Publications
Publications
Peer-reviewed
Prentice, M., Fleeson, W., & Jayawickreme, E. (2018). Integrating whole trait theory and self-determination theory. Journal of Personality. (Link)
Prentice, M., Jayawickreme, E., Hawkins, A., Hartley, A., Furr, R. M., & Fleeson, W. (2018). Morality as a basic psychological need, Social and Personality Psychological Science. (Link)
Sheldon, K., & Prentice, M. (2018). Self-determination theory as a foundation for personality research. Journal of Personality. (Link)
Sheldon, K. M., Corcoran, M., & Prentice, M. (2018). Pursuing eudaimonic functioning versus pursuing hedonic well-being: The first goal succeeds in Its aim, whereas the second does not. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-15. (Link)
Prentice, M., Kasser, T., & Sheldon, K. M. (2017). Openness to experience predicts intrinsic value shifts after deliberating one’s own death. Death Studies, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1334016. (Link)
Agroskin, D., Jonas, E., Klackl, J., & Prentice, M. (2016). Inhibition underlies the effect of high need for closure on cultural closed-mindedness under mortality salience. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1583. (Link)
Schüler, J., Sheldon, K. M., Prentice, M., & Halusic, M. (2016). Do some people need autonomy more than others? Implicit dispositions towards autonomy moderate the effects of felt autonomy on well-being. Journal of Personality, 84, 5-20. (Link)
Prentice, M., & Sheldon, K. M. (2015). Priming effects on cooperative behavior in social dilemmas: Considering the prime and the person. Journal of Social Psychology, 155, 163-181. (Link)
McGregor, I., Hayes, J., & Prentice, M. (2015). Motivation for aggressive religious radicalization: Goal regulation theory and a personality × threat × affordance hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1325. (Link)
Sheldon, K., Prentice, M., & Halusic, M. (2015). The experiential incompatibility of mindfulness and flow absorption. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 6, 276-283. (Link)
Sheldon, K. M., Prentice, M., Halusic, M. Schüler, J. (2015). Matches between assigned goal-types and both implicit and explicit motive dispositions predict goal self-concordance. Motivation & Emotion. doi: 10.1007/s11031-014-9468-4. (Link)
Nash, K., Prentice, M., Hirsh, J. B., McGregor, I., & Inzlicht, M. (2014). Muted neural response to distress among securely attached people. Social, Cognitive, & Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1239-1245. (Link)
Prentice, M., Halusic, M., & Sheldon, K. M. (2014). Integrating theories of psychological needs‐as‐requirements and psychological needs‐as‐motives: A two process model. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(2), 73-85. (Link)
McGregor, I., Prentice, M., & Nash, K. (2013). Anxious uncertainty and reactive approach motivation (RAM) for religious, idealistic, and lifestyle extremes. Journal of Social Issues, 69, 537-563. (Link)
McGregor, I., Prentice, M., & Nash, K. (2012). Approaching relief: Compensatory ideals relieve threat-induced anxiety by sustaining approach motivated states. Social Cognition, 30, 689–714. (Link)
Nash, K., McGregor, I., & Prentice, M. (2011). Threat and defense as goal regulation: From implicit goal conflict to anxious uncertainty, reactive approach motivation (RAM), and ideological extremism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 1291-1301. (Link)
McGregor, I., Nash, K., & Prentice, M. (2010). Reactive approach motivation (RAM) for religion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 148-161. (Link)
McGregor, I., Prentice, M., & Nash, K. A. (2009). Personal uncertainty management by reactive approach motivation. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 225-229. (Link)
Invited Contributions
Hayes, J., Prentice, M., & McGregor. (2016). Giving in and giving up: Accommodation and fatalistic withdrawal as alternatives to primary control restoration. In M. Bukowski, I. Fritsche, A. Guinote, & M. Kofta (Eds.), Current issues in social psychology – Coping with lack of control in a social world. Routledge Psychology Press. (Link)
Prentice, M., & Sheldon, K. M. (2015). Evolutionary and social psychological perspectives on human cooperation. In V. Ziegler-Hill, L. Welling, & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on social psychology (pp. 267–277). Springer International Publishing. (Link)
Prentice, M., & McGregor, I. (2014). Anxiety and the approach of idealistic meaning. In A. Batthany & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds.) Meaning in existential and positive psychology (pp. 205-220). New York, NY: Springer.
