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.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., Brown, C. M., Sacco, D. F., & Claypool, H. M. (in press). Adaptive responses to social exclusion: Social rejection improves detection of real and fake smiles. Psychological Science.
- Claypool, H. M., & Carlston, D. E. (2002). The effects of verbal and visual interference on impressions: An associated-systems approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 425-433.
- Claypool, H. M., Hall, C. E., Mackie, D. M., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2008). Positive mood, attribution, and the illusion of familiarity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 721-728.
- Claypool, H. M., Hugenberg, K., Housley, M. K., & Mackie, D. M. (2007). Familiar eyes are smiling: On the role of familiarity in the perception of facial affect. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 856-866.
- Claypool, H. M., Mackie, D. M., Garcia-Marques, T., McIntosh, A., & Udall, A. (2004). The effects of personal relevance and repetition on persuasive processing. Social Cognition, 22, 310-335.
- Coats, S., Smith, E. R., Claypool, H., M., & Banner, M. J. (2000). Overlapping mental representations of self and in-group: Reaction time evidence and its relationship with explicit measures of group indentification. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 304-315.
- DeCoster, J., & Claypool, H. M. (2004). A meta-analysis of priming effects on impression formation supporting a general model of informational biases. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 2-27.
- Garcia-Marques, T., Mackie, D. M., Claypool, H. M., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2004). Positivity can cue familiarity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 585-593.
- Hugenberg, K., Miller, J., & Claypool, H. M. (2007). Categorization and individuation in the cross-race recognition deficit: Toward a solution to an insidious problem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 334-340.
- Ottati, V., Claypool, H. M., & Gingrich, B. (2005). Effects of a group stereotype on memory for behaviors performed by a group member. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 797-808.
- Rydell, R. J., Mackie, D. M., Maitner, A. T., Claypool, H. M., Ryan, M. J., & Smith, E. R. (2008). Arousal, processing, and risk taking: Consequences of intergroup anger. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1141-1152.
Other Publications:
- Claypool, H. M., & DeCoster, J. (2008). Memory, person. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of communication (Vol. 7, pp. 3077-3080). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Heather M. Claypool
Department of Psychology
Miami University
90 N. Patterson Avenue
Oxford, Ohio 45056
United States of America
- Phone: (513) 529-3135
- Fax: (513) 529-2420