Aaron L Wichman
Biographic Data
| ID | 260568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron L Wichman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wichman |
| SIGNATURE | WICHMAN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Kentucky University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2641-440X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Attraction with an asterisk: A conjoint analysis of desirability, bias, and political judgments toward transgender women in relationship decision-making
The Regulation of Personal Security
Although most motivational psychologists recognize that security is important for healthy development and functioning (e.g., attachment theory), we add to prior work by proposing that the ongoing regulation of security under potential threat involves three unique features. Specifically, security regulation involves an initial preconscious system of threat processing (neuroception) and an internally (vs. externally) generated stop signal of goal c…
Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Self-Doubt Effects Depend on Beliefs about Ability: Experimental Evidence
Past research has shown negative effects of chronic self-doubt on psychological and performance outcomes. Recent correlational evidence suggests that incremental beliefs about ability ameliorate certain self-doubt effects. The current research examines whether these correlational findings are robust when subjected to experimental testing. In Experiment 1, we manipulated beliefs about ability (incremental vs. entity) and demonstrated that changing…
Incremental Beliefs About Ability Ameliorate Self-Doubt Effects
Past research has typically shown negative effects of self-doubt on performance and psychological well-being. We suggest that these self-doubt effects largely may be due to an underlying assumption that ability is innate and fixed. The present research investigated the main hypothesis that incremental beliefs about ability might ameliorate negative effects of self-doubt. We examined our hypotheses using two lab tasks: verbal reasoning and anagram…
Handbook of Personal Security
Investigating Variation in Replicability: A “Many Labs” Replication Project
Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, 10 effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prejudice – showed weak support for replicability. And two effects – flag priming influencing conservatism and …
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
While direct replications such as the “Many Labs” project are extremely valuable in testing the reliability of published findings across laboratories, they reflect the common reliance in psychology on single vignettes or stimuli, which limits the scope of the conclusions that can be reached. New experimental tools and statistical techniques make it easier to routinely sample stimuli, and to appropriately treat them as random factors. We encourage…
Uncertainty Threat and Inhibition of Compensatory Behaviors: A Goal Conflict Management Perspective
Much research on uncertainty focuses on the compensatory responses that this psychological threat can trigger. Previous work has provided considerable insight into the kinds of effects that uncertainty can cause, but provides somewhat less insight into the actual process of uncertainty management. We consider this process from the perspective of uncertainty as a signal of goal conflict, and suggest that this conflict can be conceptualized in term…
Uncertainty Threat Can Cause Stereotyping: The Moderating Role of Personal Need for Structure
Uncertainty threats can cause a wide range of compensatory responses. The present research demonstrates how uncertainty threat can cause a particular response with significant social consequences: stereotyping. Participants in this study completed a measure of implicit stereotyping after being exposed to an uncertainty threat or not. They also completed an individual difference measure to tap into their needs for predictability and structure. Res…
Understanding the motivational consequences of extreme school violence through the lens of mortality salience: The case of academic self-stereotyping in math
Uncertainty and religious reactivity: Uncertainty compensation, repair, and inoculation
Recent research conducted in Western, democratic societies indicates that temporary uncertainty inductions lead to intolerance of religious dissent, increased conviction in religious attitudes, and even increased support for holy war. Past and current conflicts based on religious ideology underscore the danger such responses to uncertainty can pose. This paper responds to the need to learn how to control responses to uncertainty. After having con…
Causal uncertainty as a chronically accessible construct
Causal uncertainty refers to feelings that one may not understand the causes of events. A number of studies have shown that causal uncertainty has significant effects on people's processing of information and on important life outcomes. Weary and Edwards have postulated that causal uncertainty is, in part, a cognitive construct that can vary in its accessibility. This assumption has allowed for a variety of predictions to be made about the causes…
Doubting one’s doubt: A formula for confidence
Immediate and delayed effects of causal uncertainty inductions on uncertainty accessibility
Investigating Variation in Replicability: A “Many Labs” Replication Project
Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, 10 effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prejudice – showed weak support for replicability. And two effects – flag priming influencing conservatism and …
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
While direct replications such as the “Many Labs” project are extremely valuable in testing the reliability of published findings across laboratories, they reflect the common reliance in psychology on single vignettes or stimuli, which limits the scope of the conclusions that can be reached. New experimental tools and statistical techniques make it easier to routinely sample stimuli, and to appropriately treat them as random factors. We encourage…
Immediate and delayed effects of causal uncertainty inductions on uncertainty accessibility
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Self-Doubt Effects Depend on Beliefs about Ability: Experimental Evidence
