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Ron Comer
Joel Cooper
John Darley
Susan Fiske
Joan Girgus
Sam Glucksberg
Elizabeth Gould
Michael Graziano
Charles Gross
James Haxby
Bartley Hoebel
Barry Jacobs
Philip Johnson-Laird
Daniel Kahneman
Sabine Kastner
Virginia Kwan
Kenneth Norman
Daniel Osherson
Deborah Prentice
Emily Pronin
Eldar Shafir
Nicole Shelton
Susan Sugarman
Alexander Todorov
Frank Tong
Anne Treisman

 JOEL COOPER
 Professor of Psychology
 Ph.D., Duke University, 1969
 CASE STUDY
Can I Feel Your Pain?
CONTACT INFO 
T: 609.258.2696
E: jcoops@princeton.edu

2-C-17 Green Hall
Psychology Department
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540

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RESEARCH SUMMARY 
My major research focus is on attitudes and attitude change, particularly as they relate to the process of cognitive dissonance. My recent work examines the role of the vicarious experience of dissonance -- i.e., feeling dissonance due to the inconsistent behavior of others. I am also interested in the role of the self in dissonance arousal. Two other areas of active interest are (1) the effect of expert testimony in courts of law and (2) gender differences in the effectiveness of information technology, particularly among school children.
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