Helgason, B.A., Langdon, J.A., Qiu, J., & Effron, D.A. Taking the ingroup seriously but the outgroup literally: Political polarization and flexible standards of honesty. Major revision at Psychological Science.
Helgason, B.A., & Effron, D.A. Advice as permission: Licensing self-interest by selectively seeking and taking advice. Minor revision at Management Science.
Kundro, T.G., Croitoru, N.L., & Helgason, B.A. (2024). Moral or lawful? When legal constraints reverse the motivational benefits of moral considerations. Organization Science, 35(5), 1849-1865.
Langdon, J.A.*, Helgason, B.A.*, Qiu, J., & Effron, D.A. (2024). “It’s not literally true, but you get the gist”: How nuanced understandings of truth encourage people to condone and spread misinformation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 57, 101788. *Equal contribution.
Effron, D.A., & Helgason, B.A. (2023). Moral inconsistency. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 67, 1-72.
Helgason, B.A., & Effron, D.A. (2022). It might become true: How prefactual thinking licenses dishonesty. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(5), 909-940.
Effron, D.A., & Helgason, B.A. (2022). The moral psychology of misinformation: Why we excuse dishonesty in a post-truth world. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, 101375.
Helgason, B.A., & Berman, J.Z. (2022). Reflecting on identity change facilitates confession of past misdeeds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(9), 2259-2264.
Helgason, B.A., & Effron, D.A. (2022). From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101, 104308.
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley, CA, USA
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA