Publications

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Merritt, A.C., Effron, D., Fein, S., Savitsky, K.K., Tuller, D.M., & Monin, B. (2012). The strategic pursuit of moral credentials. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.12.017.

Minson, J.A., & Monin, B. (2012), Do-gooder derogation: Putting down morally-motivated others to defuse implicit moral reproach. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(2), 200-207.

Kreps, T.A., & Monin, B. (2011). "Doing well by doing good"? Ambivalent moral framing in organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior, 31, 99-123.

Zitek, E. M., & Monin, B. (2011). "That's the one I wanted": When do competitors copy their opponents' choices? In press, Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Monin, B., & Merritt, A. (2011). Moral hypocrisy, moral inconsistency, and the struggle for moral integrity. Upcoming in M. Mikulincer & P. Shaver (Eds.), The social psychology of morality: Exploring the causes of good and evil, Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 3, American Psychological Association.

Merritt, A., & Monin, B. (2011). The trouble with thinking: People want to have quick reactions to personal taboos. Emotion Review, 3, 318-319.

Guendelman, M., Cheryan, S., & Monin, B. (2011). Fitting in but getting fat: Identity threat and dietary choices among U.S. immigrant groups. Psychological Science, 22(7) 959-967.

Jordan, A.H., Monin, B., Dweck, C.D., Lovett, B.J., John, O.P., Gross, J.J. (2011). Misery has more company than people think: Underestimating the prevalence of others' negative emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 120-135.

Kreps, T., & Monin, B. (2010). Are mental states assessed relative to what most people "should" or "would" think? Prescriptive and descriptive components of expected attitudes. [Commentary on J. Knobe's "Person as scientist, person as moralist" target article]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 341-343.

Monin, B., & O'Connor, K.S. (2010). Reactions to defiant deviants: Deliverance or defensiveness? In J. Jetten & M. Hornsey (Eds.), Dissent, deviance, difference and defiance in groups.

Effron, D., & Monin, B. (2010). Letting people off the hook: When do good deeds excuse transgressions? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1618-1634.

Wiltermuth, S., Monin, B., & Chow, R. (2010). The orthogonality of praise and condemnation in moral judgment. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 302-310.

Merritt, A., Effron, D., & Monin, B. (2010). Moral self-licensing: When being good frees us to be bad. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4/5, 344-357.

Zitek, E. M., Jordan, A. H., Monin, B., & Leach, F. R. (2010). Victim entitlement to behave selfishly. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(2), 245-25.

Young, S., Monin, B., & Owens, D. (2009). Opt-out testing for stigmatized diseases: A social psychological approach to evaluate the CDC policy recommendations for routine HIV testing. Health Psychology, 28(6), 675-681.

Oppenheimer, D.M., & Monin, B. (2009). The retrospective gambler's fallacy: Unlikely events, constructing the past, and multiple universes. Judgment and Decision Making, 4(5), 326-334.

Oppenheimer, D.M., & Monin, B. (2009). Investigations in spontaneous discounting. Memory and Cognition, 37(5), 608-614.

Effron, D., Cameron, J.S., & Monin, B. (2009). Voting for Obama licenses favoring Whites. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 590-593.

Monin, B., & Jordan, A.H. (2009). The dynamic moral self: A social psychological perspective. Chapter 15 (pp.341-354) in D. Narvaez & D.K. Lapsley (Eds), Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Jordan, A.H., & Monin, B. (2008). From sucker to saint: Moralization in response to self-threat. Psychological Science, 19(8), 683-689.

Ybarra, O., Chan, E., Park, H., Burnstein, E., Monin, B., & Stanik, C. (2008). Life's recurring challenges and the fundamental dimensions: An integration and its implications for cultural differences and similarities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 1083-1092.

Monin, B., Sawyer, P., & Marquez, M. (2008). The rejection of moral rebels: Resenting those who do the right thing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(1), 76-93.

Monin, B. (2008). Cognitive dissonance. In W.A. Darity (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed (pp. 599-601), Farmington Hill, MI: MacMillan.

Crosby, J.R., Monin, B., & Richardson, D. (2008). Where do we look during potentially offensive behavior? Psychological Science, 19(3), 226-228.

Monin, B. (2008). Pluralistic ignorance. In press in J. Levine & M. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Monin, B., Pizarro, D., & Beer, J. (2007). Deciding vs. reacting: Conceptions of moral judgment and the reason-affect debate. Review of General Psychology, 11(2), 99-111.

Young, S., Nussbaum, D., & Monin, B. (2007). Potential moral stigma and reactions to sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence for a disjunction fallacy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(6), 789-799.

Crosby, J.R., & Monin, B. (2007). Failure to warn: How student race affects warnings of potential academic difficulty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(4), 663-670.

Monin, B. (2007). Holier than me? Threatening Social Comparison in the Moral Domain. International Review of Social Psychology, 20(1): 53-68.

Monin, B. (2007). Normative influence. In R.F. Baumeister & K.D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Vol. 2 (pp.627-629). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Monin, B., Pizarro, D., & Beer, J. (2007). Emotion and reason in moral judgment: Different prototypes lead to different theories.. In K.D. Vohs, R.F. Baumeister, & G. Loewenstein (Eds.), Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A hedgefoxian perspective (pp. 219-244). New York: Russell Sage.

Cheryan, S., & Monin, B. (2005). "Where are your really from?": Asian Americans and identity denial. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(5): 717-730.

Monin, B., & Oppenheimer, D. (2005). Correlated averages vs. average correlations: Demonstrating the warm glow heuristic beyond aggregation. Social Cognition, 23(3): 257-278.

Corneille, O., Monin, B., & Pleyers, G. (2005). Is positivity a cue or a response option? Warm-glow vs. evaluative-matching in the familiarity for attractive and not-so-attractive faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41(4): 431-437.

Monin, B., Norton, M.I., Cooper, J., & Hogg, M.A. (2004). Reacting to an assumed situation vs. conforming to an assumed reaction: The role of perceived speaker attitude in vicarious dissonance. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7(3): 207-220.

Monin, B. (2003). The warm glow heuristic: When liking leads to familiarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(6): 1035-1048.

Norton, M.I., Monin, B., Cooper, J., & Hogg, M.A. (2003). Vicarious dissonance: Attitude change from the inconsistency of others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(1): 47-62.

Monin, B., & Norton, M.I. (2003). Perceptions of a fluid consensus: Uniqueness bias, false consensus, false polarization and pluralistic ignorance in a water conservation crisis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29(5): 559-567.

Monin, B., & Miller, D.T. (2001). Moral credentials and the expression of prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(1): 33-43.

Miller, D.T., Monin, B., & Prentice, D.A. (2000). Pluralistic ignorance and inconsistency between private attitudes and public behavior. In D.J. Terry & M.A. Hogg (Eds.), Attitudes, behavior, and social context: The role of norms and group membership (pp. 95-113). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.