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Jay J. Van Bavel
CONTACT INFORMATION
New York University
Department of Psychology
6 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212.992.9627
[email protected]
www.psych.nyu.edu/vanbavel/
@vanbavellab
APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor (2010-present)
New York University - Department of Psychology
Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2009)
The Ohio State University - Department of Psychology
Visiting Scholar (2006-2008)
The Ohio State University - Department of Psychology
EDUCATION
PhD - Psychology (2008)
University of Toronto
MA - Psychology (2004)
University of Toronto
BA - Psychology (2002)
University of Alberta
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, & HONORS
SESP Elected Fellow (2014)
Society for Social Neuroscience Young Investigator Award (2012)
University of Michigan Training Course in fMRI Fellowship (2010)
SPSP Student Publication Award (Honorable Mention; 2009)
SPSSI Social Issues Dissertation Award (2009)
SESP Dissertation Award (Finalist; 2009)
CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence for Dissertation (2009)
Summer Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship (2007)
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2006)
APS Student Research Award (2006)
CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence for Masters Thesis (2005)
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Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2004, 2005)
John Davidson Ketchum Memorial Graduate Award (2004)
University of Toronto Fellowship (2003)
GRANTS
Social identity and person perception. (2014-2017). National Science Foundation (PI Jay Van
Bavel): $385,227.
Eye-tracking and psychophysiological measurement in social neuroscience. (2013). New York
University (co-PIs Jay Van Bavel, David Amodio, Eric Knowles): $42,898.
Constructive and destructive responses to collective angst. (2012-2017). Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council – Insight Grant (PI Michael Wohl; co-PIs Dominic Packer, Eran
Halperin, Jay Van Bavel): $209,900.
When and how moral beliefs give purpose to moral action: A dynamic model of moral
decision-making. (2012-2015). John Templeton Foundation (PI Jay Van Bavel; co-PIs Dominic
Packer, Michael Gill): $378,113.
The psychology of hate. (2009-2010). Mershon Center for International Security Studies (co-PIs
William Cunningham, Simon Dennis, Jay Van Bavel): $25,000.
A multi-level model of social prejudice. (2008-2010). Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship: $81,000 (PI Jay Van Bavel).
The neural substrates of prejudice regulation. (2006). The Society for the Psychological Study
of Social Issues Clara Mayo Grant: $500 (PI Jay Van Bavel).
PUBLICATIONS
Impact (h = 14; i10 = 18)
The papers below have been cited over 1000 times (as of May 2014; Google Scholar)
Published Articles
1.
FeldmanHall, O., Sokol-Hessner, P., Van Bavel, J. J., & Phelps, E. A. (in press). Restoring
justice: punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself. Nature Communications.
2.
Packer, D. J. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2015). The dynamic nature of identity: From the brain to
behavior. In N. Branscombe & K. Reynolds. (Eds.) The Psychology of Change: Life
Contexts, Experiences, and Identities. Psychology Press.
3.
Cikara, M., Bruneau, E., Van Bavel, J. J., & Saxe, R. (2014). Their pain gives us pleasure:
How intergroup dynamics of empathic failures and counter-empathic responses. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 110-125. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2014.06.007
4.
Cikara, M., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). The neuroscience of intergroup relations: An
integrative review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 245-274. doi:
10.1177/1745691614527464
5.
Gantman, A. P., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). The moral pop-out effect: Enhanced perceptual
awareness of morally relevant stimuli. Cognition, 132, 22-29. doi:
10.1016/j.cognition.2014.02.007
Featured in “Editor’s Choice”: Chin, G. (2014). Our moral vocabulary. Science, 344, 559.
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Hackel, L., Looser, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). Group membership alters the
threshold for mind perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 15-23. doi:
10.1016/j.jesp.2013.12.001
7.
Jost, J. T., Nam, H. H., Amodio, D. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, online). Political
neuroscience: The beginning of a beautiful friendship. Advances in Political Psychology,
35, 3-42. doi: 10.1111/pops.12162
8.
Jost, J. T., Noobaloochi, S., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). The “chicken-and-egg” problem in
political neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 317-318. doi:
10.1017/S0140525X13001192
9.
Kaul, C., Ratner, K. G., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). Dynamic representation of race:
Processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri. Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, 9, 326-332. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss138
10.
Park, G., Van Bavel, J. J., Vasey, M. W., & Thayer, J. F. (2014). When tonic cardiac vagal
tone predicts changes in phasic vagal tone: The role of fear and perceptual load.
Psychophysiology, 51, 419-426. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12186
11.
