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2023 and in press
Heycke, T., Aust, F., Banaji, M. R., Cone, J., Van Dessel, P., ..., Ferguson, M. J., ..., & De Houwer, J. (conditionally accepted). Of two minds: A registered replication. Psychological Science.
Shen, X., Maiolatesi, T., Mann, T., & Ferguson, M. J. (2022). The relation between updated implicit impressions and the trust game. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Carlson, R., Bigman, Y., Gray K., Ferguson, M. J., & Crockett, M. (2022). Inferred motives and moral judgments of action and character. Nature Reviews.
Shen, X., & Ferguson, M. J. (2022). Are we stuck on the face? New evidence for when and how people update face-based implicit impressions. To appear in E. Balcetis & G. Moskowitz (Eds.), Festschrift in honor of James S. Uleman. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kurdi, B., Hussey, I., Stahl, C., Hughes, S., Unkelbach, C., Ferguson, M. J., & Corneille, O. (2022). Unaware Attitude Formation in the Surveillance Task? Revisiting the Findings of Moran et al. (2021). International Review of Social Psychology, 35(1): 6, 1–16. pdf
Ruisch, B., & Ferguson, M. J. (2022). Changes in Americans’ Prejudice During the Presidency of Donald Trump. Nature Human Behavior.
Katz, J., Mann, T. C., Ferguson, M. J., Goncalo, J., & Shen, X. (2022). Implicit impressions of creative people. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
2021
Kurdi, B., Mann, T. C., & Ferguson, M. J. (2021). Persuading the implicit mind: Changing negative implicit evaluations with an 8-minute podcast. Social Psychological and Personality Science. pdf
Shen, X., & Ferguson, M. J. (2021). How resistant are implicit impressions of facial trustworthiness? When new evidence leads to durable updating. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Bentley, J., Davidai, S., Bloomfield, R. J., & Ferguson, M. J. (2021). Identifying bias through post-report interactions. The Accounting Review, 96 (5): 53–78.
Ferguson, M. J., & Cone, J. (2021). The role of intentionality in priming. Psychological Inquiry,, pp. 38-40.
Cone, J. Flaharty, & Ferguson, M. J. (2021). The long-term effects of new evidence on implicit impressions of other people. Psychological Science, 32, 173-188. pdf
Melnikoff, D., Stillman, P., Mann, T., Shen, X., & Ferguson, M. J. (2021). Tracking prejudice: A mouse-tracking measure of evaluative conflict predicts discriminatory behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 266-272. pdf
2020
Stillman, P., Krajbich, & Ferguson, M. J. (2020). Using dynamic monitoring of choices to predict and understand risk preferences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. pdf
Gruber, J., Mendle, J., Akinola, M., … Ferguson, M. J., …Williams, L. A. (2020). The Future of Women in Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. pdf
Carter, T., Pandey, G., Ferguson, M. J., Hassin, R. R, & Bolger, N. (2020). Has the effect of the American flag on political attitudes declined over time? A case study of the historical context of priming effects. Social Cognition.
Kurdi, B., Krosch, A. R., & Ferguson, M. J. (2020). Implicit evaluations of moral agents reflect intent and outcome. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Advance online publication. pdf
Shen, X., Mann, T. C., & Ferguson, M. J. (2020). Beware a dishonest face? How we update our implicit impressions of untrustworthy faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86,103888. pdf
2019
Cone, J., Flaharty, K., & Ferguson, M. J. (2019). Believability of evidence matters for correcting social impressions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., Mann, T. C., Cone, J., & Shen, X. (2019). When and How Implicit Impressions Can Be Updated. Current Directions in Psychological Science. pdf
Mann, T. C., Cone, J., Ferguson, M. J., & Heggeseth, B. (2019). Updating Implicit Impressions: New Evidence on Intentionality and the Affect Misattribution Procedure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf
Stillman, P., & Ferguson, M. J. (2019). Decisional Conflict Predicts Impatience. Journal for the Association of Consumer Research. pdf
2018
Stillman, P., Shen, X., & Ferguson, M. J. (2018). How Mouse-tracking Can Advance Social Cognitive Theory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. pdf
Ruisch, B., Cone, J., Shen, X., & Ferguson, M. J. (2018). Dual and single-process perspectives on the role of threat detection in evaluation. Psychological Inquiry. pdf
Atir, S., & Ferguson, M. J. (August 13, 2018). Do you use someone's first name or last? The answer speaks volumes. Wall Street Journal. link
Atir, S., & Ferguson, M. J. (2018). How Gender Determines the Way We Speak About Professionals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. pdf
2017
Stillman, P., & Ferguson, M. J. (2017). Devil versus angel: when do they shift into action in the face of temptation? The Conversation, Chicago Tribune, and other outlets. link
Stillman, P., Medvedev, D., & Ferguson, M. J. (2017). Resisting temptation: Tracking how self-control conflicts are successfully resolved in real time. Psychological Science. pdf
Cone, J., Mann, T. C., & Ferguson, M. J. (2017). Can we change our implicit minds? New evidence for how, when, and why implicit impressions can be rapidly revised. Advances in Social Psychology. pdf
Mann, T., & Ferguson, M. J. (2017). Reversing implicit first impressions through reinterpretation after a two-day delay. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 122–127. pdf
