Joe Siev

Postdoctoral Fellow in Consumer Behavior

Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia

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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Consumer Behavior at UVA's Darden School of Business. I completed my PhD in Social Psychology at Ohio State in 2023, where I worked with Dr. Richard Petty in the Attitudes and Persuasion Lab and wrote a dissertation titled "Attitudinal Ambivalence and Behavioral Extremism." My research sits at the intersection of attitudes & persuasion, political psychology, and consumer behavior. I am particularly interested in the roles of politics and morality in shaping social life and culture, consumer psychology, and the marketplace.

Contact: sievj@darden.virginia.edu

Vita: CV

Research

Publications

Siev, Joseph J. and Jacob D. Teeny (in press), “Personal Misconduct Elicits Harsher Professional Consequences for Artists (vs. Scientists): A Moral Decoupling Process.” Psychological Science. [preprint]

Siev, Joseph J., Daniel R. Rovenpor, and Richard E. Petty (2024), “Independents, Not Partisans, Are More Likely to Hold and Express Electoral Preferences Based in Negativity.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 110, 104538. [PDF] [DOI]

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Siev, Joseph J., Mengran Xu, Andrew Luttrell, and Richard E. Petty (2024), “The Role of Attitude Strength in Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic.” M. Miller (Ed). The Social Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action for Researchers. Oxford University Press. [PDF]

Siev, Joseph J., Richard E. Petty, Borja Paredes, and Pablo Briñol (2023), “Behavioral Extremity Moderates the Association between Certainty in Attitudes about Covid and Willingness to Engage in Mitigation-Related Behaviors.” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12767. [PDF] [DOI]

Petty, Richard E., Joseph J. Siev, and Pablo Briñol (2023), “Attitude Strength: What’s New?” Spanish Journal of Psychology, 26, e4, 1-13. [PDF] [DOI]

Siev, Joseph J., Richard E. Petty, and Pablo Briñol (2022), “Attitudinal Extremism.” In A.W. Kruglanski, C. Kopetz, & E. Szumowska (Eds.). The Psychology of Extremism: A Motivational Perspective. Taylor & Francis. [PDF]

Siev, Joseph J., Sydney N. Williams, and Richard E. Petty (2022), “The Elaboration Likelihood Model.” In E. Ho, C. Bylund, and J. van Weert (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. [PDF]

Durso, Geoffrey R. O., Richard E. Petty, Pablo Briñol, Joseph J. Siev, Lucas Hinsenkamp, and Vanessa Sawicki (2021), “Dampening Affect via Expectations: The Case of Ambivalence.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121 (6), 1172-1194. [PDF] [DOI]

Teeny, Jacob D., Joseph J. Siev, Pablo Briñol, and Richard E. Petty (2021), “A Review and Conceptual Framework for Understanding Personalized Matching Effects in Persuasion. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 31(2), 382-414. [PDF] [DOI]

Chamberlain, Rebecca, Jennifer E. Drake, Aaron Kozbelt, Rachel Hickman, Joseph J. Siev, and Johans Wagemans (2019), “Artists as Experts in Visual Cognition: An Update. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13 (1), 58-73. [DOI]

Siev, Jedidiah, Shelby E. Zuckerman, and Joseph J. Siev (2018), “The Relationship between Immorality and Cleansing: A Meta-analysis of the Macbeth Effect.” Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 303-309. [DOI]

Chamberlain, Rebecca, Nicola Brunswick, Joseph J. Siev, and I. C. McManus (2018), “Meta-analytic Findings Reveal Lower Means but Higher Variances in Visuospatial Ability in Dyslexia.” British Journal of Psychology, 109 (4), 897-916. [DOI]

Working Papers/Manuscripts in the Review Process

Feel free to email me about these papers

Teeny, J. D. and J. J. Siev, "When Is the Same CSR Less Effective? Prior Attitudes Bias Evaluations of Firms' Prosocial Behavior."

Siev, J. J. and R. E. Petty, “Attitudinal Ambivalence and Behavioral Extremism.”

Siev, J. J., A. Philipp-Muller, G. R. O. Durso, and D. T. Wegener, “The Social Cost of Expressing Ambivalent Opinions about Political Issues.”

Susmann, M., J. J. Siev, D. T. Wegener, and R. E. Petty. “Personalized Matching in the Misinformation Domain.”

Rovenpor, D. R., S. Syropoulos, T. C. O’Brien, J. J. Siev, & B. Leidner, “Motivational Underpinnings of Meaning in Life: Promotion Focus is Uniquely Related to Meaning Presence, Whereas Prevention Focus is Uniquely Related to Meaning Seeking.”

Awards

Graduate Student Paper Award, Midwestern Psychological Association (2023)

Outstanding Research Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2022)

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)