Donal Carlston - Psychology at Purdue

Donal Carlston

Current Position

Professor of Psychological Sciences
PhD (1977) in Social Psychology, University of Illinois

Past Editor, Journal of Social Cognition
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Organizer, Duck Conference on Social Cognition

Contact Information

Address:
Purdue University
Department of Psychological Sciences
703 Third Street
Rm. PSYC 2160
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081
Phone: (765) 494-6889
Fax: (765) 496-1264
E-mail: carlston@psych.purdue.edu

Research Interests

Primary research interests are in person perception, impression formation and social cognition. The current focus of this work is on the origin, organization and use of different kinds of mental representations of people and events. Representative issues include the factors affecting spontaneous trait inference and categorization and reliance on self-referent vs. other-referent information in impressions of the self or of others.

Recent Publications

Carlston, D. E., & Mae, L. (2003). The accidental tourist: Capturing incidental (versus intentional) impressions. In G. V. Bodenhausen & A. J. Lambert (Eds.) Foundations of Social Cognition: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (pp. 97-130). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Claypool, H. M., & Carlston, D. E. (2002). The effects of verbal and visual interference on impressions: An associated systems approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 425-433.

Skowronski, J. J., Carlston, D. E., Mae, L. & Crawford, M. T. (1998). Spontaneous trait transference: Communicators take on the qualities they describe in others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 837-848.

Carlston, D. E. & Smith, E. R. (1996). Principles of mental representation. In E. T. Higgins & A. W. Kruglanski (Eds.) Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles (pp. 184-210). New York: Guilford Press.

Carlston, D. E. (1994). Associated systems theory: A systematic approach to the cognitive representation of persons and events. In R. S. Wyer (Ed.) Advances in Social Cognition: Vol. 7. Associated Systems Theory (pp. 1-78). Hillsdale, NY: Erlbaum.