Duck Conference Participants by Conference

Talks are listed in the order in which they were originally scheduled. Discussants, organizational and impromptu talks are not listed. Additionally, these lists may not take into account cancellations or late additions to the schedule. Finally, records are very incomplete prior to 1995. Participants are encouraged to bring all additions and errors to the conference organizer's attention.

Allen McConnell Self-nature representations, motivations, emotions: Implications for pro-environmental action

Amanda Diekman Perceived faculty mindset as an indicator of communal affordances in STEM

Jonathan Kunstman & Kurt Hugenberg The paradox of resilience: Stereotypes of black resiliency lead to race-based biases in social pain

Rachel Smallman Re-examining the relationship between counterfactual thinking, self-efficacy, and motivation

Michael Bernstein How feelings of exclusion change reactions to single-group protestors

Yuthika Girme "Where is your happily ever after?" The impact of societal stigma and norms on single peoples' wellbeing

Shana Cole Biased self-perceptions serve as informational feedback during goal pursuit

Patty Linville Can practice training influence your inhibitory control: Changes in person perception, emotion, prejudice?

Jackie Chen The importance of social acceptance and social relationships in achieving diversity

Keith Maddox What is typical is generalizable: Racial phenotypicality and stereotype change

Allen McConnell Asymmetries between warmth and competence in impression formation biases

Brenda Major Perceptions of diversity initiatives on perceptions of fairness

Rachel Smallman Examining functionality: When do counterfactual thoughts enhance motivational readiness and strengthen behavioral intentions?

Yuthika Girme The ebbs and flows of attachment: Within-person variation in attachment undermine secure individuals' relationship well-being across time

Manny El-Alayli Students' reactive responses to female professors who deny special favor requests

Nick Rule Your paycheck is written all over your face: Facial cues to social class and why you should care

Steve Stroessner What's in a shape? Evidence of social category associations with basic forms

Mary Murphy Interracial and inter-attitudinal interactions: Similarities and differences in meta-perceptions

Allen McConnell Either "The role of warmth and competence in impression formation" or "Pets as family members: Implications for health and well-being"

Shana Cole Bias in the eye of the beholder: How perception and attention contribute to discrimination of transgender individuals

Kyle Ratner Generating mental representations of ingroup and outgroup faces in an explanatory vacuum

Alison Ledgerwood Sticky Frames: Toward a Functional Account of Dynamic Framing Effects

Patty Linville Cognitive control and distraction: The disruptive and beneficial effects

Paul Conway Deconstructing Dilemmas: Rethinking the moral judgment literature

Erin Hennes Power to the People: Simulation Methods for Conducting Power Analyses for Any Model

Spike Lee Physical Cleansing as an Embodied Procedure of Psychological Separation

Josh Correll Perceptual expertise, expectancy & reciprocal processing: A model of face (and race) perception

Steve Stroessner What Were They Thinking?: Category Defaults in Mental Representation

Kim Quinn When you and I are one: Fluency and the synchrony-liking relationship

Liz Dunn Always connected: The psychological consequences of living in a wireless world

April Smith Dis(connected): Examining interoception in individuals with suicidality

Kristina Olson Myths and misconceptions about transkids; aka, the talk where Duckees tell me how to make the world a better place

Erica Schneid The progression of the study of spontaneous evaluative inferences

Mary Murphy Experts' lay theories shape women's experiences of STEM settings

Cheryl Carmichael Security-based differences in the benefits of physical contact

Jonathan Kunstman What lies beneath? Minority group members' suspicion of Whites' motives moderates responses to interracial contexts

Kurt Hugenberg and BJ Rydell The face of humanity: Configural face processing and ascriptions of humanness

Group Session What is happening to our field, is it good or bad, and what she would do about it as researchers?

