Publications

Please email me (eric.j.pedersen@colorado.edu) if any links or broken or you cannot access an article, I'd be happy to send you a copy.

2022

• Forster, D. E., Pedersen, E. J., McCullough, M. E., & Lieberman, D. (2022). Evaluating benefits, costs, and social value as predictors of gratitude. Psychological Science. 
• Flores, A., Cole, J. C., Dickert, S., Eom, K., Jiga-Boy, G. M., Kogut, T., Loria, R. N., 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 containment policies across countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Ramos, J., Grant, M. D., Dickert, S., Eom, K., Flores, A., Jiga-Boy, G. M., Kogut, T., Mayorga, M., Pedersen, E. J., Pereira, B., Rubaltelli, E., Sherman, D. K., Slovic, P., Västfjäll, D., & Van Boven, L. (2022). Structured reflection increases intentions to reduce others’ health risks during Covid-19. PNAS Nexus.
• Slivjak, E. T., Pedersen, E. J., & Arch, J. J. (2022). Evaluating the efficacy of common humanity-enhanced exposure therapy for socially anxious young adults. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.

2021

• 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.
• Correll, J., Mellinger, C., & Pedersen, E. J. (2021). Flexible approaches for estimating partial eta squared in mixed-effects models with crossed random factors. Behavior Research Methods.

2020

• Pedersen, E. J., McAuliffe, W. H. B., Shah, Y., Tanaka, H., Ohtsubo, Y., & McCullough, M. E. (2020) When and why do third parties punish outside of the lab? A cross-cultural recall study. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

• Hone, S. E., McCauley, T. G., Pedersen, E. J., & McCullough, M.E. (2020) The sex premium in religiously motivated moral judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Pscyhology.

2019

• McAuliffe, W. H. B., Forster, D. E., Pedersen, E. J., & McCullough, M.E. (2019). Does cooperation in the laboratory reflect the operation of a broad trait? European Journal of Personality.
• Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Pedersen, E. J., Ferrari, P. F., & Parr, L. A. (2019). Visual preferences for direct‐gaze faces in infant macaques (Macaca mulatta) with limited face exposure. Developmental psychobiology, 61(2), 228-238.

2018

• McAuliffe, W. H. B., Forster, D. E., Pedersen, E. J., & McCullough, M.E. (2018). Experience with anonymous interactions reduces intuitive cooperation. Nature Human Behaviour.
• Pedersen, E. J., McAuliffe, W. H. B., & McCullough, M. E. (2018). The unresponsive avenger: More evidence that disinterested third parties do not punish altruistically.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. PDF
• Meltzoff, A.N., Murray, L., Simpson, E., Heimann, M., Nagy, E., Nadel, J., Pedersen, E.J., Brooks, R., Messinger, D.S., Pascalis, L.D. and Subiaul, F. (2018). Eliciting imitation in early infancy. Developmental Science.

2017

• Smith, A., Pedersen, E. J., Forster, D. E., McCullough, M. E., & Lieberman, D. (2017). Cooperation: The roles of interpersonal value and gratitude. Evolution and Human Behavior. PDF
• Meltzoff, A.N., Murray, L., Simpson, E., Heimann, M., Nagy, E., Nadel, J., Pedersen, E.J., Brooks, R., Messinger, D.S., Pascalis, L.D. and Subiaul, F. (2017). Re‐examination of Oostenbroek et al.(2016): Evidence for neonatal imitation of tongue protrusion. Developmental Science.
• Paukner, A., Pedersen, E. J., & Simpson, E. A. (2017). Testing the arousal hypothesis of neonatal imitation in infant rhesus macaques. PLoS ONE.
• Forster, D. E., Pedersen, E. J., Smith, A., Lieberman, D., & McCullough, M. E. (2017). Benefit valuation predicts gratitude. Evolution and Human Behavior.

2015

• Carter, E. C., Pedersen, E. J., & McCullough, M. E. (2015). Reassessing impulsive choice: Human decision-making is more optimal in a foraging task than in a self-control task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 95.

2014

• Pedersen, E. J., Forster, D. E., & McCullough, M. E. (2014). Life history, code of honor, and emotional responses to inequality in an economic game. Emotion, 14, 920-929.
• McCullough, M. E., Pedersen, E. J., Tabak, B. A., & Carter, E. C. (2014). Conciliatory gestures promote forgiveness and reduce anger in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 12111-12116.
• Tabak, B. A., McCullough, M. E., Carver, C. S., Pedersen, E. J., & Cuccaro, M. L. (2014). Variation in oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms is associated with emotional and behavioral reactions to betrayal. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 810-816.

2013

• Pedersen, E. J., Kurzban, R., & McCullough, M. E. (2013). Do humans really punish altruistically? A closer look. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1758).
• Pedersen, E. J., Smith, A., & Lieberman, D. (2013). Evolutionary psychology. In R. J. McGee & R. L. Warms (Eds.) Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, (pp. 246-250). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• McCullough, M. E. & Pedersen, E. J. (2013). The evolution of generosity: How natural selection builds devices for benefit delivery. Social Research, 80, 387-410.
• McCullough, M. E., Pedersen, E. J., Schroder, J., Tabak, B. A., & Carver, C. S. (2013). Harsh childhood environmental characteristics predict exploitation and retaliation in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ciences, 280(1750).

2012

• Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L., Pedersen, E. J., & Tooby, J. (2012). What are punishment and reputation for? PLoS ONE 7(9): e45662.