
Investigating the Psychology of polarization and extremism
Social Psychology Ph.D. Candidate at The Ohio State University
Social Psychology Ph.D. Candidate at The Ohio State University
I am a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in Social Psychology and a member of the Attitudes and Persuasion Lab at Ohio State. My research examines basic psychological processes involved in perpetuating social problems like extremism, political polarization, and prejudice.
Petty, R. E., Siev, J. J., & Briñol, P. (in press). Attitude strength: What's new? Spanish Journal of Psychology. [PDF]
Siev, J. J., Xu, M., Luttrell, A., Petty, R. E. (in press). The role of attitude strength in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. In M. Miller (Ed.), The social science of the COVID-19 pandemic: A call to action for researchers. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [PDF]
Siev, J. J., Williams, S. N., & Petty, R. E. (2022). The elaboration likelihood model. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, & J. van Weert (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of health communication. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. [PDF]
Durso, G. R. O., Petty, R. E., Briñol, P., Siev., J. J., Hinsenkamp, L., & Sawicki, V. (2021). Dampening affect via expectations: The case of ambivalence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [PDF] [DOI]
Siev, J. J. & Petty, R. E., & Briñol, P. (2021). Attitudinal extremism. In A.W. Kruglanski, C. Kopetz, & E. Szumowska (Eds.). The psychology of extremism: A motivational perspective. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis. [PDF]
Teeny, J., Siev, J. J., Briñol, P., & Petty, R. E. (2021). A review and conceptual framework for understanding personalized matching effects in persuasion. Journal of Consumer Psychology. [PDF] [DOI]
Chamberlain, R., Drake, J. E., Kozbelt, A., Hickman, R., Siev, J. J., & Wagemans, J. (2019). Artists as experts in visual cognition: An update. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(1), 58-73. [DOI]
Siev, J., Zuckerman, S. E., & Siev, J. J. (2018). The relationship between immorality and cleansing: A meta-analysis of the Macbeth effect. Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 303-309. [DOI]
Chamberlain, R., McManus, C., Brunswick, N., & Siev, J. J. (2018). Meta-analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuospatial ability in dyslexia. British Journal of Psychology, 109(4), 897-916. [DOI]
Siev, J. J. & Teeny, J. D. Personal misconduct elicits harsher professional consequences for artistic (vs. scientific) work: A moral decoupling process.
Siev, J. J., Petty, R. E., Paredes, B., & Briñol, P. Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about Covid and willingness to engage in mitigation-related behaviors.
Siev, J. J. & Petty, R. E. Attitudinal ambivalence in political extremism.
Siev, J. J., Philipp-Muller, A., Durso, G. R. O., & Wegener, D. T. Social evaluation of people expressing ambivalence about polarizing political issues.
Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D. R., & Petty, R. E. Negative attitudes among political (and non-political) independents.
Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D. R., & Petty, R. E. Motivational correlates of political and nonpolitical 'partisanship' versus 'independence.'
Rovenpor, D. R., Syropoulos, S., O’Brien, T. C., Siev, J. J., & Leidner, B. Motivational underpinnings of meaning in life: Promotion focus is uniquely related to meaning presence, whereas prevention focus is uniquely related to meaning seeking.
Siev, J. J. Four reasons people decline to identify with political parties and other competitive groups.
Outstanding Research Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2023)
Graduate Student Paper Award, Midwestern Psychological Association (2023)
Graduate Student Research Forum, Ohio State Dept of Psychology, 2nd place of 10 speakers (2022)
Hayes Graduate Research Forum, Ohio State College of Arts & Sciences, 1st place of
10 speakers in Social and Behavioral Sciences (2019)