Publications

Published or in press

Singh, J., Mody, F., Schmidt, M., Shari, S., Wambua, J., Wilkinson, D., & Forscher, P. S. (2025). Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 380, 20240275.

Chen, S.-C., Buchanan, E. M., Kekecs, Z., … Forscher, P. S. … & Chartier, C. R. (2025). Investigating object orientation across 18 languages. Current Psychology, 44,
19148-19174.

Phills, C. E., Buchanan, E. M., Miller, J. K., … Forscher, P. S., & Kekecs, Z. (2025). Multi-region investigation of ‘man’ as default in attitudes. PLoS One, 20, e0323938.

Ghai, S., Theriault, R., Forscher, P. S., Shoda, Y., Syed, M., Puthillam, A., Hu, C.-P., Basnight-Brown, D., Majid, A., Azevedo, F., & Singh, L. (2025). A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science. Communications Psychology, 3, 16.

Ghai, S., Forscher, P. S., & Hu, C.-P. (2024). Big-team science does not guarantee generalizability. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1053-1056.

Oshiro, B., McAuliffe, W. Luong, R., Santos, A. C., … Forscher, P. S. … & Flake, J. K. (2024). Structural Validity Evidence for the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale Across 15 Languages. Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 5, 175-191..

Hall, B., Schmidt, K., Wagge, J., Lewis, S. C., … Forscher, P. S. … & Buchanan, E. M. (2024). Registered Replication Report: A Large Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri, Buckwalter, & Blouw (2015). Advances in Methods & Practices in Psychological Science, 7, 25152459241267902.

Chin, J., Holcombe, A., Zeiler, K., Forscher, P. S., & Guo, A. Metaresearch, Psychology, and Law: A Case Study on Implicit Bias. (2023). Connecticut Law Review, 56, 225-299.

Gorur, K., Cislaghi, B., & Forscher, P. S. An improved measure for the Strength of Social Gender Norms (SSGN) developed for adolescents in Uttar Pradesh, India. (2023). Collabra: Psychology, 9, 75520.

Mughogho, W., Adhiambo, J., & Forscher, P. S. African researchers must be full participants in the behavioral science research conversation. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 297-299.

Primbs, M. Pennington, C., Lakens, D., Silan, M. A., Lieck, D., Forscher, P. S., Buchanan, E., & Westwood, S. Are Small Effects the Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science? A Reply to Götz et al. (2023) Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18, 508-512.

Buchanan, E. M., Lewis, S. C., Paris, B., Forscher, P. S. … & Primbs, M. (2023). The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10, 87.

Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., Dutra, N., Basnight-Brown, D., & IJzerman, H. The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big Team Science. (2023). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18, 607-623.

Coles, N. A., March, D. S., … Forscher, P. S., … & Liuzzi, M. T. (2022). A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles collaboration. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1731-1742.

Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., … Forscher, P. S., … & Coles, N. A. (2022). In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries. Affective Science, 3, 577-602.

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2111091119.

Adetula, A., Forscher, P. S., Basnight-Brown, D., Azouaghe, S., & IJzerman, H. (2022). Psychology should generalize from—not just to—Africa. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 370-371.

Wittmann, A., Braud, M., Dujols, O., Forscher, P. S., & IJzerman, H. Individual differences in adapting to temperature in French students are only related to attachment avoidance and loneliness. (2022). Royal Society Open Science, 9, 201068.

Azouaghe, S., Adetula, A., Forscher, P. S., Basnight-Brown, D., Ougerrou, N., Charyate, A., & IJzerman, H. (2021). Psychologie et science ouverte en Afrique: pourquoi est-elle nécessaire et comment peut-on l’implanter? The Journal of Quality in Education, 11, 177-193.

Wang, K., Goldernberg, A., Dorison, C., Miller, J., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J., Gross, J., … Forscher, P. S., …. (2021). A global test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1089-1110.

McCarthy, R. J., Gervais, W., Aczel, B., Al-Kire, R. L., Baraldo S. M., Baruh L., Basch, C., Baumert, A., Behler, A., Bettencourt, A., Bitar, A., Bouxom, H., Buck, A., Cemalcilar, Z., Chekroun, P., Chen, J. M., del Fresno- Díaz, A., Ducham, A, Edlund, J. E., … Forscher, P. S., … Zogmaister, C. (2021). A multi-site collaborative study of the hostile priming effect. Collabra: Psychology, 7, 18738.

Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Aczel, B., Adamkovic, M., Alaei, R., … Forscher, P. S., … Chartier, C. R. (2021). To Which World Regions Does the Valence-Dominance Model of Social Perception Apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 159-169.

IJzerman, H., Lewis Jr., N., Weinstein, N., DeBruine, L., Ritchie, S. J., Vazire, S., Forscher, P. S., Morey, R. D., Ivory, J. D., Anvari, F. & Przybylski, A. (2020). Use Caution When Applying Behavioral Science to Policy. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 1092-1094.

