Adam L. Alter, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
New York University, New York, NY, United States 

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Year Citation  Score
2019 Hershfield HE, Alter AL. On the naturalistic relationship between mood and entertainment choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied. PMID 31120264 DOI: 10.1037/Xap0000220  0.33
2016 Alter AL, Stern C, Granot Y, Balcetis E. The "Bad Is Black" Effect: Why People Believe Evildoers Have Darker Skin Than Do-Gooders. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 42: 1653-1665. PMID 27856725 DOI: 10.1177/0146167216669123  0.324
2015 Sussman AB, Sharma E, Alter AL. Framing charitable donations as exceptional expenses increases giving. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied. 21: 130-9. PMID 25893442 DOI: 10.1037/Xap0000047  0.376
2014 Shah AK, Alter AL. Consuming experiential categories Journal of Consumer Research. 41: 965-977. DOI: 10.1086/677893  0.361
2014 Sharma E, Mazar N, Alter AL, Ariely D. Financial deprivation selectively shifts moral standards and compromises moral decisions Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 123: 90-100. DOI: 10.1016/J.Obhdp.2013.09.001  0.387
2013 Alter AL. The Benefits of Cognitive Disfluency Current Directions in Psychological Science. 22: 437-442. DOI: 10.1177/0963721413498894  0.342
2013 Darley JM, Alter AL. Behavioral issues of punishment, retribution, and deterrence 181 The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy. 181-192.  0.456
2012 Sussman AB, Alter AL. The exception is the rule: Underestimating and overspending on exceptional expenses Journal of Consumer Research. 39: 800-814. DOI: 10.1086/665833  0.324
2012 Sharma E, Alter AL. Financial deprivation prompts consumers to seek scarce goods Journal of Consumer Research. 39: 545-560. DOI: 10.1086/664038  0.308
2012 Laham SM, Koval P, Alter AL. The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48: 752-756. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2011.12.002  0.365
2011 Alter AL, Balcetis E. Fondness makes the distance grow shorter: Desired locations seem closer because they seem more vivid Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47: 16-21. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2010.07.018  0.333
2010 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM, Zemla JC. Missing the trees for the forest: a construal level account of the illusion of explanatory depth. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99: 436-51. PMID 20658836 DOI: 10.1037/A0020218  0.345
2010 Alter AL, Aronson J, Darley JM, Rodriguez C, Ruble DN. Rising to the threat: Reducing stereotype threat by reframing the threat as a challenge Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 46: 166-171. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2009.09.014  0.606
2009 Alter AL, Darley JM. When the association between appearance and outcome contaminates social judgment: a bidirectional model linking group homogeneity and collective treatment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97: 776-95. PMID 19857001 DOI: 10.1037/A0016957  0.528
2009 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM. Suppressing secrecy through metacognitive ease: cognitive fluency encourages self-disclosure. Psychological Science. 20: 1414-20. PMID 19845889 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2009.02461.X  0.346
2009 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM. Uniting the tribes of fluency to form a metacognitive nation. Personality and Social Psychology Review : An Official Journal of the Society For Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. 13: 219-35. PMID 19638628 DOI: 10.1177/1088868309341564  0.382
2009 Laham SM, Alter AL, Goodwin GP. Easy on the mind, easy on the wrongdoer: discrepantly fluent violations are deemed less morally wrong. Cognition. 112: 462-6. PMID 19573863 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2009.06.001  0.416
2008 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM. Easy on the mind, easy on the wallet: the roles of familiarity and processing fluency in valuation judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 15: 985-90. PMID 18926993 DOI: 10.3758/Pbr.15.5.985  0.348
2008 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM. Effects of fluency on psychological distance and mental construal (or why New York is a large city, but New York is a civilized jungle). Psychological Science. 19: 161-7. PMID 18271864 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2008.02062.X  0.332
2007 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM, Epley N, Eyre RN. Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 136: 569-76. PMID 17999571 DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.4.569  0.344
2007 Alter AL, Kernochan J, Darley JM. Transgression wrongfulness outweighs its harmfulness as a determinant of sentence severity. Law and Human Behavior. 31: 319-35. PMID 17268827 DOI: 10.1007/S10979-006-9060-X  0.552
2007 Alter AL, Kernochan J, Darley JM. Morality influences how people apply the ignorance of the law defense Law and Society Review. 41: 819-864. DOI: 10.1111/J.1540-5893.2007.00327.X  0.555
2007 Alter AL, Forgas JP. On being happy but fearing failure: The effects of mood on self-handicapping strategies Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43: 947-954. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2006.07.009  0.327
2006 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM. Predicting short-term stock fluctuations by using processing fluency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 9369-72. PMID 16754871 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0601071103  0.303
2006 Alter AL, Oppenheimer DM. From a fixation on sports to an exploration of mechanism: The past, present, and future of hot hand research Thinking and Reasoning. 12: 431-444. DOI: 10.1080/13546780600717244  0.317
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