| Dr.
Jaihyun Park's Social Cognition Lab at Baruch College
Since
I came to Baruch College in 2001, my lab has been conducting
a program of research on social and personality psychology.
Working closely with graduate and undergraduate students,
I have conducted several experiments on these topics for the
past two years.
First,
our lab has conducted experiments to examine the effects of
mood states on the tendency to use stereotypes in making judgments
about members of social groups. Replicating the findings by
Park and Banaji (2000), we have varied the kinds of social
category in the judgment tasks. In addition, we are interested
in whether the effect of positive mood can ever be corrected
with proper instructions.
Second,
our lab has studied the influence of culture on human personality
(especially in terms of five factor model in personality).
Using NEO-PI, we have collected data from over 700 participants
who are Baruch College undergraduate students, which is known
to be the most diverse student population in the United States.
We expect that the results of this study will provide valuable
and useful information about personality structures of Americans
from different ethnic backgrounds, as the American society
becomes more diverse.
Lastly,
our lab is planning to conduct a series of experiments on
the effects of visual equipments on jury decision making.
As new visual technologies such as video, computer animation,
and PowerPoint are being used with increasing frequency in
court, it becomes more important to understand the effects
of using such technologies in courtrooms. Collaborating with
Dr. Feigenson , a Law Professor at Quinnipiac University,
we are designing a series of experiments to examine the effects
of visual technologies on jurors' legal decision making in
civil cases.
We
have completed several experiments for the past two years.
Based on the findings that we obtained, we are currently preparing
three manuscripts to submit for publication in academic psychological
journals.
Jaihyun_Park@Baruch.cuny.edu
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