Publications

Elnakouri, A., Rossignac-Milon, A., Higgins, E. T., & Scholer, A. A. (in press). Goal-colored glasses: Goal instrumentality shapes when and with whom shared reality emerges. Motivation Science [PDF] [OSF]

Elnakouri, A., Huynh, A.C., & Grossmann, I. (2024). Explaining contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking. Cognition, 247, 105769 [PDF] [OSF]

Elnakouri, A., Rossignac-Milon, A., Krueger, K., Forest, A. L., Higgins, E. T., & Scholer, A. A. (2023). In it together: Shared reality with instrumental others is linked to goal success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(5), 1072–1095. [PDF][OSF]

Elnakouri, A., & McGregor, I. (2023). You can’t reason with them: Dismissing religious defectors as irrational. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 26(1), 84-98 [PDF][OSF]

McGregor, I., Tran, A., Auger, E., Britton, E., Hayes, J., Elnakouri, A., Eftekhari, E., Sharpinski, K., Arbiv, O., & Nash, K. (2022). Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspires approach motivation and magnanimity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ,102, 104350. [PDF]

Porter, T., Elnakouri, A., Meyers, E.A., Shibayama, T., Jayawickreme, E., & Grossmann, I. (2022). Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(9), 524-536. [PDF]

Elnakouri, A., Hubley, C., & McGregor, I. (2022). Hate and meaning in life: How collective, but not personal, hate quells threat and spurs meaning in life. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology98, 104227. [PDF][OSF]

Baker, A., Elnakouri, A., & Blanchard, C. (2019). The protective role of autonomous motivation against the effects of the “Muscular Ideal” on men’s self-objectification, appearance schema activation, and cognitive performance. Media Psychology, 22(3), 473-500. [PDF]

Oakes, H., Brienza, J. P., Elnakouri, A., & Grossmann, I. (2019). Wise reasoning: Converging evidence for the psychology of sound judgment. In R. J. Sternberg, & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of wisdom (pp. 202–225). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]

Elnakouri, A., McGregor, I., & Grossmann, I. (2018). The importance of environmental threats and ideology in explaining extreme self-sacrifice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, E201. [commentary PDF]