Allen McConnell On the social construction of family: implications of entitativity and psychological utility

Ken Fujita Construal level and efficiency considerations in goal-conflict decision-making

Amy Summerville Regret as a social emotion: Motivations for the expression of regret

Colin Smith A social psychological perspective on politics: The interaction of political orientation and "situations"

Alison Ledgerwood When good is stickier than bad: sequential framing effects in loss and gain domains

Andy Todd Affect and egocentrism: Incidental anxiety undermines spatial perspective taking

Angie Maitner The impact of culture and identity on emotional reactions to insults

Michael Bernstein Social exclusion and person perception: Stereotyping and prejudice

Paul Eastwick Why do stated preferences fail to correspond to revealed preferences?

Dan Molden Let's talk about priming: Everything you should know but were too fed up to ask

Emily Balcetis Connecting [Eye]-deology to action: Visual representations in political contexts

Steve Stroessner Is he gay? It depends on where he's from. Social context and categorization of perceptually ambiguous groups

Abby Scholer When saying "yes" to the Duck doughnut is not saying "no" to self-control

Elizabeth Haines Expected and elected roles: Liable losers, gender bending, and Teflon moms

Kerri Johnson Beyond accuracy: How the process of social categorization impacts its consequences

Marlone Henderson Doing what's right versus what's easy: The role of construal level in volunteering

Kristi Costabile The narrative lens: Effects of narrative construction on social perceptions

Patty Linville "Up in smoke" and "down the hatch:" Inhibitory control and health behavior

Kurt Hugenberg Race-typical facial features influence ascriptions of humanity

Dan Molden Reconceptualizing ego-depletion: A strategic effort-allocation model of active self-regulation

Don Carlston TWIGS: Branching out from STIs and STTs to transference within groups

Kerry Kawakami Windows to the soul: Differential eye gaze patterns related to racial and ingroup categories

Michael Bernstein Social exclusion's impact on psychical and emotional pain: The moderating role of severity

Dan Molden Motivating reciprocity and social responsibility: Promotion- or prevention-focused social exchange

Vivian Zayas I like you but I don't know why: Objective facial resemblance to significant others influences snap judgments

Kristina Olson Unpacking asymmetries in racial attitudes: The role of status perceptions

Michael Sargent "They did it on purpose!" Motivated reasoning and the assessment of intentionality for outgroup members.

Regina Krieglmeyer Stereotype activation and control in the stereotype misperception task

Mary Murphy Organizational lay theories: What are they and why might they matter?

Abby Scholer Inflating and deflating the self: Sustaining motivation through self-evaluation

Allen McConnell Listening to our feelings: Self-concept representation, affect, and self-regulation

Dana Carney The postural feedback hypothesis: Displays of power increase risk-taking

David Hamilton Natural ambiguities: Racial categorization of multi-racial people

Fred Schauer Law, lie-detection, and neuroscience: Can bad science be good evidence?

Zoe Kinias Stereotypes, status, and cultural context contribute to American’s attributions to discrimination through prototypes

Vivian Zayas Like you? Hate you? Automatic reactions elicited by significant persons

Don Carlston Simpler than Savings: A Self-report measure of association strength

Rich Gramzow Initial Notes on Rich's Unintended Foray into Attachment Style Research

Gregory Fischer In search of universal laws of judgment and decision making: The reflection effect reconsidered

Ana Guinote Explaining effects of power on cognition and behavior: The Situated Focus Theory of power

Jim Sherman The grammar of social cognition: Adjective-noun word order and social information representation

Heather Claypool Mere exposure and ingroup perceptions: On making racial ingroup and outgroup members one of us

Marlone Henderson Abstraction in negotiation: The effects of time and space on quality of argument

Daniel Ames Impressions in the wild: Rocky roads between evidence and inference

Liz Dunn Turning Wealth into Well-Being: Can Money Buy Happiness if You Spend it Right?

Kerry Kawakami The impact of approaching social comparisons on self-associations

Joseph Cesario What can a motivational approach to automatic social behavior tell us about social cognition?