Van Bavel, J. J., Hackel, L. M., & Xiao, Y. J. (2014). The group mind: The pervasive
influence of social identity on cognition. In J. Decety & Y. Christian (Eds.) New frontiers in
social neuroscience. (pp. 41-56). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02904-7
12.
Gill, M. J., Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013). More to morality than mutualism:
Consistent contributors exist and they can inspire costly generosity in others. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 36, 90. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12000799
13.
Krosch, A., Berntsen, L., Jost, J., Amodio, D., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013). On the ideology
of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces
as black. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 1196-1203. DOI:
10.1016/j.jesp.2013.05.009
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Nam, H., Jost, J. T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013). “Not for all the tea in China!” Political
ideology and the avoidance of dissonance-arousing situations. PLoS ONE, 8, e59837. DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0059837
15.
Park, G., Van Bavel, J. J., Vasey, M. W., & Thayer, J. F. (2013). Cardiac vagal tone
predicts attentional engagement to and disengagement from fearful faces. Emotion, 13,
645-656. DOI: 10.1037/a0032971
16.
Park, G., Vasey, M. W., Van Bavel, J. J., & Thayer, J. F. (2013). Cardiac vagal tone is
associated with selective attention to neutral distractors under load. Psychophysiology,
50, 398-406. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12029
17.
Ratner, K. G., Kaul, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013). Is race erased? Decoding race from
patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries. Social
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 750-755. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss063
18.
Van Bavel, J. J., Xiao, Y. J. & Hackel, L. M. (2013). Social identity shapes social
perception and evaluation: Using neuroimaging to look inside the social brain. In B. Derks,
D. Scheepers & N. Ellemers (Eds.) The Neuroscience of Prejudice and Intergroup Relations.
(pp. 110-129). Psychology Press.
19.
Brosch, T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012). The flexibility of emotional attention: Accessible
social identities guide rapid attentional orienting. Cognition, 125, 309-316. DOI:
10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.007
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Cunningham, W. A., Van Bavel, J. J., Arbuckle, N. L., Packer, D. J., & Waggoner, A. S.
(2012). Rapid social perception is flexible: Approach and avoidance motivational states
shape P100 responses to other-race faces. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 140. DOI:
10.3389/fnhum.2012.00140
21.
Park, G., Van Bavel, J. J., Vasey, M. W., Egan, E., & Thayer, J. F. (2012). From the heart
to the mind’s eye: Cardiac vagal tone is related to visual perception of fearful faces at
high spatial frequency. Biological Psychology, 90, 171-178. DOI:
10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.02.012
22.
Park, G., Van Bavel, J. J., Vasey, M. W., & Thayer, J. F. (2012). Cardiac vagal tone
predicts inhibited attention to fearful faces. Emotion, 12, 1292-1302. DOI: 10.1037/a0028528
23.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2012). A social identity approach to person
memory: Group membership, collective identification, and social role shape attention and
memory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1566-1578. DOI:
10.1177/0146167212455829
24.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Haas, I. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2012). The importance
of moral construal: Moral versus non-moral construal elicits faster, more extreme,
universal evaluations of the same actions. PLoS ONE, 7, e48693. DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0048693
25.
Van Bavel, J. J., Swencionis, J. K., O’Connor, R. C., & Cunningham, W. A. (2012).
Motivated social memory: Belonging needs moderate the own-group bias in face
recognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 707-713. DOI:
10.1016/j.jesp.2012.01.006
26.
Van Bavel, J. J., Xiao, Y. J. & Cunningham, W. A. (2012). Evaluation is a dynamic process:
Moving beyond dual system models. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 438454. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00438.x
27.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012). See your friends close, and your enemies closer:
Social identity and identity threat shape the representation of physical distance.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 959-972. DOI: 10.1177/0146167212442228
28.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2011). Modulation of the Fusiform
Face Area following minimal exposure to motivationally relevant faces: Evidence of ingroup enhancement (not out-group disregard). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23,
3343-3354. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00016
29.
Wohl, M. J. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2011). Is identifying with a historically victimized group
good or bad for your health? Transgenerational post-traumatic stress and collective
victimization. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 818-824. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.844
30.
Van Bavel, J. J. & Cunningham, W. A. (2011). A social neuroscience approach to self and
social categorisation: A new look at an old issue. European Review of Social Psychology,
21, 237-284. DOI: 10.1080/10463283.2010.543314
31.
Cunningham, W. A., Packer, D. J., Kesek, A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2009). Implicit
measurement of attitudes: A physiological approach. In R. E. Petty, R. H. Fazio, & P.
Briñol (Eds.) Attitudes: Insights from the new implicit measures (pp. 485-512). New York:
Psychology Press.
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Cunningham, W. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2009). Varieties of emotional experience:
Differences in object or computation? Emotion Review, 1, 56-57.
