Elnakouri, A., Finkel, E.J., & Scholer, A. A. (in press). Choosing our reality: Relational mobility shapes when and with whom people shared reality. Social Psychological and Personality Science

Brady, W.J., Doyle, E., Elnakouri, A., Finkel, E.J., Jackson, J.C., Kteily, N., Parker, V., Puryear, C., Spelman, T., Teeny, J., & Torres, M. (2026). Redesigning algorithms to intervene on social norm misperception during a national election. Nature [PDF]

Spelman, T., Elnakouri, A., Kteily, N., & Finkel, E.J. (2026). Overestimating the social costs of political belief change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 130(4), 742–762 [PDF]

Wood, A., Chadha, S., Liu, C., Yuan, Q., Davis, A., Elnakouri, A., Scholer, A. A & Boker, S. (2026). Laughter indicates perceived similarity among friends and strangers. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 50(1), 59-85 [PDF]

Elnakouri, A., Rossignac-Milon, A., Higgins, E. T., & Scholer, A. A. (2025). Goal-colored glasses: Goal instrumentality shapes when and with whom shared reality emerges. Motivation Science, 11(3), 277–290.[PDF] [OSF]

Emery, L. F., McGorray, E. L., Hughes, E. K., & Elnakouri, A. (2025). Merging in close relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 09637214251325191.. [PDF

Elnakouri, A., Sharpinski, K., McGregor, I., & Scholer, A. A. (2024). Guided by God: Consulting divine omniscience during decision making. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion [PDF][OSF]

Elnakouri, A., Huynh, A.C., & Grossmann, I. (2024). Explaining contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking. Cognition, 247, 105769 [PDF] [OSF]

Elnakouri, A., Rossignac-Milon, A., Krueger, K., Forest, A. L., Higgins, E. T., & Scholer, A. A. (2023). In it together: Shared reality with instrumental others is linked to goal success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(5), 1072–1095. [PDF][OSF]

Elnakouri, A., & McGregor, I. (2023). You can’t reason with them: Dismissing religious defectors as irrational. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 26(1), 84-98 [PDF][OSF]

McGregor, I., Tran, A., Auger, E., Britton, E., Hayes, J., Elnakouri, A., Eftekhari, E., Sharpinski, K., Arbiv, O., & Nash, K. (2022). Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspires approach motivation and magnanimity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ,102, 104350. [PDF]

Porter, T., Elnakouri, A., Meyers, E.A., Shibayama, T., Jayawickreme, E., & Grossmann, I. (2022). Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(9), 524-536. [PDF]

Elnakouri, A., Hubley, C., & McGregor, I. (2022). Hate and meaning in life: How collective, but not personal, hate quells threat and spurs meaning in life. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, 104227. [PDF][OSF]

Baker, A., Elnakouri, A., & Blanchard, C. (2019). The protective role of autonomous motivation against the effects of the “Muscular Ideal” on men’s self-objectification, appearance schema activation, and cognitive performance. Media Psychology, 22(3), 473-500. [PDF]

Oakes, H., Brienza, J. P., Elnakouri, A., & Grossmann, I. (2019). Wise reasoning: Converging evidence for the psychology of sound judgment. In R. J. Sternberg, & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of wisdom (pp. 202–225). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]

Elnakouri, A., McGregor, I., & Grossmann, I. (2018). The importance of environmental threats and ideology in explaining extreme self-sacrifice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,41, E201. [commentary PDF]