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

Preya Selvanathan, H., 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). 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.

(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.

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

(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.

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

(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.

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

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

Do control beliefs help people approach or avoid negative stimuli? Goal-dependent effects of control beliefs. In Progress.

The impact of future- vs. past-framed persuasive messages on attitudes toward economic inequality. In Progress.

Perceiving inequality as advantage vs. disadvantage uniquely predicts engagement with and support for efforts to reduce inequality. In Progress.

Motivational underpinnings of meaning in life: Promotion focus is uniquely related to meaning presence, whereas prevention focus is uniquely related to meaning seeking.

Are people motivated to feel emotions to fulfill appraisal needs? The role of cognitive appraisals in emotional preferences.

Distrustful complacency and compliance with coronavirus prevention measures in the United States and across the world.

Choosing to be exposed to information about a terrorist threat: The roles of political ideology and expectations to feel angry. In Progress.

Disentangling the effects of self- and other- initiated positive and negative intergroup contact. In Progress.

Attitudes toward political moderates versus partisans. In Progress.

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

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

Anticipated versus experienced emotions toward information about racial inequality. In Progress.

Choi, J., & Rovenpor, D. Thinking about future (vs. past) national success encourages support for cooperative (vs. isolationist) foreign policy among political conservatives. In Progress.

Focusing on the self versus the environment distinguishes between effects of emotion on both attitudes and information processing. In Progress.

What makes people engage in contact? The importance of perceptions, norms and context. In Progress.

When and why opposition (vs. support) framing increases willingness to pay. Decision, In Progress.

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. In Progress.

Presentations

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., Biggart, L., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, June 6). Confronting Racial Inequity: The Role of (Predicted) Emotions. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Portland, OR

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, March 6). The role of cognitive appraisals in emotional preferences. Society for Affective Science. Portland, OR

Jansen, E., Rovenpor, D., & Biggart, L. (2026, July 6). 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 6). 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 6). 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 6). 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 6). 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 6). 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.

Rovenpor, D. (2026, November 6). 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 6). 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 6). Persuading partisans and independents with positive vs. negative appeals. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA

Rovenpor, D., Teeny, J. D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, February 6). Attitudinal valence framing: New evidence for consequences, boundary conditions, and underlying mechanisms. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR

Siev, J. J., Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, April 6). Persuading partisans and independents. Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL

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

Rovenpor, D. (2026, June 6). 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

Rovenpor, D., Teeny, J. D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, March 6). Attitudinal valence framing on choice confidence and willingness to pay. Society for Consumer Psychology. Savannah, GA

Rovenpor, D. (2026, July 6). Social justice research in psychology: Theory and application. South East Network for Social Sciences. Norwich, United Kingdom

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, March 6). Preferences for emotions based on desired appraisals: The cases of anger and guilt. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, GA

Rovenpor, D., & Petty, R. E. (2026, May 6). The effects of emotion on cognition depend on locus of control. Association for Psychological Science. San Francisco, CA

Leidner, B. L., Rovenpor, D., O'Brien, T. C., Roblain, A., De Guissme, L., & Chekroun, P. (2026, March 6). 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., & Petty, R. E. (2026, July 6). 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, September 6). Does attention to the self versus the environment moderate effects of emotion?. Group for Attitudes and Persuasion, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH

Rovenpor, D. (2026, February 6). 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., & Janoff-Bulman, R. (2026, January 6). 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., O'Brien, T. C., & Leidner, B. L. (2026, January 6). 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 6). 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, February 6). 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, March 6). Emotional control beliefs and avoiding negative stimuli: The moderating role of goals. Eastern Psychological Association. Boston, MA

Rovenpor, D., & Isbell, L. M. (2026, May 6). The effects of emotions on social judgment in younger and older adults. Association for Psychological Science. Washington D.C.

Isbell, L. M., Lair, E. C., & Rovenpor, D. (2026, May 6). Affect and cognitive malleability: Effects on perceptions of the self and others. Association for Psychological Science. Washington D.C.

Rovenpor, D., Skogsberg, N. J., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2026, January 6). Implicit goal priming moderates the effect of control beliefs on emotional situation selection. Society for Personality and Social Psychology. New Orleans, LA

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