Selected Publications
Journal Articles (Published and In-Press)
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. P. (in press). Euphemism as a powerful framing device that influences moral judgments and punitive responses after wrongdoing. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Stanley, M. L., Kay, A. C. (in press). Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Stanley, M. L., Kay, A. C. (2024). The consequences of heroization for exploitation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(1), 5–25.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. P., Neck, C. B. (2023). The dark side of generosity: Employees with a reputation for generosity are selectively targeted for exploitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, 104503.
Stanley, M. L., Shepherd, S., Kay, A. C. (2023). Heroization and ironic funneling effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 29-56.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. B., Neck, C. P. (2023). Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104442.
Niemi, L., Stanley, M. L., Kljajic, M., You, Z., Doris, J. M. (2023). Political orientation and moral judgment of sexual misconduct. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 11, 478-500.
Stanley, M. L., Whitehead, P.S., Marsh, E. J., Seli, P. (2022). Prior exposure increases judged truth even during periods of mind wandering. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 1997-2007.
Stanley, M. L., Whitehead, P. S., Marsh, E. J. (2022). The cognitive processes underlying false beliefs. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 32(2), 359-369.
Stanley, M. L., Kay, A. C. (2022). Belief in divine moral authority satisfies the psychological need for structure and increases in the face of perceived injustice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101, 104302.
Sinclair, A. H., Hakimi, S., Stanley, M. L., Adcock, R. A., Samanez-Larkin, G. R. (2021). Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk-perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(32), e2100970118.
Stanley, M. L., Cabeza, R., Smallman, R., De Brigard, F. (2021). Memory and counterfactual simulations for past wrongdoings foster moral learning and improvement. Cognitive Science, 45(6), e13007.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P, Niemi, L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., De Brigard, F. (2021). Making moral principles suit yourself. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1735-1741.
Sinclair, A. H., Stanley, M. L., Hakimi, S., Cabeza, R., Adcock, R. A., Samanez-Larkin, G. R. (2021). Imagining a personalized scenario selectively increases perceived risk of viral transmission for older adults. Nature Aging, 1, 677-683.
Yang, B. W., Restrepo, C. V. Stanley, M. L., Marsh, E. J. (2021). Truncating bar graphs persistently misleads viewers. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 298-311.
Stanley, M. L., Taylor, M. K., Marsh, E. J. (2021). Cultural identity changes the accessibility of knowledge. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(1), 44-54.
De Brigard, F., Henne, P., Stanley, M. L. (2021). Perceived similarity of imagined possible worlds affects judgments of counterfactual plausibility. Cognition, 209, 104575.
Stanley, M. L., Stone, A., Marsh, E. J. (2021). Cheaters claim they knew the answers all along. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 341-350.
Stanley, M. L., Sinclair, A. H., Seli, P. (2020). Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents. Journal of Personality, 88, 1196-1216.
Sinclair, A. H., Stanley, M. L., Seli, P. (2020). Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 1348-1461.
Stanley, M. L., Whitehead, P. S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Seli, P. (2020). Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 19, 104030.
Niemi, L., Hartshorne, J. K., Gerstenberg, T., Stanley, M. L., Young, L. (2020). Moral values reveal the causality implicit in verb meaning. Cognitive Science, 44(6), e12838.
Stanley, M. L., Barr, N., Peters, K., Seli, P. Analytic thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking & Reasoning, 27, 464-477.
Stanley, M. L., Marsh, E. J., Kay, A. C. (2020). Structure-seeking as a psychological antecedent of beliefs about morality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(10), 1908-1918.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. P. (2020). Students' reasoning about dilemmas in business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics Education, 17, 5-28.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P., Yang, B. W., De Brigard, F. (2020). Resistance to position change, motivated reasoning, and polarization. Political Behavior, 42, 891-913.
Huang, S., Stanley, M. L., De Brigard, F. (2020). The phenomenology of remembering our moral transgressions. Memory & Cognition, 48, 277-286.
Stanley, M. L., De Brigard, F. (2019). Moral memories and the belief in the good self. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(4), 387-391.
Stanley, M. L., Yin, S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2019). A reason-based explanation for moral dumbfounding. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(2), 120-129.
Stanley, M. L., Yang, B. W., Marsh, E. J. (2019). When the unlikely becomes likely: Qualifying language does not influence later truth judgments. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8(1), 118-129.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P., De Brigard, F. (2019). Remembering moral and immoral actions in constructing the self. Memory & Cognition, 47(3), 441-454.
Stanley, M. L., Dougherty, A. M., Yang, B., Henne, P., De Brigard, F. (2018). Reasons probably won’t change your mind: The role of reasons in revising moral decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(7), 962-987.
Cabeza, R., Stanley, M. L., Moscovitch, M. (2018). Process-specific alliances (PSAs) in Cognitive Neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(11), 996-1010.
Stanley, M. L., Yang, B. W., De Brigard, F. (2018). No evidence for unethical amnesia for imagined actions: A failed replication and extension. Memory & Cognition, 46(5), 787-795.