DOI: 10.1177/17540739090010011302
33.
Cunningham, W. A. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2009). A neural analysis of intergroup perception
and evaluation. In G. G. Berntson & J. T. Cacioppo (Eds.) Handbook of neuroscience for
the behavioral sciences (pp. 975-984). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
34.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009). Self-categorization with a novel mixed-race
group moderates automatic social and racial biases. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 35, 321-335. DOI: 10.1177/0146167208327743
35.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009). A social cognitive neuroscience approach to
intergroup perception and evaluation. In W. P. Banks (Ed.) Encyclopedia of consciousness
(pp. 379-388). New York: Academic Press.
36.
Cunningham, W. A., Van Bavel, J. J., & Johnsen, I. R. (2008). Affective flexibility:
Evaluative processing goals shape amygdala activity. Psychological Science, 19, 152-160.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02061.x
37.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008). The neural substrates of ingroup bias: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation. Psychological Science,
19, 1131-1139. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02214.x
38.
Cunningham, W. A., Zelazo, P. D., Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2007). The iterative
reprocessing model: A multi-level framework for attitudes and evaluation. Social
Cognition, 25, 736-760. DOI: 10.1521/soco.2007.25.5.736
39.
Bond, M. H., Leung, K., Au, A., Tong, K. K., de Carrasquel, S. R., Murakami, F.,
Yamaguchi, S., Bierbrauer, G., Singelis, T. M., Broer, M., Boen, F., Lambert, S. M.,
Ferreira, M. C., Noels, K. A., Van Bavel, J., et al. (2004). Culture-level dimensions of
social axioms and their correlates across 41 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,
35, 548-570. doi: 10.1177/0022022104268388
Submitted Manuscripts
Coppin, G., Pool, E., Delplanque, S., Oud, B., Margot, C., Sander, D., & Van Bavel, J. J.
(under review). Swiss identity smells like chocolate: Social identity shapes olfactory
experience. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Kappes, G., & Van Bavel, J. J. (under review). Framing morality: Top-down processes tune
intuitive moral judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Stillman, P. E., Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (under revision). Valence asymmetries
in the human amygdala: Task relevance modulates amygdala responses to positive more than
negative affective cues. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Van Bavel, J. J., Xiao, Y. J., & Hackel, L. M. (under revision). A look inside the hive mind:
How groups shape cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Xiao, Y. J., Wohl, M. J. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (under review). The Perception Under Threat
Model of Intergroup Relations: Assessing how intergroup threat alters perceptions of the
physical world. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Weirs, R. W., Gladwin, T. E., Van Bavel, J. J., Frank, M. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (under
review). On the role of computational neuroscience in psychology’s dualities. Brain and
Behavioral Sciences.
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Books
Van Bavel, J. J., Amodio, D. A., & Phelps, E. A. (in contract). An introduction to social
neuroscience. W. W. Norton.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
Harvard University, Department of Psychology, March 2015
Columbia University, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Series, March 2015
Brock University, Department of Psychology, March 2015
Pace University, Department of Psychology, December 2014
VU University Amsterdam, Department of Psychology, October 2014
University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology, October 2014
University of Alberta, Department of Psychology, August 2014
University of Calgary, Social Psychology Colloquium, July 2014
Oxford University Press, Webinar, April 2014
Brown University, Department of Psychology, April 2014
City University of New York, Social Psychology Colloquium, March 2014
University of Toronto, Ebbinghaus Empire, February 2014
Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology, January 2014
University of Toronto—Scarborough, Department of Psychology, December 2013
Leiden University, Department of Psychology, October 2013
University of Alberta, Department of Psychology, July 2013
Princeton University, Department of Psychology, March 2013
Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology, March 2013
Texas Tech University, Department of Psychology, October 2012
The Ohio State University, Department of Psychology, May 2012
New York University, Psychology MA Conference, April 2012
Columbia University, Department of Psychology, April 2012
Yale University, Department of Psychology, March 2012
City University of New York, Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, October 2011
University of Delaware, Department of Psychology, September 2011
Lehigh University, Cognitive Science Group, February 2011
Princeton University, Department of Psychology, November 2010
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, October 2010
McGill University, Department of Psychology, April 2010
Ohio University, Department of Psychology, April 2009
Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology, January 2009
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, January 2009
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, December 2008
New York University, Department of Psychology, December 2008
Princeton University, Department of Psychology, April 2008
The Ohio State University, Department of Psychology, September 2007
Queen’s University, Department of Psychology, August 2006
York University, Department of Psychology, May 2006
University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, February 2005
Conference Symposia
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Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2015, February). Flexible automaticity: New approaches to
understanding social influences on implicit evaluation. Symposium to be presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). The flexibility of morality. Symposium chaired
at the annual meeting of the International Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Phelps, E. (2014, June). When and why do we punish? Symposium chaired
at the annual meeting of the International Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Yudkin, D., Rothmund, T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). Collective regulation: Group-level
function of moral judgment. Symposium chaired at the annual meeting of the International
Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Ray, J. L. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, May). The psychology of hate. Symposium chaired at the
annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Freeman, J. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, April). Putting person perception in context: Insights
from social neuroscience. Symposium chaired at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston,
MA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). Motivated social neuroscience. Symposium chaired at the
Society for the Study of Motivation. Washington, DC.
