William Cunningham

Assistant Professor
Psychology
100G Lazenby Hall
614.247.6139
cunningham.417@osu.edu

Education
B.A., College of William and Mary, Psychology (1995)
M.A., College of William and Mary, Psychology (1998)
M.S., Yale University, Social and Personality Psychology (2000)
M.Phil., Yale University, Psychology (2001)
Ph.D., Yale University, Social and Personality/Cognitive Psychology (2003)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Cunningham's research focuses on social cognitive neuroscience approach to understanding the cognitive and motivational processes underlying emotional responses.  His primary research interests are affective evaluations of people and objects that guide thought and behavior.  To better understand these processes, his lab uses methods and theories from both social psychology (e.g. models of attitudes and latency-based evaluation measures) and cognitive neuroscience (e.g. biological models of emotion and fMRI/EEG methods).

Selected Publications
"A Neural Analysis of Intergroup Perception and Evaluation," with Jay Van Bavel, in Handbook of Neuroscience for the Social Sciences, eds. by J. Cacioppo and G. Berntson(forthcoming) 

"Self-Regulation and Evaluative Processing," with D.J. Packer and A. Kesek, in Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind, eds. byA. Todorov, S. Fiske, and D. Prentice (forthcoming)

"Varieties in Emotional Experience: Differences in Object or Computation?" with Jay Van Bavel (Emotion Review, 2009)

"Self-Categorization with a Novel Group Modulates Automatic Social and Racial Biases," with Jay Van Bavel (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2009)

"The Quadruple Process Model Approach to Examining the Neural Underpinnings of Prejudice," with J.S. Beer, M. Stallen., M.V. Lombardo, K. Gonsalkorale, and J.W. Sherman (NeuroImage, 2008)

"Implicit Measures of Attitudes: A Physiological Approach," with  D.J. Packer, A. Kesek, and Jay Van Bavel, in Attitudes: Insights from the New Implicit Measures New York, eds. by R. E. Petty, R. H. Fazio, and P. Brinol (Psychology Press, 2008)

"The Neural Substrates of In-Group Bias: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation," with Jay Van Bavel and D.J. Packer (Psychological Science, 2008)

"Attitudes and Evaluations: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective," with P.D. Zelazo (Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2007)

"The Influence of Self-Regulatory Focus on Encoding of, and Memory for, Emotional Words," with S.R. Touryan, M.K Johnson, K.J. Mitchell, N. Farb, and C.L. Raye (Social Neuroscience, 2007)

"Executive function: Mechanisms Underlying Emotion Regulation," with P.D. Zelazo, in Handbook of Emotion Regulation, ed. byJ. Gross (Guilford, 2007)

Honors, Awards, and Service
National Science Foundation, Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Groups, $399,400 (2008-10)

Top Ten Most Cited Assistant Professors in Social Psychology, SPSP (2007)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Attitudes and Biases: Implicit and Explicit Processes, $126,000 (2006)

Honorable Mention, Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize (2004)

Yale Dissertation Fellowship (2002)

Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College (2001)

Visiting Fellowship Program in functional MRI, Massachusetts General Hospital (2000)

Summer Research Grant, Center for the Study of Race, Inequality and Politics, Department of Political Science, Yale University (2000)

Member, Editorial Board, Emotion

Member, Editorial Board, Social Cognition

Member, Editorial Board, Social Neuroscience

Member, Editorial Board, Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience

Mershon Project
The Psychology of Hate (2009-10)