Forscher, P. S., & Kteily, N. (2020). A psychological profile of the alt-right. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 91-116.

Forscher, P. S.*, Lai, C. K.*, Ebersole, C., Axt, J., Herman, M., Devine, P. G., & Nosek, B. A. (2019). A Meta-Analysis of Procedures to Change Implicit Measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 522-559.

Forscher, P. S., Cox, W. T. L., Brauer, M., & Devine, P. G. (2019). Little race or gender bias in an experiment of initial review of NIH R01 grant proposals. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 257-264.

Moshontz, H., Campbell, L., Ebersole, C. E., IJzerman, H., Urry, H. L., Forscher, P. S., …, & Chartier, C. R. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing psychology through a distributed collaboration network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 501-515.

Forscher, P. S., & Devine, P. G. (2017). Knowledge-based interventions are more likely to reduce legal disparities than are implicit bias interventions. In S. E. Redfield (Ed.), Enhancing Justice: Reducing Bias, 303-317.

Devine, P. G., Forscher, P. S., Cox, W. T. L., Kaatz, A., Sheridan, J., & Carnes, M. (2017). A gender bias habit-breaking intervention led to increased hiring of female faculty in STEMM departments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 211-215.

Forscher, P. S., Mitamura, C., Dix, E. L., Cox, W. T. L., & Devine, P. G. (2017). Breaking the prejudice habit: Mechanisms, timecourse, and longevity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 133–146.

Forscher, P. S., & Devine, P. G. (2016). The role of intentions in conceptions of prejudice: An historical perspective. In T. D. Nelson, Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination (2^nd Edition), 241-254.

Forscher, P. S., Cox, W. T. L., Graetz, N., & Devine, P. G. (2015). The motivation to express prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 709-812.

Forscher, P. S., & Devine, P. G. (2015). Controlling the influence of stereotypes on one’s thoughts (Preprint title: Controlling implicit bias: Insights from a public health perspective). In R. A. Scott, & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Carnes, M., Devine, P. G., Baier Manwell, L., Byars-Winston, A., Fine, E., Ford, C. E., Forscher, P. S., Isaac, C., Kaatz, A., Magua, W., Palta, M., & Sheridan, J. (2014). Effect of an intervention to break the gender bias habit for faculty at one institution: A cluster randomized, controlled trial. Academic Medicine, 90, 221-230.

Forscher, P. S., & Devine, P. G. (2014). Breaking the prejudice habit: Automaticity and control in the context of a long-term goal. In J. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual process theories of the social mind, 468-482.

Devine, P. G., Forscher, P. S., Austin, A. J., & Cox, W. T. L. (2012). Long-term reduction in implicit race bias: A prejudice habit-breaking intervention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1267-1278.

*Authors contributed equally

Working papers

Sparacio, A., Ropovik, I., Jiga-Boy, G., Forscher, P. S., Paris, B., & Ijzerman, H. (2021). Stress regulation via self-administered mindfulness and biofeedback interventions in adults: A pre-registered meta-analysis.

Adetula, A., Forscher, P. S., Basnight-Brown, D., …, & IJzerman, H. (2021). The Evaluation of Harm and Purity Transgressions in Africans: A Paradigmatic Replication of Rottman and Young (2019). Registered Report with Stage 1 Acceptance at Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Adetula, A., Forscher, P. S., Basnight-Brown, D., Azouaghe, S., Ouherrou, N., Charyate, A., Hansen, N., Adetula, G., & IJzerman, H. (2021). Synergy Between the Credibility Revolution and Human Development in Africa.

Forscher, P. S.*, Taylor, V.*, J., Lewis, N., Jr., Cavagnaro, D., Buchanan, E., Moshontz, H., … & Chartier, C. (2020). Stereotype Threat in Black College Students Across Many Operationalizations. Registered Report with Stage 1 Acceptance at Nature Human Behaviour.

Forscher, P. S., Brauer, M. Cox, W. T. L., & Devine, P. G. (2019). How many reviewers are required to attain reliable evaluations of NIH R01 grant proposals?

Public writing

Alhaji, M. M., Nyaga, R. G., & Forscher, P. S. All responses are local: How behavioral systems analysis can enhance global management of the Mpox outbreak. Busara Groundwork 15.

Silan, M., Zelkowitz, A., Titus, B., Forscher, P. S., Gennari, F., Hickler, B., & Terer, M. Behavioral Insights in the Global South. Psychology Observer.

Forscher, P. S. & Terer, M. (2022, Feb 4). Science Should Value Building Research Capacity. The Source.

Forscher, P. S., Basnight-Brown, D. M., Dutra, N., Adetula, A., Silan, M., & IJzerman, H. (2021, Dec 29). Psychological Science Needs the Entire Globe, Part 3: Does Psychological Science Deserve Brilliant Researchers From Outside North America and Europe? Psychology Observer.