All Stories

  1. Promotion‐ or Prevention‐Focused Self‐Evaluation and the Preferential Pursuit of More Desirable Romantic Partners

    Article • Journal of Personality, December 2025, Wiley

    Daniel Molden

  2. The moderating role of democratic governance in the association between personal values and political ideologies

    Article • Political Psychology, November 2023, Wiley

    Daniel Molden

  3. The Open Anchoring Quest Dataset: Anchored Estimates from 96 Studies on Anchoring Effects

    Article • Journal of Open Psychology Data, October 2022, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr. Eliran Halali, Zoran Pavlović, Daniel Molden

  4. Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning

    Article • European Journal of Personality, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  5. A motivational systems approach to investigating opinions on climate change

    Article • Thinking & Reasoning, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Daniel Molden

  6. Predicting Romantic Interest during Early Relationship Development: A Preregistered Investigation using Machine Learning

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Daniel Molden

  7. Negligible evidence that people desire partners who uniquely fit their ideals

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  8. When and How Different Motives Can Drive Motivated Political Reasoning

    Article • Political Psychology, April 2020, Wiley

    Daniel Molden

  9. Expanding minds: Growth mindsets of self-regulation and the influences on effort and perseverance

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2018, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  10. Effortful experiences of self-control foster lay theories that self-control is limited

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2018, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  11. Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Michelangelo Vianello, Professor Seth M Spain, Feng Bai, Daniel Molden

  12. Identity-specific motivation: How distinct identities direct self-regulation across distinct situations.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, December 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Alexander Browman, Daniel Molden

  13. What limits self-control?

    Article • October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Daniel Molden

  14. What Makes Self-Control So Difficult?

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Daniel Molden, Abigail Scholer

  15. Data from a pre-publication independent replication initiative examining ten moral judgement effects

    Article • Scientific Data, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Michelangelo Vianello, Walter Sowden, Daniel Molden

  16. Beyond Affective Influences on Deontological Moral Judgment: The Role of Motivations for Prevention in the Moral Condemnation of Harm

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  17. The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Michelangelo Vianello, Walter Sowden, Daniel Molden

  18. Maintaining Commitment in the Presence of Alternative Opportunities: The Role of Motivations for Prevention or Promotion

    Article • Social Cognition, December 2014, Guilford Publications

    Daniel Molden

  19. Promotion- and Prevention-Focused Networking and Its Consequences for Entrepreneurial Success

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  20. Understanding Priming Effects in Social Psychology: An Overview and Integration

    Article • Social Cognition, June 2014, Guilford Publications

    Daniel Molden

  21. An expanded perspective on the role of effort phenomenology in motivation and performance

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Daniel Molden

  22. Loving freedom: Concerns with promotion or prevention and the role of autonomy in relationship well-being.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, July 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Molden

  23. Motivations for Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships

    Article • April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Daniel Molden

  24. How and When Exclusion Motivates Social Reconnection

    Article • April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Daniel Molden

  25. Opposites Fit: Regulatory Focus Complementarity and Relationship Well-Being

    Article • Social Cognition, February 2013, Guilford Publications

    Daniel Molden

  26. Motivated Thinking

    Article • January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  27. Motivational Versus Metabolic Effects of Carbohydrates on Self-Control

    Article • Psychological Science, September 2012, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  28. Motivated Strategies for Judgment: How Preferences for Particular Judgment Processes can Affect Judgment Outcomes

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, February 2012, Wiley

    Daniel Molden

  29. Primed interference: The cognitive and behavioral costs of an incongruity between chronic and primed motivational orientations.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Molden

  30. Why Do(n’t) Your Partner’s Efforts at Self-Improvement Make You Happy? An Implicit Theories Perspective

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, August 2011, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  31. Motivating political preferences: Concerns with promotion and prevention as predictors of public policy attitudes

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniel Molden

  32. Does Easily Learned Mean Easily Remembered?

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  33. Hoping for the Best or Preparing for the Worst? Regulatory Focus and Preferences for Optimism and Pessimism in Predicting Personal Outcomes

    Article • Social Cognition, February 2011, Guilford Publications

    Daniel Molden

  34. Leveraging Motivational Mindsets to Foster Positive Interracial Interactions

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, February 2011, Wiley

    Daniel Molden

  35. The automatic and co-occurring activation of multiple social inferences

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, January 2011, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  36. Promoting De-Escalation of Commitment

    Article • Psychological Science, November 2010, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  37. Increasing Social Engagement Among Lonely Individuals: The Role of Acceptance Cues and Promotion Motivations

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, September 2010, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  38. Motivations for promotion and prevention and the role of trust and commitment in interpersonal forgiveness

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  39. Naive theories of intelligence and the role of processing fluency in perceived comprehension.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Molden

  40. There’s No Substitute for Belonging: Self-Affirmation Following Social and Nonsocial Threats

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  41. Motivated comprehension regulation: Vigilant versus eager metacognitive control

    Article • Memory & Cognition, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniel Molden

  42. Perceived Support for Promotion-Focused and Prevention-Focused Goals

    Article • Psychological Science, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  43. Incidental Experiences of Regulatory Fit and the Processing of Persuasive Appeals

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Daniel Molden

  44. Motivations for prevention or promotion following social exclusion: Being rejected versus being ignored.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, February 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Molden

  45. Finding Meaning in Others' Intentions: The Process of Judging Intentional Behaviors and Intentionality Itself

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Daniel Molden

  46. How preferences for eager versus vigilant judgment strategies affect self-serving conclusions

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2008, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  47. The promise and peril of self-affirmation in de-escalation of commitment

    Article • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, September 2008, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  48. “Meaningful” social inferences: Effects of implicit theories on inferential processes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2006, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden

  49. Finding "Meaning" in Psychology: A Lay Theories Approach to Self-Regulation, Social Perception, and Social Development.

    Article • American Psychologist, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Molden

  50. Categorization Under Uncertainty: Resolving Vagueness and Ambiguity With Eager Versus Vigilant Strategies

    Article • Social Cognition, April 2004, Guilford Publications

    Daniel Molden

  51. Transfer of value from fit.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Molden

  52. Promotion and prevention focus on alternative hypotheses: Implications for attributional functions.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Daniel Molden

  53. Meaning and motivation

    Article • January 2000, Elsevier

    Daniel Molden