• PhD, Ohio State University

My research examines attitudes and attitude change, with a particular emphasis on motivational and metacognitive processes. For example, line of research examines people’s desire to change their own attitudes, including when and why people may want different attitudes and the means they use to pursue this change. Another line of research examines the strength of people’s mental contents (attitudes and thoughts) to better understand when they will change and when they will guide relevant outcomes. Newer work seeks to understand how our attitudes affect and are affected by our interpersonal interactions.

• DeMarree, K. G., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2022). Individual differences in the contents and form of present-moment awareness: The Multidimensional Awareness Scale. Assessment, 29(3), 583-602.
• Horcajo, J., Briñol, P., Paredes, B., Petty, R. E., DeMarree, K. G., & See, Y. H. M. (2022). Polarization of attitudes as a function of mortality salience: A meta-cognitive analysis. Psichothema, 34(2), 226-232.
• DeMarree, K. G., Petty, R. E., Briñol, P., & Xia, J. (2020). Documenting individual differences in the propensity to hold attitudes with certainty. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(6), 1239–1265.
• Weng, J., & DeMarree, K. G. (2019). An examination of whether mindfulness can predict the relationship between objective and subjective attitudinal ambivalence. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 854.
  
• Light, A. E., Rios, K., & DeMarree, K. G. (2018). Self-uncertainty and the influence of alternative goals on self-regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(1), 24-36.
• Itzchakov, G., DeMarree, K. G., Kluger, A. N., & Turjeman-Levi, Y. (2018). The listener sets the tone: High-quality listening increases attitude clarity and behavior-intention consequences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(5), 762-778.
• DeMarree, K. G., & Bobrowski, M. E. (2017). Structure and Validity of Self-Concept Clarity Measures. In J. Lodi-Smith & K. G. DeMarree (Eds.), Self-concept clarity: Perspectives on assessment, research, and applications (pp. 1-17). Springer.
• DeMarree, K. G., Clark, C. J., Wheeler, S. C., Briñol, P., & Petty, R. E. (2017). On the pursuit of desired attitudes: Wanting a different attitude affects information processing and behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 129-142.
  
• Hartman, R. O., Dieckmann, N. F., Sprenger, A., Stastny, B. J., & DeMarree, K. G. (2017). Modeling Attitudes toward Science: Development and Validation of the Credibility of Science Scale (CoSS). Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 39(6), 358-371.
• Naragon-Gainey, K., & DeMarree, K. G. (2017). Decentering attenuates the associations of negative affect and positive affect with psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science,5(6), 1027-1047.
• Serra, M. J., & DeMarree, K. G. (2016). Unskilled and unaware in the classroom: College students’ desired grades bias their grade predictions. Memory & Cognition, 44(7), 1127-1137.
• DeMarree, K. G., & Rios, K. (2014). Understanding the relationship between self-esteem and self-clarity: The role of desired self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,50, 202-209.
  
• DeMarree, K. G., Wheeler, S. C., Briñol, P., & Petty, R. E. (2014). Wanting other attitudes: Actual–desired attitude discrepancies predict feelings of ambivalence and ambivalence consequences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 53(1), 5-18.
• Rios, K., DeMarree, K. G., & Statzer, J. (2014). Attitude certainty and conflict style: Divergent effects of correctness and clarity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(7), 819-830.