Everything about Good Guys

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Good GuysA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Liver-resident CD8+ T cells in viral hepatitis: not always good guysInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A good man is hard to findThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Why Good Guys Wear WhiteCited 234 times
5. Go sideways: Gentleman (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TargetA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Why Good Guys Wear White

  Brian P. Meier, Michael D. Robinson, Gerald L. Clore · 2004 · Psychological Science · 234 citations

• Multinucleated Giant Cells: Good Guys or Bad Guys?

  Richard J. Miron, Dieter D. Bosshardt · 2018 · Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews · 133 citations

• Good Guys With Guns

  Angela Stroud · 2012 · Gender & Society · 112 citations

• Good Guys Don’t Rape

  C. J. Pascoe, Jocelyn A. Hollander · 2015 · Gender & Society · 106 citations

• ‘We Are the Good Guys’

  Anders Hellström, Tom Nilsson · 2010 · Ethnicities · 54 citations

• Are anti-HIV IgAs good guys or bad guys?

  Mingkui Zhou, Ruth M Ruprecht · 2014 · Retrovirology · 38 citations

• Facial stereotypes of good guys and bad guys: A replication and extension

  Alvin G. Goldstein, June E. Chance, Barbara Gilbert · 1984 · Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society · 34 citations

• Why good guys finish last

  John J. Sumanth, David M. Mayer, Virginia S. Kay · 2011 · Organizational Psychology Review · 27 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Liver-resident CD8+ T cells in viral hepatitis: not always good guys

  Hendrik Luxenburger, Christoph Neumann-Haefelin · 2023 · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 26 citations

• Hierarchies of Masculinity and Lad Culture on Campus: “Bad Guys”, “Good Guys”, and Complicit Men

  Ana Jordan, Sundari Anitha, Jill Jameson · 2022 · Men and Masculinities · 18 citations

• “We’re Still Good Guys”: Reshaping Public Perceptions of Correctional Officers

  Matthew S. Johnston, Rosemary Ricciardelli · 2025 · Corrections · 7 citations

• When “good guys” do bad things: Evaluations of sexual harassment allegations against male allies

  Morgana Lizzio-Wilson, Anna Klas, Edward J. R. Clarke · 2022 · Group Processes & Intergroup Relations · 5 citations

• Good guys with good apples. The moderating role of moral competence on the association between moral disengagement and organizational behaviours

  Alessandro Lo Presti, Giuseppina Ambrosino, Massimiliano Barattucci · 2023 · European Review of Applied Psychology · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• A good man is hard to findFlannery O'Connor · 1955
• The Good GuyDean Koontz · 2007
• How the good guys finally wonJimmy Breslin · 1975
• Things We Hide from the LightLucy Score · 2023
• The good guysBill Bonanno · 2005
• 📕Through the Eyes of a Good GuyDoug Kendall · 2024
• 📕One of the Good GuysAraminta Hall · 2024
• From Good Guy to GroomTracy Madison · 2016

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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