Publications
Peer reviewed journal articles (reprints linked)
For a complete list of publications, including grant applications and conference presentations, see my CV.
- Heck, P.R., Watts, D., Chabris, C.F., & Meyer, M.N. (2020). Objecting to experiments even while approving of the policies or treatments they compare. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Heck, P.R., & Krueger, J.I. (2020). Self-enhancement error motivates social projection. Social Cognition.
- Krueger, J.I., Heck, P.R., Evans, A.M., DiDonato, T. (2020). Social game theory: Choices, expectations, and perceptions. European Review of Social Psychology.
- Heck, P.R., & Meyer, M.N. (2019). Information avoidance in genetic health: Perceptions, norms, and preferences. Social Cognition (special issue on health).
- Heck, P.R., & Meyer, M.N. (2019). Population whole exome screening: Primary care provider attitudes about preparedness, information avoidance, and nudging. Medical Clinics, 103, 1077-1092. [contact for reprint]
- Meyer, M.N., Heck, P.R., Holtzman, G.S., Anderson, S.A., Cai, W., Watts, D., Chabris, C.F. (2019). Reply to Mislavsky et al.: Sometimes people really are averse to experiments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Meyer, M.N., Heck, P.R., Holtzman, G.S., Anderson, S.A., Cai, W., Watts, D., Chabris, C.F. (2019). Objecting to experimentally comparing two unobjectionable policies or treatments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Response by Mislavsky, Dietvorst, & Simonsohn]
- Krueger, J.I., Heck, P.R. (2019). Putting the p value in its place. The American Statistician.
- Chabris, C.F., Heck, P.R., Mandart. J., Benjamin, D.J., & Simons, D.J. (2019). No evidence that experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth: Two failures to replicate Williams and Bargh (2008). Social Psychology. [Response by Bargh & Melnikoff]
- Krueger, J.I., Heck, P.R., & Wagner, D. (2019). Egocentrism in the volunteer’s dilemma. American Journal of Psychology
- Heck, P.R., Simons, D.J., & Chabris, C.F. (2018). 65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence: Results of two nationally representative surveys. PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200103
- Krueger, J.I., & Heck, P.R. (equal authorship) (2018). Testing Significance Testing. Collabra: Psychology.http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.108
- Heck, P.R., & Krueger, J.I. (2017). Social perception in the volunteer’s dilemma: Role of choice, outcome, and expectation. Social Cognition, 35, 497-519, https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2017.35.5.497
- Krueger, J.I., Heck, P.R., & Asendorf, J.B. (2017). Self-enhancement: Conceptualization and assessment. Collabra: Psychology
- Krueger, J.I., & Heck, P.R. (equal authorship) (2017). The heuristic value of p in inductive statistical inference. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00908
- Heck, P.R., & Krueger, J.I. (2016). Social perception of self-enhancement bias and error. Social Psychology, 47, 327-339. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000287
- Heck, P.R., & Krueger, J.I. (2015). Self-enhancement diminished. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 1003-1020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000105
- Heck, P.R., Chabris, C.F., Benjamin, D.J., & Simons, D.J. Does overconfidence persist despite precise and accurate information about one's skill? A study of tournament chess players.
- Krueger, J.I., & Heck, P.R. (2018). The search for the self. In Nelson, T. (Ed.), Getting grounded in social psychology.
- Heck, P.R., & Krueger, J.I. (2017). Rational healing. Review of ‘Against empathy: The case for rational compassion’ by Bloom, P. American Journal of Psychology.
- Krueger, J.I., Evans, A. M., & Heck, P. R. (2016). Let me help you help me: Trust between profit and prosociality. In Van Lange, P. A. M., Rockenbach, B., & Yamagishi, T. (Eds.). Trust in social dilemmas. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Heck, P.R., & Krueger, J.I. (2015). Happiness: A theory of relativity. Review of ‘The myths of happiness’ by Lyubomirsky, S. American Journal of Psychology, 128, 126-128. doi: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.128.1.0125
- Krueger, J.I., Freestone, D., & Heck, P.R. (in preparation). The inductive reasoning model: Rationale and simulation. Visit http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CLPS/research/irm-simulator to download the simulation interface written for user model testing and hypothesis generation.
For a complete list of publications, including grant applications and conference presentations, see my CV.