Publications

Publications

1. Goya-Tocchetto, D., Lawson, M. A.*, Davidai, S., Larrick, R. P., Payne, B. K. (in press). Income inequality depresses support for higher minimum wages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

2. Lawson, M. A., & Kakkar, H. (2024). Resolving Conflicting Findings in Misinformation Research: A Methodological Perspective. Advances in Psychology. paper

3. Davidai, S., Goya-Tocchetto, D., & Lawson, M. A. (2024). Economic segregation is associated with reduced concerns about economic inequality. Nature Communications, 15(1), 5655. paper 

4. Lawson, M. A., Anand, S., & Kakkar, H. (2023). Tribalism and Tribulations: The Social Costs of Not Sharing Fake News. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(3), 611-631. paper 

5. Lawson, M. A., Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2022). When and why people perform mindless math. Judgment and Decision Making, 17(6). paper

6. Lawson, M. A., & Matz, S. C. (2022). Saying more than we know: How language provides a window into the human psyche. In S. C. Matz (Ed.), The psychology of technology: Social science research in the age of Big Data (pp. 45–85). American Psychological Association. 

7. Lawson, M. A., Martin, A. E., Huda, I., & Matz, S. C. (2022). Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(9). paper

8. Lawson, M. A., & Kakkar, H. (2022). Of Pandemics, Politics, and Personality: The Role of Conscientiousness and Political Ideology in Sharing of Fake News. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(5), 1154–1177. paper

9. Larrick, R. P., & Lawson, M. A. (2021). Judgment and Decision-Making Processes. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. paper

10. Lawson, M. A., Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2020). Comparing fast thinking and slow thinking: The relative benefits of interventions, individual differences, and inferential rules. Judgment and Decision Making, 15(5), 660-684. paper

*Joint first authors.

Working papers

1. Lawson, M. A., Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2024). The Overconfidence Test: A parsimonious measure of trait-level overconfidence. Available at SSRN 4893481. paper 

2. Lawson, M. A., Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2023). Individual differences in overconfidence and their psychological bases. Available at SSRN 4558486. paper