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EMILY
PRONIN
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001 |
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T:
609.258.8008
E: epronin@princeton.edu
2-S-6 Green Hall
Psychology Department
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540
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| RESEARCH
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| Much of my research concerns
natural asymmetries in the way we perceive ourselves versus
the way we perceive others. It further concerns how the processes
involved in self and social perception can lead us to misperceive
and misunderstand ourselves, and others. Examples of misunderstanding
that I investigate include the tendency to perceive insight
in one's own judgments -- but bias and other forms of irrationality
in others' judgments, and also the tendency to dramatically
overestimate the influence of one's own internal thoughts on
external events and outcomes. My work not only examines the
nature of such misunderstandings (e.g., when and why they occur),
but it also concerns how they can impact important phenomena
ranging from mental health to intergroup conflict. Another area
of research involves how we adjust our identities in response
to threatening stereotypes. Studies investigate how women in
mathematics "bifurcate" their feminine identities
in the face of negative stereotypes about their math ability
and potential. |
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