Publications

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Pre-prints

Pärnamets, P., Alfano, M., Ross, R.M., & Van Bavel, J.J. (submitted). Open-mindedness predicts support for public health measures and disbelief in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pärnamets, P., von Zimmermann, J., Raafat, R., Vogel, G., Hall, L., Chater, N., & Johansson, P. (submitted). Choice blindness and choice-induced preference change in groups.

Robertson, C.E., Pröllochs, N., Schwarzenegger, K., Pärnamets, P., Van Bavel, J.J., & Feuerriegel, S. (Accepted in principle, Registered Report). Negativity drives online news consumption. Nature Human Behavior.

Articles

2022/in-press

Pan, Y., Vieira, J.B., Pärnamets, P., Jangard, S., Cheng, X., Zhang, Y., & Olsson, A. (in press). Psychological well-being is associated with prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of Swedish and Chinese samples. Emotion.

Van Bavel, J.J, Pärnamets, P., Reinero, D.A., & Packer, D. (2022). How neurons, norms, and institutions shape cooperation. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2022.04.004

Pavlovic, T., Azevedo, F., … Pärnamets, P., … Keudel, O. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus, pgac093. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093

Bago, B., Kekecs, Z., Protzko, J., … Pärnamets, P, … Aczel, B. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern, and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5

Harris, E. A., Pärnamets, P., Brady, W. J., Robertson, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2022). The role of generalizability in moral and political psychology. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 45, e19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2100042X

Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., … Pärnamets, P., … Boggio, P. S., (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations. Nature Communications, 13(517). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9

2021

Yi, J., Pärnamets, P., & Olsson, A. (2021). The Face value of Feedback: Facial behavior is shaped by goals and punishment in interactive dyads. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 202159. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202159

Lebedev, A. V., Acar, K., Garzón, B., Almeida, R., Råback, J., Åberg, A., … Pärnamets, P. … & Petrovic, P. (2021). Psychedelic drug use and schizotypy in young adults. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94421-z

Doell*, K.C., Pärnamets*, P., Harris, E.A., Hackel, L.M. & Van Bavel, J.J. (2021). Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences., 42, 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.03.013

Van Bavel, J.J., Harris, E., Pärnamets, P., Rathje, S. Doell, K.C, & Tucker, J.A. (2021) Political psychology in the digital (mis)information age. Social Issues and Policy Review, 15(1), 84-113. https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12077

Falandays, J. B., Spevack, S., Pärnamets, P., & Spivey, M. J. (2021). Decision-making in the human-machine interface. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.624111

2020

Vergoossen, H.P., Pärnamets, P., Renström, E.A. & Gustafsson Sendén, M. (2020). Are new gender-neutral pronouns difficult to process in reading? The case of hen in Swedish. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2967. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.574356

Gollwitzer, A., Martel, C., Brady, W. J., Pärnamets, P., Freedman, I., Knowles, E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2020). Partisan Differences in Physical Distancing Predict Infections and Mortality During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Nature Human Behavior, 4,1186–1197.

Pärnamets, P. & Olsson, A. (2020) Integration of social cues and individual experiences during instrumental avoidance learning. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(9), e1008163. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008163

Pärnamets, P., Espinosa, L. & Olsson A. (2020) Physiological synchrony predicts observational threat learning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2779

Pärnamets*, P., Shuster*, A., Reinero, D. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2020). A value-based framework for understanding cooperation. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420906200

Pärnamets, P., Johansson, P. & Hall, L. (2020) Letting rationalizations out of the box. Behavioral and brain sciences. 43, E41 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1900219X

Van Bavel, J.J., Reinero, D. A., Harris, E., Robertson, C., & Pärnamets, P. (2020). Breaking groupthink: Why scientific identity and norms mitigate ideological epistemology. Psychological Inquiry. 31(1), 66-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1722599

Pärnamets, P., Tagesson, A., & Wallin, A. (2020) Inconsistencies in repeated refugee status decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2176

2019

Pärnamets, P., Reinero, D., Pereira, A., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2019) Identity leadership: Managing perceptions of conflict for collective action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E136.

Strandberg, T., Hall, L., Johansson, P., Björklund, F., & Pärnamets, P. (2019). Correction of Manipulated Responses in the Choice Blindness Paradigm: What are the Predictors?. In Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

2018

Strandberg, T., Sivén, D., Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Pärnamets, P. (2018). False beliefs and confabulation can lead to lasting changes in political attitudes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1382-1399.

Roszko, M., Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Pärnamets, P. (2018). The Phenomenology of Eye Movement Intentions and their Disruption in Goal-Directed Actions. In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1-6). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Pärnamets, P., Granwald, T. & Olsson, A. (2018). Building and Dismantling Trust: From Group Learning to Character Judgments. In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1-6). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Johansson, R., Pärnamets, P., Bjernestedt, A., & Johansson, M. (2018). Pupil dilation tracks the dynamics of mnemonic interference resolution. Scientific Reports, 8, 4826.

Jacot, J. & Pärnamets, P. (2018). GIRL Special Issue Introduction. Synthese, 195(2), 483-490.

2016

Balkenius, C., Cañamero, L., Pärnamets, P., Johansson, B., Butz, M.V., & Olsson, A. (2016). Outline of a sensory-motor perspective on intrinsically moral agents. Adaptive Behavior, 24(5), 306-319.

Sivén, D., Strandberg, T., Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Pärnamets, P. (2016). Lasting political attitude change induced by false feedback about own survey responses. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.) (2016). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Pärnamets, P., Johansson, R., Gidlöf, K. & Wallin, A. (2016). How information availability interacts with visual attention during judgment and decision tasks. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29. 218–231.

2015

Pärnamets, P., Johansson, P., Balkenius, C., Hall, L., Spivey, M.J. & Richardson, D.C. (2015). Biasing moral choices by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(13), 4170-4175.

Pärnamets, P., Hall, L., & Johansson, P. (2015). Memory distortions resulting from a choice blindness task. In D. C. Noelle, et al., (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1823-1828). Austin, TX : Cognitive Science Society.

2014

Pärnamets, P., Balkenius, C. & Richardson, D. C. (2014). Modelling moral choice as a diffusion process dependent on visual fixations. In Bello, P., Guarini, M., McShane, M. & Scassellati, B. (eds.) Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX.

2013

Hall, L., Strandberg, T., Pärnamets, P., Lind, A., Tärning, B. & Johansson, P. (2013). How the Polls Can Be Both Spot On and Dead Wrong: Using Choice Blindness to Shift Political Attitudes and Voter Intentions. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60554.

Pärnamets, P., Johansson, P., Balkenius, C., Hall, L., Spivey, M.J. & Richardson, D.C. (2013) Changing minds by tracking eyes: Dynamical systems, gaze and moral decisions. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, and I. Wachsmuth (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX.

Chapters

Harris, E., Pärnamets, P., Sternisko, A., Robertson, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (in press/2021). The psychology and neuroscience of partisanship. In D. Osborne & C. Sibley (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology.

Wills, J. A., Hackel, L., Feldmanhall, O., Pärnamets, P., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2020). The social neuroscience of cooperation. In D. Poeppel, M. Gazzaniga & G. R. Mangun. (Eds.) The Cognitive Neurosciences. 6th Edition. MIT Press.

Olsson, A., Pärnamets, P., Nook, E.C., & Lindström, B. (2020). Social learning of threat and safety. In D. Poeppel, M. Gazzaniga & G. R. Mangun. (Eds.) The Cognitive Neurosciences. 6th Edition. MIT Press.