Dr. Stein researches how people’s decisions, social beliefs, and economic understanding are shaped by how they determine what is real and what’s not.
Recent Publications:
1. Stein, R., & Meyersohn, C.* (2024). Whose pants are on fire? Journalists correcting false claims are distrusted more than journalists confirming claims. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502241262377.
2. Stein. R., Iurchenko, D., & Schwartz, T.* (2024). The role of actively open-minded thinking and control orientation in venture capital investment outcomes. Venture Capital. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691066.2024.2365252.
3. Stein, R., Swan, A. B., & Sarraf, M.* (2021). Hearing from both sides: differences between liberal and conservative attitudes toward scientific and experiential evidence. Political Psychology, 42(3), 443-461. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12706.
4. Stein, R., & Swan, A. B. (2019). Evaluating the validity of Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator theory: A teaching tool and window into intuitive psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12434.
5. Stein, R., & Swan, A. B. (2019). Deeply Confusing: Conflating Difficulty With Deep Revelation on Personality Assessment. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(4), 514–521. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618766409.
6. Stein, R. (2017). “Trumping” conformity: Urges towards conformity to ingroups and nonconformity to morally opposed outgroups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 34-40. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.12.007.
7. Williams, Lawrence E., Randy Stein, and Laura Galguera-Garcia (2014). “The Distinct Affective Consequences of Psychological Distance and Construal Level,” Journal of Consumer Research, 40, 1123-1138. https://doi.org/10.1086/674212.
8. Stein, Randy (2013). “The Pull of the Group: Conscious Conflict and the Involuntary Tendency Towards Conformity,” Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 788-794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.04.009.