Adam Alter
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Psychologist, author, and expert on smartphone addiction
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Adam Alter's Degrees
- PhD Psychology Princeton University
Why Is Adam Alter Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adam Alter is a marketing author who also teaches at New York University Stern School of Business. Education and work Alter earned his Bachelor of Science from University of New South Wales and M.A. and Ph.D at Princeton University.
Adam Alter's Published Works
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- Uniting the Tribes of Fluency to Form a Metacognitive Nation (2009) (1189)
- Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning. (2007) (791)
- Predicting short-term stock fluctuations by using processing fluency. (2006) (294)
- Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (2017) (245)
- Effects of Fluency on Psychological Distance and Mental Construal (or Why New York Is a Large City, but New York Is a Civilized Jungle) (2008) (234)
- Rising to the threat: Reducing stereotype threat by reframing the threat as a challenge (2010) (199)
- Financial Deprivation Prompts Consumers to Seek Scarce Goods (2012) (169)
- Missing the trees for the forest: a construal level account of the illusion of explanatory depth. (2010) (133)
- The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun (2012) (114)
- The Exception Is the Rule: Underestimating and Overspending on Exceptional Expenses (2012) (113)
- Easy on the mind, easy on the wallet: The roles of familiarity and processing fluency in valuation judgments (2008) (108)
- Financial Deprivation Selectively Shifts Moral Standards and Compromises Moral Decisions (2013) (101)
- The Benefits of Cognitive Disfluency (2013) (85)
- Transgression Wrongfulness Outweighs its Harmfulness as a Determinant of Sentence Severity (2007) (69)
- Fondness makes the distance grow shorter: Desired locations seem closer because they seem more vivid (2011) (69)
- Cultural sharing in a global village: evidence for extracultural cognition in European Americans. (2009) (67)
- From a fixation on sports to an exploration of mechanism: The past, present, and future of hot hand research (2006) (66)
- Easy on the mind, easy on the wrongdoer: Discrepantly fluent violations are deemed less morally wrong (2009) (60)
- Suppressing Secrecy Through Metacognitive Ease (2009) (56)
- People search for meaning when they approach a new decade in chronological age (2014) (49)
- On being happy but fearing failure: The effects of mood on self-handicapping strategies (2007) (49)
- Framing charitable donations as exceptional expenses increases giving. (2015) (40)
- The “Bad Is Black” Effect (2016) (37)
- Disfluency prompts analytic thinking—But not always greater accuracy: Response to Thompson et al. (2013) (2013) (35)
- The Search for Moderators in Disfluency Research (2014) (32)
- Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave (2001) (25)
- Name Similarity Encourages Generosity: A Field Experiment in Email Personalization (2018) (20)
- Consuming Experiential Categories (2014) (17)
- When the association between appearance and outcome contaminates social judgment: a bidirectional model linking group homogeneity and collective treatment. (2009) (14)
- Superior Pattern Detectors Efficiently Learn, Activate, Apply, and Update Social Stereotypes (2017) (12)
- Morality Influences How People Apply the Ignorance of the Law Defense (2007) (11)
- Behavioral issues of punishment, retribution, and deterrence. (2013) (8)
- How and Why Our Eating Decisions Neglect Infrequently Consumed Foods (2021) (6)
- On the naturalistic relationship between mood and entertainment choice. (2019) (6)
- Mental Accounting For Food in Exceptional Contexts (2016) (4)
- When in Chinatown, You Really Do Think More Chinese (2013) (3)
- 6. Disfluency sleeper effect: Disfluency today promotes fluency tomorrow (2013) (2)
- Scrutinize thy neighbor: Ingroup polarization in response to confirmed and violated interpersonal expectations (2009) (1)
- Fluency and Psychological Distance (2008) (1)
- Easy on the Mind, Easy on the Wallet: Fluency Predicts Stock and Currency Valuation (2009) (0)
- Fluency and Psychological Distance: Consequences For Construal and Discounting (2010) (0)
- Difficult training improves team performance: an empirical case study of US college basketball (2019) (0)
- Search for Meaning Questionnaire (2019) (0)
- Chapter 10. Behavioral Issues of Punishment, Retribution, and Deterrence (2013) (0)
- The End-Of-Decade Effect (2014) (0)
- Healthy or Unhealthy ? Large or Small ? How Context and Language Shape Consumption Preferences (2017) (0)
- What Makes Ideas Stick? How Characteristics and Contexts of Messages Influence Their Success (2009) (0)
- Charitable Giving to Teachers With the Same Name: an Implicit Egotism Field Experiment (2017) (0)
- 7-J: Making Money Meaningful: Fostering Meaningful Lives Through Growth-Based Experiential Purchases (2017) (0)
- Reply to Kühne et al.: Still good evidence that people search for meaning when they approach a new decade in chronological age (2015) (0)
- On Mindfulness as an Alternative to Mindless Modern Consumption (2018) (0)
- Context matters: How macroeconomic forces may alter the reception of negative emotions in art (2017) (0)
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