Navigating intergroup boundaries, solidarity, and conflict

Publications

Merrell, W.*, Fan, L.*, Sheehy-Skeffington, J., Thomsen, L. (In press). Resource possession in the mind's eye: Ideological convergence and divergence in the perceptions of poor people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Merrell, W., Ackerman, J. (2025). Flaunting Porsches or Paris? Comparing the social signaling value of experiential and material conspicuous consumption. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251331658.

Merrell, W., Vossoughi, N., Kteily, N., Ho, A. (2024). Looking White but feeling Asian: The role of perceived membership permeability and perceived discrimination in multiracial-monoracial alliances. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241267332.

Selected work under review/in preparation

Vossoughi, N., Merrell, W., Kteily, N., Ho, A. (Revise & Resubmit). Incorporating egalitarian ideology in models of collective action. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Merrell, W., Fan, L., Gothreau, C., Laustsen, L. (Submitted). Democrats and Republicans hold similarly gendered mental images of ideal politicians. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Merrell, W., Fan, L., Sheehy-Skeffington, J., Thomsen, L. (In preparation). The intergroup folk psychology of spatial resource patchiness.

Merrell, W., Ho, A. (In preparation). How do racially minoritized perceivers categorize dual-minority multiracial people? The case of Kamala Harris.

Merrell, W., Fan, L., Sheehy-Skeffington, J., Thomsen, L. (In preparation, Stage 1 registered report). Revisiting ideological biases in the blatant dehumanization of short groups.

Merrell, W. (In preparation). Experiential vs. Material Conspicuous Consumption Signal Distinct Forms of Status

* Represents equally shared first authorship