Ian M. Handley, Ph.D.

Research Interests    

• Broadly, my research interests span social cognition. My research primarily falls within the domains of affect in social cognition and attitudes and persuasion. I have also conducted research, insofar as these topics have either informed my primary areas of research or fulfilled a scientific curiosity, on affective expectations, automaticity and nonconscious processes, counterfactual thinking, dispositional hypnotizability, dispositional optimism, goal activation, impression formation, the mere exposure effect, perceptions of law and negative self-attributions, salience effects in videotaped confessions, and the self-serving bias.
  
  

Education     

• Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2005), Psychology department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

• Ph.D. (2003), Experimental Psychology (Social Track), Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

• M.S. (2000), Experimental Psychology (Social Track), Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

• B.S., cum laude (1997), Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  
  
  

Select Publications (see "additional publications" for full list and downloads)      

• Handley, I. M., Albarracín, D., Brown, R. D., Li, H., Kumkale, E. C., & Kumkale, G. T. (in press). When the expectations from a message will not be realized: Naïve theories can eliminate expectation-congruent judgments via correction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

• Albarracín, D., Handley, I. M., Noguchi, K., McCulloch, K. C., Li, H., Leeper, J., Brown, R. D., Earl, A., & Hart, W. P. (2008). Increasing and Decreasing Motor and Cognitive Output: A Model of General Action and Inaction Goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 510–523.

• Handley, I. M., Lassiter, G. D., Nickell, E. F., & Herchenroeder, L. M. (2004). Affect and automatic mood maintenance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 106-112.

• Geers, A. L., Handley, I. M., & McLarney, A. (2003). Discerning the role of optimism in persuasion: The valence-enhancement hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social psychology, 85, 554-565.

• Handley, I. M., & Lassiter, G. D. (2002). Mood and information processing: When happy and sad look the same. Motivation and Emotion, 26, 223-255.

Courses Taught

• Psychology 546 Fall, 2009: Graduate Social Cognition
  
  
• Psychology 452 Summer, 2008: Social Psychology
  
  
• Psychology 221 Fall, 2008; Spring, 2009: Research Design and Analysis I
  
  
• Psychology 454 Fall, 2008: Social Cognition

Links

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