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In press
Britton, E.M., Laurin, K., Grossmann, I., Dorfman, A., Oakes, H., & Scholer, A. A. (in press). The
dynamics of self-control conflicts in daily life in predicting self-control success and perceived
self-regulatory effectiveness. Collabra.
2023
Abedin, E., Ferreira, M., Reitmann, R., Cheong, M., Grossmann, I., & Alfano, M. (2023). Exploring
intellectual humility through the lens of artificial intelligence: Top terms, features and a
predictive model. Acta Psychologica.
Grossmann, I. (2023). Transparency and Inclusion in Psychological Inquiry: Reflecting on the Past,
Embracing the Present, and Building an Inclusive Future. Psychological Inquiry. [link]
Grossmann, I., Feinberg, M. Parker, D.C., Christakis, N., Tetlock, P.E. & Cunningham, W.A. (2023). AI and the transformation of social science research. Science. [link]
Hutcherson, C., Sharpinskyi, C., Varnum, M. E. W., Rotella, A. M., Wormley, A., Tay, L., &
Grossmann, I.* (2023). On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of
psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change. American Psychologist.
Weidmann, R., Chopik, W. J., Ackerman, R. A., Allroggen, M., Bianchi, E. C., Brecheen, C., Campbell,
W. K., Gerlach, T. M., Geukes, K., Grijalva, E., Grossmann, I.... & Back M. (2023). Age
differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000
participants. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Grossmann, I. Meyers, E., & Eibach, R. E. (2023). The wisdom in the story: Clarifying assumptions
about radical uncertainty and reasonableness in narrative judgment. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences. [link]
The Forecasting Collaborative, Grossmann, I.*, Rotella, A. M., Hutcherson, C., Sharpinskyi, C.,
Varnum, M. E. W., PhD, Achter, S., ... Wilkening, T. (2023). Insights into accuracy of social
scientists' forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour. [link]
2022
Bialek, M. & Grossmann, I. (2022). Social bias insights concern judgments rather than real-world decisions. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. [commentary] [link]
Dorfman, A., Moscovitch, D. A., Chopik, W. J., & Grossmann, I. (2022). None the wiser: How adversity type and self-distancing impact change in wisdom following adversity. European Journal of Personality. [link]
Dorfman, A., Moscovitch, D. & Grossmann, I. (2022). Pathways from adversity to wisdom. In F. J. Infurna & E. Jayawickreme (Eds.), Redesigning Research on Post-Traumatic Growth. New York: Oxford University Press.
Grossmann, I. (2022). Transparency and Inclusion in Psychological Inquiry: Reflecting on the Past,
Embracing the Present, and Building an Inclusive Future. Psychological Inquiry. [link]
Grossmann, I., Twardus, O., Varnum, M. E. W., Jayawickreme, E., & McLevey, J. (2022). Expert predictions of societal change: Insights from the World after COVID project. American Psychologist. [link]
Pick. C., Ko, A., Kenrick, D. Wiezel, A., Wormley, A., E., Awad, E., [...] Grossmann, I. [...] &
Varnum, M. E. W. (2022). Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in
two waves. Scientific Data. [link]
Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Wormley, A. S., Wiezel, A., Kenrick, D. T., Al-Shawaf, L., [...] Grossmann, I.
[...] & Varnum, M. E. W. (2022). Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42
countries during a global pandemic. Evolution and Human Behavior. [link]
Porter, T., Elnakouri, A., Meyers, E. A., Shibayama, T., Jayawickreme, E. & Grossmann, I.* (2022).
Predictors and Consequences of Intellectual Humility. Nature Reviews Psychology. [link]
2021
Choi, E., Farb, N. A., Pogrebtsova, E., Gruman, J., & Grossmann, I.* (2021). What do people mean
when they talk about mindfulness? Clinical Psychology Review. [link]
Dorfman, A., Moscovitch, D. & Grossmann, I. (2021). Pathways from adversity to wisdom. In F. J.
