| The illusion of moral superiority BM Tappin, RT McKay Social psychological and personality science 8 (6), 623-631, 2017 | 172 | 2017 |
| Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference BM Tappin, G Pennycook, D Rand Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 34, 81-87, 2020 | 153 | 2020 |
| The heart trumps the head: Desirability bias in political belief revision BM Tappin, L Van Der Leer, RT McKay Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 146 (8), 1143, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning BM Tappin, G Pennycook, D Rand Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020 | 118 | 2020 |
| Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating BM Tappin, G Pennycook, DG Rand Cognition 204, 104375, 2020 | 110* | 2020 |
| Doing good vs. avoiding bad in prosocial choice: A refined test and extension of the morality preference hypothesis BM Tappin, V Capraro Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 79, 64-70, 2018 | 106 | 2018 |
| Moral polarization and out-party hostility in the US political context BM Tappin, RT McKay Journal of Social and Political Psychology 7 (1), 213-245, 2019 | 82 | 2019 |
| A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being S Hoogeveen, A Sarafoglou, B Aczel, Y Aditya, AJ Alayan, PJ Allen, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (3), 237-283, 2023 | 80 | 2023 |
| The (minimal) persuasive advantage of political video over text C Wittenberg, BM Tappin, A Berinsky, D Rand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 | 78* | 2021 |
| Biased belief in the Bayesian brain: A deeper look at the evidence BM Tappin, S Gadsby Consciousness and Cognition 68, 107-114, 2019 | 52 | 2019 |
| Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting BM Tappin, C Wittenberg, LB Hewitt, AJ Berinsky, DG Rand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (25), e2216261120, 2023 | 47 | 2023 |
| The relationship between salivary C-reactive protein and cognitive function in children aged 11–14 years: Does psychopathology have a moderating effect? AE Cullen, BM Tappin, PA Zunszain, H Dickson, RE Roberts, ... Brain, behavior, and immunity 66, 221-229, 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues BM Tappin, AJ Berinsky, DG Rand Nature human behaviour 7 (4), 568-582, 2023 | 39 | 2023 |
| Estimating the between-issue variation in party elite cue effects BM Tappin Public Opinion Quarterly 86 (4), 862-885, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
| Does observability amplify sensitivity to moral frames? Evaluating a reputation-based account of moral preferences V Capraro, JJ Jordan, BM Tappin Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 94, 104103, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Investigating the relationship between self-perceived moral superiority and moral behavior using economic games BM Tappin, RT McKay Social Psychological and Personality Science 10 (2), 135-143, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample MN Stagnaro, BM Tappin, DG Rand Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (32), e2301491120, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Estimating the persistence of party cue influence in a panel survey experiment BM Tappin, LB Hewitt Journal of Experimental Political Science 10 (1), 50-61, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Comparing the persuasiveness of role-playing large language models and human experts on polarized US political issues K Hackenburg, L Ibrahim, BM Tappin, M Tsakiris OSF Preprints 10, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| How experiments help campaigns persuade voters: evidence from a large archive of campaigns’ own experiments L Hewitt, D Broockman, A Coppock, BM Tappin, J Slezak, V Coffman, ... American Political Science Review, 2024 | 9 | 2024 |
David G. RandErwin H. Schell Professor, MIT SloanVerified email at mit.edu
