Preprints


Cetron, J. S., Haque, O., Mair, P., & Cikara, M. (under review). Personal relevance of attitude importance predicts costly intergroup behavior. OSF

Chang, L. C., & Cikara, M. (under review). Improving social decision-making via pre-commitment to criteria.

Everett, J. A. C., Ingbretsen, Z. A., Cushman, F. A., & Cikara, M. (under review). Aggression, fast and slow: Intuition favors defensive aggression. Psyarxiv

Goldenberg, A., LaFollette, K., Huang, Z., Weisz, E., & Cikara, M. (under review). Judgment of crowds as emotional increases with the proportion of Black faces. Psyarxiv

Hudson, S. T. J., Cikara, M., & Sidanius, J. (under review). Preference for hierarchy is related to the motivation to feel less empathy and more schadenfreude towards low status people. Psyarxiv

Hudson, S. T. J., Cikara, M., & Sidanius, J. (under review). Cruelty and indifference are the point: Preference for hierarchy is related to support for policies that harm marginalized groups through feeling both less empathy and more schadenfreude. Psyarxiv

Momennejad, I., Sinclair, S., & Cikara, M. (under review). Computational justice: Simulating structural bias and interventions. Bioarxiv

Schultner, D. T., Lindström, B. R., Cikara, M., & Amodio, D. M. (under review). Transmission of social bias through observational learning.

Voelkel, J. et al. (under review). Megastudy identifying successful interventions to strengthen Americans’ democratic attitudes. SDC

Vollberg, M., & Cikara, M. (under review). Affective prediction errors in persistence and escalation of aggression. Psyarxiv

Vollberg, M., O’Connor, B. B., Vuilleumier, P., Sander, D., & Cikara, M. (under review). Place-related neural activity sets the stage for empathy. Psyarxiv

Weisz, E., & Cikara, M. (under review). Merely increasing action options increases charitable donations. In Review

2023 + IN PRESS


Gershman, S. J., & Cikara, M. (in press). Structure learning principles of stereotype change. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30, 1273–1293.

Hatzenbuehler, M. L., McLaughlin, K. A., Weissman, D. G., & Cikara, M. (in press). A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function. Nature Human Behaviour.

Kasparek, S. W., Rosen, M. L., Lurie, L. A., Cikara, M., Sambrook, K., Cvencek, D., Meltzoff, A. N., & McLaughlin, K. A. (in press). Differentiating Between Us & Them: Reduced In-Group Bias as a Novel Mechanism Linking Childhood Violence Exposure with Internalizing Psychopathology. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Pesowski, M.L., Powell, L.J., Cikara, M., & Schachner, A. (2023). Interpersonal utility and children’s social inferences from shared preferences. Cognition, 232, 105344.

Ruggieri, K., et al. (in press). Synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioral science during COVID-19. Nature.

Weissman, D. G., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Cikara, M., Barch, D., & McLaughlin, K. A. (in press). State-level macro-economic factors moderate the association of low income with brain structure and mental health in U.S. children. Nature Communications.

2022


Cikara, M. (2022). Latent structure learning as an alternative computation for group inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e101. Comment on “Towards a computational theory of social groups: A finite set of cognitive primitives for representing any and all social groups in the context of conflict.”

Cikara, M., Fouka, V., & Tabellini, M. (in press). Hate crime towards minoritized groups increases as they increase in sized-based rank. Nature Human Behaviour.

Cikara, M., Martinez, J., E., & Lewis, N. A., Jr. (2022). Moving beyond social categories by incorporating context in social psychological theory. Nature Reviews Psychology, online.

Hatzenbuehler, M. L., McLaughlin, K. A., Weissman, D. G., & Cikara, M. (2022). Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to out-group faces: A spatial meta-analysis. Social Neuroscience.

Vives, M., Cikara, M., & FeldmanHall, O. (2022). Following your group or your morals? The in-group promotes immoral behavior while the out-group buffers against it. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 139-149.

2021


Amodio, D. M., & Cikara, M. (2021). Social neuroscience of prejudice. Annual Review of Psychology, 72, 439-469.

Cikara, M. (2021). Causes and consequences of coalitional cognition. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 64, 65-128.

De Freitas, J., & Cikara, M. (2021). Deliberately prejudiced self-driving cars elicit the most outrage. Cognition, 208, 104555.

Goldenberg, A., Weisz, E., Sweeny, T. D., Cikara, M., & Gross, J. J. (2021). The crowd emotion amplification effect. Psychological Science, 32, 437-450.

Lees, J., & Cikara, M. (2021). Understanding and combating misperceived polarization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376, 20200143.

Martinez, J. E., Feldman, L., Feldman, M., & Cikara, M. (2021). Narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and immigration-policy preferences. Psychological Science, 32, 135-152.