Infurna & E. Jayawickreme (Eds.), Redesigning Research on Post-Traumatic Growth. (pp. 259-
279). New York: Oxford University Press. [link]
Self-distancing promotes positive emotional change after adversity: Evidence from a micro-longitudinal field experiment. Journal of Personality. 2021; 89: 132– 144. [link]
, , , . (2021)Grossmann, I., Dorfman, A., Oakes, H., Santos, H. C., Vohs, K. D., & Scholer, A. A. (2021). Training for wisdom: The distanced self-reflection diary method. Psychological Science. [link]
2020
Grossmann, I., Eibach, R. P., Koyama, J., & Sahi, Q. (2020). A dual folk standard framework for sound judgment: Rationality vs. Reasonableness. Science Advances, 6(2), eaaz0289. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0289 [link]
Grossmann, I., Dorfman, A., & Oakes, H. (2020). Wisdom is a social-ecological rather than person-centric phenomenon. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20, 66-71. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.010 [link]
Huynh, A., & Grossmann, I. (2020, September 26). Rising ethnic diversity in the United States accompanies shifts toward an individualistic culture. Social Psychological and Personality Science. [link]
Grossmann, I., Weststrate, N. M., Ardelt, M., Brienza, J. P., Dong, M., Ferrari, M., Fournier, M. A., Hu, C. S., Nusbaum, H. C. & Vervaeke, J. (2020). Wisdom science in a polarized world: Knowns and unknowns. Psychological Inquiry, 31(2), 103-133. doi: 10.1080/1047840X.2020.1750917
[target article] [link]
Grossmann, I., Weststrate, N. M., Ferrari, M., & Brienza, J. P. (2020). A common model is essential for a cumulative science of wisdom. Psychological Inquiry, 31(2), 185-194. doi: 10.1080/1047840X.2020.1750920 [response to commentaries] [link]
Huynh, A. C. & Grossmann, I. (2020). A pathway to wisdom-focused education. Journal of Moral Education, 49, 9-29. doi: 10.1080/03057240.2018.1496903 [link]
Ko, A., Pick, C., Kwon, J. Y., Barlev, M., Krems, J. A., Varnum, M. E. W., Neel, R., Peysha, M., Boonyasiriwat, W., Brandstätter, E., Vasquez, J. E. C., Galindo, O., Pereira de Felipe, R., Crispim, A. C., Fetvadjiev, V. H., Fischer, R., Karl, J., David, D., Galdi, S., Gomez-Jacinto, L., Grossmann, I. ... & Kenrick, D. T. (2020). Family matters: Rethinking the psychology of human social motivation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 173-201. doi: 10.1177/1745691619872986 [link]
Kung, F. Y. H. & Grossmann, I. (2020). Wisdom across cultures. In O. Braddick (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.586 [link]
Na, J.*, Grossmann, I.*, Varnum, M. E.W., Karasawa, M., Cho, Y., Kitayama, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2019). Culture and personality revisited: Behavioral profiles and within-person stability in interdependent (vs. independent) social orientation and holistic (vs. analytic) cognitive style. Journal of Personality, 88(5), 908-924. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12536 [link] *corresponding authors
Peetz, J. & Grossmann, I. (2020). Wise reasoning about the future is associated with adaptive interpersonal feelings after relational challenges. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/1948550620931985 [link]
Prentice, L., Klackl, J., Agroskin, D., Grossmann, I., Alexandrov, Y., Apanovich, V., Bezdenezhnykh, B., & Jonas, E. (2020). Reaction to norm transgressions and Islamization threat in culturally tight and loose contexts: A case study of Germany vs. Russia. Culture & Brain, 8, 46–69. doi: 10.1007/s40167-018-0073-3 [link]
2019
Dorfman, A. & Grossmann, I. (2019). Social incentives. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford, Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1834-1 [link]
Dorfman, A., Oakes, H., Santos, H. C. & Grossmann, I. (2019). Self‐distancing promotes positive emotional change after adversity: Evidence from a micro‐longitudinal field experiment. Journal of Personality. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12534 [link]
Ferrari, M., Grossmann, I., Grimm, S., & Staffel, J. (2019). A Process Model of Wisdom from Adversity. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 5, 471-473. doi: 10.1007/s10790-019-09711-7 [link]
Grossmann, I. & Dorfman, A. (2019). Wisdom in an uncertain world. In R. Sternberg, H. Nusbaum, & J. Glück (Eds.). Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems (pp. 51-79). London: Palgrave-Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20287-3_3 [link]
