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Journal Articles (top of page)

Harris, J. L., Brownell, K. B., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). The food marketing defense model: Integrating psychological research to protect youth and inform public policy. Social Issues and Policy Review. Link

Morsella, E., Krieger, S.C., & Bargh, J.A. (in press). Minimal Neuroanatomy for a conscious brain: Homing in on the networks constituting consciousness. Neural Networks. Link

Williams, L. E., Bargh, J. A., Nocera, C. C., & Gray, J. R. (in press). The unconscious regulation of emotion: Nonconscious reappraisal goals modulate emotional reactivity. Emotion. Link

Morsella, E., Gray, J. R., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The essence of conscious conflict: Subjective effects of sustaining incompatible intentions. Emotion, 9, 717-728. Link

Morsella, E., Wilson, L. E., Berger, C. C., Honhongva, M., Gazzaley, A., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Subjective aspects of cognitive control at different stages of processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. Link

Hassin, R. R., Bargh, J. A., Engell, A., & McCulloch, K. C. (2009). Implicit working memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 665-678. Link

Williams, L. E., Huang, J. Y., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). The scaffolded mind: Higher mental processes are grounded in early experience of the physical world. European Journal of Social Psychology. Link

Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science, 322, 606-607. Link

Harris, J. L., Bargh, J. A., & Brownell, K. D. (2009). Priming effects of television food advertising on eating behavior. Health Psychology, 28, 404-413. Link

Hassin, R. R., Bargh, J. A., & Zimerman, S. (2009). Automatic and flexible: The case of nonconscious goal pursuit. Social Cognition, 27(1), 20-36. Link

Ackerman, J. A., Goldstein, N. J., Shapiro, J. R., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). You wear me out: The vicarious depletion of self-control. Psychological Science, 20, 326-332. Link

Bargh, J. A., Green, M., & Fitzsimons, G. (2008). The selfish goal: Unintended consequences of intended goal pursuits. Social Cognition, 26, 520-540. Link

Smith, P. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Nonconscious effects of power on basic approach and avoidance tendencies. Social Cognition, 26, 1-24. Link

Huang, J. Y., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Peak of desire: Activating the mating goal changes life stage preferences across living kinds. Psychological Science, 19, 573-578. Link

Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Keeping one"s distance: The influence of spatial distance cues on affect and evaluation. Psychological Science, 19, 302-308. Link

McCulloch, K. C., Ferguson, M. J., Kawada, C. C. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Taking a closer look: On the operation of nonconscious impression formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 614-623. Link

McCulloch, K. C., Aarts, H., Fujita, K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Inhibition in goal systems: A retrieval-induced forgetting account. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 857-865. Link

Bargh, J.A., & Morsella, E. (2008). The unconscious mind. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 73-79. Link

Levine, L. R., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J.A. (2007). The perversity of inanimate objects: Stimulus control by incidental musical notation. Social Cognition, 25, 265-280. Link

Bargh, J.A. (2006). What have we been priming all these years? On the development, mechanisms, and ecology of nonconscious social behavior. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 147-168. Link

Bargh, J.A., & Williams, E.L. (2006). The automaticity of social life. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 1-4. Link

Chartrand, T. L., van Baaren, R. B., & Bargh, J. A. (2006). Linking Automatic Evaluation to Mood and Information Processing Style: Consequences for Experienced Affect, Impression Formation, and Stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 70-77. Link

Morsella, E. (2005). The function of phenomenal states: Supramodular interaction theory. Psychological Review, 112, 1000-1021. Link

Ferguson, M.J., Bargh, J.A., & Nayak, D.A. (2005). After-affects: How automatic evaluations influence the interpretation of subsequent, unrelated stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 182-191. Link

Bargh, J.A. & McKenna, K.Y.A. (2004). Internet and social life. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 573-590. Link

Bargh, J.A. (2003). Why we thought we could prime social behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 14, 216-218. Link

Fitzsimons, G. M., & Bargh, J. A. (2003). Thinking of you: Nonconscious pursuit of interpersonal goals associated with relationship partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 148-163. Link

Bargh, J.A. (2002). Losing consciousness: Automatic influences on consumer judgment, behavior and motivation. Journal of Consumer Research, 29, 280-285. Link

Duckworth, K.L., Bargh, J.A., Garcia, M., & Chaiken, S. (2002). The automatic evaluation of novel stimuli. Psychological Science, 6, 515-519. Link

