Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Heather M. Claypool |
I study how affect and cognition interact to shape social judgment, memory and behavior. One of my primary areas of inquiry concerns the bi-directional link between feelings of familiarity and positive affect. For example, research in my lab has shown that manipulations of familiarity increase the positive affect perceived on others' faces and the likelihood that others are categorized as ingroup members. But additionally, my research has shown that manipulations of positivity trigger feelings of familiarity. For example, smiling targets and those subliminally primed with positive affect are more likely to be mistakenly categorized as familiar than neutral-expression targets and those sublimanlly primed with neutral affect.
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Heather M. Claypool
Department of Psychology
Miami University
90 N. Patterson Avenue
Oxford, OH 45056
United States
Phone: (513) 529-3135
Fax: (513) 529-2420