Daniel R. Rovenpor

Education

Ph.D., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst United States

M.S., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst United States

B.A., Psychology, Brandeis University Waltham United States

Journal Articles

(2026). Probing causal connections between political identification, wellbeing, and individual differences in a 6-wave longitudinal sample spanning the 2024 and 2026 U.S. elections. Target Journal: Social Psychological and Personality Science (Expected Submission Summer 2028), In Progress.

(2026). Are people motivated to feel emotions to fulfill appraisal needs? The role of cognitive appraisals in emotional preferences. Cognition and Emotion,

Mahabuba, T., & Rovenpor, D. (2026). Can reflecting on a rival outgroup’s commission of moral transgressions also committed by one's ingroup generate negative emotions that transfer onto views of the ingroup?. In Progress.

Choi, J., & Rovenpor, D. (2026). Thinking about future (vs. past) national success encourages support for cooperative (vs. isolationist) foreign policy among political conservatives. Target Journal: British Journal of Social Psychology (Expected Submission Spring 2027), In Progress.

(2026). Motivational underpinnings of meaning in life: Promotion focus is uniquely related to meaning presence, whereas prevention focus is uniquely related to meaning seeking. Target Journal: Self and Identity (Expected Submission Fall 2026), In Progress.

(2026). When and why opposition (vs. support) framing increases choice confidence and willingness to pay. Decision,

(2026). Anticipated versus experienced emotions toward information about racial inequality. Target Journal: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (Expected Submission Summer 2027), In Progress.

(2026). Political independents experience lower well-being than political partisans: Evidence and explanations. Target Journal: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Expected Submission Spring 2027), In Progress.

(2026). Intergroup threat shapes the impact of supporting versus opposing political candidates on advocacy and voting intentions. Target Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Expected Submission Fall 2027), In Progress.

(2026). What makes people engage in contact? The importance of perceptions, norms and context. Target Journal: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, In Progress.

(2026). Focusing on the self versus the environment distinguishes between effects of emotion on both attitudes and information processing. Target Journal: Emotion (Expected Submission Summer 2027), In Progress.

(2026). Older adults hold preferences based in positivity: Implications for political identification. In Progress.

(2026). Personal ambition is associated with self-reliance for future goals among individuals high in social justice orientation but with self-reliance for past achievements among individuals low in social justice orientation. Target Journal: Psychological Science (Expected Submission Spring 2027), In Progress.

(2026). Overconfidence versus modesty: The roles of source confidence and expertise in persuasion at high and low levels of elaboration. In Progress.

(2026). Distrustful complacency and compliance with coronavirus prevention measures in the United States and across the world. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations,

(2026). Do narratives about polarization in society reward extremity by implying that both sides are equally extreme?. In Progress.

(2026). Perceiving inequality as advantage vs. disadvantage uniquely predicts engagement with and support for efforts to reduce inequality. Target Journal: Psychological Science (Expected Submission Fall 2026), In Progress.

Selvanathan, H. P., Leidner, B., Syropoulos, S., Louis, W., Adelman, L., Baka, A., Bauer, C., Blikmans, M., Becker, M., Beran, E., Bilewicz, M., Chekroun, P., Greitemeyer, T., Hannover, B., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Kardos, P., Li, M., Lindholm, T., Loughnan, S., Mros, T., Paola Paladino, M., Papadopoulou, M., Rovenpor, D., Sadus, K., Vaes, J., Van Hiel, A., & van Zomeren, M. (2025). Far-right movements in the Western world: How media exposure relates to normative beliefs and attitudes toward the far-right. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 28(4). 774-794.

Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D. R., & Petty, R. E. (2024). Independents, not partisans, are more likely to hold and express electoral preferences based in negativity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 110. 104538.

(2023). The distinct associations of ingroup attachment and glorification with responses to the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from a multilevel investigation in 21 countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(2). 992-1012.

(2023). Influence of comorbid depression and diagnostic workup on diagnosis of physical illness: A randomized experiment. Diagnosis, 10(3). 257-266.

(2022). “We built it” in the past, but “let's build it together” in the future: The roles of temporal framing and social justice orientation in shaping attributions for personal success. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 100. 104250.

(2019). Intergroup conflict self-perpetuates via meaning: Exposure to intergroup conflict increases meaning and fuels a desire for further conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(1). 119-140.

(2019). Emotion regulation and prejudice reduction following acute terrorist events: The impact of reflection before and after the Boston Marathon bombings. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(1). 43-56.

(2018). Do emotional control beliefs lead people to approach positive or negative situations? Two competing effects of control beliefs on emotional situation selection. Emotion, 18(3). 313-331.

(2016). Meaning threat can promote peaceful, not only military-based approaches to intergroup conflict: The moderating role of ingroup glorification. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46(5). 544-562.

(2016). The impact of negative emotions on self-concept abstraction depends on accessible information processing styles. Emotion, 16(7). 1040-1049.

(2016). Regulating the scope of an emotion regulation perspective on intergroup reconciliation. Psychological Inquiry, 27(2). 117-123.

(2016). The impact of affect on out-group judgments depends on dominant information-processing styles: Evidence from incidental and integral affect paradigms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(4). 485-497.

(2013). Affect-as-information about processing styles: A cognitive malleability approach. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7(2). 93--114.

(2013). The choices we make: An examination of situation selection in younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 28(2). 365-376.

Emotion and stigma in healthcare among emergency physicians. In Progress.