Hassin, R. R., Bargh, J. A., & Uleman, J. S. (2002). Spontaneous causal inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 515-522. Link

Todorov, A., & Bargh, J. A. (2002). Automatic sources of aggression. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 7, 53-68. Link

Bargh, J.A., Gollwitzer, P. M., Lee-Chai, A., Barndollar, K., & Troetschel, R. (2001). The automated will: Nonconscious activation and pursuit of behavioral goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1014-1027. Link

Dijksterhuis, A. & Bargh, J.A. (2001). The perception-behavior expressway: Automatic effects of social perception on social behavior. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 33, pp. 1-40. Link

Chen, S., Lee-Chai, A.Y. & Bargh, J.A. (2001). Relationship orientation as a moderator of the effects of power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 173-187. Link

Bargh, J.A. & Ferguson, M.J. (2000). Beyond behaviorism: The automaticity of higher mental processes. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 925-945. Link

Book Chapters (top of page)

Morsella, E., & Bargh, J.A. (in press). Unconscious action tendencies: Sources of 'un-intergrated' action. In J. Decety & J.T. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of Social Neuroscience. Link

Bargh, J. A., Gollwitzer, P. M., & Oettingen, G. (in press). Motivation. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.),Handbook of Social Psychology (5th ed.). New York: Wiley. Link.

Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (in press). Unconscious behavioral guidance systems. In C. Agnew et al., Then a miracle occurs: Focusing on behavior in social psychological theory and research. New York: Oxford University Press. Link

Bargh, J. A., & Huang, J. Y. (2009). The selfish goal. In G. B. Moskowitz & H. Grant (Eds.), The psychology of goals (pp. 127-150). New York: Guilford. Link

Uhlmann, E. L., Poehlman, T. A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). American moral exceptionalism. In J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (Eds.), Social and psychological bases of ideology and system justification (pp. 27-52). New York: Oxford University Press. Link

Bargh, J.A. (2008). Free will is un-natural. In J. Baer, J. Kaufman, & R. Baumeister (Eds.), Are we free? The psychology of free will. New York: Oxford. Link

Bargh, J.A. (2007). Social psychological approaches to consciousness. In P. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch, & E. Thompson (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of consciousness. New York: Cambridge University Press. Link

Bargh, J.A., & Williams, L.E. (2007). On the nonconscious regulation of emotion. In J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 429-445). New York: Guilford. Link

Bargh, J.A. (2005). Bypassing the will: Towards demystifying behavioral priming effects. In R. Hassin, J. Uleman & J. Bargh (Eds.), The new unconscious. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Link

Fitzsimons, G. M., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). Automatic self-regulation. In R.F. Baumeister & K.D. Vohs (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation (pp. 151-170). New York: Guilford. Link

Bargh, J. A., Fitzsimons, G. M., & McKenna, K. Y. A. (2003). The self, online. In S. J. Spencer, S. Fein, M. P. Zanna, & J. M. Olson (Eds.), Motivated social perception: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 9). Ontario symposium on personality and social psychology (pp. 195-213). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. Link

Chartrand, T. & Bargh, J.A. (2002). Nonconscious motivations: Their activation, operation, and consequences. In A. Tesser, D.A. Stapel, & J.W. Wood (Eds.), Self and motivation: Emerging psychological perspectives (pp. 13-41). Washington, D.C.: APA. Link

Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2002). Sensitivity and flexibility: Exploring the knowledge function of automatic attitudes. In L. F. Barrett, & P. Salovey (Eds.), The wisdom in feeling: Psychological processes in emotional intelligence. Emotions and social behavior (pp. 383-405). New York, NY: Guilford Press. Link

Bargh, J.A. & Chartrand, T.L., (2000). The mind in the middle: A practical guide to priming and automaticity research. In H.T. Reis and C.M. Judd (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology, New York: Cambridge University Press. Link

Dijksterhuis, A. & Bargh, J.A. (2001). The perception-behavior expressway: Automatic effects of social perception on social behavior. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 33, pp. 1-40. Link

Videos (top of page)

What Does the "Free" in "Free Will" Really Mean?" John Bargh speaks during a symposium at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention in Tampa, FL. Link

Lawrence Williams and John Bargh and their research the connection between physical and interpersonal warmth featured in the BBC documentary "How to Make Better Decisions". Link