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Ben M. Tappin

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h-index: 21
Works: 49
Citations: 1,605

Most-cited papers

The expressive rationality of inaccurate perceptions
Ben M. Tappin, Ryan T. McKay, D. Abrams
2015Behavioral and Brain Sciences126 citations Open access
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The Illusion of Moral Superiority
Ben M. Tappin, Ryan T. McKay
2016Social Psychology and Personality Science124 citations Open access
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Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference
Ben M. Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, D. Rand
2019Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences122 citations Open access
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Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning.
Ben M. Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, D. Rand
2020Journal of experimental psychology. General104 citations Open access
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The (minimal) persuasive advantage of political video over text
Chloe Wittenberg, Ben M. Tappin, Adam J. Berinsky, D. Rand
2020Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America102 citations Open access
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Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating.
Ben M. Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, D. Rand
2019Cognition100 citations Open access
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The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence.
Kobi Hackenburg, Ben M. Tappin, Luke Hewitt, Ed Saunders +6 more
2025Science95 citations Open access
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A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
S. Hoogeveen, A. Sarafoglou, B. Aczél, Yonathan Aditya +249 more
202289 citations Open access
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Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting
Ben M. Tappin, Chloe Wittenberg, Luke B. Hewitt, Adam J. Berinsky +1 more
2023Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America86 citations Open access
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Doing good vs. avoiding bad in prosocial choice: A refined test and extension of the morality preference hypothesis
Ben M. Tappin, V. Capraro
2018Journal of Experimental Social Psychology81 citations Open access
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The Heart Trumps the Head: Desirability Bias in Political Belief Revision
Ben M. Tappin, L. van der Leer, Ryan T. McKay
2017Journal of experimental psychology. General69 citations Open access
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Beyond market behavior: Evolved cognition and folk political economic beliefs
Ben M. Tappin, R. Ross, Ryan T. McKay
2017Behavioral and Brain Sciences54 citations Open access
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Moral polarization and out-party hostility in the US political context
Ben M. Tappin, Ryan T. McKay
2019Journal of Social and Political Psychology51 citations Open access
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Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues
Ben M. Tappin, Adam J. Berinsky, D. Rand
2023Nature Human Behaviour49 citations Open access
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Scaling language model size yields diminishing returns for single-message political persuasion
Kobi Hackenburg, Ben M. Tappin, Paul Röttger, Scott A. Hale +2 more
2025Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America45 citations Open access
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Biased belief in the Bayesian brain: A deeper look at the evidence.
Ben M. Tappin, S. Gadsby
2019Consciousness and Cognition41 citations Open access
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The relationship between salivary C-reactive protein and cognitive function in children aged 11–14 years: Does psychopathology have a moderating effect?
Alexis E. Cullen, Ben M. Tappin, P. Zunszain, Hannah Dickson +6 more
2017Brain, behavior, and immunity40 citations Open access
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The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI
Kobi Hackenburg, Ben M. Tappin, Luke Hewitt, Ed Saunders +6 more
2025arXiv.org34 citations
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Comparing the persuasiveness of role-playing large language models and human experts on polarized U.S. political issues
Kobi Hackenburg, Lujain Ibrahim, Ben M. Tappin, M. Tsakiris
2025Ai & Society33 citations Open access
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Estimating the between-issue variation in party elite cue effects
Ben M. Tappin
2020Public Opinion Quarterly24 citations Open access
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No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample
M. Stagnaro, Ben M. Tappin, D. Rand
2023Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America21 citations Open access
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Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning
Ben M. Tappin, Gordon Pennycook, D. Rand
201821 citations Open access
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How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments
Luke Hewitt, David E. Broockman, Alexander Coppock, Ben M. Tappin +4 more
2024American Political Science Review20 citations Open access
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Evidence of a log scaling law for political persuasion with large language models
Kobi Hackenburg, Ben M. Tappin, Paul Röttger, Scott A. Hale +2 more
2024arXiv.org17 citations
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When Large Language Models are More PersuasiveThan Incentivized Humans, and Why
Jia-Cheng Liu, Francesco Salvi, P. Schoenegger, Xiaoli Nan +36 more
202516 citations
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Does observability amplify sensitivity to moral frames? Evaluating a reputation-based account of moral preferences
V. Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan, Ben M. Tappin
2020Journal of Experimental Social Psychology14 citations Open access
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Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Perceived Moral Superiority and Moral Behavior Using Economic Games
Ben M. Tappin, Ryan T. McKay
201910 citations Open access
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AI systems out-persuade expert humans
Kobi Hackenburg, Caroline S. Wagner, Luke Hewitt, Ben M. Tappin +4 more
2026arXiv.org8 citations
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Estimating the Persistence of Party Cue Influence in a Panel Survey Experiment
Ben M. Tappin, Luke B. Hewitt
2021Journal of Experimental Political Science6 citations Open access
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Estimating the causal effects of cognitive effort and policy information on party cue influence
Ben M. Tappin, Ryan T. McKay
2021Political Psychology5 citations Open access
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Using survey experiment pretesting to support future pandemic response
Ben M. Tappin, Luke Hewitt
2024PNAS Nexus4 citations Open access
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Artificial intelligence can persuade people to take political actions
Kobi Hackenburg, Luke Hewitt, Caroline Wagner, Ben M. Tappin +1 more
2026arXiv.org1 citations
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Mind over bias: How is cognitive control related to politically motivated reasoning?
O. Borghi, Ben M. Tappin, Kaat Smets, M. Tsakiris
2025Cognition1 citations Open access
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Self-perceived moral superiority and moral behavior
Ben M. Tappin
20171 citations
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data and analysis scripts
Ben M. Tappin
20171 citations
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AI can persuade people to take political actions
Kobi Hackenburg, Luke Hewitt, C. Wagner, Christopher Summerfield +1 more
2026Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America0 citations Open access
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Author Correction: Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues
Ben M. Tappin, Adam J. Berinsky, David G. Rand
2024Nature Human Behaviour0 citations
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Observability and sensitivity to moral frames
Ben M. Tappin, V. Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan
20200 citations
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Running head : BIASED BELIEF IN THE BAYESIAN BRAIN Biased Belief in the Bayesian Brain : A Deeper Look at the Evidence
Ben M. Tappin, S. Gadsby
20190 citations
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Linear Interaction Diagnostic Plots
Ben M. Tappin
20190 citations
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Control Study (regression to the mean)
Ben M. Tappin
20190 citations
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Raw data and scripts for data cleaning and main analyses
Ben M. Tappin
20180 citations
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Do the right thing: Do good vs. avoid bad moral motivation
Ben M. Tappin
20180 citations
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Cognitive reflection and belief updating in politics
Ben M. Tappin
20180 citations
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Self-righteousness and behaviour
Ben M. Tappin
20170 citations
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Simulation script and simulated data
Ben M. Tappin
20170 citations
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Open science talk, Royal Holloway University of London
Ben M. Tappin
20170 citations
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BBS Associateship 2016
Ben M. Tappin, P. Shiozawa
2016Behavioral and Brain Sciences0 citations
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Exp.1 Pre-registration TEST
Ben M. Tappin
20160 citations
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