Hackel, L. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). Group influences on mind perception: Novel
insights into when and how we see minds across group divides. Symposium chaired at the
Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Kappes, A. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). New perspectives on the intuitive foundations of
morality and cooperation. Symposium chaired at the Association for Psychological Science,
Washington, DC.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). The neuroscience of racial bias. Symposium chaired at the
Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Van Bavel, J. J. & Packer D. J. (2013, March). Moral reasoning redux: The importance of
reasoning in moral judgment and decision-making. Symposium chaired at the Eastern
Psychological Association, New York, NY.
Hackel, L., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, January). Group influences on mind perception: Novel
insights into when and how we see minds across group divides. Symposium chaired at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Dunham, Y. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2011, July). The roots of intergroup bias: The minimal group
paradigm at age 40. Symposium chaired at the meeting of the European Association of Social
Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2008, February). Social cognitive neuroscience perspectives on intragroup
and intergroup processes. Symposium chaired at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Giguère, B., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2006, June). Social action in practice: Bringing social
psychology to bear on social issues and public policy. Symposium chaired at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, AB.
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Van Bavel, J. J., & Packer, D. J. (2005, June). Social and temporal aspects of the self:
Implications for interpersonal and intergroup relations. Symposium chaired at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, PQ.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2004, June). Intergroup research in social psychology: (mis)Perceiving the
outgroup. Symposium chaired at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological
Association, St. John’s, NL.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2004, June). A student symposium on intergroup research: Why can’t we all
just get along? Symposium chaired at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological
Association, St. John’s, NL.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2003, June). Student research in international and cross-cultural
psychology: A symposium on the role of context in acculturation, identity, and meaning.
Symposium chaired at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association,
Hamilton, ON.
Van Bavel, J. & Noels, K. A. (2002, June). The self and identity in cultural context: Student
contributions to the study of culture and psychology, Symposium chaired at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC.
Conference Papers
Telzer, E. H., Miernicki, M., Troop-Gordon, W., Van Bavel, J. J., & Rudolph, K. D. (2015,
February). Chronic peer victimization sensitizes the adolescent brain to social rejection and
belonging. Paper submitted to the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2015, February). Who do I like now? Social group identification
shapes the formation and change of implicit evaluation. Paper to be presented to the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, October). Beyond individualism: The psychology and neuroscience of
groups. Paper to be presented at the annual Neuroleadership Summit, San Francisco, CA.
Gantman, A. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). Out of (moral) mind: Belief in a just world and
moral pop-out effect. Paper presented at the International Society for Justice Research, New
York, NY.
Noorbaloochi, S., Jost, J. T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). Utilitarianism in the service of
the status quo? On the moral justifiability of drone attacks. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the International Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Sokol-Hessner, P., FeldmanHall, O., Van Bavel, J. J., & Phelps, E. (2014, June). Restoring
justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the International Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Twardawski, M., Yudkin, D., Rothmund, T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). Limited working
memory capacity promotes in-group favoritism in punishment. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the International Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). Beyond intuition and reason: The role of construal in moral
judgment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Justice
Research, New York, NY.
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Wohl, M. A., Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). Collective apologies attenuate
perceptual biases that stem from intergroup threat: A test of the Perception Under Threat
(PUT) Model of intergroup relations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
International Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Yudkin, D., Thalla, N., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, June). Not in my house: Group membership
changes crime and punishment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International
Society for Justice Research, New York, NY.
Noorbaloochi, S., Jost, J. T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, May). Utilitarianism in the service of
the social system? On the moral justifiability of drone attacks. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Ray, J. L., Granot, Y., Cunningham, W. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, May). The
phenomenology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike. Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, April). Social identity shapes social perception and evaluation:
Evidence from behavioral, electroencephalography and neuroimaging experiments. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, February). Evaluation is a dynamic process and other lessons from
neuroscience: Moving beyond dual process system models in human social cognition. Paper
presented at the Social Cognition Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Ratner, K. G., Kaul, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, October). The neural representation of race
during face categorization: The influence of processing goals. Paper to be presented at the
annual meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Florence, Italy.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, June). The politics of VfX: Bridging the ideological divide? Paper
presented at the Collider Conference, New York, NY.
