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Though we often feel that we know and are in control of what happens in our minds, research shows that much of our mental lives occur outside of consciousness. My research focuses on the influence of automatic and unconscious processes on thoughts, feelings, and behavior. I am particularly interested in attitude formation and how our attitudes are influenced by associations in the environment.

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Publications

Principal publications
  • Ranganath, K. A., Spellman, B. A., & Joy, J. (In Press). Cognitive "category induction" research and social "persuasion" research are each about what makes arguments believable: A tale of two literatures. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
  • Ranganath, K. A., & Nosek, B. A. (2008). Implicit attitude generalization occurs immediately, explicit attitude generalization takes time. Psychological Science, 19, 249-254.
  • Nosek, B. A., Smyth, F. L., Hansen, J. J., Devos, T., Lindner, N. M., Ranganath, K. A., Smith, C. T., Olson, K. R., Chugh, D., Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (2008). Pervasiveness and correlates of implicit attitudes and stereotypes. European Review of Social Psychology, 18, 36-88.
  • Ranganath, K. A., Smith, C. T., & Nosek, B. A. (2008). Separating automatic and controlled components of attitudes from direct and indirect measures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 386-396.
  • Ranganath, K. A., & Nosek, B. A. (2007). Implicit attitudes. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 464-466). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

 

Education

August 2009. Ph.D., Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

May 2006, M.A., Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

May 2003, B.S., Belmont University, Nashville, TN 

Publications

Principal publications
  • Ranganath, K. A., Spellman, B. A., & Joy, J. (In Press). Cognitive "category induction" research and social "persuasion" research are each about what makes arguments believable: A tale of two literatures. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
  • Ranganath, K. A., & Nosek, B. A. (2008). Implicit attitude generalization occurs immediately, explicit attitude generalization takes time. Psychological Science, 19, 249-254.
  • Nosek, B. A., Smyth, F. L., Hansen, J. J., Devos, T., Lindner, N. M., Ranganath, K. A., Smith, C. T., Olson, K. R., Chugh, D., Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (2008). Pervasiveness and correlates of implicit attitudes and stereotypes. European Review of Social Psychology, 18, 36-88.
  • Ranganath, K. A., Smith, C. T., & Nosek, B. A. (2008). Separating automatic and controlled components of attitudes from direct and indirect measures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 386-396.
  • Ranganath, K. A., & Nosek, B. A. (2007). Implicit attitudes. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 464-466). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)

Projects

 

As young Harry Potter stood on the train platform with his new friends in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, another boy approached him and warned, "if you hang around with riff-raff like the Weasley's...it'll rub off on you." Although we often believe that we form our attitudes through direct experiences, J.K. Rowling illustrates another important way that we acquire social knowledge. In the real world, we often evaluate people or things in the absence of direct experience with them. One way that we do this is by using their associations with other people or things that we already know something about. My research concerns what I have termed attitude transfer, the formation of attitudes toward novel stimuli based on their associations with other stimuli.

I have a variety of projects on this topic that students could be involved with or I am happy to have students come up with their own related ideas. Responsibilties could include literature reviews, creation of study materials, data collection, and data analysis.

 

Teaching


K.A. Ranganath teaches the following subjects:

Contact details
Room P 810
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
Tel. +31 13 466 2483
 If no reply +31 13 466 2408
Email k.a.ranganath@uvt.nl

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Last amended: 23 November 2009
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