Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. 1981 (psychology), Stanford; B.A. 1977 (psychology), California (Santa Cruz).

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Research Interests:

social cognition and clinical processes; the role of mental representations of self and significant others in motivation and emotion (the social-cognitive model of transference); private and public aspects of self-knowledge; hopelessness in depression, defined in terms of the perceived inevitability of future suffering.

Affiliations:

Associate Editor, Psychological Review, 1998-present; Associate Editor, Attitudes and Social Cognition Section, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 1994-1995; Standing Review Panel, Social and Group Processes Committee, National Institute of Mental Health, 1992-1994; Associate Editor, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, June, 1988-December 1992.

Fellowships/Honors:

Distinguished Teaching Medal, New York University, 1996-1997; Golden Dozen Teaching Award, New York University, 1993; National Institute of Mental Health Five- Year Research Grant, Principal Investigator, "Using Representations of Significant Others in Social Perception," March 1992-February 1997; Harold J. Plous Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service among Junior Faculty, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986.

Selected Works:

The self in relation to others: Cognitive and motivational underpinnings, with Reznik, I. and Chen, S. In The self across psychology: Self-recognition, self-awareness, and the self-concept , J.G. Snodgrass and R.L. Thompson, eds. New York: New York Academy of Science. 1997. 233-275.

Eliciting facial affect, motivation, and expectancies in transference: Significant-other representations in social relations, with Reznik, I. and Manzella, L.M. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 71. 1996. 1108-1129.

The working self-concept in transference: Significant-other activation and self-change, with Hinkley, K. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 71. 1996. 1279-1295.

Transference in social perception: The role of chronic accessibility of significant-other representations, with Glassman, N.S., Chen, S. and Cole, S. W. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 69. 1995. 41-57.

Future-event schemas and certainty about the future: Automaticity in depressives' future-event predictions, with Spielman, L. A. and Bargh, J. A. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 63. 1992. 711-723.

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