My research deals with how people address threats to the self in interpersonal situations: How they avoid feeling prejudiced, how they construe other people's behavior to make to their own look good, how they deal with dissonance, how they affirm a threatened identity, how they resent the goodness of others when it makes them look bad, etc. I study these issues in the context of social norms, the self, and morality, broadly defined.

Primary Interests:

Ethics and Morality
Intergroup Relations
Interpersonal Processes
Person Perception
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Ethics and Morality
Intergroup Relations
Interpersonal Processes
Person Perception

Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

Cheryan, S., & Monin, B. (2005). "Where are your really from?": Asian Americans and identity denial. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(5), 717-730.
Corneille, O., Monin, B., & Pleyers, G. (2005). Is positivity a cue or a response option? Warm-glow vs. evaluative-matching in the familiarity for attractive and not-so-attractive faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41(4), 431-437.
Effron, D. A., Cameron, J. S., & Monin, B. (2009). Endorsing Obama licenses favoring Whites. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 590-593.
Jordan, A. H., & Monin, B. (2008). From sucker to saint: Moralization in response to self-threat. Psychological Science, 19(8), 683-689.
Monin, B. (2007). Holier than me? Threatening social comparison in the moral domain. International Review of Social Psychology, 20(1): 53-68.
Monin, B. (2003). The warm glow heuristic: When liking leads to familiarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(6), 1035-1048.
Monin, B., & Miller, D. T. (2001). Moral credentials and the expression of prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(1), 33-43.
Monin, B., & Norton, M. I. (2003). Perceptions of a fluid consensus: Uniqueness bias, false consensus, false polarization, and pluralistic ignorance in a water conservation crisis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29(5), 559-567.
Monin, B., Norton, M. I., Cooper, J., & Hogg, M. A. (2004). Reacting to an assumed situation vs. conforming to an assumed reaction: The role of perceived speaker attitude in vicarious dissonance. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7(3), 207-220.
Monin, B., & Oppenheimer, D. (2005). Correlated averages vs. average correlations: Demonstrating the warm glow heuristic beyond aggregation. Social Cognition, 23(3), 257-278.
Monin, B., Pizarro, D., & Beer, J. (2007). Deciding vs. reacting: Conceptions of moral judgment and the reason-affect debate. Review of General Psychology, 11(2), 99-111.
Monin, B., Sawyer, P. J., & Marquez, M. J. (2008). The rejection of moral rebels: Resenting those who do the right thing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(1), 76-93.
Norton, M. I., Monin, B., Cooper, J., & Hogg, M. A. (2003). Vicarious dissonance: Attitude change from the inconsistency of others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(1), 47-62.
Young, S., Nussbaum, D., & Monin, B. (2007). Potential moral stigma and reactions to sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence for a disjunction fallacy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(6), 789-799.

Other Publications:

Monin, B., & Jordan, A. H. (2009). Dynamic moral identity: A social psychological perspective. In D. Narvaez & D. Lapsley (Eds.), Moral Self, Identity and Character: Prospects for a New Field of Study. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Courses Taught:

Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Psychology of Everyday Morality

Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social Sciences

The Psychology of Everyday Morality

Benoît Monin
Department of Psychology
Jordan Hall, Building 420
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Phone: (650) 725-2449