Cunningham, W. A., Van Bavel, J. J., Arbuckle, N. L., Packer, D. J., & Waggoner, A. S. (2013,
May). Rapid social perception is flexible: Approach and avoidance motivational states shape
P100 responses to other-race faces. Paper presented at the Society for the Study of
Motivation, Washington, DC.
Hackel, L. M., Looser, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). Finding a mind across the
partisan divide: Social identity alters the threshold for mind perception. Paper presented at
the Society for the Study of Motivation, Washington, DC.
Cikara, M., Bruneau, E., Van Bavel, J. J., & Saxe, R. (2013, May). The roots of intergroup
empathy bias: Intergroup competition and differentiation shape empathy toward in-group
and out-group members. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Hackel, L. M., Looser, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). Social identity alters the
threshold for mind perception. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Kappes, A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). Subtle framing shapes moral judgment. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington,
DC.
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Krosch, A. R., Jost, J. T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). Political ideology and the
representation of Blackness: Conservatives (vs. Liberals) have distinct neural responses to
objective visual features of race. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association
for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Swencionis, J. K., O’Connor, R. C., Cunningham, W. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May).
Motivated social memory: Belonging needs moderate the own-group bias in face recognition.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science,
Washington, DC.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). Social identity shapes social perception and evaluation:
Evidence from behavioral, electroencephalography and neuroimaging experiments. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington,
DC.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, April). A look inside the hive mind: How group membership shapes
perception and evaluation. Paper presented at the New Frontiers in Social Neuroscience
meeting, Paris, FR.
Hackel, L. M., Looser, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, April). Social identity alters mind
perception: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence. Paper presented at the Social and
Affective Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, April). Social identity shapes social perception and evaluation:
Evidence from behavioral, electroencephalography and neuroimaging experiments. Paper
presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, March). Perceptual model of intergroup threat:
Exploring perception as a mechanism underlying the relationship between intergroup threat
and discrimination. Paper presented to the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer D. J., Haas, I. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2013, March). The
importance of moral construal: Moral versus non-moral construal elicits faster, more
extreme, universal evaluations of the same actions. Paper presented to the Eastern
Psychological Association, New York, NY.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, February). Art on steroids: A social dilemma? Paper presented at the
Style Frames Design Conference, New York, NY.
Cikara, M., Bruneau, E., Van Bavel, J., & Saxe, R. (2013, January). The roots of intergroup
empathy bias: Intergroup competition and differentiation shape empathy toward in-group
and out-group members. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Hackel, L. M., Looser, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, January). Social identity alters the
threshold for mind perception. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, January). Social identity shapes automatic social perception and
evaluation: Evidence from behavioral, electroencephalography and neuroimaging studies.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
New Orleans, LA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, October). A look inside the hive mind: How group membership shapes
perception and evaluation. Paper presented at the Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
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Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology,
Austin, TX.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, October). A look inside the hive mind: How group membership shapes
perception and evaluation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social
Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
van der Toorn, J., Jost, J. T., Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, July). System
justification, religiosity and opposition to same-sex marriage. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Chicago, Il.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, May). When closeness breeds contempt: A perceptual
model of intergroup threat. Paper presented at the Princeton Graduate Conference in
Psychology and Policymaking, Princeton, NJ.
Cikara, M., Bruneau, E., Van Bavel, J., & Saxe, R. (2012, January). The roots of intergroup
empathy bias: Intergroup competition and differentiation shape empathy toward in-group
and out-group members. Paper presented at the Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
San Diego, CA.
Krosch, A. R., Berntsen, L., Jost, J. T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, January). Political ideology
and racial ambiguity: Conservatism predicts greater categorization of mixed-race faces as
Black. Paper presented at Political Psychology Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, January). A social neuroscience approach to self and social
categorization. Paper presented at the Group Processes and Intergroup Relations PreConference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San
Diego, CA.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2011, October). Motivated social perception: A social neuroscience
perspective. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Person Memory Interest Group,
Stratford, Virginia.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2011, July). Self and social categorization: A social neuroscience
perspective. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Association of Social
Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Van Bavel, J. J. (2011, January). The top-down influence of social identity on low-level visual
processing. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Packer, D. J., Van Bavel, J. J., Johnsen, I. R., & Cunningham, W. A. (2010, July). The impact
of moral construals on voting intentions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
International Society for Political Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
Cunningham, W. A., Van Bavel, J. J., & Johnsen, I. R. (2009, February). Affective flexibility:
Evaluative processing goals shape amygdala activity. Paper presented at the annual meeting
of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008, June). The neural substrates of
ingroup bias: An fMRI investigation. Paper presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience
Conference, Boston, MA.
