Social Psychology Graduate Students
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Name |
Advisor |
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Research interests |
| Beall, Erica |
Graham
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ebeall@usc.edu | The use of implicit methods to investigate psychological relationships between moral judgements and political ideologies. The roles of emotion and self-regulation in moral and political cognition. |
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Chopra, Gurveen |
Read |
Developing virtual agents capable of simulating human personality and emotions; Neural network models of personality, emotion and motivation; Virtual teaching/learning environments; Applications of virtual agents in education, medicine, defense, etc. |
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Corsbie-Massay, Charisse |
Read |
Psychological effects of media on the viewer, with a focus on how television affects our self concepts and concepts of others |
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| Droutman, Vita |
Read
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droutman@usc.edu | Neural network modeling of personality and social behavior. Understanding risky adolescent decision making in social contexts and its neural bases. Effects of Mindfullness meditation on risky tendencies in children, adolescents, and young adults. |
| Hayes, Tim |
W. Wood
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hayest@usc.edu | Social Influence: social norms, issue construal, message framing. Attitudes/persuasion. Moral psychology. Effects of source ideology on message construal and attitude polarization. Factors affecting the longevity of norms transmitted across generations of ad hoc laboratory groups. Differential effects of moral messages on traditional outcomes in standard persuasion paradigms. |
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Labrecque, Jennifer |
W. Wood |
Habitual behavior, as it relates to self-regulation. How people detect and respond to habitual behaviors that go awry. |
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Iyer, Ravi |
Read |
Moral psychology and it's implications for public policy; Applied positive psychology; Leveraging new internet technologies into behavioral science |
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| Lin, Pei-Ying (Peggy) |
Monterosso and W. Wood
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peiyingl@usc.edu | Interested in studying the biological mechanisms of social behavior. Used oxycotin sprays to study empathy. Look forward to learning brain imaging techniques to build the connections between the brain and behavior. |
| Meindl, Peter |
Graham
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meindl@usc.edu | Moral psychology and self-regulation. More specifically, determining what situational and personalogical variables cause people to adhere to and go against their personal moral values. |
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Onuki, Mayuko |
N. Miller |
Inter-group conflict and negotiation; cultural variation in groups; group solidarity |
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Spanovic, Marija |
N. Miller |
Intergroup relations |
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Talevich, Jennifer |
Read |
Influence of motivation on decision making and automatic evaluation; How emotions mediate between motivation, decision making, and social perception; Neural network modeling of the structure and dynamics of motivation systems, particularly attachment. |
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Yang, Linli |
N. Miller |
Group behaviors and group relationships; Emotion, prejudice and stereotyping, attachment and close-relationship, person perception; cultural diversity. |
Post Docs
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Name |
Advisor |
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Research interests |
| Iyer, Ravi |
Graham
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raviiyer@usc.edu | The roots of moral and political beliefs with an eye toward application. Specifically interested in research areas that can promote alternative framing for topics that typically engender compensatory processes, such as anti-drug, anti-war, and overtly partisan messaging. |
| Koleva, Sena |
Graham
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Broadly interested in studying morality, romantic relationships, political ideology, the biological and evolutionary processes that underlie romantic attraction, mate selection, and love. Interested in religion and culture. Also passionate about sharing scientific findings with the general public in an accesible and engaging manner through science talks and writings for a lay audience. | |
| Kressel, Laura |
W. Wood
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kressel@usc.edu | How do theories of causality influence the type of social inferences we make when observing others' behavior? How do inferences that we make about the self differ from inferences what we make about others? |
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