Anna-Lisa Cohen Remember to turn off your cell phone: The influence of intentions on behavior

Lora Park Attractive but not competent: Paradoxical effects of gendered goal pursuit

Emily Balcetis Something fascinating about the social psychology of visual perception

BJ Rydell Consequences of discrepant explicit and implicit evaluations: Cognitive dissonance and increased information processing

John Skowronski Thinking about little Johnny: Explorations of the social cognition of people who are at-risk for child abuse

Jim Sherman On our 20th Birthday: The History of the Duck Conference on Social Cognition

2007

Kurt Hugenberg Race and the face: social categorization influences face memory

Cami Johnson Defensive responses to social comparison targets

Melissa Ferguson On implicit evaluation

Heather Claypool Positive mood, attribution and perceptions of familiarity

Beth Marsh Illusions of familiarity and déjà vu

Zak Tormala Holding ambivalent attitudes with certainty: an amplification hypothesis

David Amodio Interaction anxiety effects on implicit evaluation vs implicit stereotyping

Bertram Gawronski & BJ Rydell I like you, I like you not: understanding the context dependency of implicit attitudes

Lisa Libby The social psychological significance of imagery perspective

Liz Dunn Do affective forecasts matter less (universally) than we thought?

Teceta Tormala The influence of self-affirmation on the perception of racism

Jennifer Spoor Temporal comparisons and social identity

BJ Rydell Consequences of explicit-implicit attitude discrepancies: dissonance

Allen McConnell The multiple self-aspects framework: taking a new look at your self

Patty Linville Unknown

Dana Carney Controlling behavioral expression of implicit thought

John Skowronski & Don Carlston NOW STOP THAT! Disrupting Spontaneous Trait Transference

Kim Quinn Causal Beliefs and stereotype representation

Keith Payne Is there an affect bottleneck?

Kevin Carlsmith The paradoxical consequences of revenge

2006

Don Carlston Social cognition in temporary mixed-motive groups

Sara Hodges No Experience Required: Using Prototypes for Understanding others

Eliot Smith Social embodiment of interpersonal relationships

Ana Guinote Power, Attention, and Prioritization

Amanda Diekman Past, present, and future: Implications of dynamic stereotypes

Dana Carney First is best

Elizabeth Dunn My rainy weather, your sunny disposition: The role of situational vs. dispositional information in affective forecasts for self & other

Elizabeth Haines Bias and the heart

Robert Rydell Of two minds: exploring different systems of evaluation

Keith Markman The naïve physics of psychological momentum

Patty Linville & Greg Fischer Nonconscious processing goals

Abigail Baird Why do teenagers do stupid things?

Camille Johnson The downstream consequences of looking up: social comparison, motivation and performance

Kurt Hugenberg Categorical thinking and the cross race effect

Jonathan Schooler Losing track of the contents of your mind: dissociations between consciousness and meta-awareness

Richard Gramzow Exaggeration: Multiple motives and consequences

Bethany Teachman Obsessional beliefs and implicit appraisals of intrusive thought

Bertram Gawronski Associative propositional processes in evaluation: a new framework for the study of implicit and explicit attitude change

Sam Gosling The expression and perception of personality in everyday life

Keith Payne Some reasons implicit and explicit tests might diverge (besides the ones you think)

Allen McConnell The simple life: On the benefits of low self-complexity

Bobbie Spellman I spy: Incorporating intelligence-relevant variable into “regular” psychology research

Brian Nosek: Project Implicit: a virtual laboratory for the social and behavioral sciences

2005

Don Carlston Social Cognition: Past Present and Future

David Hamilton The more things change, the more they stay the same?

Jim Sherman Are Canadians fundamentally different in values from Americans? It depends on whom you ask and how you ask it.

