2017
Erika Carlson is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding the bright spots and blind spots in self- and other-perception as well as if self- and other-knowledge is adaptive.
Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach drawing on theory and methods from psychology and cognitive neuroscience to understand how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.”
Jesse Graham is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California. He got his PhD in 2010 at U.Virginia, and before that he futzed around at Harvard Divinity School and U.Chicago. Jesse studies the moral, political, and religious convictions that bind us together and tear us apart.
Kurt Gray is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the cryptic minds of machines, animals, God, and people. His work has helped to reveal the basis of morality, social groups, and religious belief. He would love you to buy a copy of “The Mind Club.”
Andrew Todd is an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and was a postdoc at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on perspective taking and mental-state reasoning, automatic processes in social judgment, and intergroup bias.
Liane Young is an associate professor of psychology at Boston College. She received her BA in philosophy in 2004 and her PhD in psychology in 2008 from Harvard. She studies moral cognition using methods from social psychology and neuroscience. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Dana Foundation.
Jamil Zaki is an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. His research examines the neural bases of social cognition and behavior: and especially how people understand and respond to each other’s emotions. This work spans a number of domains, including empathy, social influence, and prosocial behavior (see ssnl.stanford.edu for details).
2016
Wiebke Bleidorn is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. She received a PhD in Psychology at Bielefeld University, Germany in 2010 and was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Dr. Bleidorn’s research examines the conditions, mechanisms, and consequences of personality change.
Jon Freeman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU. He received his Ph.D. from Tufts and was previously on the faculty at Dartmouth. He studies split-second social perception using brain- and behavior-based techniques, examining the interplay of visual perception and social cognition in how we categorize others and infer personality traits and emotion.
Ulrich Orth is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Bern. He completed his PhD at the University of Trier, was a postdoc at University of Bern and UC Davis, and was an assistant professor at University of Basel. His research focuses on self-esteem development across the lifespan, the link between low self-esteem and depression, and the consequences of self-esteem for important life domains such as relationships, work, and health. In 2013, he received the William Stern Award for Personality Psychology from the German Psychological Society.
Cheryl Wakslak is an assistant professor of management and organization at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD in social psychology from NYU in 2008. Her research explores the way people use different styles of thinking to help them connect with those closer to them and those farther away.
Adam Waytz is a psychologist at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management who studies how people think about minds. He looks at when we attribute or deny mental states to other entities, and the moral and ethical implications of these processes.
2015
Clayton Critcher is an Assistant Professor of Marketing, Cognitive Science, and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. He received a PhD in social and personality psychology from Cornell University in 2010, and an AB in psychology from Yale University in 2005. He works in various areas—self and identity, judgment and decision making, moral psychology, and social cognition—all toward an understanding of how people reason about and behave in ambiguous and challenging social, economic, political, and moral settings. He was the 2014 winner of the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award.
Emily Impett is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She completed her PhD in Social Psychology at UCLA and completed two postdocs, the most recent at UC Berkeley. Dr. Impett applies and blends social psychological theories of close relationships and sexuality to understand when “giving” to a partner—both inside and outside of the bedroom—help versus harm relationships. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and she has received several research awards, including an award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.
Nick Rule is assistant professor of psychology and Canada Research Chair in Social Perception and Cognition at the University of Toronto. He received a PhD in 2010 from Tufts University under the mentorship of Nalini Ambady and an AB from Dartmouth College in 2004 where he worked with Neil Macrae. He was the 2013 recipient of the International Social Cognition Network’s Early Career Award and the Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario’s Early Researcher Award in 2012. His research focuses on processes and outcomes related to person perception, ranging from micro-level phenomena (brain responses) to macro-level phenomena (cultural differences).
Jenessa Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her PhD in Social Psychology in 2008 from Arizona State University, working with Steven Neuberg. Dr. Shapiro's research attempts to understand when and why people express vs. conceal prejudices. In addition, she explores the experience of being a target of prejudice, examining topics such as multiple forms of stereotype threat and relations between members of different minority groups. Dr. Shapiro's research has been supported by over $2.8 million in grant dollars from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.
Jay Van Bavel is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. He completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto and a postdoc at The Ohio State University. Dr. Van Bavel blends theory and methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study how group identities, moral values, and political beliefs alter our perceptions and evaluations. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the John Templeton Foundation, and received several research awards, including the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions in Social Neuroscience.
2014
- Paul Eastwick
- Jochen Gebauer
- Edward Lemay
- Kristina Olson
- Tessa West
2013
- Joan Chiao
- Wilhelm Hoffman
- Ethan Kross
- Elizabeth Paluck
- Greg Walton
2012
- Colin DeYoung
- Naomi Eisenberger
- Vladas Griskevicius
- Mark J. Landau
- Michael I. Norton
2011
- Emily Balcetis
- C. Nathan DeWall
- Kentaro Fujita
- Omri Gillath
- Jason P. Mitchell
- Simine Vazire
2010
- Reginald Adams
- William Cunningham
- Sally Dickerson
- Grainne Fitzsimmons
- Aaron Kay
2009
- David Amodio
- Wendy Berry Mendes
- Cheryl Kaiser
- Kurt Hugenberg
- David Sherman
- Alexander Todorov
2008
- Eli Finkel
- Virginia Kwan
- Jon Maner
- B. Keith Payne
- Kathleen Vohs
