Publications
Mallinas, S., Crawford, J. & Frimer, J. A. (2019). Sub-Components of Right-Wing Authoritarianism differentially predict attitudes toward obeying authorities. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/1948550619843926 download
Frimer, J. A. (2019). Does the left hair part look better (or worse) than the right? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(3), 326-334. doi: 10.1177/1948550618762500 download
Frimer, J. A., Brandt, M. J., Melton, Z., & Motyl, M. (2018). Extremists on the left and right use angry, negative language. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/0146167218809705 download
Frimer, J. A. & Skitka, L. J. (2018). The Montagu Principle. Incivility decreases politicians' public approval, even with their political base. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(5), 845-866. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000140 download
Frimer, J. A. & Skitka, L. J. (2018). Political diversity reduces Thanksgiving Dinners by 4-11 minutes, not 30-50 [letter to the editor]. Science, 6392. doi: 10.1126/science.aaq1433 link
Frimer, J. A. (2018). Moral heroes are puppets. In K. Gray & J. Graham (Eds.), The Atlas of Moral Psychology. (pp. 252-257) New York: Guilford Press. download
Frimer, J. A., Skitka, L. J., & Motyl, M. (2017). Liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another’s opinions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.04.003 download supplemental materials
Decter-Frain, A., Vanstone, R., & Frimer, J. A. (2017). Why and how do moralistic groups create heroes? In Allison, S. T., Goethals, G. R., & Kramer, R. M. (Eds.) Handbook of heroism and heroic leadership. (pp. 120-138) New York: Routledge. download
Frimer, J. A., Motyl, M., & Tell, C. E. (2016). Sacralizing liberals and fair-minded conservatives: Ideological symmetry in the moral motives in the Culture War. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. doi: 10.1111/asap.12127 download
Frimer, J. A. (2016). Groups create moral superheroes to defend sacred values. In J. Forgas, P. van Lange, & L. Jussim. The Social Psychology of Morality. (pp. 304-315) New York: Psychology Press. download
Decter-Frain, A. & Frimer, J. A. (2016). Impressive words: Linguistic predictors of public approval of the U.S. Congress. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00240. download
Frimer, J. A. & Sinclair, L. (2016). Moral heroes look up and to the viewer’s right. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 400-410. doi: 10.1177/0146167215626707 download supplemental materials
Frimer, J. A., Aquino, K., Gebauer, J. E., Zhu, L. & Oakes, H. (2015). A decline in prosocial language helps explain public disapproval of the U.S. Congress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, 6591-6594. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1500355112 download supporting information
Frimer, J. A., Tell, C. E. & Haidt, J. (2015). Liberals condemn sacrilege too: The harmless desecration of Cerro Torre. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 878-886. doi: 10.1177/1948550615597974 download supporting information
Walker, L. J. & Frimer, J. A. (2015). Developmental trajectories of agency and communion in moral motivation. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 61, 412-439. doi:10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.61.3.0412 download
Kurt, D. & Frimer, J. A. (2015). Agency and communion as a framework to understand consumer behavior. In M. Norton, D. Rucker & C. Lamberton (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology. (pp. 446-475) Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. download
Frimer, J. A., Gaucher, D. & Schaefer, N. K. (2014). Political conservatives’ affinity for obedience to authority is loyal, not blind. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1205-1214. doi: 10.1177/0146167214538672 download
Frimer, J. A., Schaefer, N. K., & Oakes, H. (2014). Moral actor, selfish agent. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 790-802. doi:10.1037/a0036040 download
Frimer, J. A. & Oakes, H. (2014). Spoken words reveal selfish motives: An individual difference approach to moral motivation. In H. Sarkissian & J. C. Wright (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology: Affect, Character, and Commitments. (pp. 36-54). London, UK: Bloomsbury. download
Frimer, J. A., Biesanz, J. C., Walker, L. J., & MacKinlay, C. W. (2013). Liberals and conservatives rely on common moral foundations when making moral judgments about influential people. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 1040-1059. doi:10.1037/a0032277 download
Frimer, J. A., Walker, L. J., Riches, A., Lee, B., & Dunlop, W. L. (2012). Hierarchical integration of agency and communion: A study of influential moral figures. Journal of Personality, 80, 1117-1145. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00764.x download
Frimer, J. A., Walker, L. J., Dunlop, W. L., Lee, B., & Riches, A. (2011). The integration of agency and communion in moral personality: Evidence of enlightened self-interest. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 149-163. doi:10.1037/a0023780 download
