Arie Kruglanski

About

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, affiliated with the Department of Communication and Psychology. He is a recipient of numerous awards and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. His research expertise lies in Communication Science, and he has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist. His work focuses on understanding social cognition and communication processes.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Sociology
• Data Mining
• Medicine
• Epistemology
• Pathology
• Biology

Selected publications

• Habitual Behavior Is Goal-Driven

  Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2020 · 220 citations

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  We address the relation between goal-driven and habitual behaviors. Whereas in recent years the two have been juxtaposed, we suggest that habitual behavior is in fact goal-driven. To support this view, we show that habitual behavior is sensitive to changes in goal properties (reward contingencies), namely goal value and its expectancy of attainment. Whereas adjustment to these properties may be slower for habitual (or overlearned) than for nonhabitual behavior, this is likely due to the routiniz…

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• Significance-Quest Theory

  Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2022 · 151 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  , or reference group. The quest for significance is activated by significance loss and/or the opportunity for significance gain. It motivates behavior that aims to affirm, realize, and/or show commitment to an important value. The SQT is consistent with large bodies of prior research and supported by novel studies in multiple laboratory and field settings. It transcends prior understandings and offers guidance for further study of this essential human motivation.

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• Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Personality and Individual Differences · 2020 · 66 citations

  = 58,641), and tested pre-registered hypotheses about how age relates to (a) perceived personal costs during the pandemic, (b) prosocial COVID-19 responses (e.g., social distancing), and (c) support for behavioral regulations (e.g., mandatory quarantine, vaccination). We further tested whether the relation between age and prosocial COVID-19 responses can be explained by perceived personal costs during the pandemic. Overall, we found that older people perceived more costs of contracting the virus…

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• Predictors of adherence to public health behaviors for fighting COVID-19 derived from longitudinal data

  Scientific Reports · 2022 · 62 citations

  The present paper examines longitudinally how subjective perceptions about COVID-19, one's community, and the government predict adherence to public health measures to reduce the spread of the virus. Using an international survey (N = 3040), we test how infection risk perception, trust in the governmental response and communications about COVID-19, conspiracy beliefs, social norms on distancing, tightness of culture, and community punishment predict various containment-related attitudes and beha…

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• Facing the unknown with hope or fear: On the affective reactions to outcome uncertainty

  European Review of Social Psychology · 2025-06-10 · 8 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01MH052578

  NIH · $473k · 2001

• NIH Grant R01MH046412

  NIH · $576k · 1994

• A Parametric Model of Social Judgment

  NSF · $240k · 2006–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Antonio Pierro

  Sapienza University of Rome

  155 shared

• Katarzyna Jaśko

  77 shared

• David Webber

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  67 shared

• Jocelyn J. Bélanger

  64 shared

• Erica Molinario

  Institute of Psychology

  53 shared

• Marina Chernikova

  University of Maryland, College Park

  46 shared

• E. Tory Higgins

  Columbia University

  42 shared

• Michele J. Gelfand

  Stanford University

  41 shared

Labs

• Center for Political Communication & Civic LeadershipPI

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the American Psychological Association
• Fellow of the American Psychological Society

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