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Social, Moral, and Political
Psychology Lab

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”

Publications

Students' names are italicized below. * = equal authorship.

Representative Publications

Lee, S. W. S., Chen, K., Ma, C., & Hoang, J. (2024). Wipe it off: A meta-analytic review of the psychological consequences and antecedents of physical cleansing. Psychological Bulletin, 150, 355-398.

Editor's Choice, American Psychological Association (“selected by APA Journal Editors,” “Editor’s Choice papers represent the best science in each area of our discipline, reflecting science that is exceptionally important, impactful, and deserves additional visibility for the whole field”)
Supplemental Material

*Lee, S. W. S., & *Ma, C. (2023). Pain sensitivity predicts support for moral and political views across the aisle. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 1239-1264.

Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award, International Social Cognition Network (“the only paper that we are designating for special recognition as an honorable mention” this year for its “outstanding work”)
Supplemental Material

Philipp-Muller, A., Lee, S. W. S., & Petty, R. E. (2022). Why are people antiscience, and what can we do about it? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2120755119.

Supplementary Information

Cecutti, L., Chemero, A., & Lee, S. W. S. (2021). Technology may change cognition without necessarily harming it. Nature Human Behaviour.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2021). Grounded procedures: A proximate mechanism for the psychology of cleansing and other physical actions [Target Article]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e1: 1-69.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2010a). Washing away postdecisional dissonance. Science, 328, 709.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2010b). Dirty hands and dirty mouths: Embodiment of the moral-purity metaphor is specific to the motor modality involved in moral transgression. Psychological Science, 21, 1423-1425.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2012). Bidirectionality, mediation, and moderation of metaphorical effects: The embodiment of social suspicion and fishy smells. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 737-749.

Oyserman, D., & Lee, S. W. S. (2008). Does culture influence what and how we think? Effects of priming individualism and collectivism. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 311-342.

Supplemental Material (Appendix B)

Other Journal Articles

You, Z. T., & Lee, S. W. S. (2024). Explanations of and interventions against affective polarization cannot afford to ignore the power of ingroup norm perception. PNAS Nexus, 3, pgae286:1-13.

Ramezani, A., Liu, E., Lee, S. W. S., & Xu, Y. (2024). Quantifying the emergence of moral foundational lexicon in child language development. PNAS Nexus, 3, 278-292.

Supplementary Material

Lee, S. W. S., Millet, K., Grinstein, A., Pauwels, K., Johnston, P. R., Volkov, A. E., & van der Wal, A. (2023). Actual and simulated cleaning attenuate psychological and physiological effects of stressful events. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 381-394.

Supplemental Material

Cecutti, L., & Lee, S. W. S. (2023). Physical firmness increases structural alignment. Scientific Reports, 13, 894.

Prystawski, B., Grant, E., Nematzadeh, A., Lee, S. W. S., Stevenson, S., & Xu, Y. (2022). The emergence of gender associations in child language development. Cognitive Science.

Supporting Information

Johnston, P. R., Volkov, A. E., Ryan, W. S., & Lee, S. W. S. (2022). Planning, conducting, and analyzing a psychophysiological experiment on challenge and threat: A comprehensive tutorial. Behavior Research Methods.

Lee, S. W. S. (2021). "Social priming" through the lens of sociology of science: Fuzzy boundary, personal experience, and broader atmosphere. Psychological Inquiry, 32, 41-44. [commentary]

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2021). Grounded procedures in mind and society [Authors' Reply]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e29.

Lee, S. W. S., Huang, J. Y., & Schwarz, N. (2020). Risk overgeneralization in times of a contagious disease threat. Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2018). A grounded cognition perspective on folk-economic beliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e175. [commentary]

Krishna, A., Lee, S. W. S., Li, X., & Schwarz. N. (2017). Embodied cognition, sensory marketing, and the conceptualization of consumers' judgment and decision processes. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2, 377-381.

Lee, S. W. S. (2016). Multimodal priming of abstract constructs. Current Opinion in Psychology, 12, 37-44.

