Publications

Gandalf Nicolas, Stefan Uddenberg, Alexander Todorov (2025). Spontaneous content of impressions of naturalistic face photographs. Social Cognition.

Andrew Cortopassi, Gandalf Nicolas (2025). Social-environmental constraints on the development of a concealable stigmatized identity predict psychological distress. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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Rebecca Cipollina, Gandalf Nicolas (2025). Characterizing stereotypes that perpetuate sexual minorities’ anticipated stigma in healthcare settings. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Aylin Caliskan (2024). A Taxonomy of Stereotype Content in Large Language Models. Preprint.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Aylin Caliskan (2024). Directionality and representativeness are differentiable components of stereotypes in large language models. PNAS Nexus.

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Andrew Cortopassi, Diane M. Quinn, Gandalf Nicolas (2024). The identity group as a source of social influence for individuals with concealable stigmatized identities. PLOS One.

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Paul Connor, Gandalf Nicolas, Stephen Antonoplis, Alex Koch (2024). Unconstrained descriptions of Facebook profile pictures support high-dimensional models of impression formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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Xuechunzi Bai*, Gandalf Nicolas*, Susan T. Fiske (2024). Social stereotypes: Content and process. The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition (2nd ed). *Equal contribution.

Gandalf Nicolas, Susan T. Fiske (2023). Valence biases and emergence in the stereotype content of intersecting social categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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Maria-Therese Friehs, ..., Gandalf Nicolas, et al. (2022). Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID‑19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries. Scientific Reports.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Xuechunzi Bai, Susan T. Fiske (2022). A spontaneous stereotype content model: Taxonomy, properties, and prediction. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Susan T. Fiske, Alex Koch, Roland Imhoff, Christian Unkelbach, Julie Terache, Antonin Carrier, Vincent Yzerbyt (2022). Relational versus structural goals prioritize different social information. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology.

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Susan T. Fiske, Gandalf Nicolas, Xuechunzi Bai (2021). Stereotype content model: How we make sense of individuals and groups. Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (3rd ed).

Gandalf Nicolas, Xuechunzi Bai, Susan T. Fiske (2021). Comprehensive stereotype content dictionaries using a semi-automated method. European Journal of Social Psychology.

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Emiko S. Kashima, Nicholas Plusnin, Danielle P. Ochoa, Hongfei Du, Johannes Klackl, Gertrude C. Ah Gang, Su Wan Gan, Siti Nor Yaacob, Shin Ling Wu, Tamara Qumseya, Gandalf Nicolas, Susan T. Fiske (2021). Social motives of university students in seven countries: Measurement development and validation. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.

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Emiko S. Kashima, Danielle P. Ochoa, Gandalf Nicolas, Gertrude C. Ah Gang, Hongfei Du, Johannes Klackl, Nicholas Plusnin, Upekha Pathumi Miriyagalla, Yoshihisa Kashima, Susan T. Fiske (2021). Exploring the adaptive role of core social motives in perceived societal threats. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.

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Alex Koch, Roland Imhoff, Christian Unkelbach, Gandalf Nicolas, Susan T. Fiske, Julie Terache, Antonin Carrier, Vincent Yzerbyt (2020). Groups' warmth is a personal matter: Understanding consensus on stereotype dimensions reconciles adversarial models of social evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Xuechunzi Bai, Susan T. Fiske (2019). Exploring research methods blogs in psychology: Who posts what about whom, with what effect. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Allison L. Skinner, Cheryl L. Dickter (2018). Other than the sum: Hispanic and Middle Eastern categorizations of Black-White mixed-race faces. Social and Personality Psychological Science.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Malena de la Fuente, Susan T. Fiske (2017). Mind the overlap in multiple categorization: A review of crossed categorization, intersectionality, and multiracial perception. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Allison L. Skinner (2017). Constructing race: How people categorize others and themselves in racial terms. Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science.

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Susan T. Fiske, Cydney H. Dupree, Jillian K. Swencionis, Gandalf Nicolas (2016). Status, power, and intergroup relations: The personal is the societal. Current Opinion in Psychology.

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Allison L. Skinner, Gandalf Nicolas (2015). Looking Black or looking back? Using phenotype and ancestry to make racial categorizations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Giancarlo Martinez (2015). Evaluation of clinical psychological practices in the Dominican Republic / Evaluación de prácticas en la psicología clínica dominicana. Psiencia.

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Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science.

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Gandalf Nicolas, Allison L. Skinner (2012). “That’s so gay!” Priming the general negative usage of the word gay increases implicit anti-gay bias. The Journal of Social Psychology.