Patil, I., Zucchelli, M. M., Kool, W., Fornasier, F., Calo, M., Silani, G., Cikara, M., & Cushman, F. A. (2021). Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 443.

Ruggeri, K., Većkalov, B., Bojanić, L., Andersen, T. L., … Folke, T. (2021). The general fault in our fault lines. Nature Human Behaviour.

Vollberg, M., Gaesser, B., & Cikara, M. (2021). Episodic simulation increases empathy for in-group and out-group members. Cognition, 209, 104558.

Weisz, E., & Cikara, M. (2021). Strategic regulation of empathy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 213-227.

2020


Finkel, E. J., Bail, C., A., Cikara, M.,…Druckman, J. N. (2020). Political sectarianism in the U.S. Science, 370. 533–536.

Gershman, S. J., & Cikara, M. (2020). Social structure learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29, 460–466.

Lau, T., Gershman, S. J., & Cikara, M. (2020). Social structure learning in human anterior insula. eLife, 9, e53162.

See “Spotlight” feature on this paper: Parkinson, C., & Du, M. (2020). How Does the Brain Infer Hidden Social Structures? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 497-498.

Lees, J., & Cikara, M. (2020). Inaccurate group meta-perceptions drive negative out-group attributions in competitive intergroup contexts. Nature Human Behaviour, 4279–286.

Reggev, N., Brodie, K., Cikara, M., & Mitchell, J. P. (2020). Human face-selective cortex does not distinguish between members of a racial out-group. eNeuro, 7, 3.

Van Bavel, J., J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., …. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 460–471.

2019


Chang, L. W., Gershman, S. J., Cikara, M. (2019). Comparing value-coding models of context-dependence in social choice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103847.

Gaesser, B., Shimura, Y., & Cikara, M. (2019). Episodic simulation reduces intergroup bias in prosocial intentions and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, online first.

See methodological follow up on this paper: Bullock, J. G., & Green, D. P. (2021). The Failings of Conventional Mediation Analysis and a Design-Based Alternative, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4, 1-18.

Hudson, S. T. J., Cikara, M., & Sidanius, J. (2019). Preference for hierarchy is associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy towards others, especially out-group targets. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103871.

Joo, H., Simon, T., Cikara, M., & Sheikh, Y. (2019). Towards social artificial intelligence: Nonverbal social signal prediction in a triadic interaction. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Spring, V. L., Cameron, C. D., & Cikara, M. (2019). Asking different questions about outrage: A reply to Brady & Crockett. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 80-82.

2018


Chang, L. W., & Cikara, M. (2018). Social decoys: Leveraging choice architecture to alter social preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 206-223.

Cikara, M. (2018). Pleasure in response to out-group pain as a motivator of intergroup aggression. In K. Gray & J. Graham (Eds.), Atlas of Moral Psychology.

De Freitas, J., Cikara, M., Grossman, I., & Schlegel, R. (2018). Moral goodness is the essence of personal identity: Reply to Starmans & Bloom. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 739-740.

De Freitas, J.,&  Cikara, M. (2018). Deep down my enemy is good: Thinking about the true self reduces intergroup bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 307-316. 

Lau, T., Pouncy, H. T., Gershman, S. J., & Cikara, M. (2018). Discovering social groups via latent structure learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 1881-1891.

Spring, V. L., Cameron, C. D., & Cikara, M. (2018). The upside of outrage. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 1067-1069.

Vollberg, M., & Cikara, M. (2018). The neuroscience of intergroup emotions. Current Opinions in Psychology, 24, 48-52.

 

2017


Bruneau, E. G., Cikara, M., & Saxe, R. (2017). Parochial empathy predicts the reduced altruism and the endorsement of passive harm. Social Psychological and Personality Science

Cikara, M. (2017). Warmth and competence as distinct dimensions of value in social emotions. Comment in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 23-24.

Cikara, M., Van Bavel, J. J., Ingbretsen, Z., & Lau, T. (2017). Decoding “us” and “them:” Neural representations of generalized group concepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 621-631.

De Freitas, J., Cikara, M., Grossman, I., & Schlegel, R. (2017). Origins of the belief in good true selves. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 634-636.

Everett, J. A. C., Ingbretsen, Z. A., Cushman, F. A., & Cikara, M. (2017). Deliberation erodes cooperative behavior—Even towards competitive out-groups, even when using a control condition, and even when eliminating selection bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 76-81.

Lau, T., & Cikara, M. (2017). fMRI repetition suppression during generalized social cognition. Scientific Reports, 7, 4262.

 

2016


Chang, L. W., Krosch, A. R., & Cikara, M. (2016). Effects of intergroup threat on mind, brain, and behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology, 11, 69-73.

Cikara, M. (2016). Concept expansion as a source of empowerment. Invited comment in Psychological Inquiry, 27, 29-33.

Cikara, M., & Gershman, S. J. (2016). Medial prefrontal cortex updates its status. Neuron, 92, 937-939.

