Publications 

Chen, S., & Critcher, C. R. (in press). Self and identity. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, E. Finkel, & W. Mendes (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology (6th Ed.)

Jung, M. H., Critcher, C. R., & Nelson, L. D. (in press). Evaluations are inherently comparative, but are compared to what? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Galak, J., & Critcher, C. R. (2023). Who sees which political falsehoods as more acceptable and why: A new look at in-group loyalty and trustworthiness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124, 593-619.

O'Donnell, M., Critcher, C. R., & Nelson, L. D. (2023). Bundle selection and variety seeking: The importance of combinatorics. Journal of Consumer Research, 49, 861-881.

Wang, Y., Baum, S. M., & Critcher, C. R. (2023). Needing everything (or just one thing) to go right: Myopic preferences for consolidating and spreading risks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 730-751. 

Critcher, C. R., & Rosenzweig, E. L. (2022). Attractors: Incidental values that influence forecasts of change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 475-492. 

Critcher, C. R., & Siegel, M. (2022). Cross-sectional analyses can evaluate the plausibility of, but not validate, causal accounts. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 62, e141-e143.

Donnelly, K., Moon, A., & Critcher, C. R. (2022). Do people know how others view them? Two approaches for identifying the accuracy of metaperceptions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 119-124.

Critcher, C. R., & Siegel, M. (2021). Re-examining the association between e-cigarette use and myocardial infarction: A cautionary tale. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 61, 474-482.

• Mother Jones 

Gonzalez, F. J., Jung, M. H., & Critcher, C. R. (2021). Responsibility amplifies empathic forecasts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 956-971.

Vaz, A., Mata, A., & Critcher, C. R. (2021). Analogies offer value through the struggle to make them work: Making sense of the psychological immune system. Psychological Inquiry, 32, 230-239.

Baum, S. M., & Critcher, C. R. (2020). The costs of not disclosing. Current Opinion in Psychology, 31, 72-75.

Critcher, C. R., Helzer, E. G., & Tannenbaum, D. (2020). Moral character evaluation: Testing another's moral cognitive machinery. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 87, 103906.

Jung, M. H., Gonzalez, F. J., & Critcher, C. R. (2020).The vicarious construal effect: Seeing and experiencing the world through different eyes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 617-638.

Moon, A., Gan, M., & Critcher, C. R. (2020). The overblown implications effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 720-742.

• An interview with Alice Moon

Reit, E., & Critcher, C. R. (2020).  The commonness fallacy: Commonly chosen options have less choice appeal than people think. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118, 1-21.

• SPSP Character & Context blog

Perfecto, H., Donnelly, K., & Critcher, C. R. (2019). Volume estimation as simulated judgment. Psychological Science, 30, 80-91.

Critcher, C. R., & Lee, C. J. (2018). Feeling is believing: Inspiration encourages belief in God. Psychological Science, 29, 723-737.

• Scientific American

Helzer, E. G., & Critcher, C. R. (2018). What do we evaluate when we evaluate moral character? In K. Gray, & J. Graham (Eds.), Atlas of Moral Psychology (pp. 99-107). New York: Guilford Press.

Jung, M. H., & Critcher, C. R. (2018). How encouraging niceness can incentivize nastiness: An unintended consequence of advertising reform. Journal of Marketing Research, 55, 147-161.

• Mother Jones, Answers in Action podcast

Critcher, C. R., & Ferguson, M. J. (2016). "Whether I like it or not, it's important": Implicit importance of means predicts self-regulatory persistence and success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 818-839.

• Time (op-ed)

Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. (2015). Self-affirmations provide a broader perspective on self-threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 3-18.

• SPSP blog post, Psychology Today, Newsweek, Forbes

Critcher, C. R., Dunning, D, & Rom, S. (2015). Causal trait theories: A new form of person knowledge that explains egocentric pattern projection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 400-416.

• Salon 

Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. (2014). Thinking about others vs. another: Three reasons judgments about collectives and individuals differ. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 687-698.

Critcher, C. R., & Ferguson, M. J. (2014). The cost of keeping it hidden: Decomposing concealment reveals what makes it depleting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 721-735.

• The New Yorker, The Atlantic (March 2014 issue), BBC, Video Interview, NBC (on Michael Sam, 2/10/14)

Critcher, C. R., & Risen, J. L. (2014). If he can do it, so can they: Incidental exposure to counterstereotypically-successful exemplars prompts automatic inferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 359-379.

• Forbes (on-line), Huffington Post, The Nation

Critcher, C. R., & Rosenzweig, E. L. (2014). The performance heuristic: A misguided reliance on past success when predicting prospects for improvement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 480-485.