Monge, Z. A., Stanley, M. L., Geib, B. R., Davis, S. W., Cabeza, R. (2018). Medial temporal, prefrontal, and parietal contributions to the functional networks underlying item and source memory in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 69, 140-150.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P., Iyengar, V., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., De Brigard, F. (2017). I’m not the person I used to be: The self and autobiographical memories of the immoral past. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 884-895.
Geib, B. R., Stanley, M. L., Dennis, N. A., Woldorff, M. G., Cabeza, R. (2017). From hippocampus to whole-brain: The role of integrative processing in episodic memory retrieval. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 2242-2259.
Geib, B. R., Stanley, M. L., Wing, E., Laurienti, P. J., Cabeza, R. (2017). Hippocampal contributions to the large-scale episodic memory network predict vivid visual memories. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 680-693
Book Chapters
Stanley, M. L., De Brigard, F. (2022). The importance of morality for one’s self-concept predicts perceptions of personal change after remembering wrongdoings. In Tobia K. P. (Ed.) Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self (Advances in Experimental Philosophy). Bloomsbury.
Marsh, E. J., Stanley, M. L., Taylor, M. K. (2022). Populist beliefs. In Roediger, H. L., & Wertsch, J. V. (Eds.) National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times. Oxford University Press.
Marsh, E. J., Stanley, M. L. (2020). False beliefs: Byproducts of an adaptive knowledge base?. In Greifeneder, R., Jaffé, M., Newman E.J., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.) The psychology of fake news: Accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation. London, UK: Psychology Press
Commentaries/Critical Notices
De Brigard, F., Stanley, M. L. (2021). Moral memories and identity protection. Psychological Inquiry, 32(4), 240-246.
Under Review
Stanley, M. L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., De Brigard, F. Not just morality: Memory is essential to the true self.
Colombatto, C., Conway, P., De Brigard, F., Hofmann, W., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Stanley, M. L., Yu, H., Crockett, M. J. Motivated abstraction of personal transgressions in moral narratives.
Stanley, M. L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. A tension between loyalty and fairness underlies the legitimization of nepotism.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. B., Neck, C. P., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. Loyalty as a legitimizer of wage theft.
Fernandez-Miranda, G. Stanley, M. L., Murray, S., Faul, L., De Brigard, F. The emotional impact of forgiveness on autobiographical memories of past wrongdoings.
Journal Articles (Published and In-Press)
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. P. (in press). Euphemism as a powerful framing device that influences moral judgments and punitive responses after wrongdoing. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Stanley, M. L., Kay, A. C. (in press). Dissociations between animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization in the context of labor exploitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Stanley, M. L., Kay, A. C. (2024). The consequences of heroization for exploitation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(1), 5–25.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. P., Neck, C. B. (2023). The dark side of generosity: Employees with a reputation for generosity are selectively targeted for exploitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, 104503.
Stanley, M. L., Shepherd, S., Kay, A. C. (2023). Heroization and ironic funneling effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 29-56.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. B., Neck, C. P. (2023). Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104442.
Niemi, L., Stanley, M. L., Kljajic, M., You, Z., Doris, J. M. (2023). Political orientation and moral judgment of sexual misconduct. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 11, 478-500.
Stanley, M. L., Whitehead, P.S., Marsh, E. J., Seli, P. (2022). Prior exposure increases judged truth even during periods of mind wandering. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 1997-2007.
Stanley, M. L., Whitehead, P. S., Marsh, E. J. (2022). The cognitive processes underlying false beliefs. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 32(2), 359-369.
Stanley, M. L., Kay, A. C. (2022). Belief in divine moral authority satisfies the psychological need for structure and increases in the face of perceived injustice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101, 104302.
Sinclair, A. H., Hakimi, S., Stanley, M. L., Adcock, R. A., Samanez-Larkin, G. R. (2021). Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk-perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(32), e2100970118.
Stanley, M. L., Cabeza, R., Smallman, R., De Brigard, F. (2021). Memory and counterfactual simulations for past wrongdoings foster moral learning and improvement. Cognitive Science, 45(6), e13007.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P, Niemi, L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., De Brigard, F. (2021). Making moral principles suit yourself. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1735-1741.
Sinclair, A. H., Stanley, M. L., Hakimi, S., Cabeza, R., Adcock, R. A., Samanez-Larkin, G. R. (2021). Imagining a personalized scenario selectively increases perceived risk of viral transmission for older adults. Nature Aging, 1, 677-683.
Yang, B. W., Restrepo, C. V. Stanley, M. L., Marsh, E. J. (2021). Truncating bar graphs persistently misleads viewers. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 298-311.
Stanley, M. L., Taylor, M. K., Marsh, E. J. (2021). Cultural identity changes the accessibility of knowledge. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(1), 44-54.
De Brigard, F., Henne, P., Stanley, M. L. (2021). Perceived similarity of imagined possible worlds affects judgments of counterfactual plausibility. Cognition, 209, 104575.
