Publications

In Press

• Bergh, R. & Brandt, M. J. (in press). Mapping principal dimensions of prejudice in the United States. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., Aron, A., Parker, M., Rodas, C., & Shaffer, M. (in press). Leftists possess more national consensus in Europe in one of two datasets. Social Psychological and Personality Science. pdf | code
• Curry, O. S. Alfano, M., Brandt, M. J., & Pelican, C. (in press). Moral molecules: Morality as a combinatorial system. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. pdf
• Evans., A. M., Stavrova, O., Rosenbusch, H., & Brandt, M. J. (in press). Expressions of doubt in online news discussions. Social Science Computer Review. doi | pdf
• Isager, P. M., van Aert, R. C. M., Bahník, Š, Brandt, M. J., DeSoto, K. A., Giner-Sorolla, R., Krueger, J. I….Lakens, D. (in press). Deciding what to replicate: A decision model for replication study selection under resource and knowledge constraints. Psychological Methods pdf
• Kodapanakkal, R. I., Brandt, M. J., Kogler, C., & van Beest, I. (in press). Moral frame persuade and moralize, non-moral frames persuade and demoralize. Psychological Science. pdf | code | data
• Stavrova, O., Evans, A. M., & Brandt, M. J. (in press). Ecological dimensions explain the past, but do not predict future changes in trust. American Psychologist. pdf | code | data

2021

• Brandt, M. J., He, J., & Bender, M. (2021). Registered report: Testing ideological asymmetries in measurement invariance. Assessment, 28, 687-708. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J. & Kubin, E. (2021). Ratings of reasons for disagreement about 95 attitude object pairs and 190 attitude objects. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 9, 4. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J., & Sleegers, W. W. A. (2021). Evaluating belief system networks as a theory of political belief system dynamics. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 25, 159-185. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J., Turner-Zwinkels, F. M., Karapirinler, B., van Leeuwen, F., Bender, M., van Osch, Y., & Adams, B. G. (2021). The association between threat and politics depends on the type of threat, the political domain, and the country. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 324-343. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J., Turner-Zwinkels, F. M., & Kubin, E. (2021). Political psychology data from a 26-wave yearlong longitudinal study (2019-2020). Journal of Open Psychology Data, 9, 2. doi | pdf | code | data
• Colombo, M., Strangmann, K., Houkes, L., Kostadinova, Z. & Brandt, M. J. (2021). Intellectually humble, but prejudiced people. A paradox of intellectual virtue. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 353-371. doi | pdf | code | data
• Jones, B., DeBruine, L., Flake, J., Aczel, B., Adamkovic, M., Alaei, R., …Brandt, M. J. … & Vásquez-Amézquita, M. (2021). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 159-169. doi | pdf | code | data
• Turner-Zwinkels, F. M., Sibley, C. G., Johnson, B. B., & Brandt, M. J. (2021). Conservatives moral foundations are more densely connected than liberals’ moral foundations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 167-184. doi | pdf
• Vaesen, K., Dusseldorp, G. L., & Brandt, M. J. (2021). An emerging consensus in palaeoanthropology: Demography was the main factor responsible for the disappearance of Neanderthals. Scientific Reports, 11, 4925. doi | pdf | code | data
• Voelkel, J. G., Ren, D., & Brandt, M. J. (2021). Inclusion reduces political prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104149. doi | pdf | code | data