2016
Critcher, C., & Ferguson, M. J. (2016). “Whether I like it or not, it’s important”: Implicit importance of means predicts self-regulatory persistence and success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 818-839. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Critcher, C. (2016, October 27). How To Tell if Someone Will Succeed. Time Magazine, The Conversation, and other outlets. link
Ferguson, M. J. (2016, April 13). Is it too late for Trump and Clinton to become more likable? Scientific American, Newsweek, The Conversation, and other outlets. link
Mann, T. C., & Ferguson, M. J. (2016, June 1). How does reinterpretation influence our first impressions? Keller Center for Research. link
2015
Mann, T., & Ferguson, M. J. (2015). Can we undo our first impressions? The role of reinterpretation in reversing implicit evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 823-849. pdf interactive figures
* Winner, Best Paper Award, ISCON 2016
Cone, J., & Ferguson, M. J. (2015). He Did What? The role of diagnosticity in revising implicit evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 37-57. pdf
Mann, T., Cone, J., & Ferguson, M. J. (2015). Social-psychological evidence for the effective updating of implicit attitudes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 32-33. link
2014
Ferguson, M. J., Carter, T. J., & Hassin, R. R. (2014). Commentary on the attempt to replicate the effect of the American flag on increased Republican attitudes. Social Psychology, 45, 301-302. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Mann, T. (2014). Effects of evaluation: An example of robust ‘social’ priming. Social Cognition, 32 (Supplement), 68-87. pdf
Critcher, C. R., & Ferguson, M. J. (2014). The cost of keeping it hidden: Decomposing concealment reveals what makes it depleting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 721-735. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., Mann, T. C., & Wojnowicz, M. (2014). Rethinking duality: Criticisms and ways forward. Invited chapter in J. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual process theories of the social mind (pp. 578-594). Guilford Press. pdf
2013
Fukukura, J., Helzer, E., & Ferguson, M. J. (2013). Prospection by any other name? A reply to Seligmen et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(2), 146-150. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Cone, J. (2013). The mind in motivation: A social cognitive perspective on the role of consciousness in goal pursuit. Invited chapter in D. Carlston’s (Ed.) Handbook of social cognition (pp. 476-496). Oxford University Press. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Porter, S. (2013). An examination of categorization processes in organizations: The root of intergroup bias and a route to prejudice reduction. Invited chapter in Q. Robertson’s (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Diversity and Work (pp. 98-114). Oxford University Press. pdf
Fukukura, J., Ferguson, M. J., & Fujita, K. (2013). Psychological distance can improve decision making under information overload via gist memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 658-665. pdf
2012
Ferguson, M. J., & Fukukura, J. (2012). Likes and dislikes: A social cognitive perspective. Invited chapter in S. Fiske, & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (pp. 165-189). Los Angeles: SAGE. pdf
2011
Natanzon, M., & Ferguson, M. J. (2011). Goal pursuit is grounded: The link between forward movement and achievement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 379-382. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Wojnowicz, M. (2011). The when and how of evaluative readiness: A social cognitive neuroscience perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Compass, 5, 1018-1038. pdf
Critcher, C., & Ferguson, M. J. (2011). Affect in the abstract: Abstract mindsets promote sensitivity to affect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1185-1191. pdf
Carter, T., Ferguson, M. J., Hassin, R. R. (2011). A single exposure to the American flag shifts support toward Republicanism up to 8 months later. Psychological Science, 22, 1011-1018. pdf
Carter, T., Ferguson, M. J., & Hassin, R. R. (2011). Implicit nationalism as implicit system justification: The case of the United States. Social Cognition, 29, 341-359. pdf
Moore, S., Ferguson, M. J., & Chartrand, T. (2011). Affect in the aftermath: Effects of goal pursuit on implicit evaluations. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 453-465. pdf
2010
Ferguson, M. J., & Porter, S. C. (2010). What is implicit about goal pursuit? Invited chapter in B. Gawronski & K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition. New York: Guilford Press. pdf
Swim, J. K., Eyssell, K. M., Quinlivan, E., & Ferguson, M. J. (2010). Self-silencing to sexism. Journal of Social Issues, 66, 493-507. pdf
2009
Hassin, R., Ferguson, M. J., Kardosh, R., Porter, S., & Carter, T. (2009). Précis to implicit nationalism. Annals of New York Academy of Science, 1167, 135-145. pdf
Ferguson, M. J. & Zayas, V. (2009). Nonconscious evaluation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 362-366. pdf
