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Michael D Buhrmester

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Talaifar S, Buhrmester M, Ayduk O, Swann Jr W
Perspect Psychol Sci . 2020 Oct; 16(2):338-357. PMID: 33074793
All too often, people who develop exceptionally astute insights into others remain mysterious to these others. Evidence for such asymmetric understanding comes from several independent domains. Striking asymmetries occur among...
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Buhrmester M, Talaifar S, Gosling S
Perspect Psychol Sci . 2018 Jun; 13(2):149-154. PMID: 29928846
Over the past 2 decades, many social scientists have expanded their data-collection capabilities by using various online research tools. In the 2011 article "Amazon's Mechanical Turk: A new source of...
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Whitehouse H, Jong J, Buhrmester M, Gomez A, Bastian B, Kavanagh C, et al.
Sci Rep . 2017 Mar; 7:44292. PMID: 28290499
Willingness to lay down one's life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical...
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Bastian B, Bain P, Buhrmester M, Gomez A, Vazquez A, Knight C, et al.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull . 2015 Jun; 41(8):1069-81. PMID: 26089349
Moral vitalism refers to a tendency to view good and evil as actual forces that can influence people and events. We introduce a scale designed to assess the belief in...
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Swann W, Buhrmester M, Gomez A, Jetten J, Bastian B, Vazquez A, et al.
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2014 May; 106(6):912-26. PMID: 24841096
We sought to identify the mechanisms that cause strongly fused individuals (those who have a powerful, visceral feeling of oneness with the group) to make extreme sacrifices for their group....
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Swann W, Gomez A, Buhrmester M, Lopez-Rodriguez L, Jimenez J, Vazquez A
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2014 Apr; 106(5):713-27. PMID: 24749820
Although most people acknowledge the moral virtue in sacrificing oneself to save others, few actually endorse self-sacrifice. Seven experiments explored the cognitive and emotional mechanisms that underlie such endorsements. Participants...
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Gomez A, Brooks M, Buhrmester M, Vazquez A, Jetten J, Swann W
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2011 Mar; 100(5):918-33. PMID: 21355659
Previous research has documented the consequences of feeling fused with a group; here we examine the nature of identity fusion. Specifically, we sought to determine what fusion is and the...
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Buhrmester M, Blanton H, Swann Jr W
J Pers Soc Psychol . 2010 Nov; 100(2):365-85. PMID: 21038971
Gaining insight into the nature and consequences of people's global self-evaluations (i.e., their self-esteem) has been fraught with difficulty. Nearly 2 decades ago, researchers suggested that such difficulties might be...