Peer Reviewed Publications
- Cole, J. C., Flores, A., Giga-Boy, G., Klein, O., Sheman, D, K. & Van Boven, L. (in press). Party over pandemic: Partisan cues and trust explain influence public support for Covid-19 policies. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
- Ramos, J., Grant, M. D., Dickert, S., Eom, K., Flores, A., Jiga-Boy, G., Kogut, T. Mayorga, M., Pedersen, E. J., Pereira, B., Rubaltelli, E., Slovic, P., Västfjäll, D., & Van Boven, L. (in press). Structured reflection increases intentions to reduce other people’s health risks during COVID-19. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science: Nexus.
- Cole, J.C., Ehret, P.J., Sherman, D.K., & Van Boven, L. (2022). Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy. Climatic Change, 173 (10). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03396-x
- Flores, A., Cole, J. C., Dickert, S., Eom, K., Jiga-Boy, G. M., Kogut, T., *Loria, .R., Mayorga, M., Pedersen, E.J., Pereira, B., Rubaltelli, E., Sherman, D. K., Slovic, P., Västfjäll, D., & Van Boven, L. .(2022). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117543119
- Grant, M. D., Flores, A., Pedersen, E. J., Sherman, D. K., & Van Boven, L. (2021). When election expectations fail: Polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259473
- Fernbach, P.M., & Van Boven, L. (2021). False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions. Current Opinion in Psychology: People Watching: Interpersonal Perception and Prediction, 43, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.06.005
- Sherman, D. K., Shteyn, M. F., Han, H., & Van Boven, L. (2021). The exchange between citizens and elected officials: A social psychological framework for citizen climate activists. Behavioural Public Policy, 5(4), 576-705. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.41
- Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. K. (2021). Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences: Human Response to Climate Change: From Neurons to Collective Action, 42, 83–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.03.023
- van der Linden, S., Pearson, A., & Van Boven, L. (2021). Introduction. Behavioural Public Policy: Special Issue on Behavioural Climate Policy, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.44
- Mrkva, K., Chan, L., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Commentary: Above and beyond the content: Feelings influence mental simulation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e139. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19003108
- Mrkva K., Cole, J., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Attention increases environmental risk perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000772
- Mrkva, K., Ramos, J., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Attention influences emotion, judgment, and decision making to explain mental simulation. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000221
- Shrum, T., Markowitz, E., Buck, H., Gregory, R., van der Linden, S., Attari, S.Z., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Behavioral frameworks to understand public risk response and value assessment of carbon dioxide removal. Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus, Special Issue: “Going negative: An Interdisciplinary, Holistic Approach to Carbon Dioxide Removal.” https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2020.0002
- Bhandari, S., Hallowell, M. R., Van Boven, L., Welker, K., & Gruber, J. (2020). Using augmented virtuality to examine how emotions influence construction hazard identification, risk assessment, and safety decisions. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001755
- Mrkva, K., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Salience theory of mere exposure: Relative exposure increases liking, extremity, and emotional intensity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000184
- Mrkva K., Westfall, J., & Van Boven, L. (2019). Attention drives emotion: Voluntary visual attention increases perceived emotional intensity. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619844231
- Van Boven, L., Ramos, J., Montal-Rosenberg, R., Kogut, T., Sherman, D. K., & Slovic, P. (2019). It depends: Partisan evaluation of conditional probability importance. Cognition, 51-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.020
- André, Q., Carmon, Z., Wertenbroch, K., Crum, A., Frank, D., Goldstein, W., Huber, J., Van Boven, L., Weber, B., & Yang, H. (2019). Consumer choice and autonomy in the age of artificial intelligence and big data. Customer Needs and Solutions. DOI: 10.1007/s40547-017-0085-8
- Ehret, P., Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. (2018). Partisan barriers to bipartisanship: Understanding climate policy polarization. Social Psychological and Personality Science: Recent Geopolitical Events, 9, 308–318. DOI: 10.1177/1948550618758709. (Winner: Best Graduate Student paper, APA Division 34, Population and Conservation Psychology.)
