Mark D. Alicke
Department of Psychology
229 Porter Hall
Athens, Ohio 45701
U.S.A.
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Phone: 740-593-1068
My current research interests are in two main categories: The evaluation of social conduct, especially conduct that is potentially harmful, and the role of the self in social judgment. In the first category, my interests are in the psychology of blame and the influence of outcome information on social judgment. In the second category, I am presently investigating the ability of positive and negative feedback from peers to override far more objective information regarding one's task-related skills. I am continuing to conduct research on the better-than-average effect--the tendency for people to evaluate their characteristics more favorably than an average peer's, and also on the genius effect, the tendency for people to exaggerate the ability of people who outperform them.
 Books:
- Alicke, M.D. (2000). Evaluating social comparison targets. In J.Suls & L. Wheeler (Eds.), Handbook of Social Comparison: Theory and Research, (pps. ). N.Y.: Plenum Publishing.
Journal Articles:
- Buckingham, J.T., & Alicke, M.D. (2002). The influence of individual versus aggregate social comparison information on self-evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1117-1130.
- Alicke, M.D. (2000). Culpable control and the psychology of blame. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 556-574.
- Alicke, M.D. (1992). Culpable causation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 368-378.
- Alicke, M.D. (1985). Global self-evaluation as determined by the desirability and controllability of trait adjectives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 1621-1630.
- Alicke, M.D. & Davis, T.L. (1989). The role of a posteriori victim information in judgments of blame and sanction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 362-377.
- Alicke, M.D., Davis, T.L., & Pezzo, M.V. (1994). A posteriori adjustment of a priori decision criteria. Social Cognition, 12, 281-308.
- Alicke, M.D., Klotz, M.L., Breitenbecher, D.L., Yurak, T.J., & Vredenburg, D.S. (1995). Personal contact, individuation and the better than average effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68,
- Alicke, M.D., & Largo, E. (1995). The unique role of the self in the false consensus effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 31, 28-47.
- Alicke, M.D., LoSchiavo, F.M., & Buckingham, J.T. (2000). Attitude transference. Social Cognition, 18, 1-34.
- Alicke, M.D., LoSchiavo, F.M., Zerbst, J.I., & Zhang, S. (1997). The person who outperforms me is a genius: Esteem maintenance in upward social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 781-789.
- Alicke, M.D., Vredenburg, D.S., Hiatt, M., & Govorun, O. (2001). The “better than myself effect.” Motivation and Emotion, 25, 7-22. Special Issue on Motivation and the Self.
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