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Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008, February). The power of ingroup
bias: The neural substrates and evaluative implications of membership in novel groups. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
Albuquerque, NM.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Dion, K. L. (2006, June). Attitudes toward same-sex
marriage: Genuine religious opposition or merely anti-gay prejudice? Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, AB.
Huggon, W. G., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2006, June). What is an attitude? Toward an integrated
theory of attitudes. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological
Association, Calgary, AB.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2006, May). Erasing racism: Shifting ingroup
favoritism via arbitrary groups. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Psychological Science, New York, NY.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Sitt, T. (2005, June). The threatened self and aggression: A meta-analytic
integration. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological
Association, Montreal, PQ.
Van Bavel, J. J., Dion, K. L., Dion, K. K., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2004, June). The role of implicit
prejudice on group-serving bias: Testing the ultimate attribution error paradigm. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, St. John’s, NL.
Conference Posters
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, February). Group membership shapes automatic
affective responses. Poster to be presented at the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Austin, TX.
Hackel, L. M., Looser, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, February). Social identity shapes mind
perception: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence. Poster to be presented to the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Noorbaloochi, S., Jost, J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, February). The ideological roots of moral
exceptionalism: The case of American drone attacks. Poster to be presented to the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Ray, J. L., Van Bavel, J. J., Granot, Y., & Cunningham, W. (2014, February). The
phenomenology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike. Poster to be
presented to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel. (2014, February). When closeness breeds contempt: The perception
of physical closeness leads to intergroup discrimination. Poster to be presented to the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Yudkin, D., Thalla, N., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014, February). Eye for an eye: Retaliation (not
retribution) drives heightened out-group punishment of moral misdeeds. Poster to be
presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Park, G., Van Bavel, J. J., Vasey, M. W., & Thayer, J. F. (2013, May). Cardiac vagal tone
predicts attentional engagement to and disengagement from fearful faces. Poster to be
presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington,
DC.
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Ray, J. L., Van Bavel, J. J., Granot, Y., & Cunningham, W. A. (2013, May). Lay theories of
have (vs. dislike): The differentiating role of morality. Poster to be presented at the annual
meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, May). When closeness breeds contempt: Perceptual
mechanisms underlying intergroup threat and discrimination. Poster to be presented at the
annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Nam, H., Jost, J. T., Campbell-Meiklejohn, D., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, April). System
justification is associated with brain structure. Paper to be presented at the Social and
Affective Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Krosch, A. R., Jost, J. T., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, April). Distinct neural responses to
categorical vs. graded race perception and the moderating role of political ideology. Paper to
be presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, January). When closeness breeds contempt: perception
of physical closeness leads to intergroup discrimination. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Ray, J. L., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2013, January). The surprising flexibility of sanctity: How
political ideology moderates the influence of group-level thinking on taboo tradeoffs. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New
Orleans, LA.
Cox, C. L., Jost, J. T., Castellanos, F. X., Milham, M. P., Kelly, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012,
October). Neural correlates of political ideology. Individual differences in liberalismconservatism are reflected in the brain’s intrinsic functional organization. Poster presented
at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
Cox, C. L., Jost, J. T., Castellanos, F. X., Milham, M. P., Kelly, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012,
April). Political ideology is related to the intrinsic functional organization of the human
brain. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience
Society, New York, NY.
Ray, J. L., Van Bavel, J. J., & Tyler, T. (2012, January). Exploring the perception of pure
evil. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Berntsen, L., Krosch, A. R., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, January). Black or White? Social
identification shapes the categorization of racially ambiguous faces. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Hackel, L., Looser, C. E., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, January). Seeing minds: Social identity
alters the threshold for mind perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Xiao, Y. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2012, January). When closeness breeds contempt: Perceptions
of physical closeness lead to intergroup discrimination. Poster to be presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Xiao, Y. J., Rovinskaya, R., Segal, L., Mengers, A., Roylance, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2011,
January). See your friends close, and your enemies closer: Social identity and identity threat
alter the representation of physical distance. Poster presented at the Journal of Decision
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Making pre-conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Xiao, Y. J., Rovinskaya, R., Segal, L., Mengers, A., Roylance, C., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2011,
January). Social identity and identity threat alter perception of physical distance. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San
Antonio, TX.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2010, November). Social identity modulates
automatic face perception: Group membership overrides the effects of race on early eventrelated potentials. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social and Affective
Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL.
