Matthew L Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 925641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew L Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew L |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | STANLEY M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2551-576X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft
Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation
The consequences of heroization for exploitation
The hero label has become a pervasive positive stereotype applied to many different groups and occupations, such as nurses, teachers, and members of the military. Although meant to show support, appreciation, and even admiration, we suggest that attaching this label to groups and occupations may actually have problematic consequences. Specifically, we theorize that the hero label may affect beliefs about the internal motivations of these group me…
The Role of Structure-Seeking in Moral Punishment
Political orientation and moral judgment of sexual misconduct
In a series of studies in the U.S. (total N participants = 4,828) using both news articles (Studies 1-2) and constructed scenarios (Studies 3-4), we investigated how judgments of responsibility, blame, causal contribution, and punishment for alleged perpetrators and victims of sexual misconduct are influenced by (1) the political orientation of media outlets, (2) participants’ political orientation, and (3) the alleged perpetrators’ political ori…
Heroization and ironic funneling effects
In recent years, much of the American public has venerated military veterans as heroes. Despite overwhelmingly positive public attitudes toward veterans, veterans have experienced higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than their nonveteran peers. The current research leverages theory and research on positive stereotypes to shed light on this seeming inconsistency between the heroization of veterans and their heightened rates of unemplo…
The dark side of generosity: Employees with a reputation for giving are selectively targeted for exploitation
Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation
Prior exposure increases judged truth even during periods of mind wandering
Belief in divine moral authority satisfies the psychological need for structure and increases in the face of perceived injustice
Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 outbreak was labeled a global pandemic by the WHO in March of 2020. During that same month, the number of confirmed cases and the death rate grew exponentially in the United States, creating a serious public-health emergency. Unfortunately, many Americans dismissed the pandemic as a hoax and failed to properly engage in helpful behaviors like social-distancing and increased hand-washing. Here, we examine a disposition—engagement in a…
Cheaters claim they knew the answers all along
Making moral principles suit yourself
Perceived similarity of imagined possible worlds affects judgments of counterfactual plausibility
Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error
Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents
OBJECTIVE: Intellectual humility (IH) refers to the recognition that personal beliefs might be wrong. We investigate possible interpersonal implications of IH for how people perceive the intellectual capabilities and moral character of their sociopolitical opponents and for their willingness to associate with those opponents. METHOD: = 40, 252 females, 314 males), we presented participants with a specific opponent on certain sociopolitical issues…
Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents
Resistance to Position Change, Motivated Reasoning, and Polarization
Network Modularity as a Foundation for Neural Reuse
The neural reuse framework developed primarily by Michael Anderson proposes that brain regions are involved in multiple and diverse cognitive tasks and that brain regions flexibly and dynamically interact in different combinations to carry out cognitive functioning. We argue that the evidence cited by Anderson and others falls short of supporting the fundamental principles of neural reuse. We map out this problem and provide solutions by drawing …
Emotional intensity in episodic autobiographical memory and counterfactual thinking
Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
So simple a thing as a star: The Eddington–Jeans debate over astrophysical phenomenology
Theoretical astrophysics emerged as a significant research programme with the construction of a series of stellar models by A. S. Eddington. This paper examines the controversies surrounding those models as a way of understanding the development and justification of new theoretical technologies. In particular, it examines the challenges raised against Eddington by James Jeans, and explores how the two astronomers championed different visions of w…
Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves
Resistance to Position Change, Motivated Reasoning, and Polarization
Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents
Belief in divine moral authority satisfies the psychological need for structure and increases in the face of perceived injustice
Network Modularity as a Foundation for Neural Reuse
The neural reuse framework developed primarily by Michael Anderson proposes that brain regions are involved in multiple and diverse cognitive tasks and that brain regions flexibly and dynamically interact in different combinations to carry out cognitive functioning. We argue that the evidence cited by Anderson and others falls short of supporting the fundamental principles of neural reuse. We map out this problem and provide solutions by drawing …
Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves
Heroization and ironic funneling effects
