Emily Balcetis

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Emily Balcetis is affiliated with the following schools: Ohio University, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Cornell University, Columbia University, New York University

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PhD Social Psychology Columbia University
Masters Psychology Columbia University
Bachelors Psychology Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Emily E. Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of world and how their motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, especially with regards to visual perception.

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Emily Balcetis's Published Works

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See what you want to see: motivational influences on visual perception. (2006) (607)
Wishful Seeing (2010) (256)
Affective Signals of Threat Increase Perceived Proximity (2013) (158)
Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates' skin tone (2009) (136)
Wishful Seeing (2013) (123)
Cognitive Dissonance and the Perception of Natural Environments (2007) (113)
Social Psychology of Visual Perception (2010) (88)
Fondness makes the distance grow shorter: Desired locations seem closer because they seem more vivid (2011) (69)
Do collectivists know themselves better than individualists? Cross-cultural studies of the holier than thou phenomenon. (2008) (64)
Subjective value determines initial dominance in binocular rivalry (2012) (57)
Where the motivation resides and self-deception hides: How motivated cognition accomplishes self-deception (2008) (52)
Considering the Situation: Why People are Better Social Psychologists than Self-psychologists (2013) (51)
An Exploration of Social Modulation of Syntactic Priming (2005) (49)
Approach and Avoidance as Organizing Structures for Motivated Distance Perception (2016) (49)
Justice is not blind: visual attention exaggerates effects of group identification on legal punishment. (2014) (48)
The “Bad Is Black” Effect (2016) (37)
Current Directions in Psychological Science David Dunning and Emily Balcetis Wishful Seeing : How Preferences Shape Visual Perception (2013) (36)
Sources of Resources: Bioenergetic and Psychoenergetic Resources Influence Distance Perception (2013) (29)
Effects of Implementation Intentions on Anxiety, Perceived Proximity, and Motor Performance (2013) (27)
Searching Out the Ideal: Awareness of Ideal Body Standards Predicts Lower Global Self-esteem in Women (2013) (26)
In the Eye of the Betrothed (2016) (26)
Body in Mind: The Role of Embodied Cognition in Self‐Regulation (2009) (25)
A Mile in Moccasins: How Situational Experience Diminishes Dispositionism in Social Inference (2008) (25)
Access to Music Education: Nebraska Band Directors’ Experiences and Attitudes Regarding Students With Physical Disabilities (2010) (24)
Conceptual Set as a Top — Down Constraint on Visual Object Identification (2007) (24)
Fundamental Attribution Error (2013) (23)
Visual perception and regulatory conflict: motivation and physiology influence distance perception. (2013) (23)
Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations (2020) (23)
Focused and fired up: Narrowed attention produces perceived proximity and increases goal-relevant action (2014) (23)
Government instability shifts skin tone representations of and intentions to vote for political candidates. (2016) (19)
Seeing the Expected, the Desired, and the Feared: Influences on Perceptual Interpretation and Directed Attention (2013) (18)
Developing, promoting, and sustaining the undergraduate research experience in psychology (2008) (18)
In the Eyes of the Law: Perception Versus Reality in Appraisals of Video Evidence (2017) (16)
Conducting Social Psychological Research in the Wake of COVID-19 (2020) (16)
The Influence of Social Comparison on Visual Representation of One's Face (2012) (16)
Motivated Reasoning During Recruitment (2017) (16)
Judging for two: Some connectionist proposals for how the self informs and constrains social judgement (2005) (14)
Claiming a moral minority, saccades help create a biased majority: Tracking eye movements to base rates in social predictions (2009) (12)
Near and nothing to it: Perceived proximity improves exercise by increasing feasibility appraisals. (2015) (11)
Motivated Visual Perception: How We See What We Want To See (2006) (8)
Stuck on a phishing lure: differential use of base rates in self and social judgments of susceptibility to cyber risk (2020) (6)
Motivated distance perception serves action regulation (2014) (6)
Keeping the Goal in Sight: Testing the Influence of Narrowed Visual Attention on Physical Activity (2020) (5)
ADVERT: An Adaptive and Data-Driven Attention Enhancement Mechanism for Phishing Prevention (2021) (5)
