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In Press / 2017
Anderson, R. A., & Masicampo, E. J. (in press). Protecting the innocence of youth: Moral sanctity values underlie censorship from young children. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Masicampo, E. J. (2017). Willpower as “won’t”-power and the challenges of measuring trait self-control. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong & C. Miller (Eds.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 5: Virtues and Vices (pp. 215-224) .Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Oussedik, E., Foy, C. G., Masicampo, E. J., Kammrath, L. K., Anderson, R. E., & Feldman, S. R. (2017). Accountability: A missing construct in models of adherence behavior and in clinical practice. Patient Preference and Adherence, 11, 1285-1294.

2016
Chalabaev, A., Radel, R., Masicampo, E. J., & Dru, V. (2016). Reducing stereotype threat with embodied triggers: A case of sensorimotor-mental congruence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(8), 1063-1076.

Masicampo, E. J., & Slepian, M. L. (2016). Linking diverse resources to action control. In Hirt, E. (Ed.), Self-Regulation and Ego Control. San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Slepian, M. L., Masicampo, E. J., & Galinsky, A. D. (2016). The hidden effects of recalling secrets: Assimilation, contrast, and the burdens of secrecy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(8), e27-e48.

Vonasch, A. J., Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2016). The science of consciousness must include its more advanced forms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, 43-44. [Commentary.]

2015
Baumeister, R. F., Masicampo, E. J., & Vohs, K. D. (2015). Conscious thoughts and the causation of behavior. In M. Mikulincer, P. Shaver (Eds.), E. Borgida, & J. Bargh (Assoc. Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology: Vol. 1. Attitudes and social cognition (pp. 231-250). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251).

Slepian, M. L., Camp, N. P., & Masicampo, E. J. (2015). Exploring the burdens of secrecy: Secrets, preoccupation, and perceptual judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(2), e31-e42.

Slepian, M. L., Masicampo, E. J., & Ambady, N. (2015). Cognition from on high and down low: Verticality and construal level, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 1-17.

2014
Baumeister, R. F., Vohs, K. D., & Masicampo, E. J. (2014). Maybe it helps to be conscious, after all: Commentary on Newell and Shanks. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Commentary.]

Masicampo, E. J., & Ambady, N. (2014). Predicting fluctuations in widespread interest: Memory decay and goal-related memory accessibility in internet search trends. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 205-214.

Masicampo, E. J., & Sahakyan, L. (2014). Imagining another context during encoding offsets context-dependent forgetting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(6), 1772-1777.

Masicampo, E. J., Barth, M., & Ambady, N. (2014). Group-based discrimination in judgments of moral purity-related behaviors: Experimental and archival evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(6), 2135-2152.

Masicampo, E. J., Martin, S. R., & Anderson, R. A. (2014). Understanding and overcoming self-control depletion. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(11), 638-649.

Shea, L., & Masicampo, E. J. (2014). Self-affirmation counteracts the effects of burdens on judgments of distance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 105-108.

Slepian, M. L., Masicampo, E. J., & Ambady, N. (2014). Relieving the burdens of secrecy: Revealing secrets influences judgments of hill slant and distance. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 293-300.

Toosi, N. R., Masicampo, E. J., & Ambady, N. (2014). Aggressive acts increase commitment to new groups: Zombie attacks and blocked shots. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 286-292.

2013
Baumeister, R. F., Masicampo, E. J., & Twenge, J. M. (2013). The social self. In H. Tennen, J. Suls, and I. B. Weiner (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 5: Personality and social psychology (pp. 247-273). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2013). Conscious thought does not guide moment-to-moment actions - it serves social and cultural functions. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 478.

2012
Masicampo, E. J., & Lalande, D. R. (2012). A peculiar prevalence of p values just below .05. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(11), 2271-2279.

Slepian, M. L., Masicampo, E. J., Toosi, N. R., & Ambady, N. (2012). The physical burdens of secrecy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 619-624.

Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2012). Committed but close-minded: When making a specific plan for a goal hinders success. Social Cognition, 30, 37-55.

2011
Baumeister, R. F., Masicampo, E. J., & DeWall, C. N. (2011). Arguing, reasoning, and the interpersonal (cultural) functions of human consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 74. [Commentary.]

Baumeister, R. F., Masicampo, E. J., & Vohs, K. D. (2011). Do conscious thoughts cause behavior? Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 331-361.

Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2011). Consider it done!: Plan making can eliminate the cognitive effects of unfulfilled goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 667-683.

Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2011). Finding positive value in human consciousness: Conscious thought serves participation in society and culture. In K. Sheldon, T. Kashdan, and M. Steger (Eds.). Designing the Future of Positive Psychology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (pp. 175-189). New York: Oxford University Press.

Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2011). Unfulfilled goals interfere with tasks that require executive functions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 300-311.
**Featured as Editor's Choice, Science (2010), 330, 1023.

2010
Baumeister, R. F., & Masicampo, E. J. (2010). Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal-culture interface. Psychological Review, 117, 945-971.

2009
Baumeister, R. F., Masicampo, E. J., & DeWall, C. N. (2009). Prosocial benefits of feeling free: Disbelief in free will increases aggression and reduces helpfulness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 260-268.

DeWall, C. N., Baumeister, R. F., & Masicampo, E.J. (2009). Feeling rejected but not much else: Resolving the paradox of emotional numbness after exclusion. In A. L. Vangelisti (Ed.) Feeling Hurt in Close Relationships (pp. 123-142). New York: Cambridge University Press.

2008
DeWall, C. N., Baumeister, R. F., & Masicampo, E. J. (2008). Evidence that logical reasoning depends on conscious processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 628-645.

Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2008). Toward a physiology of dual-process reasoning and judgment: Lemonade, willpower, and expensive rule-based analysis. Psychological Science, 19, 255-260.

Tice, D. M., & Masicampo, E. J. (2008). Approach and avoidance motivations in the self-concept and self-esteem. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation (pp. 505-519). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2007
Masicampo, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2007). Relating mindfulness and self-regulatory processes. Psychological Inquiry, 18, 255-258. [Commentary.]