Stanley, M. L., Stone, A., Marsh, E. J. (2021). Cheaters claim they knew the answers all along. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 341-350.
Stanley, M. L., Sinclair, A. H., Seli, P. (2020). Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents. Journal of Personality, 88, 1196-1216.
Sinclair, A. H., Stanley, M. L., Seli, P. (2020). Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 1348-1461.
Stanley, M. L., Whitehead, P. S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Seli, P. (2020). Exposure to opposing reasons reduces negative impressions of ideological opponents. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 19, 104030.
Niemi, L., Hartshorne, J. K., Gerstenberg, T., Stanley, M. L., Young, L. (2020). Moral values reveal the causality implicit in verb meaning. Cognitive Science, 44(6), e12838.
Stanley, M. L., Barr, N., Peters, K., Seli, P. Analytic thinking predicts hoax beliefs and helping behaviors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking & Reasoning, 27, 464-477.
Stanley, M. L., Marsh, E. J., Kay, A. C. (2020). Structure-seeking as a psychological antecedent of beliefs about morality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(10), 1908-1918.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. P. (2020). Students' reasoning about dilemmas in business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics Education, 17, 5-28.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P., Yang, B. W., De Brigard, F. (2020). Resistance to position change, motivated reasoning, and polarization. Political Behavior, 42, 891-913.
Huang, S., Stanley, M. L., De Brigard, F. (2020). The phenomenology of remembering our moral transgressions. Memory & Cognition, 48, 277-286.
Stanley, M. L., De Brigard, F. (2019). Moral memories and the belief in the good self. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(4), 387-391.
Stanley, M. L., Yin, S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2019). A reason-based explanation for moral dumbfounding. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(2), 120-129.
Stanley, M. L., Yang, B. W., Marsh, E. J. (2019). When the unlikely becomes likely: Qualifying language does not influence later truth judgments. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8(1), 118-129.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P., De Brigard, F. (2019). Remembering moral and immoral actions in constructing the self. Memory & Cognition, 47(3), 441-454.
Stanley, M. L., Dougherty, A. M., Yang, B., Henne, P., De Brigard, F. (2018). Reasons probably won’t change your mind: The role of reasons in revising moral decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(7), 962-987.
Cabeza, R., Stanley, M. L., Moscovitch, M. (2018). Process-specific alliances (PSAs) in Cognitive Neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(11), 996-1010.
Stanley, M. L., Yang, B. W., De Brigard, F. (2018). No evidence for unethical amnesia for imagined actions: A failed replication and extension. Memory & Cognition, 46(5), 787-795.
Monge, Z. A., Stanley, M. L., Geib, B. R., Davis, S. W., Cabeza, R. (2018). Medial temporal, prefrontal, and parietal contributions to the functional networks underlying item and source memory in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 69, 140-150.
Stanley, M. L., Henne, P., Iyengar, V., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., De Brigard, F. (2017). I’m not the person I used to be: The self and autobiographical memories of the immoral past. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 884-895.
Geib, B. R., Stanley, M. L., Dennis, N. A., Woldorff, M. G., Cabeza, R. (2017). From hippocampus to whole-brain: The role of integrative processing in episodic memory retrieval. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 2242-2259.
Geib, B. R., Stanley, M. L., Wing, E., Laurienti, P. J., Cabeza, R. (2017). Hippocampal contributions to the large-scale episodic memory network predict vivid visual memories. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 680-693
Book Chapters
Stanley, M. L., De Brigard, F. (2022). The importance of morality for one’s self-concept predicts perceptions of personal change after remembering wrongdoings. In Tobia K. P. (Ed.) Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self (Advances in Experimental Philosophy). Bloomsbury.
Marsh, E. J., Stanley, M. L., Taylor, M. K. (2022). Populist beliefs. In Roediger, H. L., & Wertsch, J. V. (Eds.) National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times. Oxford University Press.
Marsh, E. J., Stanley, M. L. (2020). False beliefs: Byproducts of an adaptive knowledge base?. In Greifeneder, R., Jaffé, M., Newman E.J., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.) The psychology of fake news: Accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation. London, UK: Psychology Press
Commentaries/Critical Notices
De Brigard, F., Stanley, M. L. (2021). Moral memories and identity protection. Psychological Inquiry, 32(4), 240-246.
Under Review
Stanley, M. L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., De Brigard, F. Not just morality: Memory is essential to the true self.
Colombatto, C., Conway, P., De Brigard, F., Hofmann, W., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Stanley, M. L., Yu, H., Crockett, M. J. Motivated abstraction of personal transgressions in moral narratives.
Stanley, M. L., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. A tension between loyalty and fairness underlies the legitimization of nepotism.
Stanley, M. L., Neck, C. B., Neck, C. P., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. Loyalty as a legitimizer of wage theft.
Fernandez-Miranda, G. Stanley, M. L., Murray, S., Faul, L., De Brigard, F. The emotional impact of forgiveness on autobiographical memories of past wrongdoings.
