Academic PUBLICATIONS

Mosley, A., Heiphetz, L., White, M. H., II., & Biernat, M. (2023). Perceptions of harm and benefit predict judgments of cultural appropriation. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/1948550623116240 (OSF)

Green, J., & White, M. H., II. (2023). Machine Learning for Experiments in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Elements Series in Experimental Political Science.

White, M. H., II, & Crandall, C. S. (2023). Perceived authenticity as a vicarious justification for prejudice. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 534–554. doi: 10.1177/13684302221080466 (OSF)

White, M. H., II, Crandall, C. S., & Davis, N. T. (2022). Vicarious justifications for prejudice in the application of democratic values. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(3), 758-768. doi: 10.1177/19485506211040700 (OSF)

White, M. H., II. (2021). bwsTools: An R package for case 1 best-worst scaling. Journal of Choice Modelling, 39. doi: 10.1016/j.jocm.2021.100289

Gillath, O., Crandall, C. S., Wann, D. L., & White, M. H., II. (2021). Buying and building success: Perceptions of organizational strategies for improvement. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(5), 534-546. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12755

White, M. H., II, & Branscombe, N. R. (2019). “Patriotism à la carte”: Perceived legitimacy of collective guilt and collective pride as motivators for political behavior. Political Psychology, 40(2), 223-240. doi: 10.1111/pops.12524

Crandall, C. S., Miller, J. M., & White, M. H., II. (2018). Changing prejudice norms following the 2016 U.S. presidential election: The Trump effect on prejudice. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(2), 186-192. doi: 10.1177/1948550617750735

  • Vox covered this research here, here, and here; Pacific Standard also wrote about the research on their website here; FiveThirtyEight cited the paper here.

Baldwin, M., White, M. H., II, & Sullivan, D. (2018). Nostalgia for America's past can buffer collective guilt. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(4), 433-446. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2348

White, M. H., II, & Crandall, C. S. (2017). Science, democratic values, and the politics of research. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3(3), 321-324. doi: 10.1037/tps0000130

White, M. H., II, & Crandall, C. S. (2017). Freedom of racist speech: Ego and expressive threats. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(3), 413-429. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000095 (Master’s thesis)

Dopp, A. R., Borduin, C. M., White, M. H., II, & Kuppens, S. (2017). Family-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders: A multilevel meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85(4), 335-354. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000183

White, M. H., II, & Landau, M. J. (2016). Metaphor in intergroup relations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10(12), 707-721. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12292

White, M. H., II, & Molina, L. E. (2016). Infrahumanizing praise: Athletic admiration decreases perceptions of agency and support for college athletes’ rights. Social Psychology, 47(4), 187-200. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000272

White, M. H., II, & Sheldon, K. M. (2014). The contract year syndrome in the NBA and MLB: A classic undermining pattern. Motivation and Emotion, 38(2), 196-205. doi: 10.1007/s11031-013-9389-7 (Undergraduate honors thesis)

 

Manuscripts

White, M. H., II., Greenberg, J., Landau, M. J., & Sullivan, D. (under review). The many schemes of things: An existential-psychological perspective of The Big Lebowski.

White, M. H., II. (under review). Keeping and killing the past: The Last Jedi, history, tradition, and memory.

Stories and memos

Conroy, M., Espinoza, C., Meyer M., Pérez, R., C., Terán, L., & White, M. H., II. (2024). Ninety-six years of data reveals persistence of women’s underrepresentation behind the scenes. The Geena Davis Institute.

Sanders, L., & White, M. H., II. (2021, June). Ranked: America’s favorite dogs. YouGov.com.

White, M. H., II., & Sanders, L. (2021, April). America’s best and worst states, according to Democrats and Republicans. YouGov.com.

White, M. H., II., & Sanders, L. (2021, April). All US states ranked from best to worst, according to Americans. YouGov.com. Read more at Thrillist, Gothamist, The Des Moines Register, and Chicago Sun-Times.

Sanders, L., & White, M. H., II. (2021, March). Why Americans do (and don’t) support raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour. YouGov.com.

White, M. H., II. (2020, December). Three-quarters of Americans place themselves on Santa’s “Nice” list. YouGov.com. Read more in FiveThirtyEight’s weekly pollapalooza.

Mangan, A., & White, M. H., II. (2020, December). Americans want to tax film franchises to fund the arts. DataForProgress.org.

Sanders, L., & White, M. H., II. (2020, September). Voters split on confirming a new Supreme Court justice before Inauguration Day. YouGov.com. Read more at The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, and The Hill.

White, M. H., II. (2020, August). Americans support the Milwaukee Bucks’ strike. YouGov.com. Read more at FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin, and The Guardian.

White, M. H., II. (2020, August). Do Americans think this season’s NBA title should have an “asterisk”? YouGov.com.

White, M. H., II, & Sanders, L. (2020, August). When Americans think the 2020 presidential election winner will be announced. YouGov.com.

Data for Progress & YouGov Blue (2020, July). Voters support the Biden-Sanders Task Force recommendations. More information at DataForProgress.org.

White, M. H., II. (2020, July). In-person K-12 school instruction unpopular among voters, but sizable urban-rural divide. YouGov.com.

Sanders, L., & White, M. H., II. (2020, July). Voters split on SCOTUS decision to send Trump financial records case to lower courts. YouGov.com.

White, M. H., II. (2020, June). Voters want a non-police first responder agency for addiction and mental health. DataForProgress.org.

White, M. H., II, & Sanders, L. (2020, April). Who is America’s cutest character? YouGov.com. Read more at Variety.

Green, J., & White, M. H., II. (2020, March). The public thinks members of Congress shouldn’t be able to own individual stocks. DataForProgress.org.

White, M. H., II. (2020, February). Beyond “OK Boomer”: The generational divide in the 2020 electorate. Medium.com.

White, M. H., II. (2020, February). Ambivalent support, part 2: Supporting a non-preferred candidate. DataForProgress.org.

Mangan, A., & White, M. H., II. (2020, January). Are Marvel movies “cinema”? Is Hollywood making too many sequels? DataForProgress.org.

Data for Progress & YouGov Blue (2019, September). Polling on the Green New Deal in battleground districts. DataForProgress.org. Read more at Vox.

Mangan, A., & White, M. H., II. (2019, September). Social Security: Warren’s “plan for that” enjoys majority support across the electorate. DataForProgress.org.

Data for Progress & YouGov Blue (2019, August). ​Favorability of major political figures and organizations in battleground districts. More information at DataForProgress.org.

White, M. H., II. (2019, July 30). Ambivalent support: Why do primary voters say they’ll vote for a non-preferred candidate? DataForProgress.org.

Data for Progress & YouGov Blue (2019, July). How the first debates changed the race. Data available at DataForProgress.org.

Wendell, A., & White, M. H., II. (2019, May 29). The public supports a right to repair. DataForProgress.org.

Unpublished WHITE PAPERS

White, M. H., II. (2021). Analytical estimation of best-worst scores in balanced and imbalanced block designs.

White, M. H., II, & Lello-Smith, I. (2019). Confidence interval coverage in weighted surveys: A simulation study.

White, M. H., II. (2018). Explicitly optimizing on causal effects via the causal random forest: A practical introduction and tutorial.

White, M. H., II. (2017). A Monte Carlo study on methods for handling class imbalance.

White, M. H., II, & Baldwin, M. (2017). The Force is too strong with this one? Sexism, Star Wars, and female heroes.

Software

bwsTools: Tools for Best-Worst Scaling (MaxDiff) Designs. CRAN. GitHub. OSF.

A power analysis calculator for the interaction term in a 2 x 2 factorial design. App. GitHub.