Publications from the Lab
March, D. S. (in press). Morbid Curiosity as an adapted approach motivation to ambiguous but survival relevant stimuli. Psychological Review. [PDF]
March, D. S. & Olson, M. A. (2025). CFS-VR: Software for studying unconscious cognition with a VR headset using continuous flash suppression. Social Cognition, 5, 502-518. [PDF]
Olivett, V., Stultz, M., & March, D. S. (2025). Downward spiral: Police-threat associations and perceptions of aggression during arrests are mutually reinforcing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
March, D. S., Lesick, T., Olivett, V., & Maranges, H. M. (2025). View from the right: Political orientation and the association between Black and physical threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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Lesick, T., & March, D. S. (2024). Perceptions of the legal system contribute to pro-Black (versus -White) effects in criminal justice research. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. [PDF]
March, D. S., Hasty, C., & Olivett, V. J. (2024). The threat sensitivity scale: A brief self-report measure of dispositional sensitivity toward perceiving threats to physical harm. Scientific Reports, 14, 11304. [PDF]
Zsido, A. N., Hout, M C., March, D. S., Coelho, C. M. & Polák, J. (2024). Towards an understanding of the cognitive mechanisms involved in threat processing and perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1427224. [HTML]
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March, D. S. (2024). Ignorance is not bliss: On issues measuring the awareness of suboptimal stimuli. Social Cognition, 42, 27-60. [PDF]
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Olivett, V. J., & March, D. S. (2024). The civilian’s dilemma: Civilians exhibit automatic defensive responses to the police. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126, 841-851. [PDF]
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March, D. S. (2023). Perceiving a danger within: Black Americans associate Black men with physical threat. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14, 942-951. [PDF]
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A blog about this research can be found here.
Zsido, A. N., Inhof, O., Kiss, B. L., Bali, C., & March, D. S. (2023). Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution – A study on snake fear. People and Nature, 6, 973-986. [PDF]
Zhao, C., Liu, Q., March D. S., Hicks, L. L., McNulty J. K. (2023). Leveraging impression management motives to increase the use of face masks. Journal of Social Psychology. Advanced Online Publication. [PDF]
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March, D., Olson, M., & Gaertner, L. (2023). Automatic threat processing shows evidence of exclusivity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, 131. [PDF]
Olivett, V., Maranges, H. M., & March D. S. (2023). The unique roles of threat perception and misinformation accuracy judgments in the relationship between political orientation and COVID-19 health behaviors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53, 508-518. [PDF]
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Grossmann, I., Rotella, A. M., Hutcherson, C., Sharpinskyi, C., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S., … March, D. S., … Wilkening, T. (2023). Insights into accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behavior, 7, 484-501. [PDF]
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Kievit, D. L., LaCosse, J., Mallinas, S. R., March, D. S., Kuntsman, J. W., Zabel, K. L., Olson, M. A., & Plant, E. A. (2023). Changes in motivations track shifts in the U.S. sociopolitical climate. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26, 934-952. [PDF]
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March, D., & Gaertner, L. (2022). Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E142. [PDF]
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March, D., S. & Gaertner, L., & Olson, M. A. (2022). On the automatic nature of threat: Physiological and evaluative responses to survival-threats outside conscious perception. Affective Science, 3, 135-144. [PDF]
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Coles, N. A., March, D. S., Marmolejo-Ramos, F. [and 30 others] (2022). The Many Smiles Collaboration: A multi-lab foundational test of the facial feedback hypothesis. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1731-1742. [PDF]
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Olson, M. A., McNulty, J. K., March, D., S., Joiner, T. E., Rogers, M. L., Hicks, L. L. (2022). Automatic and controlled antecedents of suicidal ideation and action: A dual-process conceptualization of suicidality. Psychological Review, 129, 388-414. [PDF]
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Olivett, V. J., & March, D. S. (2021). White civilians’ implicit danger evaluation of police officers underlies explicit perception of police. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, 81-91. [PDF]
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March, D., S. & Gaertner, L., & Olson, M. A. (2021). Danger or dislike: Distinguishing threat from valence as sources of automatic anti-Black attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121, 984-1004. [PDF]
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March, D., S. & Gaertner, L. (2021). A Method for Estimating the Time of Initiating Correct Categorization in Mouse-Tracking. Behavior Research Methods. 53, 2439-2449. [PDF]
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A blog about this research can be found here.
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You can find a complete run down on the TICC method on this page.
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Schmidt, N. B., Martin, A. D., Allan, N. P., Mathes, B. M., Saulnier, K. G., & March, D., S. (2021). Actual versus perceived infection rates of COVID-19: Impact on distress, behavior and disability. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 137, 154-164. [PDF]
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March, D., S., Olson, M., A., & Gaertner, L. (2020). Lions, and Tigers, and Implicit Measures, Oh My! Implicit Assessment and the Valence vs. Threat Distinction. Social Cognition, 38, 154-164. [PDF]
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Fritzlen, K., Phillips, J., March, D. S, Olson, M. (2019). I know (what) you are, but what am I? The effect of recategorization threat and perceived immutability on prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 94-108. [PDF]
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March, D. S., Olson, M. A., & Gaertner, L. (2018). On logical and mathematical boxes: Does the attitudinal entropy framework expand our understanding of attitudes? Psychological Inquiry, 4, 196-199. [PDF]
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March, D. S., Olson, M. A, & Fazio, R. H. (2018). The Implicit Misattribution Model of evaluative conditioning. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13, e27574. [PDF]
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March, D. S., Gaertner, L., & Olson, M. A. (2018). On the prioritized processing of threat in a dual implicit process model of evaluation. Psychological Inquiry, 19, 1-13. (Target Article) [PDF]
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March, D. S., Gaertner, L., & Olson, M. A. (2018). Clarifying the explanatory scope of the Dual Implicit Process model. Psychological Inquiry, 19, 37-43. (Response to Commentaries) [PDF]
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March, D. S., Gaertner, L., & Olson, M. A. (2017). In harm’s way: On preferential response to threatening stimuli. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 1519-1529. [PDF]
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Salvatore, J. F., Meltzer, A. L., March, D. S., & Gaertner, L. (2017). Strangers with benefits: Attraction to outgroup men increases as fertility increases across the menstrual cycle. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 204-217. [PDF]
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March, D. S., Kendrick, R., Fritzlen, K., & Olson, M. A. (2016). News media depictions of Obama influence automatic evaluative associations: Implications for the Obama Effect. Social Cognition, 34, 502-522. [PDF]
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March, D. S. & Graham, R. (2015). Exploring implicit ingroup and outgroup associations toward Hispanics. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18, 89-103. [PDF]
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