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2026–present
Elderkin, M., & Todd, A. R. (in press). De-gendering and dehumanization in mental representations of autistic men’s and women’s facial appearance. Scientific Reports. 

Todd, A. R., & Tamir, D. I. (in press). Simulation-driven mentalizing facilitates projection and introjection. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Elderkin, M., Klein, S. A. W., Oliinyk, S., Gelerian, E., & 
Todd, A. R. (2026). Mental representations of Middle Eastern versus ethnically unspecified women and men reveal how ethnicity and gender constrain each other. Social Cognition, 44, 150-169.

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Klein, S. A. W., Lassetter, B., Neel, R., & Todd, A. R. (2026). Integrating body information with faces directs attention away from race, altering racially biased weapon identification. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33, 30.

​2021–2025
Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (2025). Perspective taking and mental representations of others and oneself. In C. D. Stern (Ed.), Handbook of experimental social psychology (pp. 136-149). Elgar Publishing. 

Albarracín, D., Conway, P., Laurent, S., Laurin, K., Manzi, F., Petrocelli, J. V., Rattan, A., Salvador, C. E., Stern, C., Todd, A., Touré-Tillery, M., Wakslak, C., & Zou, X. (2024). Inaugural editorial. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126, 1-4.

Hutchings, R. J., Morgan, I., Sherman, J. W., & Todd, A. R. (2024). Intergroup evaluative bias in facial representations of immigrants and citizens in the United States. PLOS ONE, 19, e0306872.

Klein, S. A. W., & Todd, A. R. (2024). Emotion expression salience and racially biased weapon identification: A diffusion modeling approach. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31, 2767-2775. 


Ledgerwood, A., Lawson, K. M., Kraus, M. W., Vollhardt, J. R., Remedios, J. R., Westberg, D. W., Uskul, A. K., Adetula, A., Leach, C. W., Martinez, J. E., Naumann, L. P., Reddy, G., Tate, C., Todd, A. R., Weltzien, K., Buchanan, N. T., González, R., Montilla Doble, L. J., Romero-Canyas, R., Westgate, E., & Zou, L. X. (2024). Disrupting racism and global exclusion in academic publishing: Recommendations and resources for authors, reviewers, and editors. Collabra: Psychology, 10, 121394. 
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Quesque, F., Apperly, I., Baillargeon, R., Baron-Cohen, S., Becchio, C., Bekkering, H., Bernstein, D., Bertoux, M., Bird, G., Bukowski, H., Burgmer, P., Carruthers, P., Catmur, C., Dziobek, I., Epley, N., Erle, T., Frith, C., Frith, U., Galang, C., Gallese, V., Grynberg, D., Happé, F., Hirai, M., Hodges, S., Kanske, P., Kret, M., Lamm, C., Nandrino, J., Obhi, S., Olderbak, S., Perner, J., Rossetti, Y., Schneider, D., Schurz, M., Schuwerk, T., Sebanz, N., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Silani, G., Spaulding, S., Todd, A. R., Westra, E., Zahavi, D., & Brass, M. (2024). Defining key concepts for mental state attribution. Communications Psychology, 2, 29.

Surtees, A. D. R., Briscoe, H., & Todd, A. R. (2024). Anxiety and mentalizing: Uncertainty as a driver of egocentrism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33​, 100-107.
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Todd, A. R., & Tamir, D. I. (2024). Factors that amplify and attenuate egocentric mentalizing. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3​, 164-180. 

Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M., van Aert, R. C. M., Tiokhin, L., Lakens, D., Clemente, E. G., Pfeiffer, T., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Clark, C. J., *Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration, & Uhlmann, E. L. (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179, 104280.
[*contributing author as part of the Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration]

Wang, Y. A., Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (2023). Egocentric anchoring-and-adjustment underlies social inferences about known others varying in similarity and familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1011-1029. 

Rees, H. R., Sherman, J. W., Klauer, K. C., & Todd, A. R. (2022). On the use of gender categories and emotion categories in threat-based person impressions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52​, 597-610. 

