Publications
Familiarity seeking: Growing and learning from repeat experiences
Handbook of the Science of Existential Psychology [Link]
In K. E. Vail, D. Van Tongeren, R. J. Schlegel, J. Greenberg, L. A. King, & R. M. Ryan (Eds.)
Yuji K. Winet & Ed O’Brien (2026)
Ending on a familiar note: Perceived endings motivate repeat consumption
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(4), 707-734 [Link]
Yuji K. Winet & Ed O’Brien (2023)
People are more likely to seek repeat experiences when facing endings
Pivotal voting: The opportunity to tip group decisions skews juries and other voting outcomes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(32) [Link]
Diag Davenport & Yuji K. Winet (2022)
Voters holding the pivotal vote in a group decision are biased to vote for decisive outcomes—especially when it leads to punishment
Social exploration: When people deviate from options explored by others
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(3), 427–442 [Link]
*Yuji K. Winet, *Yanping Tu, Shoham Choshen-Hillel, & Ayelet Fishbach (2022)
People explore more when exploring with other people than
with pure information
Working Papers
Asymmetric variety seeking in hierarchical choice
*Yuji K. Winet & *Akshina Banerjee (working paper) [Link]
People seek variety differently for choices that are contained by other choices vs. choices that contain other choices
Callbacks in designing consumption experiences over time: When and why referencing the past can enrich the present
Yuji K. Winet & Ed O’Brien (working paper) [Email for draft]
People prefer experiences that use callbacks
Moral foregrounding: Responsibility, role, and the instability of moral judgment
*Yuji K. Winet & *Diag Davenport (working paper) [Email for draft]
People’s moral decisions can shift drastically based on whose moral needs they happen to have in mind in a given moment