Bio

Abdo Elnakouri is a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is fascinated by how people come to experience the world in such diverse ways (e.g., through different political beliefs and religious convictions) and how people come to question and change their worldviews, if at all. Therefore, his program of research explores a) why people adopt certain worldviews and b) how worldviews change. Click here for Abdo’s CV.

Publications

Elnakouri, A., Rossignac-Milon, A., Krueger, K., Forest, A. L., Higgins, E. T., & Scholer, A. A. (in press). In it together: Shared reality with instrumental others is linked to goal success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Elnakouri, A., & McGregor, I. (2022). You can’t reason with them: Dismissing religious defectors as irrational. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 1-15.

McGregor, I., Tran, A., Auger, E., Britton, E., Hayes, J., Elnakouri, A., Eftekhari, E., Sharpinski, K., Arbiv, O., & Nash, K. (2022). Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self- transcendence inspires approach motivation and magnanimity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ,102, 104350.

Porter, T., Elnakouri, A., Meyers, E.A., Shibayama, T., Jayawickreme, E., & Grossmann, I. (2022). Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility. Nature Reviews Psychology , 1-13.

Elnakouri, A., Hubley, C., & McGregor, I. (2022). Hate and meaning in life: How collective, but not personal, hate quells threat and spurs meaning in life. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, 104227.

Baker, A., Elnakouri, A., & Blanchard, C. (2019). The protective role of autonomous motivation against the effects of the “Muscular Ideal” on men’s self-objectification, appearance schema activation, and cognitive performance. Media Psychology, 22(3), 473-500.

Elnakouri, A., McGregor, I., & Grossmann, I. (2018). The importance of environmental threats and ideology in explaining extreme self-sacrifice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, E201. [commentary]

McGregor, I., Britton, E., Elnakouri, A., & Sharpinskyi, K. (2023) Weak personal ideals incline proud people towards religious radicalization in anxious circumstances. Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society.

Oakes, H., Brienza, J. P., Elnakouri, A., & Grossmann, I. (2019). Wise reasoning: Converging evidence for the psychology of sound judgment. In R. J. Sternberg, & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of wisdom (pp. 202–225). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Carter, M.J., Elnakouri, A., Yantha, Z., & Ste-Marie, D.M. (2016). Not all choices are created equal: The differential impact of task-relevant and task-irrelevant choices on motor learning. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 38, S51.