Interpersonal pursuit of intrapersonal health goals: Social cognitive–motivational mechanisms by which social support promotes self‐regulatory success (2019) (4)
Out of Reach and Under Control: Distancing as a Self-Control Strategy (2020) (4)
Of visions and desires: Biased perceptions can serve self-protective functions (2010) (4)
There Is No Naked Eye: Higher-Order Social Concepts Clothe Visual Perception (2003) (3)
A false-positive error in search of selective reporting: A refutation of Francis (2012) (3)
Promoting student engagement volume 2: Activities, exercises and demonstrations for psychology courses (2011) (3)
Motivating the action-in-perception hypothesis: Approach and avoidance motives as a process-model for action's effects on perception (2016) (3)
Concrete Messages Increase Healthy Eating Preferences (2020) (3)
Motivated perception for self-regulation: How visual experience serves and is served by goals (2021) (3)
Teaching and learning guide for "Body in mind: The role of embodied cognition in self-regulation" (2010) (2)
On Misers, Managers, and Monsters: The Social Cognition of Visual Perception (2013) (2)
Under the Influence and Unaware (2015) (2)
Visual experience in self and social judgment: How a biased majority claim a superior minority (2019) (2)
How Walkable Neighborhoods Promote Physical Activity: Policy Implications for Development and Renewal (2020) (2)
Zip Code of Conduct: Crime Rate Affects Legal Punishment of Police (2017) (2)
Self‐Serving Bias (2013) (2)
The eye is not naked: Context clothes visual perception (2003) (2)
One-sighted: How visual attention biases legal decision-making (2017) (2)
Embodied Simulation: A Conduit for Converting Seeing into Perceiving (2010) (1)
Motivation across Time and Place: What Gaze Can Tell Us about Aging and Culture (2010) (1)
The conscious roots of selfless, unconscious goals. (2014) (1)
Access to Music Education (2016) (1)
Effects of Intergroup Language on Eye-Tracking and Moment-to-Moment Responses in Race-Based Political Messages (2015) (1)
The Motivated and Mindful Perceiver: Relationships Among Motivated Perception, Mindfulness, and Self‐Regulation (2014) (1)
System justification motivation as a source of backlash against equality‐promoting policies—and what to do about it (2023) (1)
Where you look and how far you go: The relationship between attentional styles and running performance (2021) (0)
IMPLICIT PERSON MEMORY 1 Implicit person memory : Domain-general and domain-specific processes of learning and change Chapter to appear in in (2021) (0)
A New Look at Person Construal: Seeing Beyond Dominance and Discreteness (2010) (0)
Seeing mountains in molehills: Embodied visual perception of the environment (2014) (0)
Measuring the Impact of Social Support on Dietary Behavior: Assessing Techniques and Calling for the Use of Daily Diaries (2018) (0)
William Randolph Hearst (2014) (0)
Fostering professional advancement, self-discovering, and retention: Learning communities after graduation (2014) (0)
Challenging Perceptions of Effective Leadership through Role Models (2019) (0)
The relationship between visual confirmation bias, belief consistency, and belief polarization (2022) (0)
MOTIVATED VISUAL PERCEPTION (2006) (0)
Involving freshmen in undergraduate research (2008) (0)
NYU Social Psychology Applicant Demographics 2012-2017 (2020) (0)
Shifting Visual Attention to Reduce Bias in Legal DecisionMaking (2021) (0)
Clarifying Conundrums: How Goal Hierarchies Resolve Seeming Contradictions in Motivated Responding (2019) (0)
Psychologically speaking: An interview with Charles L. Brewer (2001) (0)
Perceiving Systematically, Not Just Differently: Calling for Perceptual Models With Explanatory Power (2016) (0)
Sex Differences in the Cognitive Processing of Schematic Versus Landmark-Based Directions (1999) (0)
Feeling Entitled Because of Who You are (2015) (0)
Sociocultural Orientation and Perceived Utility of Base Rates in Self and Social Judgments of Cyber Risk (2022) (0)
Palm readers, stargazers, and scientists: A critique of futurism (2005) (0)
Daydreamers, visionaries, and treasure hunters revolutionizing business (2012) (0)
Focused and fired up: Narrowed attention produces perceived proximity and increases goal-relevant action (2014) (0)
Task demand not so damning: Improved techniques that mitigate demand in studies that support top-down effects (2016) (0)
Future Tests of Motivated Distance Perception From Multiple Perspectives (2016) (0)
The call for ecological validity is right but missing perceptual idiosyncrasies is wrong (2022) (0)
Accuracy and bias in emotion perception predict affective response to relationship conflict (2015) (0)
Message Framing and Health Choices (2020) (0)
The Handbook of Impression Formation (2022) (0)

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