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Discovering Structure in the Moral Domain
(2015-05-18)
Early moral psychologists identified the moral domain with a class of actions that negatively impacted the wellbeing of others or violated their rights. However, anthropological work suggested that this view failed to ...
A method for identifying predictive markers of mental illness in social media data
(2017-02-14)
Undiagnosed mental illness poses a significant health risk. In-person screenings to identify individuals at-risk of mental illness are expensive, time-consuming, and often inaccurate. This report presents an array of ...
Wishful Thinking, Fast and Slow
(2015-05-18)
Psychologists have documented a panoply of beliefs that are sufficiently skewed towards desirability to arouse our suspicion that people believe things in part because they want them to be true (e.g. “above-average” effects ...
The Psychology of Common Knowledge: Coordination, Indirect Speech, and Self-Conscious Emotions
(2015-05-15)
The way humans cooperate is unparalleled in the animal kingdom, and coordination plays an important role in human cooperation. Common knowledge—an infinite recursion of shared mental states, such that A knows X, A knows ...
The Development of Character Judgments From Faces
(2015-03-30)
First impressions play a central role in human social interaction. In particular, the face is a rich source of information that perceivers use in making both initial and lasting character judgments. Despite the large and ...
Stabilizing Inequality: Identifying Psychological Mechanisms That Underpin Group-Based Differences
(2017-05-12)
In three papers, with data from three cultural contexts, and using both experimental and correlational methods, this dissertation addresses the psychological mechanisms that stabilize inequality. In Paper 1, I address the ...
Towards a comprehensive understanding of Perceived Criticism and its predictive validity: Three studies investigating the correlates and consequences of PC
(2018-09-19)
Perceived criticism (PC) is a robust predictor of poor clinical outcomes for a range of mental disorders, and it predicts these outcomes better than objective measures of criticism. Though PC has the potential to be a ...
Prediction Errors in Two Domains
(2017-05-03)
This dissertation investigates how social interactions fail, and why people are so often unaware of the things they do to cause those failures. Two of the main reasons why social interactions fail is that people fail to ...
Theory of Mind and Social Functioning in Health and Psychopathology: A Social Neuroscience Perspective
(2017-07-06)
As a highly social species, our social connectedness carries important consequences for our physical and mental well-being. Navigating the social world and developing social connections, however, is challenging for people ...
The Neural Organization of Social Knowledge
(2017-05-12)
Humans enjoy social lives of terrific complexity, but this sociality exacts high demands on the individual. The typical adult must interact with hundreds of others on an ongoing basis. Each such person in our life embodies ...