2020

• Brandt, M. J. (2020). Estimating and examining the replicability of belief system networks. Collabra: Psychology, 6, 24. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J. & Crawford, J. T. (2020). Worldview conflict and prejudice. In B. Gawronski (Ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 61, 1-66. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Andrighetto, L., Autin, F., Babincak, P. … & Zimmerman, J. L. (2020). Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 921-942. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J. & Turner-Zwinkels, F. M. (2020). No additional evidence that proximity to the July 4th holiday affects affective polarization. Collabra: Psychology, 6, 39. doi | pdf | code | data
• Crawford, J. T. & Brandt, M. J. (2020). Ideological (a)symmetries in prejudice and intergroup bias. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 40-45. doi | pdf
• Kodapanakkal, R.I., Brandt, M.J., Kogler, C., & van Beest, I., (2020). Self-interest and data protection drive the adoption and moral acceptability of big data technologies: A conjoint analysis approach. Computers in Human Behavior, 108, 106303. doi | pdf
• Kubin, E. & Brandt, M. J. (2020). Identifying the domains of ideological similarities and differences in attitudes. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 4, 53-77. doi | pdf | code | data
• Leighton, D., Brandt, M. J., & Kennedy, L. (2020). Political extremity, social media use, social support, and well-being for emerging adults during the 2016 presidential election campaign. Emerging Adulthood, 8, 285-296. doi | pdf | code | data
• Tierney, W., Hardy, J. H., III., Ebersole, C., Leavitt, K., Viganola, D., Clemente, E., Gordon, M., Dreber, A.A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Hiring Decisions Forecasting Collaboration, & Uhlmann, E.L. (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 291-309. (Member of Forecasting Collaboration).  doi | pdf
• Van Tongeren, D. R., Kubin, E., Crawford, J. T., & Brandt, M. J. (2020). The role of religious orientation in worldview conflict. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 30, 231-242. doi | pdf | code | data

2019

• Brandt, M. J. & Crawford, J. T. (2019). Studying a heterogeneous array of target groups can help us understand prejudice. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 292-298 doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., Crawford, J. T., & Van Tongeren, D. (2019). Worldview conflict in daily life. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 35-43. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J., Sibley, C., & Osborne, D. (2019). What is central to belief system networks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1352-1364.  doi | pdf | code
• Crawford, J. T., & Brandt, M. J. (2019). Who is prejudiced, and towards whom? The Big Five traits and generalized prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1455-1467. doi | pdf
• Evans, A. M. & Brandt, M. J. (2019). Comparing the effects of hypothetical moral preferences on real-life and hypothetical behavior: Commentary on Bostyn, Sevenhant, and Roets (2018). Psychological Science, 30, 1380-1382. doi | pdf
• Frimer, J. A., Brandt, M. J., Melton, Z., & Motyl, M. (2019). Extremists on the left and right use angry, negative language. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1216-1231. doi | pdf | code | data
• Olsen, J., Kogler, C., Brandt, M. J., Dezsö, L., & Kirchler, E. (2019). Are consumption taxes really disliked more than equivalent costs? Inconclusive results in the USA and no effect in the UK. Journal of Economic Psychology, 75, 102145. doi | pdf | code | data
• Van Osch, Y. M. J., Zeelenberg, M., Breugelmans, S. M., & Brandt, M. J. (2019). Show or hide pride? Selective inhibition of pride expressions as a function of relevance of achievement domain. Emotion, 19, 334-347. doi | pdf
• Voelkel, J. G., & Brandt, M. J. (2019). The effect of ideological identification on the endorsement of moral values depends on the target group. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 851-863.  doi | pdf | code | data
• Wagemans, F. A. M., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2019). Weirdness of disgust sensitivity items predicts their relationship to purity moral judgments. Personality and Individual Differences, 146, 182-187. doi | pdf | code | data
• Wagge, J. R., Brandt, M. J., Lazarevic, L. B., Legate, N., Christopherson, C., Wiggins, B., & Grahe, J. E. (2019). Publishing research with undergraduate students via replication work: The Collaborative Replications and Education Project. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 247. doi | pdf
• Watkins, H. M. & Brandt, M. J. (2019). The moral landscape of war: A registered report testing how the war context shapes morality’s constraints on default representations of possibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103843.  doi | pdf | code | data

