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2025

Bowes, S. M., Clark, C. J., Conway, L., Costello, T. H., Osborne, D., Tetlock, P. E., & van Prooijen, J. W. (accepted). An adversarial collaboration on the rigidity-of-the-right, rigidity-of-extremes, or symmetry: The answer depends on the question. Political Psychology.

Bowes, S. M., & Fazio, L. K. (Stage 1 registered replication report accepted). Does repetition increase perceived truth equally for conspiracy and trivia statements?: A registered replication report. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Bowes, S. M., & Novick, K., Lourenco, S. F., & Tasimi, A. (2025). Do children value intellectual humility over intellectual arrogance? Developmental Psychology.

Lee, Y., McLaughlin, A., Bowes, S. M., Hook, J. N., Van Tongeren, D. R., Owen, J., & Davis, D. E. (accepted). What is humility good for?: A meta-analytic review of health, depression, anxiety, life satisfaction, and meaning in life. The Counseling Psychologist.

2024

Bowes, S. M., & Fazio, L. K. (2024). Intellectual humility and misinformation receptivity: A meta-analytic review. Advances in Psychology. In the From Vulnerability to Vigilance: Cultivating Psychological Resilience Against Misinformation and Conspiracy Beliefs special collection (Kunst, J. R., & Dovidio, J. F. (Eds.)).

Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2024). Intellectual humility and belief extremity: Evidence for curvilinearity? Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Koetke, J., Schumann, K., Bowes, S. M., & Vaupotic, N. (2024). Seeing scientists as intellectually humble increases trust in scientists and their research. Nature Human Behaviour.

Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2024). How intellectual humility relates to political and religious polarization. Journal of Positive Psychology. Advanced online publication.

Bowes, S. M., Ringwood, A., & Tasimi, A. (2024). Is intellectual humility related to more accuracy and less overconfidence? Journal of Positive Psychology, 19, 538-555.

2023

Bowes, S. M., Costello, T. H., & Tasimi, A. (2023). The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 149, 259-293.

*Selected as an Editor’s Choice from the American Psychological Association

Bowes, S. M., & Fazio, L. K. (2023). Are conspiracy theorists inaccurate, unmotivated to be accurate, or both?: A latent class analysis. Routledge Open Research. In the Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation special collection (Uscinski, J., Biddlestone, M., & Cavojova, V. (Eds.)).

Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2023). Is intellectual humility “good” for people? Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 205-253.

Costello, T. H., & Bowes, S. M. (2023). Absolute certainty and political ideology: A systematic test of curvilinearity. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 93-102.

Costello, T. H., Bowes, S. M., Baldwin, M., Malka, A., & Tasimi, A. (2023). Revisiting the rigidity-of-the-right hypothesis: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124, 1025-1052.

Davis, D. E., Bowes, S. M., McLaughlin, A., Hsu, W., Gazaway, S., McElroy-Heltzel, S., Van Tongeren, D. R., & Hook, J. N. (2023). In search of convergent creativity: Content analysis of research on intellectual humility. Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 304-315.

McLauglin, A., Van Tongeren, D. R., McElroy-Heltzel, S., Bowes, S. M., Rice, K., Hook, J. N., DeWall, N., & Davis, D. E. (2023). Intellectual humility in the context of existential commitment. Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 289-303.

Whitt, C., Tullett, A., Bowes, S. M., McDiarmid, A., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Hart, W. (2023). Weakening the ideological immune system: Can debiasing techniques reduce confirmation bias? Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 7, 1-24.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Bowes, S. M., Strother, A. N., Liu, C. J., Costello, T. H., Norton, K. A., & Latzman, R. D. (2023). Are grants needed for outstanding scholarly achievement? A survey of the world’s most eminent psychologists. Current Psychology, 42, 29325-29336.

2022

Bowes, S. M., Costello, T. H., Lee, C., McElroy-Heltzel, S., Davis, D. E., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2022). Stepping outside the echo chamber: Is intellectual humility associated with less political myside bias? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48, 150-164.

Bowes, S. M., & Tasimi, A. (2022). Clarifying the relations between intellectual humility and pseudoscience beliefs, conspiratorial ideation, and susceptibility to fake news. Journal of Research in Personality, 98. Advanced online publication.

Costello, T. H., Bowes, S. M., Stevens, S. T., Waldman, I. D., Tasimi, A., & Lilienfeld, S. O. Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism. (2022). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 135-170.

2021

Bowes, S. M., Costello, T. H., Ma, W., Lilienfeld, S. O. (2021). Looking under the tinfoil hat: Clarifying the personological and psychopathological correlates of conspiracy beliefs. Journal of Personality, 89, 422-436.

2020

Bowes, S. M., Ammirati, R. J., Costello, T. H., Basterfield, C., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2020). Cognitive biases, heuristics, and logical fallacies in clinical practice: A brief field guide for practicing psychologists. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 51, 435-445.

Costello, T. H., Bowes, S. M., Lilienfeld, S. O. (2020). "Escape from Freedom": Authoritarianism-related traits, political ideology, personality, and belief in free will/determinism. Journal of Research in Personality, 86, 1-16.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Costello, T. H., Bowes, S. M., Strother, A. (2020). Has psychology found its conscience? European Journal of Personality, 34, 529-530.

2019

Bowes, S. M., Brown, A., Thompson, W. W., Sellbom, M., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2019). Do psychopathic traits statistically protect against PTSD? A retrospective study of Vietnam Veterans. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35, 127-144.

Bowes, S. M., Watts, A. L., Thompson, W. W., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2019). Clarifying the association between psychopathy dimensions and internalizing symptoms in two community samples: The role of general personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 147, 144-155.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Watts, A. L., Murphy, B. A., Costello, T. H., Bowes, S. M., Smith, S. F., Latzman, R. D., Haslam, N., & Tabb, K. (2019). Psychopathy as an emergent interpersonal syndrome: Further reflections and future directions. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33, 645-652.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Watts, A. L., Murphy, B. A., Costello, T. H., Bowes, S. M., Smith, S. F., Latzman, R. D., Haslam, N., & Tabb, K. (2019). Personality disorders as conditions of interpersonal impact: The conundrum of psychopathic personality as a case example. Journal of Personality Disorders, 33, 577-622.

2018

Bowes, S. M., Watts, A. L., Costello, T. H., Murphy, B. A., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2018). Psychopathy and entertainment preferences: Clarifying the role of abnormal and normal personality in music and movie interests. Personality and Individual Differences, 129, 33-37.

Costello, T. H., Smith, S. F., Bowes, S. M., Riley, S., Berns, G., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2018). Risky Business: Psychopathy, Framing Effects and Financial Outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 7, 125-132.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Sauvigné, K. C., Reber, J., Watts, A. L., Hamann, S., Smith, S. F., Patrick, C. J., Bowes, S. M., & Tranel, D. (2018). Potential effects of severe bilateral amygdala damage on psychopathic personality features: A case report. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9, 112-121.

2017

Watts, A. L., Bowes, S. M., Latzman, R. D., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2017). Psychopathic traits predict harsh attitudes toward rape victims among undergraduates. Personality and Individual Differences, 106, 1-5.

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