Publications

Hong, Y., Reed, M., Ratner, K. G. (2023). Facial stereotypes of competence (not trustworthiness or dominance) most resemble facial stereotypes of group membership. Social Cognition, 41(6), 562–578.

PDF DOI OSF

Madison, A. A., Way, B., Ratner, K. G., ..., Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K. (2023). Typhoid vaccine does not impact feelings of social connection or social behavior in a randomized crossover trial among middle-aged female breast cancer survivors. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 107, 124–131.

PDF DOI

Hong, Y., Mayes, M. S., Munasinghe, A. P., Ratner, K. G. (2022). Scrutinizing whether mere group membership influences the N170 response to faces: Results from two preregistered event-related potential studies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(11), 1999-2015.

PDF DOI OSF

Ratner, K. G., Hamilton, D. L., Brewer, M. B. (2022). On vagueness and parochialism in psychological research on groups. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e119.

PDF DOI

Hong, Y., Ratner, K. G. (2021). Minimal but not meaningless: Seemingly arbitrary category labels can imply more than group membership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(3), 576-600.

PDF DOI OSF

Ratner, K. G. (2020). Social Cognition. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press.

PDF DOI

Welborn, B. W., Hong, Y., Ratner, K. G. (2020). Exposure to negative stereotypes influences representations of monetary incentives in the nucleus accumbens. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(3), 347–358.

PDF DOI

Hu, C., Yin, J, Lindenberg, S., ..., Hong, Y., ..., Ratner, K. G, ... (2019). Data from the Human Penguin Project, a cross-national dataset testing social thermoregulation principles. Scientific Data, 6:32.

PDF DOI OSF

Ijzerman, H., Lindenberg, S., ..., Hong, Y., ..., Ratner, K. G, ... (2018). The Human Penguin Project: Climate, social integration, and core body temperature. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 37.

PDF DOI OSF

Ratner, K. G., Kaczmarek, A. R., Hong, Y. (2018). Can over-the-counter pain medications influence our thoughts and emotions?. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5(6), 82-89.

PDF DOI

Ijzerman, H., Colic, M. V., ..., Hong, Y., ..., Ratner, K. G., ... (2017). Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e86.

PDF DOI

Ratner, K. G., Katona, L. B. (2016). The peacebuilding potential of healthcare training programs. Conflict and Health, 10:29.

PDF DOI

Katona, L. B., Douglas, W. S., Lena, S. R., Ratner, K. G., Crothers, D., Zondervan, R. L., Radis, C. D. (2015). Wilderness first aid training as a tool for improving basic medical knowledge in South Sudan. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 30(6), 574-8.

DOI

Katona, L. B., Rosen, J., ..., Ratner, K. G., ... (2014). A new paradigm for disease surveillance in Vietnam. Telemedicine and e-Health, 20(5), 493-495.

DOI

Ratner, K. G., Dotsch, R., Wigboldus, D. H. J., van Kippenberg, A., Amodio, D. M. (2014). Visualizing minimal ingroup and outgroup faces: Implications for impressions, attitudes, and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(6), 897-911.

PDF DOI

Young, A. I., Ratner, K. G., Fazio, R. H. (2014). Political attitudes bias the mental representation of a presidential candidate's face. Psychological Science, 25(2), 503-510.

PDF DOI

Kaul, C., Ratner, K. G., Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). Dynamic representations of race: Processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(6), 326-332.

PDF DOI

Ratner, K. G., Way, B. M. (2013). Unselfish genes? The quest to uncover genomic influences on prosocial behavior. Social Neuroscience, 8, 397-399.

PDF DOI

Ratner, K. G., Kaul, C., Van Bavel, J. J. (2013). Is race erased? Decoding race from patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 750-755.

PDF DOI

Ratner, K. G., Amodio, D. M. (2013). Seeing us vs. them: Minimal group effects on the neural encoding of faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 298-301.

PDF DOI

Amodio, D. M., Ratner, K. G. (2013). The neuroscience of social cognition. In D. E. Carlston (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition (p. 702–728). Oxford University Press.

Ratner, K. G., Halim, M. L., Amodio, D. M (2013). Perceived stigmatization, ingroup pride, and immune and endocrine activity: Evidence from a community sample of Black and Latina women. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(1), 82-91.

PDF DOI

Ratner, K. G., Kubota, J. T. (2012). Genetic contributions to intergroup responses: A cautionary perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:223.

PDF DOI

Amodio, D. M., Ratner, K. G. (2011). A memory systems model of implicit social cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(3), 143-148.

PDF DOI

Amodio, D. M., Ratner, K. G. (2011). Mechanisms for the regulation of intergroup responses: A social neuroscience analysis. In J. Decety & J. T. Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience (p. 729–741). Oxford University Press.

Pizzagalli, D. A., Iosifescu, D., Hallett, L. A., Ratner, K. G., Fava, M. (2009). Reduced hedonic capacity in major depressive disorder: Evidence from a probabilistic reward task. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 43, 76-87.

PDF DOI

Santesso, D. L., Meuret, A. E., Hofmann, S. G., Mueller, E. M., Ratner, K. G., Roesch, E. B., Pizzagalli, D. A. (2008). Electrophysiological correlates of spatial orienting towards angry faces: A source localization study. Neuropsychologica, 46(5), 1338-48.

PDF DOI

Pizzagalli, D. A., Bogdan, R., Ratner, K. G., Jahn, A. L. (2007). Increased perceived stress is associated with blunted hedonic capacity: Potential implications for depression research. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2742-53.

PDF DOI