Amanda Diekman You can’t teach an old dog new tricks: A role congruity perspective on ageism

Tanya Chartrand Non-conscious mimicry

Eric Johnson Preferences as Memories: How to decide how much to pay for a mug or a heart…

Melissa Ferguson Effects of automatic attitudes toward goals on behavior

Jennifer Ma How much evidence is enough evidence in the legal system? Effects of defendant and mock juror characteristics

John Skowronski What am I doing and will somebody stop me? A peripatetic researcher, some research problems, and some current conclusions

Keith Payne Attitudes and the unintended

Elke Weber Preferences as memory: Intertemporal discounting, individual differences, and other dangerous things (or, Everything Eric didn't get a chance to talk about yesterday)

Simone Schnall Embodiment in Affective Space: Social Influences on Perception

Stacey Sinclair You are who you know

Heather Claypool & Kurt Hugenberg Us and them: How familiarity disambiguates in-group status

Brian Nosek Identifying implicit attitudes

Jeff Sherman Identifying Multiple Automatic and Controlled Components of Implicit Prejudice: Validating the Quad Model with ERPs and MCP

Cindy Pickett Perceived belongingness deficits and sensitivity to social cues

Eliot Smith What makes something "me" or "not me"

Gavan Fitzsimons You can’t always get what you want: reactance revisited

Denise Beike Autobiographical memory and implemental mindset

2004

Dave Hamilton The Role of Entativity in Group Perception and Stereotyping.

Sara Hodges D-I-V-O-R-C-E: It matters whether I think you're like me.

Heather Claypool Bias correction when target reactions match or mismatch naive theories

Kimberly Quinn Understanding person construal On the goal-dependent nature of social categorization

Kurt Hugenberg Affect and Ingroup Boundaries

Dan Molden Preferred Strategies for Judgment An Alternate Perspective on Motivated Inference

Grainne Fitzsimons The Goal-Dependent Nature of Interpersonal Evaluations

Gavan Fitzsimons When Asking Questions Changes Behavior.

Aaron Kay The rationalizing function of complementary stereotypes

Don Carlston Perspective constrains priming To affect one’s train of thought, accessible constructs have to be on the right track.

Julie Woodzicka Why the Fake Smile Awareness and Perceived Outcome of Non-Duchenne Smiling in Low Power Situations

Buju DasGupta Seeing is believing: Exposure to counterstereotypic women leaders and its effect on the malleability of automatic gender stereotyping

Amanda Diekman Role congruity and evaluation

John Cacioppo What might the brain have to tell us about social cognition?

Eliot Smith Differentiating group from individual emotions: Four criteria and evidence

2003

John Skowronski Were past Duck conferences all that great, or did they just feel as if they were? A fading affect bias perspective.

Tammy Garcia-Marques How does familiarity feel?

Patty Linville Nonconscious Priming of Decision Processing Goals

Pat Vargas An investigation of implicit sexual preference with some emphasis on implicit-explicit ambivalence.

Saera Khan Rational Discrimination: Who Thinks Using Stereotypes is Rational?

Leonel Garcia-Marques Fuzzy Stereotypes

Kim Maclin Criminal Stereotypes: Cues, Content, Consequences

Otto Maclin Faces: From stimuli to suspects

Keith Maddox A Dark in the Lightness: Some Perspectives on Skin Tone Bias

Allen McConnell Processes underlying stereotype threat

Kevin Carlsmith Punishing the Free Rider: Altruism or Just Deserts?

Brian Lickel Recent findings on some aspects of collective responsibility

Rick Larrick Self-fulfilling and self-correcting errors in negotiation (Collaborator: George Wu)

Heather Claypool Misattribution of Intergroup Emotions (Collaborators: Diane Mackie, Melissa Ryan & Eliot Smith)

Bobbie Spellman How Not to Give a Talk Using Powerpoint: Lessons from and for Psychology

2002

Bobbie Spellman (New) Adventures in Psychology and Law

David Hamilton Perceived Entitativity and the Interchangeability of Group Members

Cindy Pickett Loyalty vs. Harmony: The Effects of Gender and Self-Construal on Goal Orientation in the Minimal Group Paradigm

Jeff Sherman Base Rates in Social Categorization: Oh No, Not Another Explanation of the Illusory Correlation!