• MIT Sloan Management Review, Video Interview (on Quantified Self movement, Al Jazeera, 12/17/13)

Critcher, C. R., & Zayas, V. (2014). The involuntary excluder effect: Those included by an excluder are seen as exclusive themselves. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 454-474.

Rosenzweig, E., & Critcher, C. R. (2014). Decomposing forecasting: The salience-assessment-weighting (SAW) model. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 368-373.

Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. (2013). Predicting persons' versus a person's goodness: Behavioral forecasts diverge for populations versus individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 28-44. 

Critcher, C. R., & Inbar, Y. (2013). When does a defendant's impulsivity exculpate vs. incriminate? The Jury Expert, 25(5), 19-24. (invited target article, with commentaries and reply)

Critcher, C. R., Inbar, Y, & Pizarro, D. A. (2013). How quick decisions illuminate moral character. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 308-315. 

Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. (2011). No good deed goes unquestioned: Cynical reconstruals maintain belief in the power of self-interest. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1207-1213.

• Wall Street Journal (on-line)

Critcher, C. R., & Ferguson, M. J. (2011). Affect in the abstract: Abstract mindsets promote sensitivity to affect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1185-1191.

Critcher, C. R., Helzer, E. G., & Dunning, D. (2011). Self-Enhancement via redefinition: Defining social concepts to ensure positive views of self. In M. D. Alicke & C. Sedikides  (Eds.), Handbook of self enhancement and self-protection (pp. 69-91). New York: Guilford Press.

Risen, J. L., & Critcher, C. R. (2011). Visceral fit: While in a visceral state, associated states of the world seem more likely. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 777-793.

• Editors' Choice. (2011). Climate change, viscerally. Science, 332, 398.

• New York Times (on-line), Time (on-line), Washington Post,  Miller-McCune, Al Gore's The Future

Critcher, C. R., Dunning, D., & Armor, D. A. (2010). When self-affirmations reduce defensiveness: Timing is key. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 947-959. 

Critcher, C. R., & Gilovich, T. (2010).  Inferring attitudes from mindwandering. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1255-1266.

• The Boston Globe, Psychology Today (online: 9/22/10)

Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. (2009). Egocentric pattern projection: How implicit personality theories recapitulate the geography of the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 1-16. 

Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. (2009). How chronic self-views influence (and mislead) self-assessments of performance: Self-views shape bottom-up experiences with the task. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 931-945.

• Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner's Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakanomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Critcher, C. R., Huber, M., Ho, A. K., & Koleva, S. P. (2009). Political orientation and ideological inconsistencies: (Dis)comfort with value tradeoffs. Social Justice Research, 22, 281-305.

Critcher, C. R., & Gilovich, T. (2008). Incidental environmental anchors. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 241-251. 

Critcher, C. R., & Pizarro, D. A. (2008). Paying for someone else’s mistake: The effect of bystander negligence on perpetrator blame. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1357-1370.

Critcher, C. R. (2007). Gain-loss framing. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publications.

Manuscripts submitted for publication or with invited revisions 

Cho, K. Y., & Critcher, C. R. (invited revision). Doubling-back aversion.

Geiser, A., & Critcher, C. R. (invited revision). The limits of “unlimited” offers: How quantifying constraints can increase valuation. 

Vaz, A., Mata, A., & Crither, C. R. (invited revision). A watched pot seems slow to boil: Why frequent monitoring decreases perceptions of progress.

Vaz, A., Mata, A., & Critcher, C. R. (invited revision). Characterizing and explaining moral perceptions of the self, individuals, and collectives.

Manuscripts in Preparation (Draft available)

Baum, S. M., & Critcher, C. R. The privileged information effect.

Baum, S. M., Critcher, C. R., Lee, R. T., & Zayas, V. Caught in the middle of social exclusion: A misguided and counterproductive reluctance to speak up.

Baum, S. M., Rosenzweig, E., & Critcher, C. R. Same wrong, different restitution? Heightened sensitivity to unequal treatment in the context of apology.

Benedetti, A. H., & Critcher, C. R. Working hard by hardly working? Self-other asymmetries in perceptions of hard work.

Critcher, C. R., & Dunning, D. Comparative humility: How the perceived necessity of moral qualities explains the individuation effect. 

Critcher, C. R., Mazziotta, A., Dovidio, J. F., & Brown, R. J. Intergroup differences in intergroup anxiety: How majorities’ self-focused anxiety disrupts intergroup contact.

Gonzalez, F. J., Jung, M. H., & Critcher, C. R. How perspective taking can deepen the partisan divide: Presuming others' biases in fake news detection fuels them in the self.

Khambatta, P., & Critcher, C. R. When and why consumers defer to the crowd: Anticipated ownership length, playing it safe, and product ratings.