Meghan George

Meghan George
McMaster University | McMaster · Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

PhD

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Introduction
My research interest include social cognition and negative interpersonal interactions. I study the social cognitive processes involved in the development of implicit attitudes. I also investigate the reciprocal relationship between biases and person perception. In addition, I study the relationship between interpersonal and intergroup conflicts and implicit bias. I use techniques such as the IAT, Reverse Correlation, and qualitative interviews to address my research questions.

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Publications (9)
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Historically, the field of psychology has focused on racial biases at an individual level, considering the effects of various stimuli on individual racial attitudes and biases. This approach has provided valuable information, but not enough focus has been placed on the systemic nature of racial biases. In this Review, we examine the bidirectional r...
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Unlabelled: The goal of the current research was to gain an understanding of people's mental representations of an apologetic face. In Study 1, participants' responses were used to generate visual templates of apologetic faces through reverse correlation (Study 1a, n = 121), and a new set of participants (Study 1b, n = 37 and 1c, n = 153) rated th...
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Previous examinations of gender representation in psychology textbooks have revealed consistent gender bias. Although this situation has improved somewhat over the past several decades, it nonetheless appears to persist. Guided by theories of social cognition, we sought to examine whether an androcentric bias is being implicitly communicated by psy...
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There is mounting evidence that North Americans are better able to remember faces of targets who belong to the same social group, and this is true even when the social groups are experimentally created. Yet, how Western cultural contexts afford the development of this own group face recognition bias remains unknown. This question is particularly im...
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This research tested the relation between victims' trait resilience and transgression severity on unforgiving and forgiving responses. We predicted that less resilient people would be less forgiving, whereas more resilient people would be more forgiving. We also expected resilience and transgression severity would interact to influence victims' res...
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Across three studies we examined people's implicit attitudes toward Black and White targets who differed systematically by emotional expression. In Study 1, both the race and the emotional expression of primes affected people's attitudes as measured by the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP; Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005). In Study 2, pa...
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Initial theory and research examining children’s implicit racial attitudes suggest that an implicit preference favoring socially advantaged groups emerges early in child- hood and remains stable across development (Dunham, Baron, & Banaji, 2008). In two studies, we examined the ubiquity of this theory by measuring non- Black minor- ity and non- W...
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Margaret Mead is perhaps the world's best-known cultural anthropologist. Although her work has not escaped criticism, books like Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing up in New Guinea, and And Keep Your Powder Dry have become enduring classics. In her lifetime, Mead was a true public intellectual, writing and commenting widely on social and scientific is...

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