Graduate Student Publications
Below is a list of all publications on which graduate students (past and present) working in the lab have been an author.
All links are to author postings. The copyright holders are found on the first page of each manuscript. These manuscripts are posted here for personal use, not for redistribution.
Conway, L. G. III, Chan, L., Woodard, S. R., & Joshanloo, M. (in press). Proximal versus distal ecological stress: Socio-ecological influences on political freedom, well-being, and societal and business confidence in 159 Nations. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, XX, XX-XX.
Houck, S. C., Conway, L.G., III, & Zubrod, A. (in press). Automated language analysis: Integrative complexity. In R. Boyd & M. Dehghani (Eds.), The Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.
Woodard, S. R., Chan, L., & Conway, L. G., III (in press). In search of the cognitively complex person: To what degree is cognitive complexity a generalized individual difference variable? Personality and Social Psychology Review, XX, XX-XX.
Conway, L. G, III, Houck, S. C., Chan, L., Repke, M. A., & McFarland, J. (2021). The agreement paradox: How pressures for agreement can ultimately divide us. In J.-W. van Prooijen (Ed.), Current Issues in Social Psychology: Political Polarization (pp. 112-126). New York: Routledge.
Conway, L. G., III, Conway, K. R., & Houck, S. C. (2020). Validating Automated Integrative Complexity: Natural language processing and the Donald Trump test. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8, 504-524.
Zubrod, A., Conway, L. G., III, Conway, K. R., & Ailanjian, D. (2020). Understanding the role of linguistic complexity in famous trial outcomes. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, XX, XX-XX.
Chan, L., Zubrod, A., Woodard, S. R., & Conway, L. G., III. (2020). Identity leadership is manifested via integrative complexity: Comment on Haslam et al. 2019. American Psychologist, 75, 403–405.
Conway, L.G. III, Zubrod, A., Chan, L. (2020). The paradox of tribal equalitarianism. Psychological Inquiry, 31, 48-52.
Berry, M. S., Repke, M., & Conway, L. G., III. (2019). Visual exposure to natural environments decreases delay discounting of improved air quality. Frontiers in Public Health, 7, 308-315.
Conway, L. G., III, Chan, L., & Woodard, S. R. (2019). Socio-ecological influences on political ideology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 76-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.034
Houck, S. C., & Conway, L. G. III. (2019). Strategic communication and the integrative complexity-ideology relationship: Meta-analytic findings reveal differences between public politicians and private citizens in their use of simple rhetoric. Political Psychology, XX, XX-XX.
Houck, S. C., McFarland, J., VanderDrift, L. E., & Conway, L. G. III. (2019). When beliefs lead to (im)moral action: How believing in torture’s effectiveness shapes the endorsement of its use. Political Psychology, XX, XX-XX.
Conway, L. G., III, & McFarland, J. D. (2019). Do Right-Wing and Left-Wing Authoritarianism predict election outcomes?: Support for Obama and Trump across two United States presidential elections. Personality and Individual Differences, 138, 84-87.
Conway, L. G., III, & Repke, M. A. (2019). The psychological contamination of pro-environmental consensus: Political pressure for environmental belief agreement undermines its long-term power. Journal of Environmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.02.001
Chan, L., & Conway, L. G., III. (2018). Autocratic government moderates the relationship between culture and legal restriction. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49, 1457–1463. DOI: 10.1177/0022022118793538
Conway, L. G., III, Houck, S. C., Gornick, L. J., Repke, M. R. (2018). Finding the Loch Ness Monster: Left-Wing Authoritarianism in the United States. Political Psychology, 39, 1049-1067. [Featured in a virtual issue of Political Psychology containing Most-Cited Papers from 2016-2018: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9221.top-cited-vi; also awarded Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles 2017-2018 by Wiley for Political Psychology].
Chan, L., McFarland, J. D., & Conway, L. G., III. (2018). Political contamination of social psychology: A review of Crawford and Jussim’s (2017) edited book ‘The politics of social psychology.’ Social Justice Research. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s11211-018-0312-y
Houck, S. C., Conway, L. G. III, Parrow, K., & Luce, A., & Salvati, J. (2018). An integrative complexity analysis of religious and irreligious thinking. Sage Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018796302
Repke, M. A., Berry, M. S., Conway, L. G., III, Metcalf, A., Hensen, R. M., & Phelan, C. (2018). How does nature exposure make people healthier?: Evidence for the role of impulsivity and expanded space perception. PLoS ONE, 13:e0202246. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202246
Van de Vliert, E., & Conway, L. G. III. (2018). Northerners and Southerners differ in conflict culture. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. DOI: 10.1111/ncmr.12138.
Conway, L. G., III, Bongard, K., Plaut, V. C., Gornick, L. J., Dodds, D., Giresi, T., Tweed, R. G., Repke, M. A., & Houck, S. C. (2017). Ecological origins of freedom: Pathogens, heat stress, and frontier topography predict more vertical but less horizontal governmental restriction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 1378-1398. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0146167217713192
Conway, L. G., III, Boyd, R. L., Dennehy, T. C., Mills, D. J., & Repke, M. A. (2017). Political behavior inside and outside the lab: Bringing political research to the real world. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3, 227-230.
Conway, L. G. III, Harris, K. J., Catley, D., Gornick, L. J., Conway, K. R., Repke, M. A., Houck, C. (2017). Cognitive complexity of clients and counselors during motivation-based treatment for smoking cessation: An observational study on occasional smokers in a U.S. college sample. BMJ Open, 0 :e015849. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-015849
Conway, L. G., III, Repke, M. A., & Houck, S. C. (2017). Donald Trump as a cultural revolt against perceived communication restriction: Priming political correctness norms causes more Trump support. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 5, 244-259.
