All Stories

  1. Boredom Increases Impulsiveness

    Article • Social Psychology, September 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  2. Going to political extremes in response to boredom

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  3. Practicing What We Preach: Investigating the Role of Social Support in Sport Psychologists’ Well-Being

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2015, Frontiers

    Dr. Eric R. Igou, Prof Deirdre E. O'Shea

  4. Ahead of others in the authorship order: names with middle initials appear earlier in author lists of academic articles in psychology

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2015, Frontiers

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  5. Eaten up by boredom: consuming food to escape awareness of the bored self

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2015, Frontiers

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  6. How Dyads Reminiscence Moderates the Relations Between Familiarity, Trust, and Memory Conformity

    Article • Social Psychology, March 2015, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  7. Lay perspectives on the social and psychological functions of heroes

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2015, Frontiers

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  8. Zeroing in on heroes: A prototype analysis of hero features.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  9. Metacognition and action: a new pathway to understanding social and cognitive aspects of expertise in sport

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2014, Frontiers

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  10. The impact of middle names: Middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  11. Moving Onwards: An Action Continuation Strategy in Finding the Way

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  12. From Van Gogh to Lady Gaga: Artist eccentricity increases perceived artistic skill and art appreciation

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, January 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  13. In search of meaningfulness: Nostalgia as an antidote to boredom.

    Article • Emotion, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  14. Preference Judgments (Individuals)

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  15. On Boredom and Social Identity

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

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  16. On boredom: Lack of challenge and meaning as distinct boredom experiences

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

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  17. "How long will I suffer?" versus "How long will you suffer?" A self-other effect in affective forecasting.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  18. Conversational Expectations as a Basis for Order Effects in Persuasion

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, September 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  19. Additional Thoughts on Conversational and Motivational Sources of the Dilution Effect

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  20. On undesirable consequences of thinking: framing effects as a function of substantive processing

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, January 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  21. Positive Mood and Future-Oriented Self-Evaluation

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  22. The Conversational Basis for the Dilution Effect

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, March 2005, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  23. Lay theories in affective forecasting: The progression of affect

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, July 2004, Elsevier

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  24. Inferring the importance of arguments: Order effects and conversational rules

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  25. Making sense of standardized survey questions: The influence of reference periods and their repetition

    Article • Communication Monographs, June 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Norbert Schwarz, Dr. Eric R. Igou

  26. Next to a Star: Paling, Shining, or Both? Turning Interexemplar Contrast into Interexemplar Assimilation

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, January 2001, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Eric R. Igou

  27. Reducing Context Effects by Adding Context Information: The Direction and Size of Context Effects in Political Judgment

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, November 2000, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Eric R. Igou, Professor Norbert Schwarz