Cikara Selected Publications

Below are five significant papers for promotion review. You can click on each one for a PDF or you can click here to download a ZIP file containing all five as PDFs. This page has a full and current list of all publications.


Lau, T., Pouncy, H. T., Gershman, S. J., & Cikara, M. (in press). Discovering social groups via latent structure learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Chang, L. W., & Cikara, M. (in press). Social decoys: Leveraging choice architecture to alter social preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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

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.