Walker, L. J., Frimer, J. A., & Dunlop, W. L. (2011). Paradigm assumptions about moral behavior: An empirical battle royal. In M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), The social psychology of morality: Exploring the causes of good and evil (pp. 275-292). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/13091-015 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2011). The science of moral development. In M. K. Underwood & L. H. Rosen (Eds.), Social development: Relationships in infancy, childhood, and adolescence (pp. 235-262). New York: Guilford Press. download
Walker, L. J., Frimer, J. A., & Dunlop, W. L. (2010). Varieties of moral personality: Beyond the banality of heroism. Journal of Personality, 78, 907-942. doi:10.1111/j14676494201000637x download
Frimer, J. A. & Walker, L. J. (2009). Reconciling the self and morality: An empirical model of moral centrality development. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1669-1681. doi:10.1037/a0017418 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2009). “The song remains the same”: Rebuttal to Sherblom’s re-envisioning of the legacy of the care challenge. Journal of Moral Education, 38, 53-68. doi:10.1080/03057240802601599 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2009). Moral personality exemplified. In D. Narvaez & D. K. Lapsley (Eds.), Personality, identity and character: Explorations in moral psychology (pp. 232-255). New York: Cambridge University Press. download
Frimer, J. A., & Walker, L. J. (2008). Towards a new paradigm of moral personhood. Journal of Moral Education, 37, 333-356. doi:10.1080/03057240802227494 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2008). Being good for goodness’ sake: Transcendence in the lives of moral heroes. In F. K. Oser & W. M. M. H. Veugelers (Eds.), Getting involved: Global citizenship development and sources of moral values (pp. 309-326). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. download
Frimer, J. A. (2008). Self-understanding (stages of). In F. C. Power, R. J. Nuzzi, D. Narvaez, D. K. Lapsley, & T. C. Hunt (Eds.), Moral education: A handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 402-404). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2007). Moral personality of brave and caring exemplars. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 845-860. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.93.5.845 download
Walker, L. J., Gustafson, P., & Frimer, J. A. (2007). The application of Bayesian analysis to issues in developmental research. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31, 366-373. doi:10.1177/0165025407077763 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2006). [Review of the book Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Vol. 51. Moral motivation through the life span]. Journal of Moral Education, 35, 271-274.
Frimer, J. A. (2019). Does the left hair part look better (or worse) than the right? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(3), 326-334. doi: 10.1177/1948550618762500 download
Frimer, J. A., Brandt, M. J., Melton, Z., & Motyl, M. (2018). Extremists on the left and right use angry, negative language. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/0146167218809705 download
Frimer, J. A. & Skitka, L. J. (2018). The Montagu Principle. Incivility decreases politicians' public approval, even with their political base. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(5), 845-866. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000140 download
Frimer, J. A. & Skitka, L. J. (2018). Political diversity reduces Thanksgiving Dinners by 4-11 minutes, not 30-50 [letter to the editor]. Science, 6392. doi: 10.1126/science.aaq1433 link
Frimer, J. A. (2018). Moral heroes are puppets. In K. Gray & J. Graham (Eds.), The Atlas of Moral Psychology. (pp. 252-257) New York: Guilford Press. download
Frimer, J. A., Skitka, L. J., & Motyl, M. (2017). Liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another’s opinions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.04.003 download supplemental materials
Decter-Frain, A., Vanstone, R., & Frimer, J. A. (2017). Why and how do moralistic groups create heroes? In Allison, S. T., Goethals, G. R., & Kramer, R. M. (Eds.) Handbook of heroism and heroic leadership. (pp. 120-138) New York: Routledge. download
Frimer, J. A., Motyl, M., & Tell, C. E. (2016). Sacralizing liberals and fair-minded conservatives: Ideological symmetry in the moral motives in the Culture War. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. doi: 10.1111/asap.12127 download
Frimer, J. A. (2016). Groups create moral superheroes to defend sacred values. In J. Forgas, P. van Lange, & L. Jussim. The Social Psychology of Morality. (pp. 304-315) New York: Psychology Press. download
Decter-Frain, A. & Frimer, J. A. (2016). Impressive words: Linguistic predictors of public approval of the U.S. Congress. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00240. download
Frimer, J. A. & Sinclair, L. (2016). Moral heroes look up and to the viewer’s right. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 400-410. doi: 10.1177/0146167215626707 download supplemental materials
Frimer, J. A., Aquino, K., Gebauer, J. E., Zhu, L. & Oakes, H. (2015). A decline in prosocial language helps explain public disapproval of the U.S. Congress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, 6591-6594. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1500355112 download supporting information
