My research examines attitudes and attitude change, with a particular emphasis on metacognitive, 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. Finally, my work examines psychological processes that predict whether a given mental content will be “strong” (i.e., show stability and impact judgment/behavior), and examine these processes across domains (attitudes, the self, emotions).

Selected Publications

Itzchakov, G., Navon, N., Crawford, J. T., Weinstein, N., & DeMarree, K. G. (2025). Harmony in political discourse? The impact of high-quality listening on speakers' perceptions following political conversations. Media and Communication, 13, 9871.
Hossain, S., Kyron, M. J., DeMarree, K. G., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2025). Emotion regulation in daily life: Testing bidirectional temporal associations with positive and negative affect. Emotion.
Vaidis, D. C., Sleegers, W. W. A., van Leeuwen, F., DeMarree, K. G., Sætrevik, B., Ross, R. M., Schmidt, K., Protzko, J., Morvinski, C., Ghasemi, O., Roberts, A. J., Stone, J., Bran, A., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Gunsoy, C., Moussaoui, L. S., Smith, A. R., Nugier, A., Fayant, M.-P., . . . Priolo, D. (2024). A multilab replication of the induced-compliance paradigm of cognitive dissonance. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1), 1-26.
Itzchakov, G., DeMarree, K. G., & Reis, H. T. (2024). A preregistered study on Israelis' attitude structure following the October 7th massacre and during the war in Gaza. Social Cognition, 42(6), 500-521.
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.
DeMarree, K. G., Chang, Y.-H., Lee, T., & Venezia, A. (2023). Listening and Attitude Change. Current Opinion in Psychology, 53, 101641.
Naragon-Gainey, K., DeMarree, K. G., Kyron, M. J., McMahon, T. P., Park, J., & Biehler, K. M. (2023). Decentering from emotions in daily life: Dynamic associations with affect, symptoms, and well-being. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(5), 841-862.
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., 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.