2018

• Brandt, M. J. & Spälti, A. K. (2018). Norms and explanations in social and political psychology. In J. T. Crawford & L. Jussim (Eds.) Frontiers of Social Psychology Series: Politics of Social Psychology (pp 26-43). Psychology Press. doi | pdf
• Hofmann, W., Brandt, M. J., Wisneski, D. C., Rockenbach, B., & Skitka, L. J. (2018). Moral punishment in everyday life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1697-1711. doi | pdf | code | data
• IJzerman, H., Grahe, J., & Brandt, M. J. (2018). How to make replications mainstream. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e136. doi | pdf
• Klein, R. A., Vianello, M., Hasselman, F., Adams B. G., Adams, R. B., Alper, S….Brandt, M. J. …Nosek, B. A. (2018). Many labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across sample and setting. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 443-490. doi | pdf | code | data
• Rutjens, B. T., & Brandt, M. J. (Eds.). (2018). Belief systems and the perception of reality. Abington, UK: Routledge. doi | pdf
• Skitka, L. J., Wisneski, D. C., & Brandt, M. J. (2018). Attitude moralization: Probably not intuitive or rooted in perceptions of harm. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 9-13. doi | pdf
• Voelkel, J. G., Brandt, M. J. & Colombo, M. (2018). I know that I know nothing: Can puncturing the illusion of explanatory depth overcome the relationship between attitudinal dissimilarity and prejudice? Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 3, 56-78. doi | pdf | code | data
• Wagemans, F. M. A., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2018). Disgust sensitivity is primarily associated with purity-based moral judgments. Emotion, 18, 277-289. doi | pdf | code | data

2017

• Brandt, M. J. (2017). Predicting ideological prejudice. Psychological Science, 28, 713-722. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J. & Reyna, C. (2017). Individual differences in the resistance to social change and acceptance of inequality predict system legitimacy differently depending on the social structure. European Journal of Personality, 31, 266-278. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J. & van Tongeren, D. R. (2017). People both high and low on religious fundamentalism are prejudiced towards dissimilar groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112, 76-97. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J. & Wagemans, F. M. A. (2017). From the political here and now to generalizable knowledge. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3, 317-320. doi | pdf
• Collins, T. P., Crawford, J. T., & Brandt, M. J. (2017). No evidence for ideological asymmetry in dissonance avoidance: Unsuccessful close and conceptual replications of Nam, Jost, and van Bavel (2013). Social Psychology, 48, 123-134. doi | pdf
• Crawford, J. T., Brandt, M. J., Inbar, Y., Chambers, J. R., & Motyl, M. (2017). Social and economic ideologies differentially predict prejudice across the political spectrum, but social issues are most divisive. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112, 383-412. doi | pdf
• Lammers, J., Koch, A., Conway, P., & Brandt, M. J. (2017). The political domain appears simpler to the politically extreme than to political moderates. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 612-622. doi | pdf
• Proulx, T. & Brandt, M. J. (2017). Beyond threat and uncertainty: The underpinnings of conservatism. Social Cognition, 35, 313-323 doi | pdf
• Spälti, A. K., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2017). Memory retrieval processes help explain the incumbency advantage. Judgment and Decision Making, 12, 173-182. doi | pdf | code | data
• Suhay, E., Brandt, M. J., & Proulx, T. (2017). Lay belief in biopolitics and political prejudice. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 173-182. doi | pdf
• van de Ven, N., Bogaert, A., Serlie, A., Brandt, M. J., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2017). Personality perception based on LinkedIn profiles. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 32, 418-429. doi | pdf

2016

• Brandt, M. J., & Crawford, J. T. (2016). Answering unresolved questions about the relationship between cognitive ability and prejudice. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 884-892. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J., Crawford, M., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2016). Editorial: Special issue on confirmatory research. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 67, 1. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J. & Proulx, T. (2016). Conceptual creep as a human (and scientific) goal. Psychological Inquiry, 27, 18-23. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., Wetherell, G., & Crawford, J. T. (2016). Moralization and intolerance of ideological outgroups. In Joseph P. Forgas, Lee Jussim, & Paul A. M. van Lange (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Morality (pp. 239-256). New York: Routledge. doi | pdf
• Crawford, J. T., Brandt, M. J., Inbar, Y., & Mallinas, S. (2016). Right-wing authoritarianism predicts prejudice equally toward “gay men and lesbians” and “homosexuals.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, e31-e45. doi | pdf | code | data
• Hagger, M. S., Chatzisarantis, N. L. D., Alberts, H., Anggono, C. O., Batailler, C., Birt, A., …Brandt, M. J.,… Zwienenberg, M. (2016). A multi-lab pre-registered replication of the ego-depletion effect. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 546-573. doi | pdf | code | data
• Kay, A. C. & Brandt, M. J. (2016). Ideology and intergroup inequality: Emerging directions and trends. Current Opinion in Psychology, 11, 110-114. doi | pdf