Houck, S. C., Repke, M. A., & Conway, L. G., III. (2017). Understanding what makes terrorist groups’ propaganda effective: An integrative complexity analysis of ISIL and Al Qaeda. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 12, 105-118. DOI:10.1080/18335330.2017.1351032
Repke, M. A., Conway, L. G., III, & Houck, S. C. (2017). The strategic manipulation of linguistic complexity: A test of two models of lying. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/0261927X17706943
Conway, L. G., III, Repke, M. A., & Houck, S. C. (2016). Psychological spacetime: Implications of relativity theory for time perception. SAGE Open. DOI: 10.1177/2158244016674511
Conway, L. G., III, Houck, S. C., Gornick, L. J., & Repke, M. A. (2016). Ideologically-motivated perceptions of complexity: Believing those who agree with you are more complex than they are. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 35, 708-718.
Berry, M. S., Repke, M. A., Nickerson, N. P., Conway, L. G., III, Odum, A., & Jordan, K. E. (2015). The nature of self-control: Visual exposure to natural environments decreases impulsivity and lengthens time perception. PLoS ONE, 10: e0141030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141030
Conway, L. G., Gornick, L. J., Houck, S. C., Anderson, C., Stockert, J., Sessoms, D. and McCue, K. (2015). Are conservatives really more simple-minded than liberals? The domain specificity of complex thinking. Political Psychology. doi: 10.1111/pops.12304
Houck, S. C., & Conway, L. G., III. (2015). Ethically investigating torture efficacy: A new methodology to test the influence of pain on decision-making processes in experimental interrogation scenarios. Journal of Applied Security Research, 10, 510-524.
Conway, L. G., III, Conway, K. R., Gornick, L. J., & Houck, S. C. (2014). Automated integrative complexity. Political Psychology, 35, 603-624.
Conway, L. G., III, Houck, S. C., & Gornick, L. J. (2014). Regional differences in individualism and why they matter. In J. Rentfrow (Ed.), Psychological Geography (pp. 31-50). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Houck, S. C., Conway, L. G., III, & Gornick, L. J. (2014). Automated integrative complexity: Current challenges and future directions. Political Psychology, 35, 647-659.
Houck, S. C., Conway, L. G., III, & Repke, M. (2014). Personal closeness and perceived torture efficacy: If torture will save someone I’m close to, then it must work. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 20, 590-592.
Houck, S. C., & Conway, L. G., III. (2013). What people think about torture: Torture is inherently bad…unless it can save someone I love. Journal of Applied Security Research, 8, 429-454.
Cvasa, G. P., Conway, L. G., III, Houck, S. C., & Gornick, L. J. (2013). Achievement. In Ken Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 1318-1321). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Gornick, L. J., Conway, L. G., III, Cvasa, G. P., & Houck, S. C. (2013). Cultural transmission. In Ken Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 335-338). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Houck, S. C., Conway, L. G., III, Gornick, L. J., & Cvasa, G. P. (2013). Terrorism. In Ken Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 1280-1283). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Conway, L. G., III, Gornick, L. J., Burfiend, C., Mandella, P., Kuenzli, A., Houck, S. C., & Fullerton, D. T. (2012). Does simple rhetoric win elections? An integrative complexity analysis of U.S. presidential campaigns. Political Psychology, 33, 599-618.
Leung, K. Lam, B. C. P, Bond M. H., Conway L. G., III, Gornick, L. J., Amponsah, B.,Boehnke, K., Burgess, S. M., Golestaneh, M., Busch, H., Hofer, J., Espinosa, A. D. C. D., Fardis, M., Ismail, R., Kurman, J., Lebedeva, N., Tatarko, A. N., Sam, D. L, Teixeira, M. L. M.,Yamaguchi, S., Fukuzawa, Ai., Zhang, J., & Zhou, F. (2012). Refining the Social Axioms Survey: Development and Evaluation in Eleven Countries and its Relationship with the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43 , 833-857.
Conway, L.G., III, & Gornick, L. J. (2011). Cognitive complexity. In D. Christie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology (pp. 849-853) . Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Conway, L. G., III, Gornick, L. J., Houck, S. C., Hands Towgood, K., & Conway, K. R. (2011). The hidden implications of radical group rhetoric: Integrative complexity and terrorism. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 4, 155-165. [Reprinted in Smith, A. (Ed.), The Relationship Between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence. New York: Routledge.]
Gornick, L. J., & Conway, L.G., III. (2011). Political psychology and peace. In D. Christie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology (pp. 139-143). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Schaller, M., Conway, L. G., III, & Peavey, K. M. (2010). Evolutionary processes. In J. F. Dovidio, M Hewsone, P. Glick, & V. M. Esses (Eds.), Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination (pp. 81-96). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.
Conway, L. G., III, Salcido, A., Gornick, L. J., Bongard, K. A., Moran, M., & Burfiend, C. (2009). When self-censorship norms backfire: The manufacturing of positive communication and its ironic consequences for the perceptions of groups. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 31, 335-347.
Conway, L. G., III., Thoemmes, F., Allison, A. M., Hands Towgood, K., Wagner, M., Davey, K.,Salcido, A., Stovall, A., Dodds, D. P., Bongard, K, & Conway, K. R. (2008). Two ways to be complex and why they matter: Implications for attitude strength and lying. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1029-1044.
Thoemmes, F., & Conway, L. G., III. (2007). Integrative complexity of 41 U.S. presidents. Political Psychology, 28, 193-226.
Conway , L. G., III, Clements, S. M., & Tweed, R. G. (2006). Collectivism and governmentally initiated restrictions: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis across nations and within a nation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37, 1-23.