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Research Activities & Academic Interests
- Unconscious cognition
- Unconscious perception
- Implicit memory
- Memory distortions, false memory
- Social cognition, stereotyping &
prejudice, impression formation
- Critical thinking, science and pseudoscience
- Introduction to psychology,
cognitive psychology, research methods
Representative
publications, presentations, and current projects
- Pitts, S. &
Simpson, R. G. (in press). Psychology. In Condensed knowledge.
Harper Collins.
- *Morrow, M.,
*Darwin, B., *Patel, S., Pitts, S., *Scruggs, R. (June, 2003). Beautiful
but unpleasant: Negative trait information outweighs attractiveness in
impression formation. Poster presented at the 15th
annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
- *Palmer, J., *Lillard, R., & Pitts, S. (June,
2003). The effects of aversive racism and need for cognition on
judgments of intelligence.
Poster presented at the 15th annual meeting of the
American Psychological Society, Atlanta , GA.
- * Chandler ,
J., Pitts, S., *Hilgeman, M., & *Street,
C. (April, 2003). Erotophobia-Erotophilia: Attentional
bias for sexual information. Paper
presented at the 18th Annual Southeastern Undergraduate
Psychology Research Conference
- Prentice-Dunn, S.
& Pitts, S. (2001). The use of videotape feedback in the
training of instructors. In S. Meyers & L. Prieto
(Eds.), The teaching assistant training handbook: How to prepare TAs
for their responsibilities. Stillwater,
OK: New Forums Press.
- Klinger, M. R., Burton,
P. C., & Pitts, G. S. (2000). Mechanisms of unconscious
priming: I. Response competition, not spreading activation. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26,
441-455.
- Pitts, G. S. &
Klinger, M. R. (in preparation). Unconscious affective and
cognitive processing of faces.
- Pitts, G. S., Klinger,
M. R., & Sonnerat, X. (in
preparation). Unconscious perception: A meta-analysis of twenty
years of research.
- Pitts, G. S. &
Klinger, M. R. (2000, May). Unconscious processing of faces.
Paper presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the Midwestern
Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
- Pitts, G. S. &
Klinger, M. R. (1996, May). Unconscious semantic priming using the
response window procedure. Paper presented at the 69th annual
meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago,
IL.
- Pitts, G. S. &
Klinger, M. R. (1995, May). Is unconscious processing of stereotypes
mediated by semantics or affect? Paper presented at the 68th
annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago,
IL.
* Indicates BSC student at time of presentation or publication.
I enthusiastically invite
students to collaborate on research projects in the Cognition Research
Lab. I have very wide-ranging research interests including those listed
above. Feel free to propose a project on your own special topic.
Please contact me or drop by if you are interested in helping develop the
Cognition Lab at BSC! Students currently working with me include: Janet
Palmer, Beth Darwin, Erin Robbins, Laurin Miller,
and Zac Gibson.
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