Social Area Chair, Frank Murphy Distinguished Professor of Law and Psychology, and Faculty Associate, ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics
Ph.D. Stanford University
Area: Social

Contact Information

Email: pce@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 3219 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-763-1143

Alternate Office: 970 Legal Rsrch
Alternate Phone: 734-763-5781

Research and Teaching Interests

My research interests include: emotion, psychology and law; person perception; cross-cultural psychology; and research methods.

Representative Publications

Sommers, S., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2000) Race in the courtroom: Perceptions of guilt and dispositional attribution. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1367-1379.

Ellsworth, P. C., & Scherer, K. R. (2003) Appraisal processes in emotion. In R. J. Davidson, H. Goldsmith, and K. R. Scherer (Eds.) Handbook of Affective Sciences. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gross, S., & Ellsworth, P.C. (2003) Second thoughts: Americans; views on the death penalty. In S.P. Garvey (Ed.) Beyond repair? America's death penalty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Ellsworth, P. C., & Gonzalez, R. (2003) Questions, and Comparisons: Methods of research in social psychology. In M. Hogg & J. Cooper (Eds.) Sage Handbook of Social Psychology. London: Sage, pp 24-42.

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Lecturer, 2002-2005
• The Frank Murphy Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Law

On Sabbatical Fall 2007/Winter 2008