Hill, L. K., Van Bavel, J. J., Hu, D., D. Williams, D., Cunningham, W. A., Sollers 3rd, J. J., &
Thayer, J. F.(2010, June). Resting heart rate variability is differentially associated with
underlying hemodynamics in African American men and women. Poster presented at the
annual International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2010, April). Social identity organizes
face perception: The Fusiform Face Area responds preferentially to members of an
experimentally created ingroup. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, Montreal, QC.
Van Bavel, J. J., O’Connor, R. C., & Cunningham, W. A. (2010, January). The motivational
dynamics of social memory: Identification with a mixed-race group replaces own-race bias
with own-group bias. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Johnsen, I. R., Packer, D. J., Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2010, January). Costs
and benefits be damned: The impact of moral construals on voting intentions. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las
Vegas, NV.
O’Connor, R. C., Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2010, January). Motivational effects
of need to belong on intergroup memory in minimal groups. Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009, October). Social identity
organizes face perception: The Fusiform Face Area responds preferentially to members of an
experimentally created ingroup. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Social and
Affective Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Johnsen, I. R., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009, February). The
processes and outcomes associated with moral versus pragmatic evaluation. Poster to
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa,
FL.
Arbuckle, N. L., Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Waggoner, A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008,
June). Flexibility in automatic intergroup categorization. Poster presented at the Social and
Affective Neuroscience Conference, Boston, MA.
Johnsen, I. R., Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008, February). Affective flexibility:
Evaluative processing goals shape amygdala activity. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
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Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2007, June). Shifting intergroup evaluations using
arbitrary coalitions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological
Association, Ottawa, ON.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Waggoner, A. S., & Cunningham, W. A. (2007, January).
Flexibility in automatic social evaluation: Induced motivational states shift automatic
intergroup categorizations and evaluations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J., (2006, May). Rationality as a social institution: A
preliminary model of decision-making. Poster presented at the Southern Ontario Behavioral
Decision Research Conference, Toronto, ON.
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Farb, N., Gonzalez, J., Chasteen, A. L., & Cunningham, W. A.
(2006, January). Feeling two things at once: A functional dissociation between implicit and
explicit ambivalence toward social groups. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Van Bavel, J. J., Dion, K. L., & Dion, K. K. (2005, June). Social psychology as history:
Awareness of the Implicit Association Test is a threat to validity. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, PQ.
Van Bavel, J. J., Dion, K. L., & Dion, K. K. (2005, January). Implicit religious bias and
intergroup attributions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LS.
Van Bavel, J. J., & Dion, K. L. (2004, June). Neuropsychology of prejudice. Poster presented
at the Why Neighbors Kill: Explaining the Breakdown of Ethnic Relations conference, London,
ON.
Van Bavel, J., Noels, K. A., & Williams, R. (2002, June). Examining the predictive validity of
social axioms on behavioral outcomes: A cross-cultural perspective. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC.
TEACHING
Courses
Social Neuroscience Workshop – Graduate (VU University Amsterdam)
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Mean instructor evaluation in Fall 2013 = 4.9/5
Moral Psychology – Graduate (New York University)
Mean instructor evaluation in Fall 2012 = 4.8/5
Intergroup Relations – Graduate (New York University)
Mean instructor evaluation in Fall 2011 = 4.3/5
Attitudes & Evaluation – Graduate (New York University)
Mean instructor evaluation in Fall 2013 = 5.0/5
Mean instructor evaluation in Fall 2010 = 4.8/5
Social Attitudes – Undergraduate (New York University)
Mean instructor evaluation in Spring 2014 = 4.0/5
Mean instructor evaluation in Spring 2013 = 4.6/5
Mean instructor evaluation in Spring 2012 = 4.8/5
Mean instructor evaluation in Fall 2010 = 4.7/5
Mean instructor evaluation in Spring 2010 = 4.5/5
Introduction to Social Psychology – Undergraduate (The Ohio State University)
Mean instructor evaluation in Spring 2009 = 4.8/5
Advising
Postdoctoral Fellows Shona Tritt (2014-present), Peter Mende-Siedlecki (2014-present),
Sharareh Noorbaloochi (2013-present)
PhD Students Julian Wills (2013-present), Jenny Ray (2011-present), Leor Hackel (2011present), Yi (Jenny) Xiao (2010-present)
Dissertation Committee Amy Krosch (ongoing), Justin Aoki (Lehigh; ongoing), Christopher
Crew (Columbia; 2014), Kyle Ratner (2012), Polina Potanina (ongoing), Laura Kressel (2011),
Renana Ofan (2011), Dan Kirk (2011), Saaid Mendoza (2010)
Master Theses Nick Ungson (2012-2014), Justin Duke (2012-2013), Yogesh Raut (2012-2013)
