Working Papers
In the spirit of open science, we are making our to-be-published manuscripts available here. Links to OSF projects, code, and public data can be found in manuscripts.
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Under Review + In Prep.
Loustau, T., Mah, A., Park, B., Dixon-Gordon, K., Markowitz, E., Nteta, T., Reid, A., Ginn, J., Suh, S., Lickel, B., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2024). Social Network Diversity and Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Krause, P., Özturan, B., & Young, L. (2024). How students and the public define terrorism, and how education affects those definitions.
Kim, M., Theriault, J., & Young, L. (2024). Social prediction in the Theory of Mind Network.
Daley, R. T., Kim, M. J., Young, L., & Kensinger, E. A. (under review). Breaching of the U.S. Capitol: Memory and moral judgment.
Syropoulos, S.,* Law, K.F.,* Kraft-Todd, G., & Young, L. (2023). Impartial intergenerational beneficence: The psychology of feeling equal concern for all future generations. PsyArXiv.
Law, K. F., Gittle, E., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (2024). Mapping and increasing americans’ actual and perceived support for initiatives protecting future generations. PsyArXiv.
Law, K.F.,* Syropoulos, S.,* Signorini, A., Young, L., & O’Connor, B.B. (2024). Why global poverty in the present matters for intergenerational concern and the future of humanity. PsyArXiv.
Syropoulos, S.,* Law, K.F.,* Young, L., & O’Connor, B.B. (2024). Beyond seven generations: Mapping and expanding the temporal horizon of intergenerational concern. PsyArXiv.
Law, K. F.,* Syropoulos, S.,* Young, L., & O’Connor, B. B. (2024). What we owe the present: The perceived morality of longtermism and helping distant future people. PsyArXiv.
Handley-Miner, I. J., & Young, L. (2024, October 10). Registered report: How does the process of explaining affect one’s beliefs?
Loustau, T., Padilla Fong, H., & Young, L. (under review). Social identity complexity mitigates intergroup bias in moral judgment.
Szanton, E. C., Kodipady, A., Onyeador, I. N., & Young, L. (under review). Walk the talk: The effects of apology and reparation after acts of prejudice.
Wylie, J., Dhaliwal, N., Sparkman, G., & Young, L. (under review). When are prosocial institutional signals seen as genuine? The role of politics and institutional characteristics.
Szanton, E. C., Lei, R. F., Foster-Hanson, E., Kumar, V., & Young, L. (under review). Free to abandon “Born This Way” narratives? A test of the motivated model of sexual orientation essentialism.
Szanton, E. C., Martin, J., McAuliffe, K., & Young, L. (under review). Costliness and Social Context Shape Punishment and Partner Rejection Decisions.
Loustau, T., McManus, R. M., Syropoulos, S., & Young, L. (under review) How morally good are donors? It depends on who knows about their donation.
Kodipady, A., Young, L., & Sparkman, G. (in prep.). The precursors to and consequences of threat-related motivations to perceive reputation signaling.
Tsoi, L., Hamlin, K., Waytz, A., Baron, A. S., & Young, L. (in prep.). False belief understanding for negative versus positive interactions in children and adults.
Tsoi, L., Lee, Y. S., & Young, L. (in prep.). Categorical perception of race is mediated by distributed patterns of activity in the brain.