KIMBERLY QUINN, PhD

THE SOCIAL MIND

My research relies on cognitive principles and methods to analyze and investigate the social mind.

In much of my past research, I have been interested in the cognitive dynamics of person construal. More specifically, I have been interested in questions such as when we construe individuals in terms of their social group memberships versus personal attributes, how our knowledge of or familiarity with the individuals in question changes these construals, and how higher-order causal beliefs (e.g., about the nature of personality, about society and social structure) impact the stereotypes we have and how we use them. I have also been investigating cross-race face processing, in terms of both motivation and expertise.

More recently, I have also become interested in how we represent ourselves and others, and how these representations shape and are shaped by social interactions (with individuals and groups). More specifically, I am interested in the implications of behavioural synchrony and its underlying mechanisms for self/other representation and joint versus individidual task performance.

Finally, motivated by one of my PhD students, I have started to develop an interest in moral reasoning, and specifically in the certainty that tends to accompany moral judgment.

Face Processing and Person Construal

Individuated versus categorical person construal (with C. N. Macrae, University of Aberdeen, & P. Rotshtein, University of Birmingham)

Social categorization and other-race face processing (with K. D. Cassidy, PhD Student, & G. W. Humphreys, University of Birmingham)

Prospective person memory (with F. A. Chaudhry, PhD Student, & G. W. Humphreys, University of Birmingham)

Attentional prioritizationa nd cross-race face processing (with J. Hodsoll, Queen Mary University London)

The Interplay of Self and Other

Spontaneous interpersonal entrainment and synchrony (with C. D. T. Gillett, PhD Student, & R. C. Miall)

Behavioural synchrony and self-other representation (with P. Bach, University of Plymouth)

Group synchrony and group cohesiveness (in preparation; with A. M. Wing & M. T. Elliott, University of Birmingham)

Behavioural synchrony: Implications for working memory and outcomes for creativity, productivity, and social exchange (in preparation; with J. T. Cacioppo, University of Chicago)

Positive and negative implications of behavioural synchrony for interracial interaction (in preparation; with S. Trawalter, University of Virginia)

Moral Reasoning

Moral outrage and moral certainty (with N. L. Powell, PhD Student, & S. R. Beck, University of Birmingham)

 Stereotyping

Stereotype activation, self-categorization, and stereotype threat (with H. E. S. Rosenthal, Durham University)

Stereotype content and stereotype structure (with N. L. Dennis, PhD Student, University of Birmingham

For a list of the wise and wonderful people with whom I'm currently collaborating, click here.