Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Caruso, E. M., Maglio, S. J., & Van Boven, L. (2024). The Prioritization of Prospection. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 0(0).
  2. Erlandsson, A., Nilsson, A., Rosander, J., Persson, R., & Van Boven, L. (2024). Politically contaminated clothes, chocolates, and charities: Distancing from neutral products liked by out-group or in-group partisans. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0).
  3. Grant, D., Markowitz, D., Sherman, D. S., Flores, A., Dickert, S., Eom, K., Giga-Boy, G., Kogut, T., Mayorga, M., Oonk, D., Pedersen, E. J., Periera, B., Rubaltelli, E., Slovic, P., Västfjäll, D., & Van Boven, L. (2024). Ideological diversity of media consumption predicts COVID-19 vaccination. Scientific Reports, 14, 28948.
  4. Pomerance, J., & Van Boven, L. (2024). Party over product: People exaggerate the influence of partisan cues on others’ consumption preferences. International Journal of Research in Marketing.Burgess, M., Van Boven, L., Wagner, G., Wong-Parodi, G., Baker, K., Boykoff, M., Converse, B. A., Dilling, L., Gilligan, J. M., Inbar, Y., Markowitz, E., Moyer, J. D., Newton, P., Raimi, K., Shrum, T., & Vandenbergh, M. (2024). Supply, demand, and polarization challenges facing U.S. climate policies. Nature Climate Change.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01906-y (pdf)
  5. GonzalezCoffin, S., Eichhorst, W., Carrico, A., Inbar, Y., Newton, P., & Van Boven, L. (2024). Perceived naturalness predicts public support for sustainable protein technology. Climatic Change.(pdf)
  6. Marshall, R. Anderson, S. E., Van Boven, L., Al-Shawaf, L., & Burgess, M., (2024). Neutral and negative effects of policy bundling on support for decarbonization policy. Climatic Change, 61. (pdf)
  7. Sherman, D. K., & Van Boven, L. (2024). The connections—and misconnections—between the public and politicians over climate policy: A social psychological perspective.Social Issues and Policy Review, 1–28..(pdf)
  8. Van Boven, L., Burgess, M.G. Introduction to topical collection: social science and sustainability technology. Climatic Change 177, 69 (2024).
  9. Ferraro, P.G., Cherry, T.L. Shogren, J.F., Vossler, C.A., Cason, T. N., Flint, H. B., Hochard, J. P., Johansson-Stenman, O., Martinsson, P., Murphy, J. P., Newbold, S. C., Thunstrom, L. H., van Soest, D., van't Veld, L., Dannenberg, A., Loewenstein, G., & Van Boven. L. (2023). Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs: Organizations need a better “learning by doing” approach. Science, 381(6659), 735–737. (pdf)
  10. Cole, J.C., Ehret, P.J., Sherman, D.K., & Van Boven, L. (2022).Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy.Climatic Change,173 (10).
  11. Cole, J. C., Flores, A., Giga-Boy, G., Klein, O., Sherman, D, K. & Van Boven, L. (2022). Party over pandemic: Partisan cues and trust explain influence public support for Covid-19 policies. GroupProcesses and Intergroup Relations.
  12. Ramos, J., Grant, M. D., Dickert, S., Eom, K., Flores, A., Jiga-Boy, G., Kogut, T. Mayorga, M.., Pedersen, E. J., Pereira, B., Rubaltelli, E., Slovic, P., Västfjäll, D., & Van Boven, L. (2022). Structured reflection increases intentions to reduce other people’s health risks during COVID-19. PNAS Nexus, pgac218,
  13. Cole, J.C., Ehret, P.J., Sherman, D.K., & Van Boven, L. (2022). Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy. Climatic Change, 173 (10).
  14. Flores, A., Cole, J. C., Dickert, S., Eom, K., Jiga-Boy, G. M., Kogut, T., *Loria, .R., Mayorga, M., Pedersen, E.J., Pereira, B., Rubaltelli, E., Sherman, D. K., Slovic, P., Västfjäll, D., & Van Boven, L. .(2022). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  15. Grant, M. D., Flores, A., Pedersen, E. J., Sherman, D. K., & Van Boven, L. (2021). When election expectations fail: Polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media. PLOS ONE.