Hutchings, R. J., Simpson, A. J., Sherman, J. W., & Todd, A. R. (2021). Perspective taking reduces intergroup bias in visual representations of faces. Cognition, 214, 104808. 
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Klein, S. A. W., Hutchings, R. J., & Todd, A. R. (2021). Revising mental representations of faces based on new diagnostic information. Cognition, 217​, 104916.

Surtees, A. D. R., & Todd, A. R. (2021). Are knowledge- and belief-reasoning automatic, and is this the right question? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e172. (Commentary, pp. 60-62) 
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Todd, A. R., Cameron, C. D., & Simpson, A. J. (2021). The goal-dependence of level-1 and level-2 visual perspective calculation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46, 948-967.

Todd, A. R., Johnson, D. J., Lassetter, B., Neel, R., Simpson, A. J., & Cesario, J. (2021). Category salience and racial bias in weapon identification: A diffusion modeling approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 672-693.


Wang, Y. A., & Todd, A. R. (2021). Evaluations of empathizers depend on the target of empathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121, 1005-1028.

2016–2020
Spring, V. L., Cameron, C. D., McKee, S., & Todd, A. R. (2019). Intentional and unintentional empathy for pain among physicians and non-physicians. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 440-448. 

Thiem, K. C., Neel, R., Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (2019). Are Black women and girls associated with danger? Implicit racial bias at the intersection of target age and gender. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1427-1439.

Todd, A. R., Simpson, A. J., & Cameron, C. D. (2019). Time pressure disrupts level-2, but not level-1, visual perspective calculation: A process-dissociation analysis. Cognition, 189, 41-54.

Lundberg, G. J. W., Neel, R., Lassetter, B., & Todd, A. R. (2018). Racial bias in implicit danger associations generalizes to older male targets. PLOS ONE, 13, e0197398.

​Cameron, C. D., Spring, V. L., & Todd, A. R. (2017). The empathy impulse: A multinomial model of intentional and unintentional empathy for pain. Emotion, 17, 395-411. 
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Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (2017). Intergroup visual perspective-taking: Shared group membership impairs self-perspective inhibition but may facilitate perspective calculation. Cognition, 166, 371-381.
 
Todd, A. R., Cameron, C. D., & Simpson, A. J. (2017). Dissociating processes underlying level-1 visual perspective taking in adults. Cognition, 159, 97-101.

Todd, A. R., & Simpson, A. J. (2017). Perspective taking and member-to-group generalization of implicit racial attitudes: The role of target prototypicality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 105-112.

Todd, A. R., & Simpson, A. J. (2016). Anxiety impairs spontaneous perspective calculation: Evidence from a level-1 visual perspective-taking task. Cognition, 156, 88-94.
 
Todd, A. R., Simpson, A. J., & Tamir, D. I. (2016). Active perspective taking induces flexible use of self-knowledge during social inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1583-1588.
 
Todd, A. R., Simpson, A. J., Thiem, K. C., & Neel, R. (2016). The generalization of implicit racial bias to young Black boys: Automatic stereotyping or automatic prejudice? Social Cognition, 34, 306-323.
 
Todd, A. R., Thiem, K. C., & Neel, R. (2016). Does seeing faces of young Black boys facilitate the identification of threatening stimuli? Psychological Science, 27, 384-393.
 

2011–2015
Galinsky, A. D., Todd, A. R., Homan, A. C., Phillips, K. W., Apfelbaum, E. P., Sasaki, S. J., Richeson, J. A., Olayon, J. B., & Maddux, W. W. (2015). Maximizing the gains and minimizing the pains of diversity: A policy perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 742-748.

Todd, A. R., Forstmann, M., Burgmer, P., Brooks, A. W., & Galinsky, A. D. (2015). Anxious and egocentric: How specific emotions influence perspective taking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 374-391.
 
Galinsky, A. D., Magee, J. C., Rus, D., Rothman, N. B., & Todd, A. R. (2014). Acceleration with steering: The synergistic benefits of combining power and perspective-taking. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 627-635.
 
Todd, A. R., & Galinsky, A. D. (2014). Perspective-taking as a strategy for improving intergroup relations: Evidence, mechanisms, and qualifications. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 374-387.
 
Todd, A. R., & Burgmer, P. (2013). Perspective taking and automatic intergroup evaluation change: Testing an associative self-anchoring account. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 786-802.
 
