• PhD, Ohio State University

My research examines attitudes and attitude change, with a particular emphasis on motivational and interpersonal processes. For example, one 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 how our attitudes affect and are affected by our interpersonal interactions and how different interaction strategies can impact attitude change that results from these conversations.

• DeMarree, K. G., Chang, Y., Lee, T. J., & Venezia, A. (in press). Listening and persuasion. Current Opinion in Psychology.
• DeMarree, K. G., Naragon-Gainey, K. & Giancola, A.  (in press). Validation of different forms of present-moment awareness using cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Psychological Assessment. 
• Moreno, L., Paredes, B., Horcajo, J., Briñol, P., Petty, R. E., See, Y. H. M., & DeMarree, K. G. (in press). The effects of perceived COVID-19 threat on compensatory conviction, thought reliance, and attitudes.  European Journal of Social Psychology. 
• Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fabrigar, L. R., Xia, J., DeMarree, K. G. & Clark, J. K. (2023). Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 105, 104437. 
• Itzchakov, G., & DeMarree, K. G. (2022). Attitudes in an interpersonal context: Psychological safety as a route to attitude change. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 932413.  
• DeMarree, K. G. & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2022). Individual differences in the contents and form of present-moment awareness: The Multidimensional Awareness Scale. Assessment, 29, 583-602. 
• 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, 1239-1265. 
• 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, 762-778.  
• Hartman, R. O., Dieckmann, N. F., Sprenger, A. M., 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, 358-371. 
• 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. 
• Naragon-Gainey, K. & DeMarree, K. G. (2017). Decentering attenuates the associations of negative affect and positive affect with psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 1027-1047. 
• Serra, M. J. & DeMarree, K. G. (2016). Unskilled and unaware in the classroom: College students’ desired grades bias their grade predictions.  Memory and Cognition, 44, 1127-1137. 
• 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, 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, 819-830. 
• 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.