Lee, S. W. S., Tang, H., Wan, J., Mai, X., & Liu, C. (2015). A cultural look at moral purity: Wiping the face clean. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 577.

Academic Minute

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2014). Framing love: When it hurts to think we were made for each other. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 61-67.

AudioSlides

Uskul, A. K., Oyserman, D., Schwarz, N., Lee, S. W. S., & Xu, A. J. (2013). How successful you have been in life depends on the response scale used: The role of cultural mindsets in pragmatic inferences drawn from question format. Social Cognition, 31, 222-236.

Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Lee, S. W. S., et al. (2012). Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism: Personhood beliefs across 37 national groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44, 24-45.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2011). Wiping the slate clean: Psychological consequences of physical cleansing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 307-311.

Lee, S. W. S., Schwarz, N., Taubman, D., & Hou, M. (2010). Sneezing in times of a flu pandemic: Public sneezing increases perceptions of unrelated risks and shifts preferences for federal spending. Psychological Science, 21, 375-377.

Lee, S. W. S., Oyserman, D., & Bond, M. H. (2010). Am I doing better than you? That depends on whether you ask me in English or Chinese: Self-enhancement effects of language as a cultural mindset prime. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 785-791.

Book Chapters

Cecutti, L., & Lee, S. W. S. (2024). Social cognition is grounded in physical reality. In D. E. Carlston, K. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social cognition (2nd ed., pp. 273-295). New York: Oxford University Press.

Lee, S. W. S., & Cecutti, L. (2022). Three mechanisms of mind-body influence: Feelings, concepts, and procedures. In L. R. Kahle, T. M. Lowrey, & J. Huber (Eds.), APA handbook of consumer psychology (pp. 551-580). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Schwarz, N., & Lee, S. W. S. (2019). The smell of suspicion: How the nose curbs gullibility. In J. P. Forgas & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.), The social psychology of gullibility: Fake news, conspiracy theories, and irrational beliefs (pp. 234-252). Abington, Oxon: Routledge.

Schwarz, N., & Lee, S. W. S. (2018). Embodied cognition and the construction of attitudes. In D. Albarracín & B. T. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of attitudes, Vol. 1: Basic Principles (2nd ed., pp. 450-479). New York: Routledge.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz N. (2016). Clean-moral effects and clean-slate effects: Physical cleansing as an embodied procedure of psychological separation. In R. Duschinksy, S. Schnall, & D. H. Weiss (Eds.), Purity and danger now: New perspectives (pp. 136-161). New York: Routledge.

Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2014). Metaphor in judgment and decision making. In M. J. Landau, M. D. Robinson, & B. P. Meier (Eds.), The power of metaphor: Examining its influence on social life (pp. 85-108). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Lee, S. W. S., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2013). Maggots and morals: Physical disgust is to fear as moral disgust is to anger. In K. R. Scherer & J. R. J. Fontaine (Eds.), Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook (pp. 271-280). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Oyserman, D., & Lee, S. W. S. (2008). A situated cognition perspective on culture: Effects of priming cultural syndromes on cognition and motivation. In R. M. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition across cultures (pp. 237-265). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Oyserman, D., & Lee, S. W. S. (2007). Priming culture: Culture as situated cognition. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology (pp. 255-279). New York: Guilford.

Essays

Cecutti, L., & Lee, S. W. S. (2021, August 30). Your smartphone is not making you dumber -- digital tech can enhance our cognitive abilities. The Conversation.

*Wong, M. B., *Lee, S. W. S., & Au, J. S. (2019, September 7). Liberal or conservative, Hongkongers must learn to listen to those they disagree with. South China Morning Post.

Spike. (2019, August 19). 黃絲藍絲道德根基之爭 [Yellow ribbons and blue ribbons: A contest of moral foundations]. 立場新聞 The Stand News.

Lee, S. W. S. (2018). How sensory cues affect our thinking. Rotman Magazine, Winter 2018, 104-107.

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