Self and Social Insight (SaSI) Lab

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Emily Balcetis

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Emily Balcetis’s research interests fall at the intersection of social and cognitive psychology. Specifically, she investigates what and how motivations constrain visual perception, social judgment, and decision-making.

She authored or coauthored papers in these areas for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Perception. She is currently editing a volume on the social psychology of visual perception along with colleague Daniel Lassiter.

Before coming to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, she earned her BA in Psychology and BFA in Music Performance from the University of Nebraska, Kearney, and a PhD in Social and Personality Psychology from Cornell University where she held a Sage Fellowship and earned the Society of Experimental Social Psychology 2006 Dissertation Award for her research on motivated visual perception.

In the fall of 2009, she will join the psychology department at New York University.

BA - Psychology (2001) - University of Nebraska at Kearney
BFA - Music Performance (2001) - University of Nebraska at Kearney
PhD - Social and Personality Psychology (2006) - Cornell University

Interests:

MORE PROFESSIONAL
SPAM: social perception action and motivation

LESS PROFESSIONAL
eating, talking, thinking, drinking, playing jazz and soccer...but not all at the same time

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Selected Publications [All Publications]

Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (In Press). Wishful Seeing: Motivational Influences on Visual Perception of the Physical Environment. In E. Balcetis & G. D. Lassiter (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Visual Perception. New York: Psychology Press.

Balcetis, E. & Lassiter, G.D. (In Press). The Social Psychology of Visual Perception. New York: Psychology Press.

Balcetis, E. (In Press). How a biased majority claim moral minority: Tracking eye movements to base rates in social predictions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [abstract]

Balcetis, E. & Cole, S. (In Press). Body in Mind: The Role of Embodied Cognition in Self-Regulation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. [abstract]

Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2010). Wishful seeing: Desirable objects are seen as closer. Psychological Science, 21, 147-152. [reprints | abstract]

Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2008). A mile in moccasins: How situational experience reduces dispositionism in social judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 102-114. [reprints | abstract]

Balcetis, E., Dunning, D. & Miller, R.L. (2008). Do collectivists know themselves better than individualists? Cross-cultural studies of the holier than thou phenomenon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1252-1267. [reprints | abstract]

Balcetis, E. (2007). Where the motivation resides and self-deception hides: How motivated cognition accomplishes self-deception. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 1-21. [abstract]

Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2007). Cognitive dissonance and the perception of natural environments. Psychological Science, 18, 917-921. [abstract]

Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2006). See what you want to see: Motivational influences on visual perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 612-625. [abstract]