All papers below are available upon request. Feel free to send me an email.

Group Embeddedness Publications

Meagher, B. R., Gunn, H., Sheff, N., & Van Tongeren, D. R. (in press). An intellectually humbling experience: Changes in interpersonal perception and cultural reasoning across a 5-week course. Journal of Psychology and Theology. doi:10.1177/0091647119837010
Meagher, B. R. (2019). Moral representativeness and satisfaction with one’s religious community. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 29, 18-31. doi:10.1080/10508619.2018.1544447
Haggard, M., Rowatt, W. C., Leman, J. C., Meagher, B. R., Moore, C., Fergus, T., Whitcomb, D., Battaly, H., Baehr, J., & Howard-Snyder, D. (2018). Finding middle ground between intellectual arrogance and intellectual servility: Development and assessment of the Limitations-Owning Intellectual Humility Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 125, 184–193. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.12.014
Leman, J. C., Haggard, M. C., Meagher, B. R., & Rowatt, W. C. (2017). Personality predictors and correlates of humility. In E. L. Worthington, Jr., D. E. Davis, & J. N. Hook (Eds.), Handbook of humility: Theory, research, and applications (pp. 137-149). New York, NY: Routledge.
Meagher, B. R. (2016). Judgments of religiosity following minimal interaction. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 38, 1-21. doi:10.1163/15736121-12341318
Meagher, B. R., Leman, J. C., Bias, J. P., Latendresse, S. J., & Rowatt, W. C. (2015). Contrasting self-report and consensus ratings of intellectual humility and arrogance. Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 35-45. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2015.07.002
[Coverage in: The Huffington Post, Inside Higher Ed, Independent, Daily Mail, City A.M.]
Garcia, R. L., Meagher, B. R., Kenny, D. A. (2015). Analyzing the effects of group members’ characteristics: A guide to the Group Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18, 315-328. doi:10.1177/1368430214556370
Meagher, B. R. (2015). The effects of interpersonal differences within religious communities: A Group Actor-Partner Interdependence Model of U.S. congregations. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 25, 74-90. doi:10.1080/10508619.2013.864531
Hodges, B. H., Meagher, B. R., Norton, D., McBain, R., & Kimball, A. (2014). Speaking from ignorance: Not agreeing with others we believe are correct. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 218-234. doi:10.1037/a0034662
Meagher, B. R., & Kenny, D. A. (2013). Judge, that ye shall be judged: Interpersonal judgments of religious characteristics within faith communities. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 5, 116-128. doi:10.1037/a0030438

Physical Embeddedness Publications

Meagher, B. R. (in press). Ecologizing social psychology: The physical environment as a necessary constituent of social processes. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Meagher, B. R. (2018). Deciphering the religious orientation of a sacred space: Disparate impressions of worship settings by congregants and external observers. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 55, 70-80. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.12.007
Meagher, B. R. (2017). Judging the gender of the inanimate: Benevolent sexism and gender stereotypes guide impressions of physical objects. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56, 537-560. doi:10.1111/bjso.12198
Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2017). Seeking the safety of sociofugal space: Environmental design preferences following social ostracism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 192-199. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2016.07.004
[Click here to download the Preference for Sociopetal Space Scale used in this study.]
Meagher, B. R. (2016). There’s no place like a neurotic’s home: Neuroticism moderates the prioritization of restorative properties in home environments. Journal of Individual Differences, 37, 260-267. doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000213
Marsh, K. L., & Meagher, B. R. (2016). Affordances and interpersonal coordination. In P. Passos, K. Davids, & J.Y. Chow (Eds.), Interpersonal coordination and performance in social systems (pp. 245-258). London, UK: Routledge.
Meagher, B. R. (2016). Perceiving sacred space: Religious orientation moderates impressions of religious settings. Environment and Behavior, 48, 1030-1048. doi:10.1177/0013916515581626
Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2015). Testing an ecological account of spaciousness in real and virtual environments. Environment and Behavior, 47, 782-815. doi:10.1177/0013916514525039
[Coverage in: The New Yorker]
Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2014). The costs of cooperation: Action-specific perception in the context of joint action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 429-444. doi:10.1037/a0033850
Meagher, B. R., & Fowler, C. A. (2014). Embedded articulation: shifts in location influence speech production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29, 561-567. doi:10.1080/01690965.2013.791704
Meagher, B. R., & Kang, J. J. (2013). Gender identification as a constraint on detecting multiple affordances. In T. Davis, P. Passos, M. Dicks, & J. A. Weast-Knapp (Eds.), Studies in perception and action XII: Seventeenth international conference on perception and action (pp. 106-109). New York: Psychology Press. {conference proceedings}
Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2011). Judgments of interior spaces: The role of affordances. In E. Charles & L. J. Smart (Eds.), Studies in perception and action XI: Sixteenth international conference on perception and action (pp. 163-167). New York: Psychology Press. {conference proceedings}