Wojnowicz, M., Ferguson, M. J, Dale, R., & Spivey, M. (2009). The self-organization of deliberate evaluations. Psychological Science, 20, 1428-1435. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., Carter, T. C., & Hassin, R. R. (2009). On the automaticity of American nationalism. Invited chapter in J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (Eds.), Social and psychological bases of ideology and system justification. New York: Oxford University Press. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Porter, S. C. (2009). Goals and attitudes: A social cognitive perspective. Invited chapter to appear in G. Moscowitz & H. Grant (Eds.), The Psychology of Goals. New York: Guilford Press. link
2008
Ferguson, M. J. (2008). On becoming ready to pursue a goal you don’t know you have: Effects of nonconscious goals on evaluative readiness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1268-1294. pdf
McCulloch, K.C., Ferguson, M. J., Kawada, C., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Taking a closer look: On the operation of nonconscious impression formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 514-523. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Evaluative readiness: The motivational nature of automatic evaluation. Invited chapter in A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. Psychology Press. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., Hassin, R., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Implicit motivation: Past, present, and future. Invited chapter in J. Shah and W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of motivation science. NY: Guilford. pdf
2007
Hassin, R. R., Ferguson, M. J., Shidlovsky, D., & Gross, T. (2007). Waved by invisible flags: The effects of subliminal exposure to flags on political thought and behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 19757-19761. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Hassin, R. R. (2007). On the automatic association between America and aggression in news-watchers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1632-1647. pdf
Ferguson, M. J. (2007). On the automatic evaluation of end-states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 596-611. pdf
Fishbach, A., & Ferguson, M. J. (2007). The goal construct in social psychology. Invited chapter in A. W. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins & (Eds.). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (pp. 490-515). Volume II. New York: Guilford Press. pdf
Ferguson, M. J. (2007). The automaticity of evaluation. Invited chapter in J. A. Bargh (Ed.), Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The automaticity of higher mental processes (pp. 219-264). Psychology Press. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2007). Beyond the attitude object: How automatic attitudes spring from object-centered-contexts. Invited chapter in B. Wittenbrink and N. Schwarz (Eds.), Implicit measures of attitudes (pp. 216-246). NY: Guilford. pdf
2005
Ferguson, M. J., Bargh, J. A., & Nayak, D. A. (2005). After-affects: How automatic evaluations influence the interpretation of unrelated, subsequent stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 182-191. pdf
Hassin, R., Aarts, H., & Ferguson, M. J. (2005). Automatic goal inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 129-140. pdf
2004
Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). Liking is for doing: Effects of goal-pursuit on automatic evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 557-572. pdf
Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). How social perception automatically influences behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 33-39. pdf
2003
Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2003). The constructive nature of automatic evaluation. In J. Musch & K. C. Klauer (Eds.), The psychology of evaluation: Affective processes in cognition and emotion (pp.169-188). NJ: Erlbaum.
Bayer, U., Ferguson, M. J., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2003). Voluntary action from the perspective of social-personality psychology. In S. Maasen & W. Prinz (Eds.), Voluntary action: Brains, minds, and sociality (pp. 86-107). London: Oxford University Press. pdf
1999 - 2002
Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2002). Sensitivity and flexibility: Exploring the knowledge function of automatic attitudes. In L. F. Barrett & P. Salovey (Eds.), The wisdom in feeling: Psychological processes in emotional intelligence (pp. 383-405). NY: Guilford Press. link
Swim, J. K., Hyers, L. L., Cohen, L. L., & Ferguson, M. J. (2001). Everyday sexism: Evidence for its incidence, nature, and psychological impact from three daily diary studies. Journal of Social Issues, 57, 31-53. pdf
Bargh, J. A., & Ferguson, M. J. (2000). Beyond behaviorism: On the automaticity of higher mental processes. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 925-945. pdf
Trope, Y., & Ferguson, M. J. (2000). How and when preferences influence inferences. In J. Bargh & D. K. Apsley (Eds.), Unraveling the complexities of social life: A festschrift in honor of Robert B. Zajonc. Washington, D.C.: APA Press. link
Trope, Y., Ferguson, M., & Raghunatan, R. (2000). Mood as a resource in processing self-relevant information. In J. Forgas (Ed.), Handbook of affect and cognition (Vol. 1). Guilford Press. link
Swim, J. K., Ferguson, M. J., & Hyers, L. L. (1999). Avoiding stigma by association: Subtle prejudice against lesbians as a form of social distancing. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 61-68. pdf