Lazerus, T., Ingbretsen, Z., Stolier, R., Freeman, J. B., & Cikara, M. (2016). Positivity bias in judgments of in-group members' emotional expressions. Emotion, 16, 1117-1125.

Lau, T., Morewedge, C. K., & Cikara, M. (2016). Overcorrection for social category information moderates impact bias in affective forecasting. Psychological Science, 27, 1340-1351. 

 

2015


Bruneau, E. G., Cikara, M., & Saxe, R. (2015). Minding the gap: Narrative descriptions about mental states attenuate parochial empathy. PLoS ONE10(10): e0140838.

Cikara, M. (2015). Intergroup Schadenfreude: Motivating participation in collective violence. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 12-17. 

Saleem, M., Prot, S., Cikara, M., Lam, C.P., Anderson, C.A., & Jelic, M. (2015). Cutting Gordian Knots: Reducing prejudice through attachment security. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1560-1574. 

Van Dijk, W. W., Ouwerkerk, J. W., Smith, R. H., & Cikara, M. (2015). The role of self-evaluation and envy in Schadenfreude. European Review of Social Psychology, 26, 247-282.

Zaki, J., & Cikara, M. (2015). Addressing empathic failures. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 471-476.

2014


Cikara, M., Bruneau, E. G., Van Bavel, J. J., & Saxe, R. (2014). Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 110-125.

Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2014). Stereotypes and Schadenfreude. In W. van Dijk & J. Ouwerkerk (Eds.) Schadenfreude (pp. 151-169). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cikara, M., Jenkins, A., Dufour, N., & Saxe, R. (2014). Reduced self-referential neural response during intergroup competition predicts later willingness to harm a competitor. NeuroImage, 96, 36-43.

Cikara, M., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). The neuroscience of intergroup relations: An integrative review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 245-274.

 

2013


Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2013). Their pain, our pleasure: Stereotype content and Schadenfreude. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1299, 52-59.

Cikara, M., & Paluck, E. L. (2013). When going along gets you nowhere and the upside of conflict behaviors. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 559-571.

Fiske, S. T., Ames, D. L., Cikara, M., & Harris, L. T. (2013). Scanning for scholars: How neuro-imaging the MPFC provides converging evidence for interpersonal stratification. In B. Derks, D. Scheepers, & N. Ellemers (eds.), Neuroscience of prejudice and intergroup relations (pp. 89-109). New York: Taylor and Francis, Psychology Press.

 

2012


Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2012). Stereotypes and Schadenfreude: Affective and physiological markers of pleasure at others’ misfortunes. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 63-71.

Cikara, M., Rudman, L., & Fiske, S. T. (2012). Dearth by a thousand cuts? Accounting for gender differences in top-ranked publication rates in social psychology. Journal of Social Issues, 68, 263-285.

 

2011


Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2011). Bounded empathy: Neural responses to outgroup targets' (mis)fortunes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3791-3803.

Cikara, M., Bruneau, E. G., & Saxe, R. (2011). Us and them: Intergroup failures of empathy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 149-153.

Cikara, M., Botvinick, M. M., & Fiske, S. T. (2011). Us versus them: Social identity shapes neural responses to intergroup competition and harm. Psychological Science, 22, 306-313.

Cikara, M., Eberhardt, J. L., & Fiske, S. T. (2011). From agents to objects: Sexist attitudes and neural responses to sexualized targets. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 540-551.

 

2010


Cikara, M., Farnsworth, R. A., Harris, L. T., & Fiske, S. T. (2010). On the wrong side of the trolley track: Neural correlates of relative social valuation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 404-413.

Cikara, M., & Girgus, J. S. (2010). Unpacking social hypersensitivity: Vulnerability to the absence of positive feedback. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1409-1423.

 

2009 and EARLIER


Cikara, M., Lee, T. L., Fiske, S. T., & Glick, P. (2009). Ambivalent sexism at home and at work: How attitudes toward women in relationships foster exclusion in the public sphere. In J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (Eds.), Social and psychological bases of ideology and system justification (pp. 444- 462). New York: Oxford University Press.

Harris, L. T., Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2008). Envy as predicted by the stereotype content model: A volatile ambivalence. In R. Smith (Ed.), Envy: Theory and research (pp. 131-147). New York: Oxford University Press.

Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2008).  Warmth, competence, and ambivalent sexism: Vertical assault and collateral damage. In M. Barreto, M. Ryan, M. Schmitt (Eds.), Barriers to diversity: The Glass Ceiling in the 21st century (pp. 73-96). Washington DC: APA. 

Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2007).  Cooperation ≠ Consent: How women react to their place, based on social relations and ambivalent sexism. In S. J. Correll (Ed.), Social psychology of gender: Advances in group processes (Vol. 24, pp. 99-122). New York: Elsevier Science.

 

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