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Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignCurrent Position
Assistant Professor Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University, 2005
Research Interests
 | Attitudes |
| Attribution |
| Ethics/Morality |
| Social Cognition |
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Jesse Preston
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
603 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
United States
Home Page
Phone: (217) 333-4921
Fax: (217) 244-5876
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Interests include causal thinking and explanation, religious beliefs, perception of agency in self and others, and cognitive processes in judgment and decision making. |
 Journal Articles:
 Dijksterhuis, A., Preston, J., Wegner, D. M., & Aarts, H. (2008). Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on self-attribution of authorship for events. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 2-9.
- Morewedge, C. K., Preston, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2007). Timescale bias in the attribution of mind. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 1-11.
- Preston, J., & Epley, N. (2009). Science and God: An automatic opposition between ultimate explanations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 238-241.
- Preston, J., & Epley, N. (2005). Explanations versus applications: The explanatory power of valuable beliefs. Psychological Science, 16, 826-832.
- Preston, J., Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2006). The Godfather of soul. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 481-482.
- Preston, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2007). The eureka error: Inadvertent plagiarism by misattributions of effort. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 575-585.
Other Publications:
- Preston , J., & Wegner, D. M. (2008). Elbow grease: When action feels like work. In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), The psychology of action (Vol. 2, pp. 569-586). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Preston, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2005). Ideal agency: The perception of self as an origin of action. In A. Tesser, J. Wood, & D. Stapel (Eds.), On building, defending, and regulating the self (pp. 103-125). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
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