Faculty Directory: Social & Personality Psychology
Interests:- Personality theory
- Psi phenomena
- Sexual orientation
- Beliefs and attitudes
Interests:- Social construction of gender and sexuality
- Clinical psychology and psychopathology
Interests:- Theories of intelligence
- Cognitive development
- Children and the law
- Children's testimonial competence
Interests:- Behavioral statistics
- Mathematical models of brain evolution
Interests:- Accuracy and illusion in self- and social judgment
- Motivated reasoning and self-deception
- Behavior in economic games
- Accuracy and error in eyewitness testimony
Interests:- Automaticity
- Social cognition
- Automatic evaluation
- Implicit mechanisms of goal pursuit
- The role of affect in judgment and decision-making
Interests:- Everyday judgment and decision making
- Critical thinking and belief
- Egocentrism
- Optimism, pessimism, satisfaction, and regret
- Behavioral economics
Interests:- Work motivation
- Job attitudes
- Work performance
- Worker participation in management
- Employee stock ownership
- Leadership
- Organizational effectiveness
- Trade union effectiveness and leadership
Interests:- Development and function of emotional bonds between adult sexual/romantic partners
- Human mating from an attachment theory and evolutionary perspective
Interests:- Sleep and sleep deprivation
- Communication, with particular emphasis on the development, production and evaluation of media-based educational programs designed to promote cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral change
Interests:- Moral judgment
- Moral intuitions
- Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding
- Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding
Interests:- Experimental social psychology, especially causal attribution and interpersonal influence
- Evolutionary theory and social behavior
Interests:- Sexual development among same-sex attracted adolescents and early adults
- Positive adolescent development
- Personality and social development during adolescence and young adulthood
Interests:- The uses of narrative in clinical assessment
- Adolescent psychopathology
- Lifespan development
- Connections between the creative and therapeutic processes
- Psychodynamic approaches to literary texts
Interests:- Social cognition
- Attachment processes
- Self-regulation
- Unconscious cognition
