here]

    • My response to Schimmack's first critique is available [here]

    • Schimmack's second critique of our paper is available [here]

    • My response to Schimmack's second critique is available [here]

    • Ross et al. (2020, SPPS) critique of our paper is available [here]

    • My response to Ross et al. is available [here]

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  • Johnson, D. J., Cesario, J., & Pleskac, T. J. (2018). How prior information and police experience impact decisions to shoot. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 601-623. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., & Johnson, D.J. (2018). Power Poseur: Bodily Expansiveness Does Not Matter in Dyadic Interactions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 781-789. [.pdf]

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  • Pleskac, T.J., Cesario, J., & Johnson, D.J. (2018). How Race Affects Evidence Accumulation During the Decision to Shoot. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 1301-1330. [.pdf of article] [.pdf of Supplemental Material]

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  • O’Donnell, M., Nelson, L., ... Zrubka, M. (2018). Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis & van Knippenberg (1998). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 268-294.

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  • Keller, V.N., Harder, J.A., & Cesario, J. (2018). Is splintering dual-process theories a good strategy for theory development? Psychological Inquiry, 29, 20-21.

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  • Johnson, D.J., Hopwood, C.J., Cesario, J., & Pleskac, T.J. (2017). Advancing research on cognitive processes in social and personality psychology: A diffusion model primer. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 413-423. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., Jonas, K.J., & Carney, D.R. (2017). CRSP special issue on power poses: What was the point and what did we learn? Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 2, 1-5. [.pdf]

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  • Gronau, Q.F., Van Erp, S., Heck, D.W., Cesario, J., Jonas, K.J., & Wagenmakers, E-J. (2017). A Bayesian model-averaged meta-analysis of the power pose effect with informed and default priors: the case of felt power. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 2, 123-138. [.pdf]

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  • Jonas, K.J., Cesario, J., ... (2017). Power poses – where do we stand? Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 2, 139-141. [.pdf]

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  • Keller, V. N., & Cesario, J. (2016). Improving the perceptual model of intergroup relations with an evolutionary framework. Psychological Inquiry, 27, 324-326. [.pdf]

 

  • Jonas, K.J., & Cesario, J. (2016). How can preregistration contribute to research in our field?  Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 1, 1-7. [.pdf]

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  • McDonald, M.M., Donnellan, M.B., Cesario, J., & Navarrete, C.D. (2015). Mate choice preferences in an intergroup context: Evidence for a sexual coercion threat-management system among women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 438-445. [.pdf]

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  • Donnellan, M.B., Lucas, R.E., & Cesario, J. (2015). Warm water and loneliness redux: Rejoinder to Bargh and Shalev (2014). Emotion, 15, 124-127. [.pdf]

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  • Donnellan, M. B., Lucas, R. E., & Cesario, J. (2015). On the Association between Loneliness and Bathing Habits: Nine Replications of Bargh and Shalev (2012) Study 1. Emotion, 15, 109-119. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., & Navarrete, C. D. (2014). Perceptual Bias in Threat Distance: The Critical Roles of Ingroup Support and Target Evaluations in Defensive Threat Regulation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 12-17. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J. & Jonas, K.J. (2014). Replicability and models of priming: What a resource computation framework can tell us about expectations of replicability. Invited submission for the special issue, "Understanding Priming Effects in Social Psychology." Social Cognition, 32, 124-136. [.pdf]

 

  • Cesario, J. (2014). Priming, replication, and the hardest science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 40-48. [.pdf]

 

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  • Gawronski, B., & Cesario, J. (2013). Of mice and men: What animal research can tell us about context effects on automatic responses in humans. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 187-215. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., Corker, K. S., & Jelinek, S. (2013). A self-regulatory framework for message framing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 238-249. [.pdf]

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  • Jonas, K. J., & Cesario, J. (2013). Introduction to the Special Issue: Situated social cognition. Social Cognition, 31, 119-124. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., & McDonald, M. M. (2013). Bodies in context: Power poses as a computation of action possibility. Social Cognition, 31, 260-274. [.pdf]

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  • Hagiwara, N., Kashy, D. A., & Cesario, J. (2012). The independent effects of skin tone and facial features on Whites' affective reactions to Blacks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 892-898. [.pdf]

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  • McAuley, J. D., Henry, M. J., Wedd, A., Pleskac, T., & Cesario, J. (2012). Effects of musicality and motivational orientation on auditory category learning: A test of a regulatory-fit hypothesis. Memory & Cognition, 40, 231-251. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., Plaks, J. E., Hagiwara, N., Navarrete, C. D., & Higgins, E. T. (2010). The ecology of automaticity: How situational contingencies shape action semantics and social behavior. Psychological Science, 21, 1311-1317. [.pdf]

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  • Higgins, E. T., Cesario, J., Hagiwara, N., Spiegel, S., & Pittman, T. S. (2010). Increasing or decreasing interest in activities: The role of regulatory fit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 559-572. [.pdf]

 

  • Navarrete, C. D., McDonald, M. M., Mott, M. L., Cesario, J., & Sapolsky, R. (2010). Fertility and race perception predict voter preference for Barack Obama. Evolution & Human Behavior, 31, 394-399. [.pdf]

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  • Koenig, A. M., Cesario, J., Molden, D. C., Kosloff, S., & Higgins, E. T. (2009). Incidental experiences of regulatory fit and the processing of persuasive appeals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1342-1355. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., & Higgins, E. T. (2008). Making message recipients “feel right”: How nonverbal cues can increase persuasion. Psychological Science, 19(5), 415-420. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., Higgins, E. T., & Scholer, A. A. (2008). Regulatory fit and persuasion: Basic principles and remaining questions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(1), 444-463. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., Plaks, J. E., & Higgins, E. T. (2006). Automatic social behavior as motivated preparation to interact. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 893 - 910. [.pdf]

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  • Cesario, J., Grant, H., & Higgins, E. T. (2004). Regulatory fit and persuasion: Transfer from "feeling right." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 388 - 404. [.pdf]

 

  • Cesario, J., & Crawford, I. (2002). The effect of homosexuality on perceptions of persuasiveness and trustworthiness. Journal of Homosexuality, 43, 93 - 110.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants 1230281 and 1756092. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 

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