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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Brady, W.J. & Van Bavel, J.J. (invited resubmission - Perspectives on Psychological Science). The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The role of motivation, attention and design in the spread of moralized content online. [PDF Preprint]
Reinero, D., Wills, J.A., Brady, W.J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., & Van Bavel, J.J. (invited resubmission - Nature Human Behaviour). Is the ideological slant of psychological research related to scientific reproducibility?
[OSF pre-registration] [PDF Preprint]Brady, W.J., Gantman, A., & Van Bavel J.J. (accepted). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General). Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral online. [PDF Preprint] [Data + Code]
Brady, W.J. & Crockett, M.J. (2019). How effective is online outrage? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(2), 79-80. [PDF]
Brady, W.J., Wills, J.A., Burkart, D., Jost, J.T. & Van Bavel, J.J. (2018). An Ideological asymmetry in the diffusion of moralized content among political leaders. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [PDF] [Data + Code]
Brady, W. J., Wills, J. A., Jost, J. T., Tucker, J. A. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2017). Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(28), 7313-7318. [PDF] [Data + Code]
Van Bavel, J. J., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Brady, W. J., & Reinero, D. A. (2016). Reply to Inbar: Contextual sensitivity helps explain the reproducibility gap between social and cognitive psychology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(34), E4935. [PDF] [Data + Code]
Van Bavel, J.J., Mende-Sedlecki, P., Brady, W.J., & Reinero, D. (2016). Contextual sensitivity in scientific reproducibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(23), 6454-6459. [PDF] [Data + Code]
Sheppes, G, Brady, W.J., & Samson, A. (2014). In (visual) Search for a New Distraction: The Efficiency of a Novel Attentional Deployment Versus Semantic Meaning Regulation Strategies. Frontiers in Psychology (5)346. [PDF]
De Brigard, F. & Brady, W.J. (2013). The effect of what we think may happen on our judgments of responsibility. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 1-11. [PDF] [Data]
Under Review and On-Going Projects
Landy, J.F., Jia, M., Ding, L., Viganola, D. Tierney, W, Brady, W.J., . . . Uhlmann, E.L. (invited resubmission - Psychological Bulletin). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results.
Brady, W.J., Periera, A., & Van Bavel, J.J. (data collection on-going). The role of social identity in the spread of moralized content online. [OSF pre-registration]
Brady, W.J., McLoughlin, K., Nguyen, T., & Crockett, M.J. (in prep). Social reinforcement of moral outrage in online social networks.
Brady, W.J., McLoughlin, K., & Crockett, M.J. (invited chapter). Measuring specific social emotions in social media language. The Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology. Guilford Press.
Recent Talks
Brady, W.J., McLoughlin, K., Nguyen, T., & Crockett, M.J. (2019, May). A reinforcement learning theory of moral outrage in the digital age. New Perspectives on Understanding and Improving Political Tolerance. Association for Psychological Science (APS).
Brady, W.J., McLoughlin, K., Nguyen, T., & Crockett, M.J. (2019, May). A reinforcement learning theory of moral outrage in the digital age. University College London Political Cognition Seminar.
Brady, W.J., Pereira, A, Jost, J., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2019, February). The role of social identity in the spread of moralized content online. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Groups and Interpersonal Relations
PreconferenceBrady, W.J., McLoughlin, K., Nguyen, T., & Crockett, M.J. (2019, February). A reinforcement learning theory of moral outrage in the digital age. The functions and perils of moral outrage. Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