- Van Boven, L., Ehret, P. J., & Sherman, D. K. (2018a). Psychological barriers to bipartisan public support for climate policy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 492-507. DOI: 10.1177/1745691617748966
- Van Boven, L., Ehret, P. J., & Sherman, D. K. (2018b). Toward surmounting the psychological barriers to climate policy—appreciating contexts and acknowledging challenges: A reply to Weber (2018). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 512-517. DOI: 10.1177/1745691618774535
- Mrkva, K., Travers, M., & Van Boven, L. (2018). Simulational fluency reduces feelings of psychological distance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 354-376. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000408
- Mrkva, K., & Van Boven, L. (2017). Attentional accounting: Voluntary spatial attention increases budget category prioritization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 46, 1296–1306. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000347
- Bhandari, S., Hallowell, M., Van Boven, L., Gruber, J., and Welker, K. (2016) Emotional states and their impact on hazard identification skills. Construction Research Congress, 2831–2840. DOI: 10.1061/9780784479827.282
- Keating, J., Van Boven, L., Judd, C. M. (2016). Partisan underestimation of the polarizing influence of group discussion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 65, 52–58. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.03.002
- Aknin, L., Van Boven, L., & Johnson-Graham, L. (2015). Abstract construals make the emotional rewards of pro-social behavior more salient. Journal of Positive Psychology, 10, 458–462.
- Huber M., Van Boven L., Park B., Pizzi, W.T. (2015) Seeing Red: Anger Increases How Much Republican Identification Predicts Partisan Attitudes and Perceived Polarization. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0139193. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139193
- Silverman, A., Gwinn, J., and Van Boven, L. (2015). Stumbling in their shoes: Brief experience simulations reduce judged competency of the disabled. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 464–471.
- Van Boven, L., & Caruso, E. (2015). The tripartite foundations of temporal psychological distance: metaphors, ecology, and teleology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
- Westfall, J., Van Boven, L., Chambers, J., & Judd, C. J. (2015). Perceiving political polarization in the United States: Party identity strength and attitude extremity exacerbate the perceived partisan divide. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 145–158.
- Chan, C., Van Boven, L., Andrade, E., Ariely, D. (2014). Moral violations reduce oral consumption. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 24, 381–386.
- Campell, T., O’Brien, E., Van Boven, L., Schwarz, N., & Ubel, P. (2014). Too much experience: A desensitization bias in emotional perspective taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 272–285.
- Tixier, A., Albert, A., Hallowel, M., & Van Boven, L, & Kleiner, B. (2014). Psychological antecedents of risk-taking behavior in construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 04014052-1–04014052-10.
- Travers, M. W., Van Boven., L, & Judd, C. J. (2014). The secrecy heuristic: Inferring quality from secrecy in foreign policy contexts. Political Psychology, 35, 97–111.
- Caruso, E., Van Boven, L., Chin, M., & Ward, A. (2013). The temporal Doppler effect: When the future feels closer than the past. Psychological Science, 24, 530–536.
- Chan, C., Berger, J., & Van Boven, L. (2012). Identifiable but not identical: Combining social identity and uniqueness motives in choice. Journal of Consumer Research, 39, 561-573.
- Kane, J., Van Boven, L., & McGraw, A. P. (2012). Prototypical prospection: Future events are more prototypically represented and simulated than past events. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 354–362.
- Van Boven, L., Judd, C., & Sherman, D. (2012). Political polarization projection: Social projection of partisan attitude extremity and attitudinal processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 84–100.
- Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., Welch, E., & Dunning, D. (2012). The illusion of courage in self-predictions: Mis-predicting one’s own behavior in embarrassing situations. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 25, 1–12.
- Van Boven, L., & Robinson, M. (2012). Boys don’t cry: Stereotype accessibility and stereotypic sex differences in emotion memory. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 303–309.
- White, K., & Van Boven, L. (2012). Immediacy bias in social emotional comparisons. Emotion, 12, 737–747.