Frimer, J. A., Tell, C. E. & Haidt, J. (2015). Liberals condemn sacrilege too: The harmless desecration of Cerro Torre. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 878-886. doi: 10.1177/1948550615597974 download supporting information
Walker, L. J. & Frimer, J. A. (2015). Developmental trajectories of agency and communion in moral motivation. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 61, 412-439. doi:10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.61.3.0412 download
Kurt, D. & Frimer, J. A. (2015). Agency and communion as a framework to understand consumer behavior. In M. Norton, D. Rucker & C. Lamberton (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology. (pp. 446-475) Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. download
Frimer, J. A., Gaucher, D. & Schaefer, N. K. (2014). Political conservatives’ affinity for obedience to authority is loyal, not blind. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1205-1214. doi: 10.1177/0146167214538672 download
Frimer, J. A., Schaefer, N. K., & Oakes, H. (2014). Moral actor, selfish agent. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 790-802. doi:10.1037/a0036040 download
Frimer, J. A. & Oakes, H. (2014). Spoken words reveal selfish motives: An individual difference approach to moral motivation. In H. Sarkissian & J. C. Wright (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology: Affect, Character, and Commitments. (pp. 36-54). London, UK: Bloomsbury. download
Frimer, J. A., Biesanz, J. C., Walker, L. J., & MacKinlay, C. W. (2013). Liberals and conservatives rely on common moral foundations when making moral judgments about influential people. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 1040-1059. doi:10.1037/a0032277 download
Frimer, J. A., Walker, L. J., Riches, A., Lee, B., & Dunlop, W. L. (2012). Hierarchical integration of agency and communion: A study of influential moral figures. Journal of Personality, 80, 1117-1145. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00764.x download
Frimer, J. A., Walker, L. J., Dunlop, W. L., Lee, B., & Riches, A. (2011). The integration of agency and communion in moral personality: Evidence of enlightened self-interest. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 149-163. doi:10.1037/a0023780 download
Walker, L. J., Frimer, J. A., & Dunlop, W. L. (2011). Paradigm assumptions about moral behavior: An empirical battle royal. In M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), The social psychology of morality: Exploring the causes of good and evil (pp. 275-292). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/13091-015 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2011). The science of moral development. In M. K. Underwood & L. H. Rosen (Eds.), Social development: Relationships in infancy, childhood, and adolescence (pp. 235-262). New York: Guilford Press. download
Walker, L. J., Frimer, J. A., & Dunlop, W. L. (2010). Varieties of moral personality: Beyond the banality of heroism. Journal of Personality, 78, 907-942. doi:10.1111/j14676494201000637x download
Frimer, J. A. & Walker, L. J. (2009). Reconciling the self and morality: An empirical model of moral centrality development. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1669-1681. doi:10.1037/a0017418 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2009). “The song remains the same”: Rebuttal to Sherblom’s re-envisioning of the legacy of the care challenge. Journal of Moral Education, 38, 53-68. doi:10.1080/03057240802601599 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2009). Moral personality exemplified. In D. Narvaez & D. K. Lapsley (Eds.), Personality, identity and character: Explorations in moral psychology (pp. 232-255). New York: Cambridge University Press. download
Frimer, J. A., & Walker, L. J. (2008). Towards a new paradigm of moral personhood. Journal of Moral Education, 37, 333-356. doi:10.1080/03057240802227494 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2008). Being good for goodness’ sake: Transcendence in the lives of moral heroes. In F. K. Oser & W. M. M. H. Veugelers (Eds.), Getting involved: Global citizenship development and sources of moral values (pp. 309-326). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. download
Frimer, J. A. (2008). Self-understanding (stages of). In F. C. Power, R. J. Nuzzi, D. Narvaez, D. K. Lapsley, & T. C. Hunt (Eds.), Moral education: A handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 402-404). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2007). Moral personality of brave and caring exemplars. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 845-860. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.93.5.845 download
Walker, L. J., Gustafson, P., & Frimer, J. A. (2007). The application of Bayesian analysis to issues in developmental research. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31, 366-373. doi:10.1177/0165025407077763 download
Walker, L. J., & Frimer, J. A. (2006). [Review of the book Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Vol. 51. Moral motivation through the life span]. Journal of Moral Education, 35, 271-274.