2015

• Brandt, M. J., Chambers, J. R., Crawford, J. T., Wetherell, G., & Reyna, C. (2015). Bounded openness: The effect of openness to experience on intolerance is moderated by target group conventionality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 549-568. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J., Evans, A. M., & Crawford, J. T. (2015). The unthinking or confident extremist? Political extremists are more likely to reject experimenter-generated anchors than moderates. Psychological Science, 26, 189-202. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J., Henry, P. J., & Wetherell, G. (2015). The relationship between authoritarianism and life satisfaction changes depending on stigmatized status. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 6, 219-228. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J., & Proulx, T. (2015). QTIPs. Questionable theoretical and interpretive practices in social psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 19-20. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., Wetherell, G., & Henry, P.J. (2015). Changes in income predict change in social trust: A longitudinal analysis. Political Psychology, 36, 761-768. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J., Wisneski, D., & Skitka, L. (2015) Moralization and the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election campaign. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3, 211-237. doi | pdf | code
• Henry, P. J., Wetherell, G., & Brandt, M. J. (2015). Democracy as a legitimizing ideology. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21, 648-664. doi | pdf
• Hoffman, W., Wisneski, D. C., Brandt, M. J., & Skitka, L. J. (2015). Response to comment on Morality in everyday life. Science, 348, 767. doi | pdf
• Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, aac4716-1-aac4716-8. doi | pdf | code | data
• Wetherell, G., Benson, O., Reyna, C., & Brandt, M. J. (2015). Perceived value congruence and attitudes toward international relations and foreign policies. Basic & Applied Social Psychology, 37, 3-18. doi | pdf

2014

• Brandt, M. J., IJzerman, H., & Blanken, I. (2014). Does recalling moral behavior change the perception of brightness? A replication and meta-analysis of Banerjee, Chatterjee, & Sinha (2012). Social Psychology, 45, 246-252. doi | pdf | code | data
• Brandt, M. J., IJzerman, H., Dijksterhuis, A., Farach, F. J., Geller, J., Giner-Sorolla, R., Grange, J., A., Perugini, M., Spies, J. R., & van ’t Veer, A. E. (2014). The Replication Recipe: What Makes for a Convincing Replication? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 217-224. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2014). To love or hate thy neighbor: The role of core motives in explaining the link between fundamentalism and racial prejudice. Political Psychology, 35, 207-223. doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M. J., Reyna, C., Chambers, J., Crawford, J., & Wetherell, G. (2014). The ideological-conflict hypothesis: Intolerance among both liberals and conservatives. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 27-34. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., Wetherell, G., & Reyna, C. (2014). Liberals and conservatives can show similarities in negativity bias. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 307-308. doi | pdf
• Henry, P. J., Butler, S., & Brandt, M. J. (2014). The influence of target group status on the perception of the offensiveness of group-based slurs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 53, 185-192. doi | pdf
• Hofmann, W., Wisneski, D. C., Brandt, M. J., & Skitka, L. J. (2014) Morality in everyday life. Science, 345, 1340-1343. doi | pdf | code | data
• IJzerman, H., Blanken, I., Brandt, M. J., Oerlemans, J. M., Van den Hoogenhof, M. M. W., Franken, S. J. M., & Oerlemans, M. W. G. (2014). Sex differences in distress from infidelity in early adulthood and in later life: A replication and meta-analysis of Shackelford et al. (2004). Social Psychology, 45, 202-208. doi | pdf | code | data
• Klein, R. A., Ratliff, K. A., Vianello, M., Adams, R. B., Jr., Bahník, Š., Bernstein, M. J., … Brandt, M. J., … & Nosek, B. A. (2014). Data from investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. The Journal of Open Psychology Data, 2, e4. doi | pdf | code
• Klein, R. A., Ratliff, K. A., Vianello, M., Adams, R. B., Jr., Bahník, Š., Bernstein, M. J., … Brandt, M. J., … & Nosek, B. A. (2014). Investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. Social Psychology, 45, 142-152. doi | pdf | code | data
• Klein, R. A., Ratliff, K. A., Vianello, M., Adams, R. B., Jr., Bahník, Š., Bernstein, M. J., … Brandt, M. J., … & Nosek, B. A. (2014). Theory building through iterative replication: Response to commentaries on the “Many Labs” replication project. Social Psychology, 45, 307-310. doi | pdf
• Reyna, C., Wetherell, G. W., Brandt, M. J., & Yantis, C. (2014). Attributions for sexual orientation vs. stereotypes: How stereotypes about value violations account for attribution effects on anti-gay discrimination. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44, 289-302. doi | pdf

