Joshua Ackerman
Marketing Area
MIT Sloan School of Management
1 Amherst Street, E40-173
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
United States
My research interests include motivated perception, signaling and social coordination. In particular, I am interested in the ways people coordinate with others cognitively (e.g., in self-regulation and goal pursuit), affectively (e.g., in the processing of emotional expression and bodily cues), and behaviorally (e.g., cooperation) within different interpersonal contexts. My current work includes research on coordination effects as automatic phenomena and on these effects' role in evaluation and decision making.
 Journal Articles:
- Ackerman, J. M., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). The purpose-driven life. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 323-326.
 Ackerman, J. M., Becker, D. V., Mortensen, C. R., Sasaki, T., Neuberg, S. L, & Kenrick, D. T. (2009). A pox on the mind: Disjunction of attention and memory in the processing of physical disfigurement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 478-485.
- Ackerman, J. M., Goldstein, N. J., Shapiro, J. R., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). You wear me out: The vicarious depletion of self-control. Psychological Science, 20, 326-332.
- Ackerman, J. M., & Kenrick, D. T. (2009). Cooperative courtship: Helping friends raise and raze relationship barriers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1285-1300.
- Ackerman, J. M., & Kenrick, D. T. (2008). The costs of benefits: Help-refusals highlight key trade-offs of social life. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12, 118-140.
- Ackerman, J. M., Kenrick, D. T., & Schaller, M. (2007). Is friendship akin to kinship? Evolution & Human Behavior, 28, 365-374.
- Ackerman, J. M., Nocera, C. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Incidental haptic sensations influence social judgments and decisions. Science, 328, 1712-1715.
- Ackerman, J. M., Shapiro, J. R., & Maner, J. K. (2009). When is it good to believe bad things? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 510-511.
- Ackerman, J. M., Shapiro, J. R., Neuberg, S. L., Kenrick, D. T., Becker, D. V., Griskevicius, V., Maner, J. K., & Schaller, M. (2006). They all look the same to me (unless they're angry): From out-group homogeneity to out-group heterogeneity. Psychological Science, 17(10), 836-840.
- Anderson, U. S., Perea, E. F., Becker, D. V., Ackerman, J. M., Shapiro, J. R., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (in press). I only have eyes for you: Ovulation redirects attention (but not memory) to attractive men. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Becker, D. V., Neuberg, S. L., Maner, J. K., Shapiro, J. R., Ackerman, J. M., Schaller, M., & Kenrick, D. T. (2010). More memory bang for the attentional buck: Self-protection goals enhance encoding efficiency for potentially threatening males. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 182-189.
- Mortensen, C. R., Becker, D. V., Ackerman, J. M., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2010). Infection breeds reticence: The effects of disease salience on self-perceptions of personality and behavioral avoidance tendencies. Psychological Science, 21, 440-447.
- Shapiro, J. R., Ackerman, J. M., Neuberg, S. L., Maner, J. K., Becker, D. V., & Kenrick, D. T. (2009). Following in the wake of anger: When not discriminating is discriminating. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1356-1367.
Other Publications:
- Griskevicius, V., Ackerman, J. M., Van den Bergh, B., & Li, Y. J. (in press). Fundamental motives and business decisions. In G. Saad (Ed.), Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences. Springer.
- Park, J. H., & Ackerman, J. M. (in press). Passion and compassion: Psychology of kin relations within and beyond the family. In C. Salmon and T. Shackelford (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology. Oxford University Press.
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