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Publications

2022-2023

Ledgerwood, A., da Silva Frost, A., Kadirvel, S., Maitner, A., Wang, Y. A., & Maddox, K. B. (in press). Methods for advancing an open, replicable, and inclusive science of social cognition. Chapter to appear in in K. Hugenberg, K. Johnson, & D. E. Carlston (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition​. [preprint]

Gawronski, B., Ledgerwood, A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2022). Implicit bias ≠ bias on implicit measures. Psychological Inquiry, 33, 139–155. [pdf] 

Gawronski, B., Ledgerwood, A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2022). Reflections on the difference between implicit bias and bias on implicit measures. Psychological Inquiry, 33, 219-231. [pdf]
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da Silva Frost, A.,* Wang, Y. A.,* Eastwick, P. W. & Ledgerwood, A. (2022). Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [preprint]
*co-first authors

Ledgerwood, A.,* Hudson, S. T. J.,* Lewis, N.A., Jr.,* Maddox, K. B.,* Pickett, C. L.,* Remedios, J. D.,* Cheryan, S.,* Diekman, A. B.,* Dutra, N. B., Goh, J. X., Goodwin, S. A., Munakata, Y., Navarro, D. J., Onyeador, I. N., Srivastava, S., & Wilkins, C. L. (2022). The pandemic as a portal: Reimagining psychological science as truly open and inclusive. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 937-959​. [preprint] [published version]
*co-first authors

Ledgerwood, A., Pickett, C., Navarro, D., Remedios, J. D., & Lewis, N. A., Jr. (2022). The unbearable limitations of solo science: Team science as a path for more rigorous and relevant research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E81. [preprint] [published version]

2020-2021

​Sánchez, A. M., Coleman, C. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (2021). Does temporal distance influence abstraction? A large pre-registered experiment. ​Social Cognition, 39, 352-365. [pdf]

Trope, Y., Ledgerwood, A., Liberman, N., & Fujita, K. (2021). Regulatory scope and its mental and social supports. Perspectives on Psychological Science,16, 204-224. [pdf]

Rosenfeld, D. L., Balcetis, E., Bastian, B., Berkman, E. T., Bosson, J. K., Brannon, T. N., Burrow, A. L., Cameron, C. D., Chen, S., Cook, J. E., Crandall, C. S., Davidai, S., Dhont, K., Eastwick, P. W., Gaither, S. E., Gangestad, S. W., Gilovich, T., Gray, K., Haines, E. L., . . . Tomiyama, A. J. (2021). Psychological science in the wake of COVID-19: Social, methodological, and meta-scientific considerations. Perspectives on Psychological Science.​

Murphy, M. C., Mejia, A., Mejia, J., Yan, X., Cheryan, S., Dasgupta, N., Destin, M., Fryberg, S. A., Garcia, J. A., Haines, E. L., Harackiewicz, J. M., Ledgerwood, A., Moss-Racusin, C. A., Park, L. E., Perry, S. P., Ratliff, K. A., Rattan, A., Sanchez, D. T., Savani, K., Sekaquaptewa, D., Smith, J. L., Taylor, V. J., Thoman, D. B., Wout, D. A., Mabry, P. L., Ressl, S., Diekman, A., & Pestilli, F. (2020). Open science, communal culture, and women's participation in the movement to improve science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(39), 24154-24164. [link]
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da Silva Frost, A., & Ledgerwood, A. (2020). Calibrate your confidence in research findings: A tutorial on improving research methods and practices. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology. [pdf]

Gawronski, B., Ledgerwood, A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2020). Implicit bias and anti-discrimination policy. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 99-106. [pdf]

Huang, S. A., Ledgerwood, A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2020). How do ideal friend preferences and interaction context affect friendship formation? Evidence for a domain-general relationship initiation process. Social and Personality Psychology Science, 11, 226-235. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Eastwick, P. W., & Gawronski, B. (2020). Experiences of liking versus ideas about liking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [pdf]

2018-2019

Sparks, J., & Ledgerwood, A. (2019). Age attenuates the negativity bias in reframing effects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1042-1056. [pdf]

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Ledgerwood, A.,* Wakslak, C. J.,* Sanchez, A. M., & Rees, H. R. (2019). A brief, distance-based intervention can increase intentions to follow evidence-based guidelines in cancer screening. Social and Personality Psychology Science. [pdf]
*co-first authors

Ledgerwood, A. (2019). New developments in research methods. In E. J. Finkel & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.), Advanced Social Psychology (pp. 39-61). Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Eastwick, P. W., Smith, L. K., & Ledgerwood, A. (2019). How do people translate their experiences into abstract attribute preferences? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103837. [pdf]

Boydstun, A. E.,* Ledgerwood, A.,* & Sparks, J. (2019). A negativity bias in reframing shapes political preferences even in partisan contexts. Social and Personality Psychology Science, 10, ​53-61. [pdf]
*co-first authors

Ledgerwood, A.,* Eastwick, P. W.,* & Smith, L. K. (2018). Toward an integrative framework for studying human evaluation: Attitudes towards objects and attributes. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 22, 378-398. [pdf]
*co-first authors

Ledgerwood, A. (2018). The preregistration revolution needs to distinguish between predictions and analyses. 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [pdf]

​Ledgerwood, A., & Wang, Y. A. (2018). Achieving local and global shared realities: Distance guides alignment to specific or general social influences. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 62-65. [pdf]

2016-2017

Wang, Y. A., Sparks, J., Gonzales, J., Hess, Y. D., & Ledgerwood, A. (2017). Using independent covariates in experimental designs: Quantifying the trade-off between power boost and Type I error inflation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 118-124. [pdf]

