Joseph Cesario's Lab
Publications
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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
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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]
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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]
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Schimmack's first critique of our paper is available [here]
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My response to Schimmack's first critique is available [here]
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Schimmack's second critique of our paper is available [here]
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My response to Schimmack's second critique is available [here]
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Ross et al. (2020, SPPS) critique of our paper is available [here]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Cesario, J., & Crawford, I. (2002). The effect of homosexuality on perceptions of persuasiveness and trustworthiness. Journal of Homosexuality, 43, 93 - 110.