Honors Thesis Bosi Chen (2013-2014), Jessica Dubin (2013-2014), Julia Schaus (2013-2014),
Natasha Thalla (2012-2013), Ian Kurth (2011-2012), Leslie Berntsen (2011-2012), Bram
Schumer (2010-2011), Rachel O’Connor (2008-2009)
REVIEWING
Editorial Boards
Social Psychological and Personality Science (2013-)
Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer
Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Biological Psychology; Brain and Cognition; Cambridge
University Press; Cerebral Cortex; Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience;
Cognition; Cognition & Emotion; Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology; Current
Biology; Current Directions in Psychological Science; Emotion; European Journal of Social
Psychology; European Review of Social Psychology; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations;
Human Brain Mapping; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; NeuroEthics, NeuroImage;
Neuropsychologia; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Personality and Social
Psychology Review; Perspectives on Psychological Science; PLoS ONE; Psychological Science;
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Social Issues and Policy Review; Social
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Neuroscience; Social and Personality Psychology Compass; Social Psychological and Personality
Science; Trends in Cognitive Science; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
Grants and Awards
National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Society for the Psychological Study of
Social Issues
Books and Edited Volumes
Cambridge University Press
Conferences
Canadian Psychological Association, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues,
Social & Affective Neuroscience Society
SERVICE
University
Deans Undergraduate Research Fellowship Committee New York University
Education Policy Committee New York University
Co-Director – Social Neuroscience Network New York University
Search Committee – Psychology MA Program Director New York University
Center for Brain Imaging Protocol Steering Committee New York University
Center for Brain Imaging Protocol Review Committee New York University
Undergraduate Research Conference Judge New York University
Graduate Student Selection Committee New York University
Co-Founder University of Toronto/York University Symposium on Social & Personality
Psychology
Co-Chair Social, Personality & Abnormal Area Meeting, University of Toronto
Treasurer Psychology Graduate Students’ Association, University of Toronto
Union Representative Psychology Graduate Students’ Association, University of Toronto
Masters Students’ Representative Psychology Graduate Students’ Association, University of
Toronto
Vice-President Academic Undergraduate Psychology Association, University of Alberta
Professional
Media Awards Panelist Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Co-Organizer 9th Annual Meetings of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society
Chair of Dissertation Award Committee Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Dissertation Award Committee Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Outreach Committee Social and Affective Neuroscience Society
Campus Representative Association for Psychological Science
Conference Volunteer Association for Psychological Science
Graduate Campus Representative Canadian Psychological Association Student Section
Student Representative Canadian Psychological Association Social & Personality Section
Student Representative Canadian Psychological Association International & Cross-Cultural
Section
Undergraduate Campus Representative Canadian Psychological Association Student Section
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ORGANIZATIONS
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
Eastern Psychological Association (EPA)
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Society for Social Neuroscience (SSN)
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
PUBLIC OUTREACH
Essays
“Schadenfreude in Gaza?” Jay Van Bavel & Mina Cikara, The Washington Post (Monkey Cage).
August 27, 2014
“Is that Jesus in your toast?” Ana Gantman & Jay Van Bavel, New York Times. April 4, 2014
“The dark side of power posing: Cape or Kryptonite?” Jay Van Bavel, Scientific American Mind
(Guest Blog). November 21, 2013
“The seductive allure of neuroscience and the science of persuasion.” Jay Van Bavel &
Dominic Packer, Scientific American Mind (Guest Blog). September 16, 2013.
Media Coverage
“How politics breaks our brain.” Brian Resnick, The Atlantic. September 24, 2014.
“It’s perfectly normal to see Jesus in toast.” Olivia Waxman, TIME Magazine. May 7, 2014.
“Are conservatives more likely than liberals to avoid cognitive dissonance?” Chris Mooney,
Mother Jones. June 17, 2013.
“Liberals, conservatives see mixed-race people differently.” Tom Jacobs, Salon. June 9, 2013.
“Bias is part of our biology.” Gretchen Voss, Women’s Health. April 2013
“How money can change moral judgments made in haste.” Daily Telegraph. November 29,
2012
“Moral judgments are often speedy and extreme.” CBC News. November 28, 2012
“The enemy next door.” Sally Lauckner, NYU Alumni Magazine. Fall 2012
“NY vs. Boston: The endgame.” Neil Swidney, The Boston Globe. July 8, 2012
“Case Study: A fan’s brain.” Ben McGrath, The New Yorker. June 25, 2012
“Sci-fi morality: Could aliens save us from prejudice?” Jamil Zaki, Huffington Post. June 16,
2009
“When races mix, bias declines.” Merlene Davis, Lexington Herald-Leader. March 26, 2009
“How your brain looks at race.” Sharon Begley, Newsweek. March 3, 2008
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