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Selected Publications
- ***Goldwert, D., & Vlasceanu, M. (2025). An Individual-Collective-Systemic Behavioral Climate Intervention Framework. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
- ***Goldwert, D., Patel, Y., Goldberg, M., Nielsen, K., & Vlasceanu, M. (2025). Climate Action Literacy Interventions Increase Commitments to More Effective Mitigation Behaviors. PNAS Nexus.
- Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K., Bak-Coleman, J., Van Bavel, J., & et al., . (2024). Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries. Science Advances.
- ***Berkebile-Weinberg, M., Tang, R., Gao, R., & Vlasceanu, M. (2024). Internet image search outputs propagate climate change sentiment and impact policy support. Nature Climate Change.
- ***Berkebile-Weinberg, M., Goldwert, D., Doell, K., Van Bavel, J., & Vlasceanu, M. (2024). The Differential Impact of Climate Interventions along the Political Divide in 60 Countries. Nature Communications.
2025
- ***Goldwert, D., & Vlasceanu, M. (2025). An Individual-Collective-Systemic Behavioral Climate Intervention Framework. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
- ***Goldwert, D., Patel, Y., Goldberg, M., Nielsen, K., & Vlasceanu, M. (2025). Climate Action Literacy Interventions Increase Commitments to More Effective Mitigation Behaviors. PNAS Nexus.
- Cologna, V., Meiler, S., (...), ., Vlasceanu, M., & et. al., . (2025). Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Nature Climate Change.
- Mede, N., Cologna, V., Berger, S., (...), ., Vlasceanu, M., & et. al., . (2025). Perceptions of Science, Science Communication, and Climate Change Attitudes in 68 Countries: The TISP Dataset. Nature Scientific Data.
- Cologna, V., Mede, N., Berger, S., (...), ., Vlasceanu, M., & et. al., . (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries. Nature Human Behavior.
- Todorova, B., Steyrl, D., Hornsey, M., Pearson, S., Brick, C., Lange, F., Vlasceanu, M., van Bavel, J., Lamm, C., & Doell, K. Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors. npj Climate Action.
2024
- Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K., Bak-Coleman, J., Van Bavel, J., & et al., . (2024). Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries. Science Advances.
- ***Goldwert, D., & Vlasceanu, M. (2024). Changes in Political Beliefs. The Routledge International Handbook of Changes in Human Perceptions and Behaviors.
- ***Mason, K., Vlasceanu, M., & Jost, J. (2024). Effects of System-Sanctioned Framing on Climate Awareness and Environmental Action in the U.S. and Beyond. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- ***Berkebile-Weinberg, M., Tang, R., Gao, R., & Vlasceanu, M. (2024). Internet image search outputs propagate climate change sentiment and impact policy support. Nature Climate Change.
- ***Berkebile-Weinberg, M., Goldwert, D., Doell, K., Van Bavel, J., & Vlasceanu, M. (2024). The Differential Impact of Climate Interventions along the Political Divide in 60 Countries. Nature Communications.
- Doell, K., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., & et al., . (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Nature Scientific Data.
- Van Bavel, J., Rathje, S., Vlasceanu, M., & Pretus, C. (2024). Updating the Identity-based Model of Belief: From False Belief to the Spread of Misinformation. Current Opinion in Psychology.
- ***Goldwert, D., Doell, K., Van Bavel, J., & Vlasceanu, M. Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
- van Stekelenburg, A., Bleize, D., van Riet, J., Schaap, G., Vlasceanu, M., & Doell, C. Communicating consensus among climate scientists increases estimates of consensus and belief in human-caused climate change across the globe. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
2023
- Vlasceanu, M., Dyckovsky, A., & Coman, A. (2023). A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
- Koppel, L., Robertson, C., Doell, K., Javeed, A., Rasmussen, J., Rathje, S., Vlasceanu, M., & Van Bevel, J. (2023). Individual-level solutions may support system-level change–if they are internalized as part of one’s social identity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e165.
- Uddenberg, S., Thompson, B., Vlasceanu, M., Griffiths, T., & Todorov, A. (2023). Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence. Cognition, 237(105452).
- Vlasceanu, M., McMahon, C., Van Bavel, J., & Coman, A. (2023). Political and non-political belief change elicits behavioral change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
- Azevedo, F., (...), ., Vlasceanu, M., & et al., . (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific Data.
- Van Bavel, J., Pretus, C., Rathje, S., Parnamets, P., Vlasceanu, M., & Knowles, E. (2023). The costs of polarizing a pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
2022
- Vlasceanu, M., Reinero, D., & Van Bavel, J. (2022). Adversarial Collaborations in Behavioral Science: Benefits and Boundary Conditions. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(1), 23-26.
- Vlasceanu, M., & Coman, A. (2022). Information sources differentially trigger Coronavirus-related belief change. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 13, 287-298.
- Van Bavel, J., (...), ., Vlasceanu, M., (...), ., & Boggio, P. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications, 13(517).
- Vlasceanu, M., Dudik, M., & Momennejad, I. (2022). Network structure, gender diversity, and interdisciplinarity predict the centrality of artificial intelligence organizations. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) .
- Tomislav, P., (...), ., Vlasceanu, M., & et al., . (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus, 1(3), 93.
- Vlasceanu, M., & Amodio, D. (2022). Propagation of gender inequality by internet search algorithms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(29).
- Vlasceanu, M., & Coman, A. (2022). The effects of dyadic conversations on Coronavirus-related belief change. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1-10.
2021
- Vl, M. (2021). Cognitive Processes Shaping Individual and Collective Belief Systems. ProQuest, Doctoral Dissertation.
- Vlasceanu, M., Morais, M., & Coman, A. (2021). Network structure impacts the synchronization of collective beliefs. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 21(5), 431-448.
- Vlasceanu, M., Morais, M., & Coman, A. (2021). The effect of prediction error on belief update across the political spectrum. Psychological Science, 32(6), 916-933.
- Vlasceanu, M., & Coman, A. (2021). The impact of social norms on health-related belief update. Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing, 1-12.
2020
- Vlasceanu*, M., Tachihara*, K., Goldberg, A., & Coman, A. (2020). Lexical associations in a native and non-native language affect retrieval induced forgetting. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Vlasceanu, M., Goebel, J., & Coman, A. (2020). The emotion-induced belief amplification effect. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
- Vlasceanu, M., Morais, M., Duker, A., & Coman, A. (2020). The synchronization of collective beliefs: From dyadic interactions to network convergence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 453-464.
2019
- Vlasceanu, M., & Morais, M. (2019). A possible neural mechanism of intentional forgetting. Journal of Neuroscience - Journal Club, 39(39), 7642-7644.
- Vlasceanu, M. (2019). Mnemonic Influence: Memory Impacts Emotion, Reason, and Action [Master’s Thesis]. Princeton University.
2018
- Vlasceanu, M., Enz, K., & Coman, A. (2018). Cognition in a social context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences , 27(5), 369-377.
- Vlasceanu, M., & Coman, A. (2018). Mnemonic accessibility affects statement believability: the effect of listening to others selectively practicing beliefs. Cognition, 180, 238-245.
- Vlasceanu, M., Drach, R., & Coman, A. (2018). Suppressing my memories by listening to yours: the effect of socially-triggered context-based prediction error on memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1.