
Matt Crawford
Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
My primary interests are social inference and social memory and the majority of my work has been focused on the perception of individuals and social groups – specifically, the unintentional processes underlying social inference making (e.g., spontaneous trait inference and trait transference). Other areas of interest include: attitudes, anticipated regret, self-enhancement strategies, social identity, and counterfactual thinking.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Bird, G. D., Lauwereyens, J., & Crawford, M. T. (2012). The role of eye movements in decision making and the prospect of exposure effects. Vision Research, 60, 16-21.
- Crawford, M. T. (2007). The renegotiation of social identities in response to a threat to self-evaluation maintenance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 39-47.
- Crawford, M. T., McCarthy, R. J., Kjaerstad, H. L., & Skowronski, J. J. (2013). Inferences are for doing: The impact of approach and avoidance states on the generation of spontaneous trait inferences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Crawford, M. T., McConnell, A. R., Lewis, A. C., & Sherman, S. J. (2002). Reactance, compliance, and anticipated regret. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 56-63.
- Crawford, M. T., & McCrea, S. M. (2004). When mutations meet motivations: Attitude biases in counterfactual thought. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(1), 65-74.
- Crawford, M. T., & Salaman, L. (2012). Entitativity, identity, and the fulfilment of psychological needs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 726-732.
- Crawford, M. T., Sherman, S. J., & Hamilton, D. L. (2002). Perceived entitativity, stereotype formation, and the interchangeability of group members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1076-1094.
- Crawford, M. T., & Skowronski, J. J. (1998). When motivated thought leads to heightened bias: High need for cognition can enhance the impact of stereotypes on memory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1075-1089.
- Crawford, M. T., Skowronski, J. J., & Stiff, C. (2007). Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Crawford, M. T., Skowronski, J. J., Stiff, C., & Leonards, U. (2008). Seeing but not thinking: Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference II. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(3), 840-847.
- Crawford, M. T., Skowronski, J. J., Stiff, C., & Scherer, C. R. (2007). Interfering with inferential, but not associative, processes underlying spontaneous trait inference. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 677-690.
- Foster, L., McClure, J., McDowall, J., & Crawford, M. T. (in press). Attributions about persons with brain injury: The effects of knowledge and familiarity about brain injury. Brain Injury.
- Johnson, A. L., Crawford, M. T., Sherman, S. J., Rutchick, A. M., Hamilton, D. L., & Ferreira, M. (2006). A functional perspective on group memberships: Differential need fulfillment in a group typology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 709-719.
- Mohr, C., Rowe, A. C., & Crawford, M. T. (2008). Hemispheric differences in the processing of attachment words. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 30(4), 471-480.
- Olson, M. A., Crawford, M. T., & Devlin, W. (2009). Evidence for the underestimation of implicit in-group favoritism among low status groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1111-1116.
- Skowronski, J. J., Betz, A. L., Sedikides, C., & Crawford, M. T. (1998). Raw conditional probabilities are a flawed index of associative strength: Evidence from a multi-trait paradigm. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 437-456.
- Skowronski, J. J., Carlston, D. E., Mae, L., & Crawford, M. T. (1998). Spontaneous trait transference: Communicators take on the qualities they describe in others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 837-848.
- Wells, B. M, Skowronski, J. J., Crawford, M. T., Scherer, C. R., & Carlston, D. E. (2011). Inference making and linking both require thinking: Spontaneous trait inference and spontaneous trait transference both rely on working memory capacity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1116-1126
Other Publications:
- Sherman, S. J., Crawford, M. T., Hamilton, D. L., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2004). Social inference and social memory: The interplay between systems. In M. A. Hogg & J. Cooper (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Social Psychology. London: Sage.
- Sherman, S. J., Crawford, M. T., & McConnell, A. R. (2004). Looking ahead as a technique to reduce resistance to persuasive attempts. In E. Knowles & J. Linn (Eds.), Resistance and Persuasion. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Research Methods
- History & Systems of Psychology (Honours)
- Social Cognition (Honours)
- Social Psychology
Matt Crawford
School of Psychology
P.O. Box 600
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
- Phone: 64-4-463-6702
- Fax: 64-4-463-5402