• Kitayama, Shinobu, Director - Cultural variations in cogntion, emotion, and motivation. We have suggested that whereas daily practices and public meanings of East Asian cultures are organized around the models of self as interdependent, those of European American cultures are organized around the models of self as independent (Heine, Lehman, Markus, & Kitayama, 1999; Kitayama & Markus, 1999; Kitayama & Uchida, 2003; Markus & Kitayama, 1991). Moreover, we have suggested that many psychological processes are fostered and reinforced through actively participating in divergent cultural worlds and, as a consequence, these psychological processes become culturally contingent. Our effort over the last decade has shown substantial cultural variations in several domains. kitayma0309@gmail.com
• Atran, Scott - Cognitive and cultural anthropology, reasoning and categorization differences between industrial and small-scale societies, folkbiological and ecological knowledge, problems of value and use of common-pool resources, terrorism and political psychology. satran@umich.edu
• Crocker, Jennifer - Social psychology, with a special interest in self- and other-directed motivation, contingencies of self-worth and the effects of devalued identities on self-esteem. jcrocker@umich.edu
• Ellsworth, Phoebe C. - Emotions, including the relation between cognition and emotion; psychology and law; social psychology and research methodology; cultural universals and differences. pce@umich.edu
• Gelman, Susan A., Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology - Cognitive development, concepts, categorization, folk theories of biology, induction, causal reasoning, semantic development, language and thought. gelman@umich.edu
• Gibbard, Allan F. - Moral philosophy, moral concepts, evolution of morality. gibbard@umich.edu
• Gonzalez, Richard - judgment and decision making both normative and descriptive decision making using a variety of techniques including mathematical modeling, surveys, field observations, and experimental lab studies. Decision making research applied settings in product design and medical decision making, and research in applied statistics, which can be construed as a form of decision making. gonzo@umich.edu
• Huesmann, L. Rowell - Cognitive, social, and developmental psychology. Aggressive and violent behavior. Effects of mass media on behavior. Social information processing. huesmann@umich.edu
• Jackson, James S. - Social influence and social psychology, inter- and intra-ethnic/racial comparisons in physical and mental health, intra- and inter-national models of dominant and subordinate group behaviors and interactions. jamessj@umich.edu
• Keane, Webb, Professor - Social and cultural theory, media, language and discourse, semiotics, ritual and religion, exchange, material culture, history and historical consciousness. Indonesia, Oceania. wkeane@umich.edu
• Lee, Fiona - Cross-cultural differences in values, managing multiple cultural and reacial identities. fionalee@umich.edu
• Mahalingam, Ram - Gender, immigration, political psychology, mental health, cognitive development and evolutionary psychology. ramawasi@umich.edu
• Malley, Brian - Cognitive science of religion, cognitive anthropology, cultural psychology. bmalley@umich.edu
• Mannheim, Bruce - Linguistic anthropology, linguistic theory, narrative, culture and language as emergent properties of -- and constraints on -- face-to-face interaction. Language, culture, and history in the Central Andes.mannheim@umich.edu
• Nisbett, Richard E. - Cognitive and social psychology, reasoning and perception differences among people of different ethnic groups, intelligence, culture of honor. nisbett@umich.edu
• Olson, Gary M. - Complex cognition, cognitive, social, and organizational aspects of computer use. gmo@umich.edu
• Olson, Sheryl L. - Child and family psychopathology; parent-infant interaction/socialization processes; social competence in early childhood; psychosocial factors influencing resilience to stress in high-risk children/families, culture, and child psychopathology. slolson@umich.edu
• Oyserman, Daphna R. - Professor (Department of Psychology, School of Social Work) and Research Professor (Research Center from Group Dynamics Institute for Social Research) Cultural and cross-cultural social psychology, chronic and situated cultural influences on self-concept, cognition and well-being, integration of cultural psychology with identity-based motivation research focused on race-ethnicity and social class. daphna@umich.edu
• Parnes, Marvin G. - Associate Vice President for Research and Executive of Research Administration. mgparnes@umich.edu
• Sameroff, Arnold J., Professor of Psychology, Chair, Developmental Psychology Program, - > Developmental psychology and psychopathology, social ecological influences on the development of competence from birth to adulthood. sameroff@umich.edu
• Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey - Assistant Professor (Ross School of Business) Faculty Associate (Research Center for Group Dynamics) Cultural psychology of workplace behavior and its implications for intercultural business relations in global and domestic organizations, East-West cross-cultural communication, antecedents of prejudice and conflict in diverse teams, and non-conscious coordination, structure of work/non-work social networks across the globe, artifacts and markers of professionalism, team conflict and synchrony, the cognition of innovation and non-minority perspectives on organization’s multicultural initiatives.jsanchezburks@umich.edu
• Schwarz, Norbert - Social judgment; the interplay of feeling and thinking; the role of conversational processes in judgment and problem solving; cognitive aspects of survey methodology. nschwarz@umich.edu
• Seifert, Colleen M. - Dr. Seifert's research focuses on the cognitive science of higher-level thought processes; specifically, how memory for past experience affects current reasoning. Projects focus on knowledge representations, memory, explanation, planning, problem solving, decision making, and other aspects of complex cognition. Methods include empirical studies of human subjects, computational models, and ethnography. Application areas include computational modeling, information technology, education and training, and legal and medical settings. seifert@umich.edu
• Sekaquaptewa, Denise - Social psychology and social cognition; implicit stereotyping; effects of solo status on performance in group contexts; stereotype threat. dsekaqua@umich.edu
• Shatz, Marilyn J. - Language development in cultural context, language and thought relations, first language acquisition. mshatz@umich.edu
• Sperber, Dan - Cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, biological, psychological and cultural evolution, philosophy of the social and cognitive sciences, linguistic pragmatics, reasoning. dan@sperber.com
• Stoler, Ann L. - Anthropology and history, politics of sentiments, racial epistemologies. astoler@umich.edu
• Wellman, Henry M. - Cognitive development, especially development of early understandings of persons (termed "a theory of mind") that set the stage for social cognition and cultural learnings. hmw@umich.edu
• Winter, David G. - Personality and political psychology; psychological aspects of conflict escalation, war and peace; authoritarianism and cognitions about authority in relation to stress; conceptions of gender. dgwinter@umich.edu
• Yates, J. Frank - Cognitive psychology, cross-cultural variations in judgment and decision behavior, e.g., likelihood judgment, deliberation styles and conventions. jfyates@umich.edu
• Ybarra, Oscar - Social cognition, inter-group perception/relations, and culture and cognition. oybarra@umich.edu
• Yoon, Carolyn Associate Professor (Ross School of Business) - Age-related changes in cognition across cultures; information processing in consumer and social contexts; social cognitive neuroscience. yoonc@umich.edu

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