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Peter Marshall
Hongling Xie
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Robert Lana
 
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Social Psychology Area
 


Our program in Social Psychology focuses on the areas of social cognition, emotion, and decision making. These areas cut across many boundaries in psychology, and students are encouraged to explore the intersection of social psychology with other areas. Students in our program receive training in multiple research methods and engage in collaborative research with various faculty members. They pursue concentrated research with several faculty members to complete their Masters and Doctoral theses. The issues we focus on provide many opportunities for innovative projects at the intersection of social psychology and related areas.

The following list provides a sampling of such intersections:

. The influence of attitudes and preferences on decision making,
. social cognition and coping,
. the social impact and context of decisions,
. the relationship between psychopathology and emotion, social cognition, and decision making,
. developmental changes in emotion and decision capabilities,
. behavior in social groups and formal organizations,
. social-affective neuroscience,
. clinical judgment research, and
. the study of cultural and social issues through survey research and qualitative methods

We encourage our students to explore innovative approaches to social psychological issues that they wish to bring to these emerging areas of research. For further information or questions concerning the Social Psychology graduate area contact:

Dr. Leonard LoSciuto
Director, Social Area

Telephone: (215) 204-1604
E-mail: lenlo@temple.edu

FOR A GRADUATE APPLICATION CLICK HERE

Back Row (L to R): Donald Hantula, Kareem Johnson, Andy
Karpinski Front Row (L to R): Louise Kidder, Leonard LoSciuto
Not pictured : Chris Anderson,Peter Marshall, Hongling Xie


Faculty

Christopher J. Anderson, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY.
E-mail: chris.anderson@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Anderson/anderson.html.
Interests: Judgment and Decision Making: Indecision, Reliability of Judgments, Decision Making Capacities of Clinical Populations; Emotion: Regret, Anxiety (esp. as pertain to Indecision), Effects of Shared Emotion



Donald Hantula, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Associate Professor.
Email: hantula@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/hantula/hantula.html

Interests : Organizational behavior, behavioral economics, risk & uncertainty, foraging theory, occupational health & safety, e-commerce, technology applications, and behavior analysis in organizational settings.

Kareem Johnson, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Assistant Professor.
Email: kareem.johnson@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Johnson/johnson.html

Interests : Understanding how emotional states can alter how people of a different race are perceived. Exploring the use of induced states of positive emotions to eliminate racial biases in face recognition. The interaction of emotion and perceptual breadth and finding new methods for using psychophysiology to measure emotion.



Andrew Karpinski, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Assistant Professor.
Email: andykarp@temple.edu
Web Page (Personal): http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Karpinski/karpinski.html
Web Page (Class) http://astro.temple.edu/~andykarp

Interests : The relationship between explicit measures of attitudes, implicit or indirect measures of attitudes, and behavior the structure and measurement of implicit and explicit knowledge development of linguistic-based indirect measures of attitudes, self-esteem, and prejudice social psychological determinates of conspiratorial thinking.



Leonard LoSciuto, Ph.D., Purdue University, Professor. Director: Institute for Survey Research.
Email: lenlo@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/LoSciuto/losciuto.html

Interests : Director of Temple University's Institute for Survey Research (ISR), specializes in evaluation and survey methodology, drug abuse research, marketing research, and consumer behavior. The ISR conducts thousands of in-home, mail, and telephone interviews among nationally representative samples each year.



Peter J. Marshall, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK. Assistant Professor.
Email: peter.marshall@temple.edu
WebPage: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Marshall/marshall.html

Interests : Psychophysiology of novelty processing in relation to infant temperament. The use of EEG, ERP, and autonomic measures to index relations between the developing nervous system and behavior in infants and children. The development of brain and behavior in institutionalized children in Romania and the utility of enhanced foster care as an alternative to institutionalization.



Hongling Xie, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor.
E-mail: hxie@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Xie/xie.html

Interests : The development of social and physical aggression, peer social networks, gender differences in antisocial pathways, qualitative and quantitative methods, and cross-cultural analysis of aggression and peer social dynamics.

Emeritus Faculty


Louise H. Kidder, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Email: louise.kidder@temple.edu
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Kidder/kidder.html

Interests : Ethnographic and qualitative research. Having lived in India and Japan I am interested in cross-cultural research. As a Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies I focus on studies of gender and the social construction of sex and gender. My current research involves studies of intentional communities.

Robert E. Lana, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Lana/lana.html

Interests : Cyclical changes in attitudes and in the epistemological foundations of psychology. He is also interested in research methods and statistics.


For more information on the Social Psychology Area, or for application information:

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Last Modified: October 2, 2006

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