Sara Hodges Projection to connection: A function for false consensus?

Allen McConnell Putting even more complexity back into self complexity

Simone Schnall Facing Fear: Expression of fear facilitates perception of emotional information

Shira Gabriel Friendship and the self: Why Amanda Diekman makes me smarter and more self-certain.

Steve Stroessner Developing a paradigm to measure social category activation: Implications for stereotype use.

Stephanie Goodwin American Identity Post 9/11 or Some Thoughts on Power and Social Judgment

Amanda Diekman & Heather Claypool Examining promotion and prevention goals: Implications for intergroup emotions, stereotypes, and attitudes.

Eliot Smith Intergroup emotions and prejudice

Tanya Chartrand Unknown

Diane Mackie Source exposure, familiarity, and persuasion

2001

Keith Maddox Complexion of the Black American Stereotype: Explicit and Implicit Approaches

Jeff Sherman Automatic Categorization in Face Perception

Irene Blair Facial features and stereotypes

Patty Linville Automatic activation of information-processing goals

Denise Beike Getting it All Out or Putting it All Behind You: The Relative Merits of Disclosure and Closure

Serena Chen Self-Verification Theory and the Collective Self

Cindy Pickett Optimal Distinctiveness and Stereotypical Perceptions of the Self and Other Ingroup Members

Natalie Wyer Are you one of us? Influences on Racial Categorization

Amanda Diekman Hitting a Moving Target: Stereotypes & Social Change

Ana Guinote The effects of group size, outcome dependency and power on perceived and actual group variability

Don Carlston Does familiarity increase or reduce reliance on trait impressions?

Eliot Smith Intergroup Emotions Theory -- Recent Evidence

Bobbie Spellman What I would have thought about counterfactual reasoning had I not gone to the counterfactual reasoning conference in Aix-en-Provence.

Steve Stroessner Implicit Theories and Stereotype Change

David Hamilton Entitativity and Related Beasts

John Skowronski Bias in Honesty and Intelligence Judgments of Individuals and Groups: Entitativity and Behavior Diagnosticity

2000

Jim Uleman Controlling effects of unintended thoughts: A process dissociation approach.

Tanya Chartrand The bi-directionality of the perception-behavior link: Behavior as the prime instead of outcome

Gun Semin The Impact of Communication Context on Strategic Language Use: The Structural Adaptation Model

Denise Beike Closure as an Autobiographical Memory Phenomenon

Jeff Sherman On the construction of compound social categories

Patty Linville & Gregory Fischer Group entitativity and homogeneity within teams over time: Ode to Hamilton and Sherman.

Stacy Sinclair The Interpersonal Basis of Self-Stereotyping

Curtis Hardin Shared reality in regulating social perception and behavior

Don Carlston Impressions of people past and present

Bobbie Spellman Unknown

Wendi Gardner Interdependence and self-regulation

Eliot Smith Development and properties of evaluations in an (almost) situated connectionist model

Duane Wegener On the use of top-down vs bottom-up strategies in correction

Colleen Seifert Can you pretend you never heard this?

1999

David Hamilton Retrieval processes in person cognition: Further tests of the TRAP model.

Bobbie Spellman (A)Musing thoughts on inhibition in group vs person perception.

Patty Linville Inhibitory control and health behavior

Don Carlston & John Skowronski Comparing the Characteristics of Spontaneous Trait Inference and Spontaneous Trait Transference.

Sarah Queller Subtyping of Atypical Group Members - Is This Really a Categorization Phenomenon?

Chick Judd Context Effects in the Categorization of Multi-faceted Stimuli

Irene Blair Control over automatic processes?

Serena Chen Does Power Always Corrupt?: Relationship Orientation as a Moderator of the Effects of Social Power

Keith Maddox Cognitive Representations of African Americans as a Function of Skin Tone.

Curtis Hardin Unknown

Duane Wegener Numerical anchors as minimal forms of persuasion

Diane Mackie: Familiarity and Feeling Good: Familiarity Doesn't Breed Contempt, But it Does Encourage Superficial Processing.

