Published and Accepted
Hillman J.G., Burrows B. & Hauser D.J. (Accepted) Jumping to conclusions predicts truncated searches even in uncongenial contexts. Thinking and Reasoning. [Open Access Link]
Hillman J.G., & MacDonald T.K. (Accepted). The Multidimensional Forgiveness Inventory: A model for the assessment of incongruent and incomplete forgiveness. Sage Open. [Open Access Link]
Woolridge S.M., Hillman J.G., Palmer, M.K., & Bowie, C.R., (2025). Expectations about mental health symptom trajectories: Associations with stigmatizing beliefs, helping behaviour, and social behaviour towards people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Psychosis.
Hillman J.G., Son E., Jyung M., & MacDonald T.K. (2025). Defer, Disagree, or Disengage: Cultural differences in perceived appropriateness of responses to social inconsistency. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. [Open Access Link]
Hillman J.G., Burrows B., Jessen D., & Hauser D.J. (2024). Jumping to fixations: jumping to conclusions is associated with less hypothesis generation and more fixation. Thinking and Reasoning. [Open Access Link]
Hauser D.J., & Hillman J.G. (2024) What does it mean to be “utterly content”?: Semantic prosody impacts nuanced inferences beyond just valence. Social Cognition.
Tran T., Hillman J.G., Hargadon D.P., Cunningham S., Toubachem R., & Bowie C.R. (2024) Approach and Withdrawal from Cognitively Effortful Activities: Development, Validation, and Proposed Transdiagnostic Clinical Utility of a Cognitive Motivation Scale. Journal of Affective Disorders.
Hillman J.G., Antoun, J. & Hauser D.J. (2023) The Improvement Default: Narrative intuitions of change across domains. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [SPSP Student Publication Award] [Open Access Link]
Hillman J.G., Fowlie D. & MacDonald T.K. (2023). Social Verification Theory: A new way to conceptualize validation, dissonance, and belonging. Personality and Social Psychology Review. [Open Access Link]
Hillman J.G., & Hauser D.J. (2021). Getting better all the time: Master narratives, expectations of change, and their effect on temporal appraisals. Social Cognition, 39(6), 717–746. [ResearchGate link]
Revise and Resubmit
Son E., Hillman J.G., Jyung M., Hauser D.J., & van Anders S.M. (Revisions). Culturally specific narratives of changes in femininity and masculinity in Canada and South Korea. Psychology and Sexuality
Under Review
Hillman J.G., Williams S.N., & MacDonald T.K. (Under Review). Role of Similarity and Shared Reality in Media Preference. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Hillman J.G., Fowlie D. & MacDonald T.K. (Under Review). Miserable but Validated: The Role of Belonging and Mood in Media Preference. Belonging.
Selected Works In Progress
Hillman J.G., Antoun, J., & MacDonald T.K. (In Progress; Writing). Intuitions and motivations in thinking about racial progress.
Hillman J.G., Woolridge S., Allidina S., Muralitharan N., & MacDonald T.K. (In Progress; Writing). A qualitative assessment of experiences of validation and invalidation in romantic relationships of racial and sexual minorities.
Hillman J.G., Mang V., Petty R. E., (In Progress; Writing). A mixed method analysis of historical changes in ideological and communication extremity, and potential effects on social disagreement
Hillman J.G., Burton B., Hauser D.J., Petty R. E., (In Progress; Writing). The Flexible Present Self: Differences in temporal reference directions affect present perceptions of self
Hillman J.G., Wang A., MacDonald T.K., Petty R. E., (In Progress; Data Collection). Balance Theory, Validation, And Social Uncertainty Reduction
Hillman J.G., Burton B., Petty R. E., (In Progress; Data Collection). Intolerance for Uncertainty Increases Conspiracy Endorsement When Conspiracies Have Epistemic Value