  16. Fernbach, P.M., & Van Boven, L. (2021). False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions. Current Opinion in Psychology: People Watching: Interpersonal Perception and Prediction, 43, 1–6.
  17. Sherman, D. K., Shteyn, M. F., Han, H., & Van Boven, L. (2021). The exchange between citizens and elected officials: A social psychological framework for citizen climate activists. Behavioural Public Policy, 5(4), 576-705.
  18. Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. K. (2021). Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences: Human Response to Climate Change: From Neurons to Collective Action, 42, 83–88.
  19. van der Linden, S., Pearson, A., & Van Boven, L. (2021). Introduction. Behavioural Public Policy: Special Issue on Behavioural Climate Policy, 1–9.
  20. Mrkva, K., Chan, L., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Commentary: Above and beyond the content: Feelings influence mental simulation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e139.
  21. Mrkva K., Cole, J., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Attention increases environmental risk perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  22. Mrkva, K., Ramos, J., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Attention influences emotion, judgment, and decision making to explain mental simulation. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.
  23. Shrum, T., Markowitz, E., Buck, H., Gregory, R., van der Linden, S., Attari, S.Z., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Behavioral frameworks to understand public risk response and value assessment of carbon dioxide removal. Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus, Special Issue: “Going negative: An Interdisciplinary, Holistic Approach to Carbon Dioxide Removal.”
  24. Bhandari, S., Hallowell, M. R., Van Boven, L., Welker, K., & Gruber, J. (2020). Using augmented virtuality to examine how emotions influence construction hazard identification, risk assessment, and safety decisions. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001755
  25. Mrkva, K., & Van Boven, L. (2020). Salience theory of mere exposure: Relative exposure increases liking, extremity, and emotional intensity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000184
  26. Mrkva K., Westfall, J., & Van Boven, L. (2019). Attention drives emotion: Voluntary visual attention increases perceived emotional intensity. Psychological Science.
  27. Van Boven, L., Ramos, J., Montal-Rosenberg, R., Kogut, T., Sherman, D. K., & Slovic, P. (2019). It depends: Partisan evaluation of conditional probability importance. Cognition, 51-63.
  28. André, Q., Carmon, Z., Wertenbroch, K., Crum, A., Frank, D., Goldstein, W., Huber, J., Van Boven, L., Weber, B., & Yang, H. (2019). . Customer Needs and Solutions. DOI: 10.1007/s40547-017-0085-8
  29. Ehret, P., Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. (2018). . Social Psychological and Personality Science: Recent Geopolitical Events, 9, 308–318. DOI: 10.1177/1948550618758709. (Winner: Best Graduate Student paper, APA Division 34, Population and Conservation Psychology.)
  30. Van Boven, L., Ehret, P. J., & Sherman, D. K. (2018a). . Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 492-507. DOI: 10.1177/1745691617748966
  31. Van Boven, L., Ehret, P. J., & Sherman, D. K. (2018b). : A reply to Weber (2018). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 512-517. DOI: 10.1177/1745691618774535
  32. Mrkva, K., Travers, M., & Van Boven, L. (2018). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 354-376. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000408
  33. Mrkva, K., & Van Boven, L. (2017). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 46, 1296–1306. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000347
  34. Bhandari, S., Hallowell, M., Van Boven, L., Gruber, J., and Welker, K. (2016) . Construction Research Congress, 2831–2840. DOI: 10.1061/9780784479827.282
  35. Keating, J., Van Boven, L., Judd, C. M. (2016). . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 65, 52–58. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.03.002
  36. Aknin, L., Van Boven, L., & Johnson-Graham, L. (2015).. Journal of Positive Psychology, 10, 458–462.
  37. Huber M., Van Boven L., Park B., Pizzi, W.T. (2015) . PLoS ONE 10(9): e0139193. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139193
  38. Silverman, A., Gwinn, J., and Van Boven, L. (2015). . Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 464–471.
  39. Van Boven, L., & Caruso, E. (2015). . Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
  40. Westfall, J., Van Boven, L., Chambers, J., & Judd, C. J. (2015). . Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 145–158.