2013

• Brandt, M. J. (2013). Do the disadvantaged legitimize the social system? A large-scale test of the status-legitimacy hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 765-785. Footnote 7 Results| Footnote 9 Results doi | pdf | code
• Brandt, M, J. (2013). Onset and offset deservingness: The case of home foreclosures. Political Psychology, 34, 221-238. doi | pdf | data
• IJzerman, H., Brandt, M. J., & Van Wolferen, J. (2013). Rejoice! In replication. European Journal of Personality, 27, 128-129. pdf
• Wetherell, G., Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2013) Discrimination across the ideological divide: The role of perceptions of value violations and abstract values in discrimination by liberals and conservatives. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 658-667. doi | pdf

2012

• Brandt, M. J. (2012). Nasty data can still be real: A reply to Ullrich and Schlüter. Psychological Science, 23, 826-827. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J. & Henry, P. J. (2012a). Gender inequality and gender differences in authoritarianism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1301-1315. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., & Henry, P. J. (2012b). Psychological defensiveness as a mechanism explaining the relationship between low socioeconomic status and religiosity. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 22, 321-332. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2012). The functions of symbolic racism. Social Justice Research, 25, 41-60. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J. & Wetherell, G. (2012). What attitudes are moral attitudes? The case of attitude heritability. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 172-179. doi | pdf
• Open Science Collaboration. (2012). An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 652-655.  doi | pdf

2011 and Earlier

• Brandt, M. J. (2011). Sexism and gender inequality across 57 societies. Psychological Science, 22, 1413 - 1418. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2011). The chain of being: A hierarchy of morality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 428-446. doi | pdf
• Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2011). Stereotypes as attributions. In E. L. Simon (Ed.) Psychology of Stereotypes (pp. 47-80). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers pdf
• Brandt, M. J., & Reyna, C. (2010). The role of prejudice and the need for closure in religious fundamentalism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 715-725. doi | pdf
• Reyna, C., Brandt, M., & Viki, G. T. (2009). Blame it on hip-hop: Anti-rap attitudes as a proxy for prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 12, 361-380. doi | pdf

Preprints

• Spälti, A., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2019, November 10). Comparing the Effects of Decision Time and Direct Decision Processing Information on (Moral) Character Evaluations. PsyArXiv. doi | pdf | code | data
• Spälti, A., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2019, July 12). The effects of decision time on perceptions of decisions and decision makers in (moral) trade-off scenarios. PsyArXiv. doi | pdf | code | data
• Spälti, A., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2019, July 6). Endowment vs. previous preferences: Which cue drives consumer decision-making? PsyArXiv. doi | pdf | code | data
• Wagemans, F. M. A., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2018, July 2). Disgust sensitivity and moral judgments of purity: The role of transgression weirdness. PsyArXiv. doi | pdf | code | data
• Wagemans, F. M. A., Sleegers, W., Brandt, M. J., & Zeelenberg, M. (2019, July 15). Attentional biases associated with individual differences in disgust sensitivity: An eye tracking study. PsyArXiv. doi | pdf