- Geeraert, N., Van Boven, L., & Yzerbyt, V. (2011). Similarity on the rebound: Inhibition of similarity assessment leads to an ironic post-suppression rebound. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1788-1796.
- Huber, M., Van Boven, L., McGraw, A. P., Johnson-Graham, L. (2011). Whom to help? Immediacy bias in judgments and decisions about humanitarian aid allocation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115, 283–293.
- Warren, C., McGraw, A. P., & Van Boven, L. (2011). Values and preferences: Defining preference construction. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2, 193–205.
- Andrade, E., & Van Boven, L. (2010). Feelings not foregone: When people underestimate the affective impact of inaction. Psychological Science, 21, 706–711.
- Van Boven, L., & Campbell, M., & Gilovich, T. (2010). Stigmatizing materialism: On stereotypes and impressions of materialistic versus experiential pursuits. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 551-563.
- Van Boven, L., Kane, J., McGraw, A. P., & Dale, J. (2010). Feeling close: Emotional intensity reduces perceived psychological distance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 872–885.
- Oskarsson, A., Van Boven, L., Hastie, R., & McClelland, G. (2009). What’s next? Judging sequences of binary events. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 262–285.
- Van Boven, L., White, K., & Huber, M. (2009). Immediacy bias in emotion perception: Current emotions seem more intense than previous emotions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 368–382.
- Van Boven, L., & Johnson-Graham, L. (2007). Varieties of happiness experience: Review of Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness.” Journal of Positive Psychology, 2, 269–270.
- Van Boven, L., & Ashworth, L. (2007). Looking forward, looking back: Anticipation is more evocative than retrospection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 289–300.
- Savitsky, K., Van Boven, L., Epley, N., & Wight, W. (2005). The unpacking effect in allocations of responsibility for group tasks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 447–457.
- Van Boven, L. (2005). Experientialism, materialism, and the hedonics of consumption. Review of General Psychology, 9, 132–142.
- Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., & Dunning, D. (2005). The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 96, 130–141.
- Epley, N., Keysar, B., Van Boven, L., & Gilovich, T. (2004). Perspective taking as egocentric anchoring and adjustment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 327–339.
- Epley, N., Van Boven, L., & Caruso, E. (2004). Balance where it really counts: What’s right about problem-seeking social psychology. Commentary on Krueger & Funder, “Toward a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences, and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 333.
- Kruger, J., Wirtz, D., Van Boven, L., & Altermatt, W. (2004). The effort heuristic. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 91–98.
- Van Boven, L., & Gilovich, T. (2003). To do or to have? That is the question. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1193–1202.
- Van Boven, L., & Thompson, L. (2003). A look into the mind of the negotiator: Mental models in negotiation. Group Processes and Interpersonal Relations, 6, 387–404.
- Nadler, J., Thomspon, L., & Van Boven, L. (2003). Learning negotiation skills: Four models of knowledge creation and transfer. Management Science, 49, 529–540.
- Van Boven, L., & Epley, N. (2003). The unpacking effect in evaluative judgments: When the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 263–269
- Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2003). Projection of transient drive states. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1159–1168.
- Van Boven, L., Gilovich, T., & Medvec, V. (2003). The illusion of transparency in negotiations. Negotiation Journal, 19, 117–131.
- Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., & Dunning, D. (2003). Mispredicting the endowment effect: Underestimation of owners’ selling prices by “buyer’s agents.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 51, 351–365.
- Van Boven, L., White, K., Kamada, A., & Gilovich, T. (2003). Intuitions about situational correction in self and others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 249–258.
- Gibbons, R. & Van Boven, L. (2001). Contingent social utility in the Prisoners’ Dilemma. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45, 1–17.
- Van Boven, L. (2000). Political correctness and pluralistic ignorance: The case of affirmative action. Political Psychology, 21, 267–276.
- Van Boven, L., Dunning, D., & Loewenstein, G. (2000). Egocentric empathy gaps between owners and buyers: Misperceptions of the endowment effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 66–76.
