- Claude Bernard -

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”

Our Research

Our Social Cognition Lab focus on just that...social cognition. More specifically, we’re interested in how the beliefs and interactions of individuals and groups might influence their thoughts, behaviors, and attributions of responsibility and guilt in others. We have lab projects that several people work on, as well as several student-led projects and thesis projects that are tangential to this central line of research.

Presentations & Publications

Embrescia, E., Toppin, E., Sibicky, M. & Klein, C. (2017, March). Money as a motivator: Can handling cash make you

stronger? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Hendrich, M. & Klein, C. (2017, March). Does mindfulness affect implicit learning? Poster presented at the annual

meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Klein, C., Hupp, M., Brooke, S. & Sibicky, M. (2017, March). The dark triad and need for cognition predict implicit and explicit presidential candidate endorsements. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Sibicky, M., Klein, C., Evanson, D., Maynard, E. & Monroe, S. (2017, March). Free will beliefs and performance on a

visual motor task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Hendrich, M., Burns, A., & Klein, C. (2016). Attention, priming, and change blindness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

Hendrich, M. & Klein, C. (2016). The effect of mindfulness on implicit learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

Lund, T., Tokie, L., Klein, C., & Sibicky, M. (2016). Perceptions of human and automated customer service interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

Klein, C. & Sibicky, M. (2016). Causality mediates the relation between free will and homosexuality attitudes. Poster

presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Allen, C. Sibicky, M., & Klein, C. (2016). Understanding date initiation in the context of interracial dating. Poster

presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Lund, T. Ai, S., Klein, C. & Sibicky, M. (2016). Taking psychology courses decreases the endorsement of psychological myths. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Hupp, M., Stanley, B., Eckstein, L. & Klein, C. (2016). Do nice guys finish last? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Beabout, R., & Klein, C. (2016). Accessing meaning of ambiguous homographs embedded within sentences in children with ASD. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Baltimore, MD.

Allen, C., Sibicky, M. E., Klein, C., & Green E. (2015). The blame game: Free will and perceptions of guilt. Poster

presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Klein, C., Sibicky, M., Allen, C., & Green E. (2015). Philosophies of mind: Psychology 101 students’ beliefs about free will and psychological myths. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Green, E. Sibicky, M, Klein, C., Coyle, M. & Woodrow, A. (2013). Beliefs about the existence of free will affect

attributions and cooperative performance. Poster presented at Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Green, E. Sibicky, M, Klein, C. (2013). Trait differences in beliefs about free will affect attributions and task performance. Poster presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.