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Psychologist | Northwestern University

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May 09, 2025

Poets Over Quants: Automation and AI Threats Increase the Value People Place on Creativity→

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Monica Gamez-Djokic, Adam Waytz, & Maryam Kouchaki. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2025)

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January 04, 2024

Advantaged Groups Misperceive How Allyship Will Be Received

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Hannah Birnbaum, Desman Wilson, & Adam Waytz. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2024)

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August 21, 2023

If You Worry About Humanity, You Should Be More Scared of Humans Than of AI

August 21, 2023/ ScienceSites

Moran Cerf & Adam Waytz. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2024)

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August 14, 2023

Exposure to Automation Explains Religious Declines →

August 14, 2023/ ScienceSites

Joshua Conrad Jackson, Kai Chi Yam, Pok Man Tang, Chris Sibley, & Adam Waytz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2304748120 (2023)

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August 14, 2023

Political Bot Bias in the Perception of Online Discourse→

August 14, 2023/ ScienceSites

Shane Schweitzer, Kyle Dobson, & Adam Waytz. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506231156020 (2023)

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January 05, 2023

Morally Questionable Actors’ Meta-Perceptions Are Accurate But Overly Positive→

January 05, 2023/ ScienceSites

Jeffrey Lees, Liane Young, & Adam Waytz. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, 10437 (2022)

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January 04, 2023

Algorithmic Discrimination Causes Less Moral Outrage Than Human Discrimination→

January 04, 2023/ ScienceSites

Yochanan Bigman, Desman Wilson, Mads Arnestad, Adam Waytz, & Kurt Gray. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(1), 4–27 (2022)

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January 03, 2023

The Relationship Between Power and Secrecy→

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Shane Schweitzer, Rachel L. Ruttan, & Adam Waytz. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 100, 104300 (2022)

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January 02, 2023

Virtuous Startups: The Credentialing Power of the Startup Label →

January 02, 2023/ ScienceSites

Monica Gamez-Djokic, Maryam Kouchaki, & Adam Waytz. Academy of Management: Discoveries, 8, 441-458 (2022)

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October 26, 2020

Language as a Window Into Mind Perception: How Mental State Language Differentiates Body and Mind, Human and Nonhuman, and the Self From Others→

October 26, 2020/ ScienceSites

Shane Schweitzer & Adam Waytz. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 1642-1672 (2021)

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September 11, 2020

A Cooperation Advantage for Theory of Mind in Children and Adults→

September 11, 2020/ ScienceSites

Lily Tsoi, Kiley Hamlin, Adam Waytz, Andrew Scott Baron, & Liane Young. Social Cognition, 39, 19-40 (2021)

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July 07, 2020

Theory of Mind Network Activity Is Associated With Metaethical Judgment: An Item Analysis→

July 07, 2020/ ScienceSites

Jordan Theriault, Adam Waytz, Larisa Heiphetz, & Liane Young. Neuropsychologia, 143, 107475 (2020)

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July 01, 2020

Concerns About Automation and Negative Sentiment Toward Immigration→

July 01, 2020/ ScienceSites

Monica Gamez-Djokic* & Adam Waytz*. Psychological Science, 31, 987-1000 (2020)
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August 27, 2019

Ideological Differences in the Expanse of the Moral Circle→

August 27, 2019/ ScienceSites

Adam Waytz, Ravi Iyer, Liane Young, Jesse Graham, & Jonathan Haidt. Nature Communications, 10, 1-12 (2019)

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August 27, 2019

The Power of Moral Concerns in Predicting Whistleblowing Decisions→

August 27, 2019/ ScienceSites

James Dungan, Liane Young, & Adam Waytz, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103848 (2019)

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April 11, 2019

Holding Robots Responsible: The Elements of Machine Morality→

April 11, 2019/ ScienceSites

Yochanan E. Bigman, Adam Waytz, Ron Alterovitz, & Kurt Gray. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 365-368 (2019)

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April 01, 2019

Nudging the Better Angels of our Nature: A Field Experiment on Morality and Well-Being→

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Adam Waytz & Wilhelm Hofmann. Emotion (2019)

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January 16, 2019

Aversion to Playing God and Moral Condemnation of Technology and Science→

January 16, 2019/ ScienceSites

Adam Waytz & Liane Young. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374, 20180041 (2019)

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January 16, 2019

Anthropomorphizing Without Social Cues Requires the Basolateral Amygdala→

January 16, 2019/ ScienceSites

Adam Waytz, John T. Cacioppo, Rene Hurlemann, Fulvia Castelli, Ralph Adolphs, & Lynn K. Paul. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 482-496 (2019)

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December 11, 2018

Creative Expertise Is Associated With Transcending the Here and Now→

December 11, 2018/ ScienceSites

Meghan L. Meyer, Hal E. Hershfield*, Adam Waytz*, Judith Mildner, & Diana I. Tamir. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 483-494 (2019) [*equal authorship]

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Journal Article, 2019
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Journal Articles
Exposure to Automation Explains Religious Declines

Joshua Conrad Jackson, Kai Chi Yam, Pok Man Tang, Chris Sibley, & Adam Waytz. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2304748120 (2023)

Political Bot Bias in the Perception of Online Discourse

Shane Schweitzer, Kyle Dobson, & Adam Waytz. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506231156020 (2023)

Virtuous Startups: The Credentialing Power of the Startup Label

Monica Gamez-Djokic, Maryam Kouchaki, & Adam Waytz. Academy of Management: Discoveries, 8, 441-458 (2022)

Language as a Window Into Mind Perception: How Mental State Language Differentiates Body and Mind, Human and Nonhuman, and the Self From Others

Shane Schweitzer & Adam Waytz. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 1642-1672 (2021)

Concerns About Automation and Negative Sentiment Toward Immigration

Monica Gamez-Djokic* & Adam Waytz*. Psychological Science, 31, 987-1000 (2020)
*equal authorship

In the News

In the News
Your Calendar Needs More White Space

- Harvard Business Review
March–April 2023

Skipping That After-Work Happy Hour? Why It Could Hurt Your Career (audio)

- As We Work, The Wall Street Journal
February 28, 2023

Tired of B’day Parties, Team-Bonding Trips? It’s OK to Be ‘Boring at Work’

- The Times of India
December 8, 2022

Will Algorithms Remove Gender Bias in Hiring?

- The Behavioral Science Hub, Psychology Today
October 10, 2022

Why Are Office Parties So Awkward? (audio)

- Marketplace
July 15, 2022

 
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