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Eliot Smith Lab
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research in Eliot Smith’s lab examines the
ways people perceive members of their own and other social groups,
evaluate them positively or negatively, and behave toward them. Four
primary research directions (listed below) are being examined
currently. Our research uses virtual reality technology and multi-agent
modeling, as well as more traditional social psychological techniques
(laboratory studies, implicit attitude testing, questionnaires).
Research interests include:
Stereotyping,
prejudice, and intergroup relations:
This research focuses on the role of emotions in prejudice
and intergroup behavior.
Situated/embodied
cognition:
This research examines the role of the body in shaping our
beliefs, attitudes and behaviors toward others. We also investigate how
other
people serve as a social context that constrains and enables cognition,
for example when people share information with others in social
networks.
Connectionist
models:
This research examines how "neural network" or "brainlike"
computational processes can display the properties, such as context
sensitivity and flexibility, that are found in social perception and
social behavior.
Social
cognition:
In general, most research in the lab focuses on the mental
representations and cognitive processes that underly social
perception and social behavior.
Special Methods include:
Virtual Reality:
Research in the lab that examines embodiment and self-other
overlap is often performed using virtual reality techniques.
Computer graphics are used to create the illusion that one is in a
computer-simulated virtual space along with other people or objects.
Multi-Agent
Modeling:
We have used multi-agent modeling, a dynamic, multi-level
approach to constructing theories of social behavior, to look at person
perception and social decision making.
Dr. Eliot R. Smith
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University
1101 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Office
Psychology 354
(812) 856-0196
esmith4@indiana.edu |
Lab
Psychology A316
(812) 856-1350
smithlab@indiana.edu |
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