- Van Boven, L., Kruger, J., Savitsky, K., & Gilovich, T. (2000). When social worlds collide: Overconfidence in the multiple audience dilemma. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 620–629.
- Van Boven, L., Kamada, A., & Gilovich, T. (1999). The perceiver as perceived: Everyday intuitions about the correspondence bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1188–1199.
Book Chapters
- Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., Dunning, D., & Norgren, L. (2013). Changing places: A dual judgment model of empathy gaps in emotional perspective taking. In J. M. Olson & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol.48, 118–171. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- Van Boven, L., Westfall, J. A., & Travers, M. W., & McClelland, G. (2013). Judgment and Decision Making. In D. E. Carlston (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition (pp. 375–401). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Westfall, J., & Van Boven, L. (2013). Endowment effect. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. SAGE Publications Inc.
- Judd, C. M., Van Boven, D., Huber, M., & Nunes, A. (2012). Measuring everyday perceptions of the distribution of the American Electorate. In J. Aldrich & K. McGraw (Eds.), Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies (pp. 195–219). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Huber, M., Van Boven, L., & McGraw, A. P. (2011). Donate different: External and internal influences on emotion based donation decisions. In D. M. Oppenheimer & C. Y. Olivola (Eds.), The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity (pp. 179–199). New York: Psychology Press.
- Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2005). Cross-situational projection. In M. Alicke, J. Krueger, & D. Dunning (Eds.), Self and Social Judgment (pp. 43–64). Psychology Press.
- Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, D. (2005). Empathy gaps in emotional perspective taking. In S. Hodges, & B. Malle (Eds.), Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others (pp. 284–297). Guilford Press.
- Van Boven, L. (2009). Perspective taking. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Affective Sciences (pp. 305–306). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Van Boven, L., Kane, J., & McGraw, A. P. (2008). Temporally asymmetric constraints on mental simulation: Retrospection is more constrained than prospection. In K. Markman, W. Klein, & S. Shur (Eds.), The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation (pp. 131–149). Psychology Press
- Van Boven, L. (2007). Availability. In R. F. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Van Boven, L. (2007). Naïve realism. In R. F. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Van Boven, L., & Kane, J. (2006). Predicting feelings versus choices. In E. C. Chang & L. J. Sanna (Eds.), Judgment over time: The interplay of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (pp. 67–81). Oxford University Press.
- Dunning, D., Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2001). Egocentric empathy gaps in social interaction and exchange. In E. Lawler, M. Macey, S. Thye, & H. Walker (Eds.), Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 18 (pp. 65–97).
Other (Popular Press Articles and Commentaries)
- Van Boven, L., Montal-Rosenberg, R., & Sherman, D. (January 22, 2020). The bipartisan misuse of facts: Liberals and conservatives both misuse facts. But there are ways to stop that impulse. Los Angeles Times, A-9.
- Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. (July 29, 2018). Polarizing climate policy: Republicans and Democrats differ considerably less than people think. The New York Times: Grey Matter, p. SR2.
- Van Boven, L., & Slovic, P. (January 28, 2018). The psychological trick behind Trump’s misleading terror statistics. Politico Magazine.
- Sherman, D., & Van Boven, L. (25 September 2014). Similarities between Democrats, Republicans make them so different. Los Angeles Times.
- Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. (4 November 2014). Election 2014: Only the polarized are actually polarized. The New York Times.
- Van Boven, L., Judd, C. M., & Travers, M. (30 June 2013). Do you wanna know a secret? The New York Times, p. SR12.
- Colorado Matters (Friday 17 February 2012). Why do people chicken out? Colorado Public Radio. [Radio interview.]
- Van Boven, L. (May 16, 2012). Political polarization. Academic minute. Northeast Public Radio. [Radio interview]
- Van Boven, L. (Sunday, 11 March 2012). Who says we’re polarized? In general Americans are closer politically than we think. Denver Post: Perspective.
- Van Boven, L. (2009). The Professor and the Situation: How B-School and Psychology cultures shape research questions and practice. SPSP Dialogue, Fall 2009.