Presentations

Mahabuba, T., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, February 28). Intergroup dissonance and moral evaluation: Exploring the impact of outgroup comparison on ingroup bias. Society for Social and Personality Psychology. Philadelphia, PA

Azam, N., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, February 28). Perceived polarization and perceived outgroup extremity. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Philadelphia, PA

Hardin, J., Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. Insurance stigma in healthcare among emergency physicians: A mixed methods investigation. American Public Health Association. San Antonio, TX

Jansen, E., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, July 28). Do people's ideas about relative racial (dis)advantage really change?. European Association for Social Psychology. Strasbourg, France

Mahabuba, T., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, May 28). Intergroup dissonance and moral evaluation: Exploring the impact of outgroup comparison on ingroup bias. Research and Creative Inquiry Expo. New York, NY: Baruch College.

Azam, N., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, May 28). Perceived polarization and perceived outgroup extremity. Research and Creative Inquiry Expo. New York, NY: Baruch College.

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, March 28). The role of cognitive appraisals in emotional preferences. Society for Affective Science. Portland, OR

Jansen, E., Biggart, L., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, June 28). Confronting racial inequity: The role of (predicted) emotions. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Portland, OR

Rovenpor, D. (2026, November 28). How motivations to experience emotions shape societal attitudes. Psychology Department Colloquium. New York, NY: Baruch College.

Rovenpor, D. (2026, February 28). My journey through research on emotion and societal issues. Social Psychology Brown Bag, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA

Jansen, E., Rovenpor, D., & Biggart, L. (2026, July 28). The distance between Black and White: Examining beliefs about relative racial advantage versus disadvantage. European Association of Social Psychology. Krakow, Poland

Jansen, E., Rovenpor, D., & Biggart, L. (2026, February 28). Facing the topic of racial inequity: Emotions and perceptions of relative racial (dis) advantage. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Diego, CA

Jansen, E., Rovenpor, D., & Biggart, L. (2026, February 28). Confronting racial inequity: The role of (predicted) emotions. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Diego, CA

Kumove, H. A., Li, C., Leidner, B. L., Rovenpor, D., & Young, K. L. (2026, July 28). Caught in the middle? How the political left and right view political moderates in a politically polarized country. International Society of Political Psychology. Montreal, Canada

Li, C., Kumove, H. A., Rovenpor, D., & Leidner, B. L. (2026, February 28). Caught in the middle? How the political left and right view moderates. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Francisco, CA

Rovenpor, D., Syropoulos, S., & Leidner, B. L. (2026, February 28). Self-regulatory bases of meaning in life: Promotion focus is uniquely related to meaning presence, whereas prevention focus is uniquely related to meaning seeking. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Virtual

Rovenpor, D. (2026, November 28). Social justice orientation and motivated attributions for personal success. School of Psychology Combined Research Group, University of East Anglia. Norwich, United Kingdom

Rovenpor, D. (2026, February 28). Thinking about tomorrow: A motivated temporal asymmetry in how people construe the role of situations in shaping success. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA

Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, February 28). Persuading partisans and independents with positive vs. negative appeals. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA

Rovenpor, D. (2026, June 28). The role of self-focused attention in the effects of emotion on cognition. Bodily and Cognitive Selves Conference, Eastern Academic Research Consortium. Norwich, United Kingdom

Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, February 28). Valence frames drive the use of partisan threat information. Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR

Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. Recipients' self-categorizations shape the impact of support- versus opposition-framed persuasive appeals. Weary Symposium, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH

Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, April 28). Persuading partisans and independents. Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL

Rovenpor, D., Teeny, J. D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, February 28). Attitudinal valence framing: New evidence for consequences, boundary conditions, and underlying mechanisms. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR

Rovenpor, D. (2026, July 28). Social justice research in psychology: Theory and application. South East Network for Social Sciences. Norwich, United Kingdom

Rovenpor, D., Teeny, J. D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, March 28). Attitudinal valence framing on choice confidence and willingness to pay. Society for Consumer Psychology. Savannah, GA

Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, July 28). The effects of emotion on cognition depend on locus of control. Ohio State Symposium on Social Psychology. Columbus, OH

Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, May 28). The effects of emotion on cognition depend on locus of control. Association for Psychological Science. San Francisco, CA

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, March 28). Preferences for emotions based on desired appraisals: The cases of anger and guilt. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, GA

Leidner, B. L., Rovenpor, D., O'Brien, T. C., Roblain, A., De Guissme, L., & Chekroun, P. (2026, March 28). Intergroup conflict self-perpetuates via meaning: Exposure to intergroup conflict increases meaning and fuels a desire for further conflict. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, GA

Rovenpor, D., & Janoff-Bulman, R. (2026, January 28). Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow: Temporal focus moderates the relationship between ideology and attributions. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Antonio, TX

Rovenpor, D. (2026, February 28). Don't stop thinking about tomorrow: Temporal focus moderates the relationship between social justice orientation and attributions. Social Cognition Research Group, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH

Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, September 28). Does attention to the self versus the environment moderate effects of emotion?. Group for Attitudes and Persuasion, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH

Rovenpor, D., O'Brien, T. C., & Leidner, B. L. (2026, January 28). Reminders of conflict enhance meaning and fuel a desire for further conflict. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Diego, CA

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, February 28). Implicit goal priming moderates the effect of control beliefs on emotional situation selection. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Long Beach, CA

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, March 28). Emotional control beliefs and avoiding negative stimuli: The moderating role of goals. Eastern Psychological Association. Boston, MA

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, February 28). Do emotional control beliefs buffer emotional impact? Evidence from affective regulation and Affect-as-Information paradigms. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Austin, TX

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, May 28). The effects of emotions on social judgment in younger and older adults. Association for Psychological Science. Washington D.C.

Rovenpor, D., Skogsberg, N. J., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2026, January 28). The choices we make: The role of age and control beliefs in situation selection. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA

Isbell, L. M., Lair, E. C., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, May 28). Affect and cognitive malleability: Effects on perceptions of the self and others. Association for Psychological Science. Washington D.C.

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