Professor Benoît Monin
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
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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
Professor Benoît Monin
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Knight Management Center, Stanford University
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305
United States of America
- Phone: 6507238081