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Faculty Directory: Social 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:
  • Influence of affect on social interaction and thought processes
  • Social cognitive neuroscience
  • Consumer decision making
  • Functioning in work or organizational settings

 
    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:

 
    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:
  • Risk and rationality
  • False memory

 
    Interests:
  • The development of same-sex attractions, behaviors, and identities
  • Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth
  • Gender nonconformity
  • Clinical psychology
  • Personality and social development during adolescence

 
    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

 

 
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