Andrew R. Todd
My current research focuses on the following topics: (1) perspective taking, empathy, and mental-state reasoning; (2) cognitive processes in social attention, categorization, evaluation, inference, and judgment; and (3) stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination.
In a primary line of research, I study perspective taking and its implications for negotiating socially diverse environments. More specifically, I explore how perceiver-based factors (e.g., incidental emotions), target-based factors (e.g., social group membership), and contextual factors (e.g., diversity ideologies) influence the ability to intuit what other people see, know, want, and believe. I also examine how actively considering other people's thoughts, feelings, and other subjective experiences affects (a) the subtle biases that commonly pervade intergroup encounters and (b) information use during social inference more generally.
In another line of research, I study how automatic mental processes (often in conjunction with more deliberative ones) guide people's impressions of others. I'm particularly interested in how a greater understanding of these processes can inform important social issues, such as intergroup bias and diversity management.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Causal Attribution
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Cameron, C. D., Spring, V. L., & Todd, A. R. (2017). The empathy impulse: A multinomial model of intentional and unintentional empathy for pain. Emotion, 17, 395-411.
- Galinsky, A. D., Todd, A. R., Homan, A. C., Phillips, K. W., Apfelbaum, E. P., Sasaki, S. J., Richeson, J. A., Olayon, J. B., & Maddux, W. W. (2015). Maximizing the gains and minimizing the pains of diversity: A policy perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 742-748.
- Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (2017). Intergroup visual perspective taking: Shared group membership impairs self-perspective inhibition but may facilitate perspective calculation. Cognition, 166, 371-381.
- Todd, A. R., & Burgmer, P. (2013). Perspective taking and automatic intergroup evaluation change: Testing an associative self-anchoring account. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 786-802.
- Todd, A. R., Cameron, C. D., & Simpson, A. J. (2017). Dissociating processes underlying level-1 visual perspective taking in adults. Cognition, 159, 97-101.
- Todd, A. R., Forstmann, M., Burgmer, P., Brooks, A. W., & Galinsky, A. D. (2015). Anxious and egocentric: How specific emotions influence perspective taking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 374-391.
- Todd, A. R., & Galinsky, A. D. (2014). Perspective-taking as a strategy for improving intergroup relations: Evidence, mechanisms, and qualifications. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 374-387.
- Todd, A. R., & Simpson, A. J. (2016). Anxiety impairs spontaneous perspective calculation: Evidence from a level-1 visual perspective-taking task. Cognition, 156, 88-94.
- Todd, A. R., Simpson, A. J., & Tamir, D. I. (2016). Active perspective taking induces flexible use of self-knowledge during social inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1583-1588.
- Todd, A. R., Thiem, K. C., & Neel, R. (2016). Does seeing faces of young Black boys facilitate the identification of threatening stimuli? Psychological Science, 27, 384-393.
Andrew R. Todd
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616
United States of America