In recent years, much of the American public has venerated military veterans as heroes. Despite overwhelmingly positive public attitudes toward veterans, veterans have experienced higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than their nonveteran peers. The current research leverages theory and research on positive stereotypes to shed light on this seeming inconsistency between the heroization of veterans and their heightened rates of unemplo…
Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation
The dark side of generosity: Employees with a reputation for giving are selectively targeted for exploitation
Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation
The consequences of heroization for exploitation
The hero label has become a pervasive positive stereotype applied to many different groups and occupations, such as nurses, teachers, and members of the military. Although meant to show support, appreciation, and even admiration, we suggest that attaching this label to groups and occupations may actually have problematic consequences. Specifically, we theorize that the hero label may affect beliefs about the internal motivations of these group me…
Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves
So simple a thing as a star: The Eddington–Jeans debate over astrophysical phenomenology
Theoretical astrophysics emerged as a significant research programme with the construction of a series of stellar models by A. S. Eddington. This paper examines the controversies surrounding those models as a way of understanding the development and justification of new theoretical technologies. In particular, it examines the challenges raised against Eddington by James Jeans, and explores how the two astronomers championed different visions of w…
Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
Emotional intensity in episodic autobiographical memory and counterfactual thinking
Network Modularity as a Foundation for Neural Reuse
The neural reuse framework developed primarily by Michael Anderson proposes that brain regions are involved in multiple and diverse cognitive tasks and that brain regions flexibly and dynamically interact in different combinations to carry out cognitive functioning. We argue that the evidence cited by Anderson and others falls short of supporting the fundamental principles of neural reuse. We map out this problem and provide solutions by drawing …
Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error
Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents
OBJECTIVE: Intellectual humility (IH) refers to the recognition that personal beliefs might be wrong. We investigate possible interpersonal implications of IH for how people perceive the intellectual capabilities and moral character of their sociopolitical opponents and for their willingness to associate with those opponents. METHOD: = 40, 252 females, 314 males), we presented participants with a specific opponent on certain sociopolitical issues…
Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents
Resistance to Position Change, Motivated Reasoning, and Polarization
Analytic-thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 outbreak was labeled a global pandemic by the WHO in March of 2020. During that same month, the number of confirmed cases and the death rate grew exponentially in the United States, creating a serious public-health emergency. Unfortunately, many Americans dismissed the pandemic as a hoax and failed to properly engage in helpful behaviors like social-distancing and increased hand-washing. Here, we examine a disposition—engagement in a…
Cheaters claim they knew the answers all along
Making moral principles suit yourself
Perceived similarity of imagined possible worlds affects judgments of counterfactual plausibility
Prior exposure increases judged truth even during periods of mind wandering
Belief in divine moral authority satisfies the psychological need for structure and increases in the face of perceived injustice
The Role of Structure-Seeking in Moral Punishment
Political orientation and moral judgment of sexual misconduct
In a series of studies in the U.S. (total N participants = 4,828) using both news articles (Studies 1-2) and constructed scenarios (Studies 3-4), we investigated how judgments of responsibility, blame, causal contribution, and punishment for alleged perpetrators and victims of sexual misconduct are influenced by (1) the political orientation of media outlets, (2) participants’ political orientation, and (3) the alleged perpetrators’ political ori…
Heroization and ironic funneling effects
In recent years, much of the American public has venerated military veterans as heroes. Despite overwhelmingly positive public attitudes toward veterans, veterans have experienced higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than their nonveteran peers. The current research leverages theory and research on positive stereotypes to shed light on this seeming inconsistency between the heroization of veterans and their heightened rates of unemplo…
The dark side of generosity: Employees with a reputation for giving are selectively targeted for exploitation
Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation
Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation
The consequences of heroization for exploitation
The hero label has become a pervasive positive stereotype applied to many different groups and occupations, such as nurses, teachers, and members of the military. Although meant to show support, appreciation, and even admiration, we suggest that attaching this label to groups and occupations may actually have problematic consequences. Specifically, we theorize that the hero label may affect beliefs about the internal motivations of these group me…
Loyalty as a Legitimizer of Wage Theft
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Cognition (5 works)