Faculty Research Interests
Baumeister, Roy: Self
and identity, emotion, social rejection and belongingness, aggression,
sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, interpersonal processes,
defensiveness and self-deception, self-defeating behaviors, quest
for meaning, motivated cognition, interdisciplinary approaches
to psychology.
Ehrlinger, Joyce:
Accuracy and error in self judgments, perceptions of bias in the self and others, the influence of self-perceptions on choice, motivated cognition and motivated allocation of attention, predictions of future consequences, social cognition, judgment and decision making.
Gerend, Mary: Health psychology, women's health, judgment and decision making, persuasion, risk perception, individual differences.
Maner, Jon: Links between
motivation, emotion, and social cognition; risk perception and
behavior; the formation and maintenance of romantic relationships;
prejudice and stereotyping; evolutionary and ecological psychology;
dynamical systems theory; personality/individual differences.
Plant, Ashby: Social Psychology with a focus on
prejudice and stereotyping; specific interests include individual differences in
the activation and control of prejudice, intergroup interactions, motivation and
self-regulation, and the prejudice reduction
process.
Tice, Dianne: Primary interest
is in the scientific study of the self, especially the behavioral,
motivational, and emotional components of the self. Also, studies
of self-control and self-regulation, self-presentation, self-handicapping,
self-esteem, the self-concept, and social rejection.
