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People in the Lab |
Sara Hodges Sara is an associate professor at the University of Oregon. Sara studies how people construct judgments of their social world. She is interested in the "building blocks" that people use to form attitudes and make decisions about the people and things around them, and how this information is organized. |
Graduate Students |
Karyn Lewis Karyn is a fifth year doctoral student. Karyn is interested in interpersonal perception, particularly in the role target characteristics play as perceivers attempt to decode their thoughts, emotions, and personality traits. Karyn also studies belonging needs and how these needs affect people's perceptions, motivation, and behavior in different situations. |
Ezra Markowitz Ezra is a fifth year doctoral sutdent in the Environmental Studies and Psychology programs. Ezra is interested in the intersection of environmental conservation, psychology, communications research and policy. He works on a diverse set of research topics, all tying into his underlying interest in the relationship between human behavior and environmental degradation. |
Brian Clark Brian is a third year doctoral student broadly interested in all things relevant to morality. Brian is currently studying hypocrisy, with a particular focus on morally-relevant issues therein, from two angles: 1) understanding how and why adhering to moral intuitions, personal beliefs, and expressed attitudes conflicts with self-interest and other moral intuitions (basically, what makes people hypocrites) and 2) understanding how and why people attribute hypocrisy as an explanation of others' behavior (basically, what makes people call other people hypocrites). |
Devin Howington Devin is a second year doctoral student. Devin is interested in the processes involved in understanding others and the effects those processes have on interpersonal relations. |
Nicole Lawless Nicole is a second year doctoral student. She studies how people communicate with one another, and is particularly interested in how we pick up on and use emotional "cues" in conversation. |
Social Cognition Lab Members, Fall 2011 |
Colton Christian Colton is a first year master's student. His current research examines the effects of prior, present, and anticipatory experience on cognitive and affective empathic accuracy. |
What Really Goes On At Conferences |