Grossmann, I., Oakes, H. & Santos, H. C. (2019). Wise reasoning benefits from emodiversity, irrespective of emotional intensity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(5), 805-823. doi: 10.1037/xge0000543 [link]
Huh, M., Grossmann, I., & Friedman, O. (2019). Children show reduced trust in confident advisors who are partially-informed. Cognitive Development, 50, 49-55. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.02.003 [link]
Santos, H. C., Varnum, M. E.W. & Grossmann, I. (2019). Culture, cognition and cultural change in social class.In W. H. Brekhus & G. Ingatow (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology (pp. 1-19). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190273385.013.15 [link]
Varnum, M. E. W. & Grossmann, I. (2019). The wealth -> life history -> innovation of the industrial revolution is largely inconsistent with empirical data. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e212. [commentary] [link]
2018
Brienza, J. P., Kung, F., Santos, H. C., Bobocel, D. R, & Grossmann, I. (2018). Wisdom, bias, and balance: Toward a process-sensitive measurement of wisdom-related cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(6), 1093-1126. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000171 [link]
De Freitas, J., Cicara, M., Grossmann, I. & Schegel, R. (2018). Moral goodness is the essence of personal identity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(9), 739-740. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.05.006 [link]
De Freitas, J., Sarkissian, H., Newman, G. E., Grossmann, I., De Brigard, F, Luco, A., & Knobe, J. (2018). Consistent Belief in a Good True Self in Misanthropes and Three Interdependent Cultures. Cognitive Science, 42, 134-160. [link]
Elnakouri, A., McGregor, I., & Grossmann, I. (2018). Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e201. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18001723 [commentary] [link]
Grossmann, I. (2018). Dialecticism across the lifespan. In J. Spencer-Rogers & K. Peng (Eds.), The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition: Contradiction, Change, and Holism (pp. 135-180). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780199348541.003.0005 [link]
Grossmann, I. & Brienza, J. P. (2018). The strengths of wisdom provide unique contribution to improved leadership, sustainability, inequality, Gross National Happiness, and civic discourse in the face of contemporary world problems. Journal of Intelligence, 6(22). doi: 10.3390/jintelligence6020022 [link]
2017
Brienza, J. P. & Grossmann, I. (2017). Social class and wise reasoning about interpersonal conflicts across regions, persons and situations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 (1869). [link]
Grossmann, I. (2017). Wisdom in context. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(2), 233–257. [docx]
Grossmann, I. & Ellsworth, P.C. (2017). What are mixed emotions and what conditions foster them? Life-span experiences, culture and social awareness. Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, 15, 1-5. [docx]
Grossmann, I. (2017). Wisdom and how to cultivate it: Review of emerging evidence for a constructivist model of wise thinking. European Psychologist, 22(4), 233–246. doi: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000302. [link]
Grossmann, I. & Varnum, M. E.W. (2017). Divergent life histories and other ecological adaptations: Examples of social class differences in attention, cognition, and attunement to others. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [commentary] doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17000991, e329
Huynh, A. C. & Grossmann, I. (2017). Middle-class ideologies: Norms and historical changes. In R. Rycroft (Ed.), The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. [link]
Kimel, S. Y., Grossmann, I., & Kitayama, S. (2017). Corrigendum to “When gift-giving produces dissonance: Effects of subliminal affiliation priming on choices for one's self versus close others”[Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48 (2012) 1221–1224]. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Santos, H. C., Huynh, A, C., & Grossmann, I. (2017). Wisdom in a complex world: A situated account of wise reasoning and its development. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12341 [link]