Sparks, J., & Ledgerwood, A. (2017). When good is stickier than bad: Understanding gain/loss asymmetries in sequential framing effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1086-1105. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Soderberg, C. K., & Sparks, J. (2017). Designing a study to maximize informational value. In J. Plucker & M. Makel (Eds.), Toward a more perfect psychology: Improving trust, accuracy, and transparency in research (pp. 33-58). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [pdf]

​Ledgerwood, A. (2016). Introduction to the special section on improving research practices: Thinking deeply across the research cycle. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 661-663. [pdf]

​Callahan, S. P., & Ledgerwood, A. (2016). On the psychological function of flags and logos: Group identity symbols increase perceived entitativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 528-550. [pdf]

2014-2015

Soderberg, C. K., Callahan, S. P., Kochersberger, A. O., Amit, E., & Ledgerwood, A. (2015). The effects of psychological distance on abstraction: Two meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 525-548. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2015). Construal level theory and regulatory scope. In R. Scott & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. [pdf]

Hess, Y. D., & Ledgerwood, A. (2014). Bolstering system-justifying beliefs in response to social exclusion. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 17, 494-508. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A. (2014). Introduction to the special section on moving toward a cumulative science: Maximizing what our research can tell us. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 610-611. [pdf]
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Ledgerwood, A. (2014). Evaluations in their social context: Distance regulates consistency and context-dependence. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 436-447. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A. (2014). Introduction to the special section on advancing our methods and practices. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 275-277. [pdf]
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Ledgerwood, A., & Boydstun, A. E. (2014). Sticky prospects: Loss frames are cognitively stickier than gain frames. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 376-385. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Callahan, S. P., & Chaiken, S. (2014). Changing minds: Persuasion in negotiation and conflict resolution. In M. Deutsch, P. T. Coleman, & E. C. Marcus (Eds.), The handbook of conflict resolution: Theory and practice (3rd Edition). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [pdf]

2012-2013

Callahan, S. P., & Ledgerwood, A. (2013). The symbolic importance of group property: Implications for intergroup conflict and terrorism. In T. Walters, R. Monaghan, & J. M. Ramirez (Eds.), Radicalization, terrorism, and conflict (pp. 232-267). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [pdf]

Chaiken, S., & Ledgerwood, A. (2012). A theory of heuristic and systematic information processing. In P. A. M. van Lange, A. W. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of theories of social psychology (pp. 246-266). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., & Callahan, S. P. (2012). The social side of abstraction: Psychological distance enhances conformity to group norms. Psychological Science, 23, 907-913. [pdf]

​Ledgerwood, A., & Sherman, J. W. (2012). Short, sweet, and problematic? The rise of the short report in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 60-66.  [pdf]

2010-2011

Ledgerwood, A., Mandisodza, A. N., Jost, J. T., & Pohl, M. J. (2011). Working for the system: Motivated defense of meritocratic beliefs. Social Cognition, 3, 322-340.  [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., & Shrout, P. E. (2011). The tradeoff between accuracy and precision in latent variable models of mediation processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 1174-1188.  [pdf]
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Smith, P. K., & Ledgerwood, A. (2010). Three problems with dual systems. Psychological Inquiry, 21, 242-249.  [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Wakslak, C. J., & Wang, M. A. (2010). Differential information use for near and distant decisions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 638-642.  [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., & Liviatan, I. (2010). The price of a shared vision: Group identity goals and the social creation of value. Social Cognition, 28, 401-421. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., & Trope, Y. (2010). Local and global evaluations: Attitudes as self-regulatory guides for near and distant responding. In K. D. Vohs & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications (2nd edition). New York: Guilford.  [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2010). Flexibility and consistency in evaluative responding: The function of construal level. In M. P. Zanna & J. M. Olson (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology,Vol. 43 (pp. 257-295). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.  [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Trope, Y.,  & Chaiken, S. (2010). Flexibility now, consistency later: Psychological distance and construal shape evaluative responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 32-51.  [pdf]

​Ledgerwood, A., & Trope, Y. (2010). Attitudes as global and local action guides. In J. Forgas, J. Cooper, & W. Crano (Eds.), The 12th annual Sydney symposium on social psychology: The psychology of attitude and attitude change (pp. 39-58). New York: Psychology Press.  [pdf]

2008-2009

Jost, J. T., Liviatan, I., van der Toorn, J., Ledgerwood, A., Mandisodza, A., & Nosek, B. A. (2009). System justification: How do we know it’s motivated? In D. R. Bobocel, A. C. Kay, M. P. Zanna, & J. M. Olson (Eds.), The Psychology of Justice and Legitimacy: The Ontario Symposium, Vol. 11. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

​Jost, J. T., Ledgerwood, A., & Hardin, C. D. (2008). Shared reality, system justification, and the relational basis of ideological beliefs. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 171-186. [pdf]

2006-2007

Chaiken, S., & Ledgerwood, A. (2007). Dual process theories. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [pdf]

Chaiken, S., & Ledgerwood, A. (2007). Heuristic processing. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Ledgerwood, A., Liviatan, I., & Carnevale, P. J. (2007). Group identity completion and the symbolic value of property. Psychological Science, 18, 873-878.  [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., & Chaiken, S. (2007). Priming us and them: Automatic assimilation and contrast in group attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 940-956. [pdf]

Ledgerwood, A., Chaiken, S., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Judd, C. M. (2006). Changing minds: Persuasion in negotiation and conflict resolution. In M. Deutsch, P. T. Coleman, & E. C. Marcus (Eds.), The handbook of conflict resolution, Second Edition (pp. 455-485). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.  [pdf]
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