Publications

Dyer, R. L., Herbst, N. R., Hintz, W., A., & Williams, K. E. G. (2023). Personal relevance affects the perceived immorality of politically-charged threats. PLoS One, 18(12), e0296177. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296177

Dyer, R. L., Pizarro, D. A., & Ariely, D. (2022). They had it coming: The interaction of perpetrator-blame and victim-blame. Social Cognition, 40(6), 503-527. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2022.40.6.503

Aragón, O. R., Clark, M. S., Dyer, R. L., & Bargh, J. A. (2015). Dimorphous expressions of positive emotion: Displays of both care and aggression in response to cute stimuli. Psychological Science, 26, 259-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614561044

Dyer, R. L. (2014). From good intentions to bad behavior: The role of motivation in moral decision-making. Doctoral dissertation, Yale University. [Link]

Norton, M. I., Mason, M. F., Vandello, J. A., Biga, A., & Dyer, R. (2013). An fMRI investigation of racial paralysis. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 387-393. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss010

Bargh, J. A., Schwader, K. L., Hailey, S. E., Dyer, R. L., & Boothby, E. J. (2012). Automaticity in social-cognitive processes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 593-605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.10.002

Boltz, M., Dyer, R. L., & Miller, A. R. (2010). Are you lying to me? Temporal cues for deception. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 29, 458-466. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X10385

Mason, M. F., Zhang, S., & Dyer, R. L. (2010). Male susceptibility to attentional capture by power cues. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 482-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.12.014

Mason, M. F., Dyer, R., & Norton, M. I. (2009). Neural mechanisms of social influence. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 110, 152-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.04.001

Manuscripts currently in progress:

Dyer, R. L. & *Morrison, H. R. (under review). Acceptable faux pas? The effect of foreign language on social judgment.

*Schultheiss, A. & Dyer, R. L. (in revision for new submission). Send them to jail or talk it out? The intersection between crime severity, suspect identity, and mitigating context in forming attitudes towards restorative justice.

Dyer, R. L. & *Palmer, K. J. (in prep). Sins of the past: Moral character and blame in a case of sexual assault.

Dyer, R. L. & *Hoopes, P. (in prep). Driving us apart or bringing us together? Politics, moral values, and outgroup acceptance.

* Indicates undergraduate student co-author