Tullett, A. M., Prentice, M., Teper, R., Nash, K., Inzlicht, M., & McGregor, I. (2013). Neural foundations of meaning and threat. In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. J. Lindberg (Eds.). The psychology of meaning (pp. 401-419). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (Link)
McGregor, I., Nash, K., & Prentice, M. (2012). Religious zeal after goal frustration. In M. A. Hogg & D. L. Blaylock (Eds.). Extremism and the psychology of uncertainty (pp. 147-164). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (Link)
Consulting
Filardo, E-A., Prentice, M., Febbraro, A. R., Blais, A-R., Fraser, B., & Spiece, R. (2016). Social and behavioural correlates to effective problem solving in meta-teams (U), (DRDC Toronto TR 2010-184) Defence R&D Canada - Toronto. (Link)
Common Cause Foundation. (2016). Perceptions matter: The common cause UK values survey. London: Common Cause Foundation. (Link)
Submitted Manuscripts
Prentice, M., Jayawickreme, E., & Fleeson, W. (under review). An experience sampling study of the daily dynamics of moral need satisfaction, abstract invited for special issue, Motivation & Emotion.
Prentice, M.ª, Sanderson, R.ª, Wolf, L., Kasser, T., Weinstein, N., & Crompton, T. (revise and resubmit). Strangers in a strange land: The impact of perceptions of other’s values on civic engagement and cultural estrangement, abstract invited for special issue, Frontiers in Psychology. ªco-lead authors
*Lüders, A., Prentice, M., & Jonas, E. (under review). Refugees in the media: Exploring a vicious cycle of thwarted needs, confirmatory information seeking, and group-based defenses in receiving cultures, abstract invited for special issue, European Journal of Social Psychology.
Luke, D., Prentice, M., & Fleeson, W. (under review). Dynamic processes underlying individual differences in moral behavior. In Rauthmann, J. F. (Ed.) Handbook of personality dynamics and processes. Elsevier.
Sheldon, K., Prentice, M., & Halusic, M. (under review). Rightly crossing the Rubicon: Evaluating goal self-concordance prior to selection helps people choose more satisfying goals.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Prentice, M., & Hertel, A. The role of loneliness in smoking behaviors and intentions.
Prentice, M., Park., S., & Shireman, E. Applying CART and random forests to the prediction of subjective well-being in the World Values Survey across levels of the United Nations’ Human Development Index.
Prentice, M., Sheldon, K., & Kasser, T. Values, situational need construals, and well-being: Relative intrinsic to extrinsic values predict seeing more opportunities for satisfaction. [Dissertation].
Prentice, M., Furr, R. M., Hawkins, A., Fleeson, W. Development and validation of a measure of moral characteristics: The moral characteristics questionnaire.
Prentice, M., Hawkins, A., Hartley, A.G., Fleeson, W., & Furr, R. M. Is doing good good enough? Temptational, motivational, and sacrificial factors involved in good actions shape moral impressions of good persons.
Prentice, M., Sandstrom, G., Rentfrow, J., Kosinski, M., & Stillwell, D. Social assortment by music preferences: Evidence for preference homophily in large social networks.
Heintzelman, S., Prentice, M., & King, L. Is the feeling of meaning in life multifaceted? Development and psychometric examination of the dimensionality of meaning in life.
Prokhorova, L., Jonas, E., & Prentice, M. Injustice as a threat: injustice arouses motivational discrepancies that drive passive avoidance and anxiety.