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THE
SOCIAL MIND
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My research
relies on cognitive principles and methods to analyze and investigate
the social mind. Broadly, I am interested in the cognitive dynamics
of person construal. More specifically, I am interested in questions
such as when we construe individuals in terms of their social group
memberships versus personal attributes, how our knowledge of or
familiarity with the individuals in question changes these construals,
and how higher-order causal beliefs (e.g., about the nature of personality,
about society and social structure) impact the stereotypes we have
and how we use them. More recently, I have also become interested
in how apparently non-social processes (such as motor control) are
subject to social influence.
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Familiarity,
goals, and the interaction context: Moderators of categorical thinking
in person construal (with C. N. Macrae, University of Aberdeen;
M. F. Mason, Columbia Business School; D. Fockenberg, University
of Birmingham)
Stereotypes
and theories of intergroup differences: Causal reasoning and stereotype
representation (with G. V. Bodenhausen, Northwestern University;
N. L. Dennis, MRes Student, University of Birmingham)
Combining
social concepts: Stereotype combination and executive function (with
D. J. Carroll, University of Sheffield; R. R. C. Hutter, University
of Leeds; Anke Goerzig, University of Birmingham)
Encoding
flexibility in stereotyping (with C. B. Häcker, PhD Student,
& A. S. Meyer, University of Birmingham)
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Stereotype
threat: Necessary and sufficient conditions (with H. E. S. Rosenthal,
University of Durham)
The ubiquity
of the self: Implications for projection and perspective taking
(with K. R. Peters, PhD Student, University of Western Ontario)
Visual attention
in other-race face processing (with K. D. Cassidy, PhD Student,
and G. W. Humphreys, University of Birmingham)
Social influences
on motor control (with C. D. T. Gillett, PhD Student, &
R. C. Miall, University of Birmingham)
Coordination
of social perception and action (with P. Rotshtein, University
of Birmingham)
Using fMR-adaptation
to investigate other-race face processing (with S. Rappaport,
PhD Student, University of Birmingham)
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