Peer Reviewed

Shen, X., Anderson, R. A., & Pizarro, D. A. (2025). People judge moral anger as a signal of moral character. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 120, 104765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104765

Nair, K., Anderson, R. A., Spelman, T., Mosleh, M., & Kouchaki, M. (2025). Asymmetric polarization: The perception that Republicans pose harm to disadvantaged groups drives Democrats’ greater dislike of Republicans in social contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000495

Tan, L., Anderson, R. A., & Basu, S. (2025). Is an eye truly for an eye? Magnitude differences affect moral praise more than moral blame. Cognition, 256, 106040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106040

Anderson, R. A., Nichols, S., & Pizarro, D. A. (2024). Praise is for actions that are neither expected nor required. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241289833

Anderson, R. A., Heck, I. A., Young, K., Kinzler, K. D. (2023). Development of beliefs about censorship. Cognition, 238, 105500, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105500

Anderson, R. A., Ruisch, B. C., & Pizarro, D. A. (2023). On the highway to Hell: Slippery slope perceptions in judgments of moral character. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221143022

Anderson, R. A., Kamtekar, R., Nichols, S. & Pizarro, D. A. (2021). “False positive” emotions, responsibility, and moral character. Cognition, 214, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104770

Ruisch, B. C., Anderson, R. A., Inbar, Y., & Pizarro, D. A. (2020). A matter of taste: Gustatory sensitivity predicts political ideology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000365

Anderson, R. A., Crockett, M. J., & Pizarro, D. A. (2020). A theory of moral praise. Trends in Cognitive Science, 24(9), 30-39.

Anderson, R. A., & Masicampo, E. J. (2017). Protecting the innocence of youth: Moral sanctity values underlie censorship from young children. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(11), 1503-1518.

Masicampo, E. J., Martin, S. R., & Anderson, R. A. (2014). Understanding and overcoming self-control depletion. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(11), 638-649.

Book Chapters

Kouchaki, M., & Anderson, R. A. (2024). Moral self-views, at the interpersonal level of analysis. In N. Ellemers, S. Pagliaro, & F. van Nunspeet (Eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality. Routledge: NY.

Anderson, R. A., Pizarro, D. A., & Kinzler, K. D. (2018). Reacting to transcendence: The psychology of moral praise. In J. A. Frey & C. Vogler (Eds.) Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives From Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology. Routledge: NY.

Commentaries

Anderson, R. A., Ruisch, B. C., & Pizarro, D. A. (2020). Differentiating between different forms of moral obligations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E57. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002589

Ruisch, B. C., Anderson, R. A., & Pizarro, D. A. (2018). The challenge of accounting for individual differences in folk-economic beliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, E186. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18000523