Professor Smith's research interests focus on (a) the role of intergroup emotions (emotions experienced with respect to one's collective self as a group member) in prejudice and intergroup relations; (b) new conceptualizations of cognition as situated and embodied and their implications for social cognition; (c) connectionist or neural network models in social psychology; and (d) social cognition in general, particularly the nature of mental representations of persons and groups and their effects on social judgments, including person perception and stereotyping.

Primary Interests:

Emotion, Mood, Affect
Intergroup Relations
Person Perception
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Emotion, Mood, Affect
Intergroup Relations
Person Perception

Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Eliot Smith Laboratory
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Books:

Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (Eds.). (2002). From prejudice to intergroup emotions: Differentiated reactions to social groups. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
Mesquita, B., Barrett, L. F., & Smith, E. (Eds.). (2010). The mind in context. New York: Guilford.
Smith, E. R., & Mackie, D. M. (2007). Social psychology (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.

Journal Articles:

Coats, S., Smith, E. R., Claypool, H., & Banner, M. (2000). Overlapping mental representations of self and in-group: Response time evidence and its relationship with explicit measures of group identification. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 302-315.
Mackie, D. M., Devos, T., & Smith, E. R. (2000). Intergroup emotions: Explaining offensive action tendencies in an intergroup context. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 602-616.
Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (1998). Intergroup relations: Insights from a theoretically integrative approach. Psychological Review, 105, 499-529.
Queller, S., & Smith, E. R. (2002). Subtyping versus bookkeeping in stereotype learning and change: Connectionist simulations and empirical findings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 300-313.
Semin, G. R., & Smith, E. R. (2002). Interfaces of social psychology with situated and embodied cognition. Cognitive Systems Research, 3, 385-396.
Smith, E. R., & DeCoster, J. (2000). Dual process models in social and cognitive psychology: Conceptual integration and links to underlying memory systems. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 108-131.
Smith, E. R., & DeCoster, J. (1998). Knowledge acquisition, accessibility, and use in person perception and stereotyping: Simulation with a recurrent connectionist network. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 21-35.

Other Publications:

Smith, E. R. (2000). Research design. In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social psychology (pp. 17-39). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, E. R. (1998). Mental representation and memory. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (4th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 391-445). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Smith, E. R., & Queller, S. (2001). Memory representations. In A. Tesser & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Blackwell handbook in social psychology, Vol. I: Intraindividual processes (pp. 111-133). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Courses Taught:

Adaptive and Multiagent Models of Social Behavior
Connectionist Theories in Social Psychology

Adaptive and Multiagent Models of Social Behavior

Connectionist Theories in Social Psychology

Eliot Smith
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University Bloomington
1101 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7007
United States

Phone: (812) 856-0196