  41. Chan, C., Van Boven, L., Andrade, E., Ariely, D. (2014). . Journal of Consumer Psychology, 24, 381–386.
  42. Campell, T., O’Brien, E., Van Boven, L., Schwarz, N., & Ubel, P. (2014). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 272–285.
  43. Tixier, A., Albert, A., Hallowel, M., & Van Boven, L, & Kleiner, B. (2014). . Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 04014052-1–04014052-10.
  44. Travers, M. W., Van Boven., L, & Judd, C. J. (2014). . Political Psychology, 35, 97–111.
  45. Caruso, E., Van Boven, L., Chin, M., & Ward, A. (2013). . Psychological Science, 24, 530–536.
  46. Chan, C., Berger, J., & Van Boven, L. (2012). . Journal of Consumer Research, 39, 561-573.
  47. Kane, J., Van Boven, L., & McGraw, A. P. (2012). . European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 354–362.
  48. Van Boven, L., Judd, C., & Sherman, D. (2012). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 84–100.
  49. Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., Welch, E., & Dunning, D. (2012). . Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 25, 1–12.
  50. Van Boven, L., & Robinson, M. (2012). . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 303–309.
  51. White, K., & Van Boven, L. (2012). . Emotion, 12, 737–747.
  52. Geeraert, N., Van Boven, L., & Yzerbyt, V. (2011). . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1788-1796.
  53. Huber, M., Van Boven, L., McGraw, A. P., Johnson-Graham, L. (2011). . Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115, 283–293.
  54. Warren, C., McGraw, A. P., & Van Boven, L. (2011). . Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2, 193–205.
  55. Andrade, E., & Van Boven, L. (2010). . Psychological Science, 21, 706–711.
  56. Van Boven, L., & Campbell, M., & Gilovich, T. (2010). . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 551-563.
  57. Van Boven, L., Kane, J., McGraw, A. P., & Dale, J. (2010). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 872–885.
  58. Oskarsson, A., Van Boven, L., Hastie, R., & McClelland, G. (2009). Psychological Bulletin, 119, 262–285.
  59. Van Boven, L., White, K., & Huber, M. (2009). I. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 368–382.
  60. Van Boven, L., & Johnson-Graham, L. (2007). .” Journal of Positive Psychology, 2, 269–270.
  61. Van Boven, L., & Ashworth, L. (2007). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 289–300.
  62. Savitsky, K., Van Boven, L., Epley, N., & Wight, W. (2005). . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 447–457.
  63. Van Boven, L. (2005). . Review of General Psychology, 9, 132–142.
  64. Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., & Dunning, D. (2005). . Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 96, 130–141.
  65. Epley, N., Keysar, B., Van Boven, L., & Gilovich, T. (2004). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 327–339.
  66. Epley, N., Van Boven, L., & Caruso, E. (2004). . Commentary on Krueger & Funder, “Toward a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences, and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 333.
  67. Kruger, J., Wirtz, D., Van Boven, L., & Altermatt, W. (2004). . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 91–98.
  68. Van Boven, L., & Gilovich, T. (2003). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1193–1202.
  69. Van Boven, L., & Thompson, L. (2003). . Group Processes and Interpersonal Relations, 6, 387–404.
  70. Nadler, J., Thomspon, L., & Van Boven, L. (2003). . Management Science, 49, 529–540.
  71. Van Boven, L., & Epley, N. (2003). . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 263–269
  72. Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2003). . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1159–1168.
  73. Van Boven, L., Gilovich, T., & Medvec, V. (2003). . Negotiation Journal, 19, 117–131.
  74. Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., & Dunning, D. (2003).Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 51, 351–365.
  75. Van Boven, L., White, K., Kamada, A., & Gilovich, T. (2003). I. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 249–258.
  76. Gibbons, R. & Van Boven, L. (2001). . Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45, 1–17.
  77. Van Boven, L. (2000). . Political Psychology, 21, 267–276.
  78. Van Boven, L., Dunning, D., & Loewenstein, G. (2000). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 66–76.
  79. Van Boven, L., Kruger, J., Savitsky, K., & Gilovich, T. (2000). . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 620–629.
