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Self and Social Motivation Lab News

  • Here you can read about all the new and exciting events happening in the lab!

 

Honors and Awards:

  • Dr. Crocker was awarded the Thomas M. Ostrom Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to theory and research in social cognition from the Person Memory Interest Group in 2022!
  • Society for Experimental Social Psychology honored Dr. Crocker with the Distinguished Scientist Award in 2022!

 

New Publications:

  • *Ballinger, J. T., Canevello, A., Crocker, J., Jiang, T., & Quinn, D.  (in press).  Self-disclosure of concealable stigmatized identities:  A dyadic longitudinal investigation guided by the contact hypothesis.  Journal of Social Issues.  (*all authors contributed equally).
  • Crocker, J. (in press). Ethical issues in manuscript preparation and authorship. In H. Cooper (Ed.-in-Chief), M. Coutanche, L. M. McMullen, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. Sher (Assoc. Eds.), APA handbook of research methods in psychology (2nd ed.): Vol. 3. Data analysis and research publication. American Psychological Association.
  • Crocker, J. (in press). Chasing self-esteem. Chapter to appear in S. Kassin (Ed.), Pillars of social psychology. Cambridge, England. Cambridge University Press.
  • Jiang, T., Canevello, A., & Crocker, J. (2022). How relationships foster thriving: Compassionate goals and relationship security independently predict dispositional growth seeking through perceived social support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
  • Lee, D., Jiang, T., Crocker, J., & Way, B. M. (2022). Social media use and its link to physical health indicators. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
  • Jiang, T., Yakin, S., Crocker, J. & Way, B. M. (2022). Perceived social support-giving moderates the association between social relationships and interleukin-6 levels in blood. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 100, 25-28.

 

Accomplishments of Lab Alumni:

    • Tao Jiang successfully defended his dissertation in May, 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Jiang!
    • Tao Jiang, Ph.D. secured a post-doctoral position at Northwestern University working with Dr. Edith Chen and Dr. Greg Miller!
    • Bryant Marks, Ph.D. founded and served as the as the Chief Equity Officer at the National Training Institute on Race and Equity (NTIRE), a national diversity and anti-bias training entity! He also served as a Commissioner with the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans and as a Senior advisor with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities!
    • Julie Garcia, Ph.D. was Elected Fellow for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2021 and Elected Member at Large for Outreach and Advocacy for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Serving January 2022- December 2025)! Congrats Dr. Garcia!
    • Yu Niiya, Ph.D. received the International Contributions to Psychology for Distinguished Early and Middle Career Contributions international award from the Japanese Association for Psychology!

 

At the retirement party of Dr. Brenda Major, a long-time collaborator of Dr. Crocker. (Left to right: Toni Schmader, Brenda Major, M. Lynne Cooper, and Jennifer Crocker)