Santos, H. C., Huynh, A, C., & Grossmann, I. (2017). Teaching & Learning Guide for: Wisdom in a complex world: A situated account of wise reasoning and its development. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12343
Santos, H. C., Varnum, M. E. W., Grossmann, I. (2017). Global increases in individualism. Psychological Science. [link]
Varnum, M. E. W. & Grossmann, I. (2017). Socio-ecological factors are linked to changes in prevalence of contempt over time. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 40-41 [commentary] doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000881, e250
2016
Grossmann, I., Gerlach, T.M., & Denissen, J.J.A. (2016). Wise reasoning in the face of everyday life challenges. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(7), 611–622. [pdf]
Grossmann, I., Sahdra, B. & Ciarocci, J. (2016). A heart and a mind: Self-distancing facilitates the association between heart rate variability, and wise reasoning. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 10(68). [html]
Grossmann, I. (2016). Wisdom and heart rate. European Heart Journal, 37(44), 3315. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw479
Huynh, A. C., Yang, D. Y. & Grossmann, I. (2016). The value of prospective reasoning for close relationships. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7 (8), 893-902. doi: 10.1177/1948550616660591
Varnum, M. E. W. & Grossmann, I. (2016). Pathogen prevalence is associated with cultural changes in gender equality. Nature Human Behavior, 1(0006). doi:10.1038/s41562-016-0003
2015
Ford, B. Q., Dmitrieva, J. O., Heller, D., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Grossmann, I., Tamir, M., Uchida, Y., Koopmann-Holm, B., Uhrig, M., Floerke, V., Bokhan, T., & Mauss, I. B. (2015). Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1053-1062. [pdf]
Grossmann, I. & Varnum, M. E. W. (2015). Social structure, infectious diseases, disasters, secularism, and cultural change in America. Psychological Science, 26(3), 311-324. [pdf]
Hughes, J., Grossmann, I. & Cohen, A. B. (2015). Tolerating the “doubting Thomas”: How centrality of religious beliefs versus practices influences prejudice against atheists. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1352). [link]
Klein, N., Grossmann, I., Uskul, A., Kraus, A., & Epley, N. (2015). It pays to be nice, but not really nice: Asymmetric reputations from prosociality across 7 countries. Judgment and Decision Making, 10(4), 355-364. [pdf]
2014
Grossmann, I., Karasawa, M., Kan, C. & Kitayama, S. (2014). A cultural perspective on emotional experiences across the lifespan. Emotion, 14(4), 679-692. [pdf]
Grossmann, I. & Kross, E. (2014). Exploring “Solomon’s paradox”: Self-distancing eliminates the self-other asymmetry in wise reasoning about close relations in younger and older adults. Psychological Science, 25(8), 1571-1580. [pdf]
Ross, M., Grossmann, I. & Schryer, E. (2014). Contrary to psychological and popular opinion, there is no compelling evidence that older adults are disproportionately victimized by consumer fraud. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(4), 427-442. [pdf]
2013
Grossmann, I., Na, J., Varnum, M. E. W., Kitayama, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2013). A route to well-being: Intelligence vs. wise reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(3), 944-953. [pdf]
2012
Grossmann, I., Karasawa, M., Izumi, S., Na, J., Varnum, M. E. W., Kitayama, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2012). Aging and wisdom: Culture matters. Psychological Science, 23(10), 1059-1066. [pdf]
2011
Grossmann, I. & Varnum, M.E.W. (2011). Culture, social class, and cognition. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2(1), 81-89. [pdf]
2010
Grossmann, I. & Kross, E. (2010). The impact of culture on adaptive vs. maladaptive self-reflection. Psychological Science, 21(8), 1150-1157. [pdf]
Na, J., Grossmann, I., Varnum, M.E.W., Gonzalez, R., Kitayama, S., & Nisbett, R.E. (2010). When cultural differences are not reducible to individual differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(14), 6192-6197. [pdf]
2008
Varnum, M.E.W., Grossmann, I., Katunar, D., Nisbett, R.E., & Kitayama, S. (2008). Holism in a European cultural context: Differences in cognitive style between Central and East Europeans and Westerners. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 8, 321-333. [pdf]