| Corey Columb |
Corey’s research interests include social judgment, bias, actor-observer effects, and
goals. Corey currently have several ongoing projects in the Ehrlinger
lab. One project he is working on in the Ehrlinger Lab
is looking at how being subliminally primed by the Confederate flag
impacts interracial behavior; will being primed make a White person
treat a Black person with more aggression? Another project looks at how
people who identify themselves as a minority feel about other
minorities: when do they feel a common bond to them, and when are they
overly critical of them? A third project looks at how information
impacts judgments of others: will people who are informed have a poorer
opinion of the uninformed, even if they know that they do not have the
requisite information? |
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Kyle Conlon |
Kyle is primarily interested in how people’s
implicit self-theories influence their goal-directed behavior. He is
currently investigating how young and older adults’ self-theories
about memory affect their willingness to engage in, as well as their
subsequent performance on, memory-related tasks. In addition, Kyle is
exploring the relationship among implicit theories of intelligence,
goals, and performance feedback. Another line of research involves how
predetermined views about one’s competence level can become a
barrier to incorporating feedback. In addition to this work, Kyle is
fascinated by topics relating to bias, stereotyping, and evolutionary
social psychology. |
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Jin A Park |
Jin A is fascinated with exploring various topics in social psychology (e.g., self, culture)
In particular, influences of implicit theories on human behaviors and thoughts is her main interest.
For example, Jin A is examining whether incremental theorists either in
collectivistic or individualistic culture react differently as a result
of self-improving motivation. In addition, she plans to conduct a
research on a role of implicit theories in relationship maintenance
with those having bad first impression. |
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| Jessica
Alquist |
Jessica is broadly interested in people's goals and the
process they go through to achieve them. Jessica is currently involved
in research examining how failure affects people's assessment of their
ability to improve. Specifically, she is interested in whether people
believe intelligence is more malleable after failure at an intelligence
test than after success. |
| Lauren
Brewer |
Lauren is interested in the types of beliefs people have about
themselves, specifically their implicit theory of intelligence.
Her research in the Ehrlinger Lab focuses on how
people's implicit theory of intelligence affects their performance
on logic tasks. |
| Will
Crescioni |
Will’s research interests include decision
making, unconscious thought, and self-regulation. His first project
investigates the effects of decision- making styles on the
effectiveness of conscious versus unconscious thought. A second project
is concerned with the impact of how trait self-regulation on
impacts people’s persistence in an online weight-loss program. |
| Joanna Goplen |
In the Ehrlinger lab, Joanna research interests include the implications of exposure to
cultural symbols for both the individual and intergroup
behavior. She is also researching the tendency for people to
believe they are more persuasive than they actually are and the
psychological processes that lead to these beliefs. |
| E.J.
Masicampo |
E.J. is interested in studying how conscious thought helps people to adapt to life in
complex societies and culture. In particular, he is examining at how
conscious thought aids in decision-making, self-regulation, and
multiple goal management. |
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Ainsley Mitchum |
Ainsley is interested in how people make both
retrospective and online judgments about their own performance on
cognitive tasks. Her research explores the different sources of
information or cues that people consider when making these kinds of
judgments. |
| Michelle
Peruche |
Michelle is interested in the mechanisms that rouse
White people’s desire to respond to others without racial bias.
Michelle’s research utilizes an implicit theories framework to
examine the influence of people’s general beliefs about the
ability to reduce racial bias at the individual and societal level and
the implications of these beliefs on people’s willingness to
reduce racial bias more directly. Michelle is also interested in
people’s physiological responses during interracial interactions
and whether these responses are influenced by people’s motivation
to respond without racial bias. |
| Erin
Sparks |
Erin is interested in testing the hypothesis that the more
dislikable people are, the more other people will focus their visual
attention on the unattractive (versus attractive) features of their
faces. We
believe that this difference in attentional focus influences people's
memories for other people's faces and directly affects their perceptions
of how attractive other people are.
Typically, people place a higher value on a good once they own
it (as compared to when they are considering buying it). Erin's
second line of research focuses on how this "endowment effect" is
moderated by people's individual decision making styles. Maximizing
refers to the tendency to spend long amounts of time choosing
the best possible option, while satisficing refers to the tendency
to select the first "good enough" option that comes
along. We are testing the hypothesis that maximizers tend to
place less value on a good that they own (when compared to satisficers).
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