PUBLICATIONS
Dittmann, A.G., Stephens, N.M., & Townsend, S.S.M. (2024). Interdependent behavior only benefits employees from working-class backgrounds when it is both enacted and valued. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Birnbaum, H.J., Dittmann, A.G., Reinhart, E., Carey, R. M., Stephens, N. M., and Markus, H. R. (2023). Personal harm from the Covid-19 pandemic predicts advocacy for equality over time. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 94, 104400.
Selected press: The Hill
Dittmann, A.G., Kteily, N., & Bruneau, E. (2021). When getting more makes groups seem worth less: Negotiating a ‘better’ deal in prisoner swaps can ironically signal low self-regard and engender disrespect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104056.
Dittmann, A.G., Stephens, N.M., & Townsend, S.S.M. (2020). Achievement is not class-neutral: Working together benefits people from working-class contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000194
Winner of the Wheeler Institute Award: judged to be research with greatest potential for contribution to the intersection of business and development at the Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference 2019
Selected Press: Politico, National Affairs, Poets and Quants, Medium
Stephens, N.M., Townsend, S.S.M., & Dittmann, A.G. (2019). Social class disparities in higher education and in professional workplaces: The role of cultural mismatch. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Selected Press: APS Observer
Dittmann, A.G. & Stephens, N.M. (2017). Interventions aimed at closing the social class achievement gap: Changing individuals, structures, and construals. Current Opinion in Psychology, 18, 111- 116. doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.044
Maner, J.K., Dittmann, A.G., McNulty, J., & Meltzer, A. (2017). Implications of life-history strategies for obesity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(32), 8517–8522. doi:10.1073/pnas.1620482114
Selected Press: U.S. News & World Report
Dittmann, A.G. & Maner, J.K. (2017). A life-history theory perspective on obesity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001400 (commentary)
Stephens, N.M., Dittmann, A.G., & Townsend, S.S.M. (2017). Social class and models of competence: How gateway institutions disadvantage working-class Americans and how to intervene. In C.S. Dweck, A.J. Elliot, & D. Yeager (Eds.), Handbook of Competence and Motivation (2nd Edition): Theory and Application. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVISION AND UNDER REVIEW *joint first authorship
Waldfogel, H. B., Dittmann, A. G. & Birnbaum, H. J. (Under 3rd round review at PNAS). Reframing voting as a duty to others increases political engagement.
Dittmann, A.G.* Dobson, K. H.*, & Yeager, D. (R&R at AMJ). [Coercive power, rapport].
Dietze, P.* & Dittmann, A. G.* (R&R at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General). When and why working together benefits individuals from working-class contexts: A registered report.
Dobson, K. H.*, Dittmann, A.G.* & Yeager, D. (Invited for 2nd round revision at NComm). A transparency statement improves police-community interactions.
Best Conference Paper Winner at the International Association of Conflict Management Conference 2023
Dittmann, A. G.* & Dobson, K. S. H.* (Under review at Behavioral Science & Policy). Perspective-getting interventions to mitigate law enforcement bias in the utilization of A.I.
SELECT WORKING PAPERS *joint first authorship
Fendinger, N., Dittmann, A. G., & Knowles, E. (Revising for submission). Attenuating social class differences in logical reasoning.
Preprint: https://osf.io/q97e6
Dittmann, A.G., Stephens, N.M., Townsend, S.S.M., & Rivera, L. (Revising for submission). Elite preparation and the workforce transition of people from working-class backgrounds.
Selected Press: The Christian Science Monitor (cover story), Harvard Business Review (2017), Harvard Business Review (2018)
Truong, M., Birnbaum, H. J., Dittmann, A. G., Stephens, N. M., & Townsend, S. S. M. (Revising for submission). Feminine defaults reduce gender participation gaps in the MBA classroom.
Dittmann, A.G., Birnbaum, H.J., Stephens, N. M., Carey, R. M., Markus, H. R., & Reinhart, E. (Revising for submission). Gig workers and relationships in the COVID-19 pandemic.