Peer-reviewed work.

Christians Have More Self-Compassion Than Atheists—But Also More Grandiose (Not Fragile) Narcissism

Magee, M. W. (2025). Pastoral Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-025-01239-x

A large-sample comparison of self-identified Christians and atheists on self-compassion and two faces of narcissism. Christians scored higher on both self-compassion and grandiose narcissism, with no group difference on fragile narcissism or shame.

Embedded librarians and scaffolding for remote learning.

Miyaoka, M., Toolsidass, R., & Magee, M. (2023). portal: Libraries and the Academy, 23(1), 169–195. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2023.0010

Pretest–posttest evaluation of an embedded-librarian model SJNY Brooklyn rolled out during COVID-19. The 15-item FYE Library Literacy Scale rose significantly across the semester (N = 118), independent of course modality, gender, or instructor.

A multi-site collaborative study of the hostile priming effect.

McCarthy, R., … Magee, M. W., … (2021). Collabra: Psychology, 7(1), 18738. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18738

A pre-registered, 54-author, multi-site replication of the Srull & Wyer (1979) hostile priming effect. One of the largest and most rigorously methodological tests of the effect to date.

Interpersonal foundations of ideological thinking.

Hardin, C. D., Cheung, R. M., Magee, M. W., Noel, S., & Yoshimura, K. (2012). In J. Hanson (Ed.), Ideology, psychology, and law. Oxford University Press.

A theoretical chapter applying shared-reality theory to the interpersonal grounding of ideology. Argues that what looks like fixed ideological commitment is partly the product of the social relationships in which beliefs are shared and reaffirmed.

In defense of religion: Shared reality moderates the unconscious threat of evolution.

Magee, M. W., & Hardin, C. D. (2010). Social Cognition, 28(3), 379–400.

Two experiments showing that exposure to evolution-related words reduced religiosity and anti-atheist prejudice—but only among participants whose religious experience felt unshared with their fathers (Study 1) or who were insecurely attached (Study 2). A shared-reality account of when religious belief is and isn't socially buffered.