Bean, M. G., Slaten, D. G., Horton, W. S., Murphy, M. C., Todd, A. R., & Richeson, J. A. (2012). Prejudice concerns and race-based attentional bias: New evidence from eyetracking. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 723-730.
 
Mussweiler, T., Todd, A. R., & Crusius, J. (2012). The cognitive underpinnings of social behavior: Selectivity in social cognition. In P. Hammerstein & J. R. Stevens (Eds.), Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making (pp. 275-286). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
 
Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., & Galinsky, A. D. (2012). Perspective taking combats the denial of intergroup discrimination. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 738-745.
 
Todd, A. R., & Galinsky, A. D. (2012). The reciprocal link between multiculturalism and perspective-taking: How ideological and self-regulatory approaches to managing diversity reinforce each other. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1394-1398.
 
Todd, A. R., Galinsky, A. D., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2012). Perspective taking undermines stereotype maintenance processes: Evidence from social memory, behavior explanation, and information solicitation. Social Cognition, 30, 94-108.
 
Rüsch, N., Corrigan, P. W., Todd, A. R., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2011). Automatic stereotyping against people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective and affective disorders. Psychiatry Research, 186, 34-39.
 
Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., Richeson, J. A., & Galinsky, A. D. (2011). Perspective taking combats automatic expressions of racial bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 1027-1042.
 
Todd, A. R., Hanko, K., Galinsky, A. D., & Mussweiler, T. (2011). When focusing on differences leads to similar perspectives. Psychological Science, 22, 134-141.
 
Todd, A. R., Molden, D. C., Ham, J., & Vonk, R. (2011). The automatic and co-occurring activation of multiple social inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 37-49.


2006–2010
Bodenhausen, G. V., & Todd, A. R. (2010a). Automatic aspects of judgment and decision-making. In B. Gawronski & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications (pp. 278-294). New York: Guilford Publications.
 
Bodenhausen, G. V., & Todd, A. R. (2010b). Social cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 160-171.
 
Rüsch, N., Corrigan, P. W., Todd, A. R., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2010). Implicit self-stigma in people with mental illness. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198, 150-153.
 
Rüsch, N., Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., & Corrigan, P. W. (2010a). Do people with mental illness deserve what they get? Links between meritocratic worldviews and implicit versus explicit stigma. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 260, 617-625.
 
Rüsch, N., Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., & Corrigan, P. W. (2010b). Biogenetic models of psychopathology, implicit guilt, and mental illness stigma. Psychiatry Research, 179, 328-332.
 
Rüsch, N., Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., Olschewski, M., & Corrigan, P. W. (2010). Automatically activated shame reactions and perceived legitimacy of discrimination: A longitudinal study among people with mental illness. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 60-63.
 
Bodenhausen, G. V., Todd, A. R., & Richeson, J. A. (2009). Controlling prejudice and stereotyping: Antecedents, mechanisms, and contexts. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. (pp. 111-135). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
 
Rüsch, N., Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., Weiden, P. J., & Corrigan, P. W. (2009). Implicit versus explicit attitudes toward psychiatric medication: Implications for insight and treatment adherence. Schizophrenia Research, 112, 119-122.
 
Richeson, J. A., Todd, A. R., Trawalter, S., & Baird, A. A. (2008). Eye-gaze direction modulates race-related amygdala activity. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 11, 233-246.
 
Trawalter, S., Todd, A. R., Baird, A. A., & Richeson, J. A. (2008). Attending to threat: Race-based patterns of selective attention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1322-1327.
 
Bodenhausen, G. V., Todd, A. R., & Becker, A. P. (2007a). Categorizing the social world: Affect, motivation, and self-regulation. In B. H. Ross & A. B. Markman (Eds.), Psychology of learning and motivation: Categories in use. (Vol. 47, pp. 123-155). New York: Academic Press.
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Bodenhausen, G. V., Todd, A. R., & Becker, A. P. (2007b). Stereotypes and stereotyping. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Sage encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
 
Todd, A. R., Seok, D. H., Kerr, N. L., & Messé, L. A. (2006). Social compensation: Fact or social comparison artifact? Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 9, 431-442.