Selected Publications
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Wiwad, D., Mercier, B., Piff, P. K., Shariff, A. F., & Aknin, L. B. (2020). Recognizing the impact of COVID-19 on the poor alters attitudes towards poverty and inequality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93. 1-8. Study materials, data, R code for analyses, and preregistration available at: https://osf.io/8byzd/.
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Mercier, B., Wiwad, D., Piff, P. K., Aknin, L., Robinson, A. R., & Shariff, A. (2020). Does belief in free will increase support for economic inequality? Collabra: Psychology, 6(1): 1-25 Study materials, data, R code for analyses, and preregistrations available at: https://osf.io/zmygv/
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Wiwad, D., Piff, P. K., Robinson, A. R., Aknin, L., Mercier, B., & Shariff, A. F. (2020). Shifting attributions for poverty motivates opposition to inequality and enhances egalitarianism. Nature Human Behavior, 4, 496-505. Study materials, data, code for analyses, and preregistrations available at: https://osf.io/dkhs2/
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Wiwad, D., Mercier, B., Maraun, M. D., Robinson, A. R., Piff, P. K., Aknin, L., & Shariff, A.F. (2019). The support for economic inequality: Scale development and adjudication. PloS one, 14(6). Study materials, data, code for analyses, and preregistrations available at: https://osf.io/cmzye/
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Mercier, B., Norris, A., & Shariff, A. F., (2018). Muslim mass shooters are perceived as less mentally ill and more motivated by religion. Psychology of Violence, 8(6),772-781. Study materials, data, and code for analyses are available at: https://osf.io/gn4kh/
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Mercier, B., Kramer, S. R., & Shariff, A. F. (2018). Belief in God: Why people believe, and why they don’t. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(4), 263-268.
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Blatz, C. W., & Mercier, B. (2018). False polarization and false moderation: Political opponents overestimate the extremity of each other’s ideologies but underestimate each other’s certainty. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(5), 521-529.