Research
Keywords: Hierarchy and Discrimination • Pathogen Management Psychology • Intraminority Intergroup Relations • Fundamental Social Motivations • Behavioral Ecology • Multiracial Identity
You can view my CV here.
Publications
Merrell, W., Vossoughi, N., Kteily, N., Ho, A. (2024). Looking White but Feeling Asian: The Role of Physical Permeability and Perceived Discrimination in Multiracial-Monoracial Alliances. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Winner of the 2024 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues)
Merrell, W., Choi, S., Ackerman, J. (2024). When and why people conceal infectious disease. Psychological Science.
Media coverage: [Association for Psychological Science] [Psychology Today] [Under the Cortex Podcast]
Choi, S., Merrell, W., Ackerman, J. (2023). Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID-19 vaccination. Social and Personality Psychological Compass.
Fessler, D.*, Merrell, W.*, Holbrook, C., Ackerman, J (2023). Beware the foe who feels no pain: Associations between relative formidability and pain sensitivity in three U.S. online studies. Evolution and Human Behavior. [open access]
Media coverage: [Human Behavior and Evolution Society]
Ackerman, J., Merrell, W., & Williams, L. (In press). Consumer psychology. In D. Carlston, K. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, 2nd New York: Oxford University Press.
Choi, S., Merrell, W., Ackerman, J. (2022). Keep Your Distance: Different Roles for Knowledge and Affect in Predicting Social Distancing Behavior. Journal of Health Psychology. [pdf]
Ackerman, J., Merrell, W., Choi, S. (2020). What people believe about detecting infectious disease using the senses. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. [pdf]
Submitted and under review manuscripts (drafts available upon request)
Merrell, W., Ackerman, J. (Submitted for publication). Conspicuous experiences as unique social signals of both status and warmth.
Vossoughi, N., Merrell, W., Kteily, N., Ho, A. (Submitted for Publication). Incorporating egalitarian ideology in models of collective action.
* Represents joint first authorship
