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Welcome

I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. My research focuses on how and when everyday non-moral ideas may come to gain moral significance, and why such “moralization”" might lead to various behavioural and psychological consequences. I am particularly interested in the influence of challenges to peoples existing assumptions about the world in bringing about increasingly moralized thinking. Outside of psychology, I enjoy listening to podcasts, NBA Basketball, taking photographs, talking politics, and watching movies.

If you’re interested, you can find my CV here

Publications

| Current H-index 3 |1

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12511 Illustrations of moral recognition and moral amplification across judgments, attitudes, and entities from my paper entitled “The what, how, and why of moralization: A review of current definitions, methods, and evidence in moralization research”

Peer-reviewed Papers

  • Louis, W. R., Cibich, M., McGarty, C., Thomas, E.F., Amiot, C. E., Lizzio-Wilson, M., Weber, N., Rhee, J. J., Davies, G., Rach, T., Goh, S., McMaster, Z., Muldoon, O., Howe, N., & Moghaddam, F. (in press) Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics.Social Psychological and Personality Science

  • Crone, D.L., Rhee, J.J. & Laham, S.M. (2020) Developing brief versions of the Moral Foundations Vignettes using a genetic algorithm-based approach.Behav Res. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01489-y

  • Klebl, C., Rhee, J.J., Greenaway, K., Luo, Y., & Bastian, B. (in press). Beauty goes down to the core: Attractiveness biases moral character attributions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.

  • Abeywickrama, R. S., Rhee, J. J., Crone, D. L., & Laham, S. M. (2020). Why Moral Advocacy Leads to Polarization and Proselytization: The Role of Self-Persuasion. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(2), 473-503. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i2.1346

  • Haslam, N., Dakin, B. C., Fabiano, F., McGrath, M. J., Rhee, J., Vylomova, E., Weaving, M., & Wheeler, M. A. (2020). Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep. European Review of Social Psychology, 31(1), 254-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2020.1796080

  • Klebl, C., Greenaway, K. H., Rhee, J. J., & Bastian, B. (2020). Ugliness Judgments Alert us to Cues of Pathogen Presence. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620931655

  • Rhee, J. J., Schein, C., & Bastian, B. (2019).2 The what, how, and why of moralization: A review of current definitions, methods, and evidence in moralization research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(12), e12511. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12511

Book Chapters

  • Louis, W. R., Chonu, G., Achia, T., Chapman, C. M., & Rhee, J. (2018). Building group norms and group identities into the study of transitions: From democracy to dictatorship and back again. In B. Wagoner, I. Bresco de Luna, & V. Glaveanu (Eds.), The road to actualized democracy: A psychological exploration (pp. 27–57). Information Age Publishing, Inc.

  1. Last updated August 21, 2021 Pulled automatically from my Google Scholar profile. See this post for how it works.↩︎

  2. recognised by journal as top cited paper↩︎

Teaching

“Logic & Order”

I am passionate about science communication and teaching. When teaching, I particularly value communicating the basic principles and historical justifications that underlie the techniques, theories, and concepts that we use in Psychology Research.

I have experience teaching both in person and online. Got a bit of time to see something new? Why not watch one of the online learning videos I produced alongside my colleague Nicholas Tan on constructing strong arguments.