Alumni

Elicia Lair, PhD

I received my PhD in Social Psychology from UMass-Amherst in 2014 and am now an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. My research interests broadly include social cognition, political psychology, and group processes. My dissertation research focused on the interaction between emotions and cognitive processing styles, specifically how disgust interacts with global and local processing to influence perceptual and conceptual judgments. For more information please visit my website.

Daniel Rovenpor, PhD

I received my PhD in Social Psychology from UMass-Amherst in 2016 and am now a post-doctoral researcher at The Ohio State University working with Dr. Richard Petty. My research investigates the role of motivation in the bidirectional relationship between affect and cognition. Specifically, I consider how motivational factors such as control beliefs, goals, and certainty influence both how affect regulates cognition and how people regulate their emotions. I am interested in the implications of these processes for individual well-being (i.e., happiness, adaptive decision-making, healthy aging) and societal well-being (i.e., intergroup relations, social justice).