Eliot Smith Mental Representation of Evaluation

Gregory Fischer Task goals and the construction of preferences

1998

Neal Roese The grand unification of theories of oself-other judgmental discrepancies

Eliot Smith & Sarah Queller Stereotype learning and change: insights from connectionist modeling

Colleen Seifert Nothing but the truth: Mock jurors’ use of stricken information in later judgments

Patty Linville Inhibition and its links to implicit and explicit stereotyping

Cindi May Enhancing inhibition: can we make people forget?

Don Carlston & John Skowronski Is Ken Starr perceived as promiscuous because of his comments about the President and Monica?

Jacquie Vorauer Meta-stereotypes and concerns with evaluation

Mark Schaller Intergroup Vigilance Theory

Wendi Gardner The interdependent self: Culture, context, and social behavior

Duane Wegener Unknown

Gregory Fisher Duke vs. Carolina Blue – Social categorization, social identity, & judgments about basketball players

Sara Hodges Feature Matching in Self-Other Comparisons

Allen McConnell Formation of on-line and memory-based self-concepts

Gun Semin Relations between memory systems and social behavior: the language registers of episodic and schematic memory

Bobbie Spellman Cutting theories down to size

1997

David Hamilton & Jim Sherman The Social Psychology of Glue: When is a Group a Group, and Why?

Jeff Sherman Intergroup bias in group judgment processes: The role of behavioral memories

Bobbie Spellman Social psychologists have more fun: Death, disease, and destruction in real world causal attributions

Don Carlston & John Skowronski Initial inferences and the acquisition of evaluative information

Allen McConnell Putting complexity back into self-complexity: An Associated Systems Theory approach

Patty Linville Stereotype Inhibition

Margo Monteith Controlling prejudiced responses: Some people are better than others

Monica Biernat Stereotypes and shifting standards

Friedrich Foersterling Attributional bias, verb causality, and depressive realism: Instances of incompatibilities with basic attributional assumptions?

Irene Blair Controlled and automatic processes

Eliot Smith Dual-process models and new insights from connectionism

Gregory Fischer Perceived covariation and judgment about basketball players and teams

1996

Eliot Smith Subliminal priming, semantic vs. evaluative meaning.

Frank Van Overwalle A connectionist approach to attribution.

Bobbie Spellman Why I am ~~NOT~~ a social psychologist(?)

Jeff Sherman Implicit stereotyping under cognitive load.

Kristen Klaaren Expressing disagreement with racist remarks: Situational influences and self-perception effects.

Margo Monteith Exerting control over prejudiced responses.

Don Carlston & John Skowronski Spontaneous trait transference: The ascription of implied traits to those who talk about others.

Sara Hodges Matching, canceling and maybe retrieving shared features.

Arlene Asuncion Cognitive and motivational consequences of mood for person memory.

Patty Linville Inhibition gone awry

Steve Stroessner Unknown

Colleen Siefert How to forget you ever heard this?

Gregory Fischer Decisions under conflict: Some reaction time data.

Scott Allison Metaphors and person memory.

David Hamilton Explorations in entitativity.

Chick Judd & Bernadette Park Implicit racial stereotypes and prejudice and their relationships with questionnaire measures

Don Carlston Testing the similarity of representational forms using a person sorting task

John Skowronski I can’t remember if I cried when I heard about his widowed bride: Remembering what and remembering when in autobiographical memory

Chick Judd & Bernadette Park Measuring prejudice at the implicit and explicit levels

Gregory Fischer Decision theory versus social cognition approaches to judgment

Jim Sherman Clustered versus distributed information, and the impact on frequency judgments

John Skowronski Repeated trait judgments: factors affecting response facilitation.

Jim Sherman Sample spaces, natural kinds, and errors in conditional judgments

This initial meeting of what was to become the Duck Conference immediately followed the 1987 Nags Head Conference on Social Cognition, and no papers were presented.