Publications

Scholarly articles and IPR working papers.

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2025PublishedJournal articleSocial Cognition

From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning’s Role in Social Cognition

Social Cognition, 2025, 43(3), 194–216

Authors: Jonathan E. Doriscar, Michalis Mamakos, Sylvia P. Perry, Tessa E. S. Charlesworth

A tutorial showing how unsupervised machine learning can help social cognition researchers discover hidden patterns in large-scale attitude and belief data.

computational social sciencesocial cognitionunsupervised machine learning
2025PublishedReview articleAnnual Review of Psychology

Racial Socialization in the United States

Annual Review of Psychology, 2025, 76, 443–474

Authors: Sylvia P. Perry, Jamie L. Abaied, Deborah J. Wu, Jonathan E. Doriscar

A broad review of how families, peers, media, environmental cues, and interventions shape racial socialization in the United States.

racial socializationdevelopmentfamilies
2025PublishedJournal articleThe Journal of Psychology

Explorations in Creepiness: Tolerance for Ambiguity and Susceptibility to Not Just Right Experiences Predicts the Ease of Getting Creeped Out

The Journal of Psychology, 2025, 159(1), 36–55

Authors: Francis T. McAndrew, Jonathan E. Doriscar, Nicolette T. Schmidt, Chris Niebauer

A study of how ambiguity tolerance and 'not just right' experiences relate to how easily people perceive ambiguous situations as creepy.

ambiguityuncertaintyemotion
2025Preprint / IPR working paperNorthwestern Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, WP-25-31

Why Reform Stalls: Justification and Outrage as Competing Public Responses to Police Violence

Northwestern Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, WP-25-31, 2025

Authors: Jonathan Doriscar, Ava Ma de Sousa, Lauryn Hoard, Wendi Gardner, William Brady, Sylvia Perry

A public IPR working paper on how justification and moral outrage relate to reform-oriented discourse around police violence.

police violencepublic discoursemoral outrage
2024PublishedJournal articleJournal of Personality and Social Psychology

When the Specter of the Past Haunts Current Groups: Psychological Antecedents of Historical Blame

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2024, 127(3), 638–663

Authors: Shree Vallabha, Jonathan E. Doriscar, Mark J. Brandt

A paper on why people assign blame to present-day groups for actions committed by earlier members of those groups.

moral cognitionhistorical blamecollective responsibility
2024PublishedJournal articleNature Energy

Assessing How Energy Companies Negotiate with Landowners When Obtaining Land for Hydraulic Fracturing

Nature Energy, 2024, 9(11), 1369–1377

Authors: Ben Farrer, Robert Holahan, Kellyanne Allen, Lydia Allen, Jonathan E. Doriscar, Victoria Johnson, Tara Riggs, Soleil Smith

A study of negotiation dynamics between energy companies and landowners in hydraulic fracturing contexts, with implications for equity in energy policy.

energy policylandownersnegotiation