Samuel Klein, Ph.D.

(Postdoc) Research Scientist, Columbia University

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 Despite the obvious sophistication of the mind, we often find ourselves entangled in a web of misjudgments, overgeneralizations, and discriminatory acts. Why does our mental machinery, which works so well so often, also frequently lead us astray in the social world?

To understand how people think about each other, I measure both the information we use and the mental processes by which we use it to derive impressions and evaluations of others, and the decisions that follow. My work employs a diverse toolkit of computational models, behavioral paradigms, and data sources.

Publications

Klein, S. A. W. & Sherman, J. W. (in press). Measuring the Impact of Multiple Social Cues to Drive Theoretical Advancement in Person Perception Research. Psychological Review


Klein, S. A. W. & Todd, A. R. (2024). Emotion expression salience and racially biased weapon identification: a diffusion modeling approach. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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Calanchini, J., Schmidt, K., Sherman, J. W., & Klein, S. A. (2022). The contributions of positive outgroup and negative ingroup evaluation to implicit bias favoring outgroups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Klein, S. A., & Sherman, J. W. (2022). Measuring and modeling implicit cognition. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition

Sherman, J. W., & Klein, S. A. (2021). The four deadly sins of implicit attitude research. Frontiers in Psychology

Klein, S. A., Hutchings, R. J., & Todd, A. R. (2021). Revising mental representations of faces based on new diagnostic information. Cognition


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