Publications

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Pirlott, A.G. & Cook, C.L. (2024). Evolutionary approaches to understanding prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. In T. Nelson (Ed.) Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination. 

Pirlott, A. G., & *Foley, M.M. (2023). Cross-cultural evidence for the role of parenting costs limiting women’s sexual unrestrictedness. Evolutionary Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-023-00361-4

Pirlott, A. G. & Hines, J.C. (2023). Eliminating ANOVA hand calculations predicts improved mastery in an undergraduate statistics course. Teaching of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00986283231183959

MacKinnon, D. P., Cheong, J., Pirlott, A. G., & Smyth, H. L. (2023). Statistical mediation analysis in psychological research. In H. Cooper, M. N. Coutanche, L. M. McMullen, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA handbook of research methods in psychology: Research designs: Quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological, and biological (2nd ed., pp. 435–458). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000319-020

Pirlott, A. G. (2022). Online versus face-to-face learning in an undergraduate statistics course. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000340

Pirlott A. G., & Cook C.L. (2021, 2016). Homophobia. In T.K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. doi:  10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3377-1

Neuberg, S. L., Williams, K. E. G., Sng, O., Pick, C. M., Neel, R., Krems, J. A. & Pirlott, A. G. (2020). Toward capturing the functional and nuanced nature of social stereotypes: An Affordance Management Theory. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 62, 245-304.

Pirlott, A. G., & Cook, C. L. (2018). Prejudices and discrimination as goal activated and threat driven: The affordance management approach to sexual prejudice. Psychological Review, 125(6), 1002-1027. doi: 10.1037/rev0000125

​Pirlott, A. G., *Rusten, M. L., & *Butterfuss, R. M. (2016). Perceptions of threats to physical safety, sexual autonomy, values, and of discrimination drive LGB prejudices toward heterosexuals. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(9) 1147-1163. doi: 10.1177/0146167216651854

Pirlott, A. G., & MacKinnon, D. P. (2016). Design approaches to experimental mediation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: Special Issue on Rigorous and Replicable Methods, 66, 29-38. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.09.012

MacKinnon, D. P. & Pirlott, A. G. (2015). Statistical approaches for enhancing causal interpretation of the M to Y relation in mediation analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(1), 30-43. doi: 10.1177/10888068314542878.

​Pirlott, A. G., & Neuberg, S. L. (2014). Sexual prejudice: Avoiding unwanted sexual interest? Social Psychological & Personality Science, 5(1), 92-101. doi: 10.1177/1948550613486674