Past research has shown negative effects of chronic self-doubt on psychological and performance outcomes. Recent correlational evidence suggests that incremental beliefs about ability ameliorate certain self-doubt effects. The current research examines whether these correlational findings are robust when subjected to experimental testing. In Experiment 1, we manipulated beliefs about ability (incremental vs. entity) and demonstrated that changing…
Causal uncertainty as a chronically accessible construct
Causal uncertainty refers to feelings that one may not understand the causes of events. A number of studies have shown that causal uncertainty has significant effects on people's processing of information and on important life outcomes. Weary and Edwards have postulated that causal uncertainty is, in part, a cognitive construct that can vary in its accessibility. This assumption has allowed for a variety of predictions to be made about the causes…
Uncertainty and religious reactivity: Uncertainty compensation, repair, and inoculation
Recent research conducted in Western, democratic societies indicates that temporary uncertainty inductions lead to intolerance of religious dissent, increased conviction in religious attitudes, and even increased support for holy war. Past and current conflicts based on religious ideology underscore the danger such responses to uncertainty can pose. This paper responds to the need to learn how to control responses to uncertainty. After having con…
Doubting one’s doubt: A formula for confidence
Immediate and delayed effects of causal uncertainty inductions on uncertainty accessibility
Causal uncertainty as a chronically accessible construct
Causal uncertainty refers to feelings that one may not understand the causes of events. A number of studies have shown that causal uncertainty has significant effects on people's processing of information and on important life outcomes. Weary and Edwards have postulated that causal uncertainty is, in part, a cognitive construct that can vary in its accessibility. This assumption has allowed for a variety of predictions to be made about the causes…
Doubting one’s doubt: A formula for confidence
Uncertainty and religious reactivity: Uncertainty compensation, repair, and inoculation
Recent research conducted in Western, democratic societies indicates that temporary uncertainty inductions lead to intolerance of religious dissent, increased conviction in religious attitudes, and even increased support for holy war. Past and current conflicts based on religious ideology underscore the danger such responses to uncertainty can pose. This paper responds to the need to learn how to control responses to uncertainty. After having con…
Uncertainty Threat Can Cause Stereotyping: The Moderating Role of Personal Need for Structure
Uncertainty threats can cause a wide range of compensatory responses. The present research demonstrates how uncertainty threat can cause a particular response with significant social consequences: stereotyping. Participants in this study completed a measure of implicit stereotyping after being exposed to an uncertainty threat or not. They also completed an individual difference measure to tap into their needs for predictability and structure. Res…
Understanding the motivational consequences of extreme school violence through the lens of mortality salience: The case of academic self-stereotyping in math
Uncertainty Threat and Inhibition of Compensatory Behaviors: A Goal Conflict Management Perspective
Much research on uncertainty focuses on the compensatory responses that this psychological threat can trigger. Previous work has provided considerable insight into the kinds of effects that uncertainty can cause, but provides somewhat less insight into the actual process of uncertainty management. We consider this process from the perspective of uncertainty as a signal of goal conflict, and suggest that this conflict can be conceptualized in term…
Investigating Variation in Replicability: A “Many Labs” Replication Project
Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344 participants. In the aggregate, 10 effects replicated consistently. One effect – imagined contact reducing prejudice – showed weak support for replicability. And two effects – flag priming influencing conservatism and …
Commentaries and Rejoinder on
While direct replications such as the “Many Labs” project are extremely valuable in testing the reliability of published findings across laboratories, they reflect the common reliance in psychology on single vignettes or stimuli, which limits the scope of the conclusions that can be reached. New experimental tools and statistical techniques make it easier to routinely sample stimuli, and to appropriately treat them as random factors. We encourage…
Incremental Beliefs About Ability Ameliorate Self-Doubt Effects
Past research has typically shown negative effects of self-doubt on performance and psychological well-being. We suggest that these self-doubt effects largely may be due to an underlying assumption that ability is innate and fixed. The present research investigated the main hypothesis that incremental beliefs about ability might ameliorate negative effects of self-doubt. We examined our hypotheses using two lab tasks: verbal reasoning and anagram…
Handbook of Personal Security
Self-Doubt Effects Depend on Beliefs about Ability: Experimental Evidence
Past research has shown negative effects of chronic self-doubt on psychological and performance outcomes. Recent correlational evidence suggests that incremental beliefs about ability ameliorate certain self-doubt effects. The current research examines whether these correlational findings are robust when subjected to experimental testing. In Experiment 1, we manipulated beliefs about ability (incremental vs. entity) and demonstrated that changing…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Regulation of Personal Security
Although most motivational psychologists recognize that security is important for healthy development and functioning (e.g., attachment theory), we add to prior work by proposing that the ongoing regulation of security under potential threat involves three unique features. Specifically, security regulation involves an initial preconscious system of threat processing (neuroception) and an internally (vs. externally) generated stop signal of goal c…
Attraction with an asterisk: A conjoint analysis of desirability, bias, and political judgments toward transgender women in relationship decision-making
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (4 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)