  80. Van Boven, L., Kamada, A., & Gilovich, T. (1999). intuitions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1188–1199.

Book Chapters

  1. Grant, M. D., Flores, A., Pedersen, E. J., & Van Boven, L., (2024). Evolution, rationality, and social judgment and decision making. In D. E. Carlston, K. Hugenberg, & K. L. Johnson (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, 2nd Edition. Oxford Library of Psychology. Oxford University Press. DOI:
  2. Ramos, J., Caruso, E., Van Boven, L. (2022). Temporal asymmetric psychology: Prospection, retrospection, and well-being. In C. Hoerl, T. McCormack, & A. Fernandes (Eds.) Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology (pp. 29–61). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  3. Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., Dunning, D., & Norgren, L. (2013). Changing places: A dual judgment model of empathy gaps in emotional perspective taking. In J. M. Olson & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol.48, 118–171. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
  4. Van Boven, L., Westfall, J. A., & Travers, M. W., & McClelland, G. (2013). Judgment and Decision Making. In D. E. Carlston (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition (pp. 375–401). New York: Oxford University Press.
  5. Westfall, J., & Van Boven, L. (2013). Endowment effect. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. SAGE Publications Inc.
  6. Judd, C. M., Van Boven, D., Huber, M., & Nunes, A. (2012). Measuring everyday perceptions of the distribution of the American Electorate. In J. Aldrich & K. McGraw (Eds.), Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies (pp. 195–219). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  7. Huber, M., Van Boven, L., & McGraw, A. P. (2011). Donate different: External and internal influences on emotion based donation decisions. In D. M. Oppenheimer & C. Y. Olivola (Eds.), The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity (pp. 179–199). New York: Psychology Press.
  8. Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2005). Cross-situational projection. In M. Alicke, J. Krueger, & D. Dunning (Eds.), Self and Social Judgment (pp. 43–64). Psychology Press.
  9. Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, D. (2005). Empathy gaps in emotional perspective taking. In S. Hodges, & B. Malle (Eds.), Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others (pp. 284–297). Guilford Press.
  10. Van Boven, L. (2009). Perspective taking. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Affective Sciences (pp. 305–306). New York: Oxford University Press.
  11. Van Boven, L., Kane, J., & McGraw, A. P. (2008). Temporally asymmetric constraints on mental simulation: Retrospection is more constrained than prospection. In K. Markman, W. Klein, & S. Shur (Eds.), The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation (pp. 131–149). Psychology Press
  12. Van Boven, L. (2007). Availability. In R. F. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  13. Van Boven, L. (2007). Naïve realism. In R. F. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  14. Van Boven, L., & Kane, J. (2006). Predicting feelings versus choices. In E. C. Chang & L. J. Sanna (Eds.), Judgment over time: The interplay of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (pp. 67–81). Oxford University Press.
  15. Dunning, D., Van Boven, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2001). Egocentric empathy gaps in social interaction and exchange. In E. Lawler, M. Macey, S. Thye, & H. Walker (Eds.), Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 18 (pp. 65–97).

Popular Press and Commentaries

  1. Van Boven, L., Montal-Rosenberg, R., & Sherman, D. (January 22, 2020). The bipartisan misuse of facts: Liberals and conservatives both misuse facts. But there are ways to stop that impulse. Los Angeles Times, A-9.
  2. Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. (July 29, 2018). . The New York Times: Grey Matter, p. SR2.
  3. Van Boven, L., & Slovic, P. (January 28, 2018). . Politico Magazine.
  4. Sherman, D., & Van Boven, L. (25 September 2014). . Los Angeles Times.
  5. Van Boven, L., & Sherman, D. (4 November 2014).
  6. Van Boven, L., Judd, C. M., & Travers, M. (30 June 2013). The New York Times, p. SR12.
  7. ֱ Matters (Friday 17 February 2012). ֱ Public Radio. [Radio interview.]
  8. Van Boven, L. (May 16, 2012). . Academic minute. Northeast Public Radio. [Radio interview]
  9. Van Boven, L. (Sunday, 11 March 2012). . Denver Post: Perspective.
  10. Van Boven, L. (2009). . SPSP Dialogue, Fall 2009.