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Faculty
This section is devoted to faculty research. Use the links below to browse through various faculty members' research areas. Most faculty listings contain a link to their websites that describes their work in greater detail, and highlights some of their latest findings.
Joseph F.
Cesario
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University (2006)
Email Ph: 517.355.0203
Research Interests: Principles of Self-Regulation; Motivated Cognition; Attitudinal and Behavioral Change (especially health behaviors); Automaticity/Nonconscious Behavior and Cognition; Stereotyping and Prejudice.
M. Brent Donnellan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of California, Davis (2001)
Email Ph: 517.432.8392
Research Interests: Personality Development; Personality and Romantic Relationships; Self-Esteem; Personality Assessment; Data Analysis.
Deborah Kashy
Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs (1991)
Email Ph: 517.432.9898
Research Interests: Models of interdependence; Techniques for analyzing non-independent data from dyads and groups; Multilevel modeling for over-time and group data; Levels of analysis; Statistical Methods
Norbert Kerr
Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1972)
Email Ph: 517.355.6645
Research Interests: Cooperative behavior in social dilemmas; The role of social exclusion for encouraging cooperative behavior; Decision making processes and task performance in small groups. Juror/Jury decision-making.
Richard E. Lucas
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2000)
Email Ph: 517.432.4360
Research Interests: Happiness and subjective well-being, positive emotions, the effects of life events on life satisfaction, personality traits, extraversion, personality assessment.
Carlos
David Navarrete
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of California, Los Angeles (2004)
Email Ph: 617.495.4319
Research Interests: Evolutionary psychology; Prejudice and discrimination; Moral reasoning; Minority underachievement and temporal discounting; Mate choice; Cooperation and conflict in intergroup contexts.
Isis
Settles
Assistant ProfessorPh.D. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2001)
Email Ph: 517.432.4364
Website
Research Interests: Behavioral and psychological consequences of devalued group status (e.g., women, racial minorities); Perceptions and coping with unfair treatment; Antecedents and consequences of multiple social identities. Discrimination, sexual harassment, and identity conflict.