Melissa J. Ferguson

     
Institution
Cornell University

Current Position
Associate Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from New York University, 2002

Research Interests
Attitudes
Emotion
Judgment/Decision Making
Motivation/Goal Setting
Person Perception
Political Psychology
Social Cognition

 
Melissa J. Ferguson
Department of Psychology
211 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-7601
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (607) 254-8791
Fax: (607) 255-8433


Current research interests include: implicit attitudes, implicit goal pursuit, implicit ideology


Journal Articles:

  • Bargh, J. A., & Ferguson, M. J. (2000). Beyond behaviorism: On the automaticity of higher mental processes. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 925-945.
  • Ferguson, M. J. (in press). On becoming ready to pursue a goal you don’t know you have: Effects of nonconscious goals on evaluative readiness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
  • Ferguson, M. J. (2007). On the automatic evaluation of end-states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 596-611.
  • Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). How social perception automatically influences behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 33-39.
  • Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). Liking is for doing: Effects of goal-pursuit on automatic evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 557-572.
  • Ferguson, M. J., Bargh, J. A., & Nayak, D. A. (2005). After-affects: How automatic evaluations influence the interpretation of unrelated, subsequent stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 182-191.
  • Ferguson, M. J., & Hassin, R. R. (2007). On the automatic association between America and aggression in news-watchers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1632-1647.
  • Hassin, R., Aarts, H., & Ferguson, M. J. (2005). Automatic goal inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 129-140.
  • Hassin, R. R., Ferguson, M. J., Shidlovsky, D., & Gross, T. (2007). Waved by invisible flags: The effects of subliminal exposure to flags on political thought and behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 19757-19761.
  • McCulloch, K.C., Ferguson, M. J., Kawada, C., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Taking a closer look: On the operation of nonconscious impression formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Swim, J. K., Ferguson, M. J., & Hyers, L. L. (1999). Avoiding stigma by association: Subtle prejudice against lesbians as a form of social distancing. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 61-68.
  • Swim, J. K., Hyers, L. L., Cohen, L. L., & Ferguson, M. J. (2001). Everyday sexism: Evidence for its incidence, nature, and psychological impact from three daily diary studies. Journal of Social Issues, 57, 31-53.

Other Publications:

  • Ferguson, M. J., Carter, T. C., & Hassin, R. R. (in press). On the automaticity of nationalist ideology: The case of the USA. Invited chapter in J. T. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (Eds.), Social and psychological bases of ideology and system justification. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Ferguson, M. J., Hassin, R., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Implicit motivation: Past, present, and future. Invited chapter to appear in J. Shah and W. Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of motivation science. NY: Guilford.
  • Fishbach, A., & Ferguson, M. J. (2007). The goal construct in social psychology. Invited chapter in A. W. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins & (Eds.). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (pp. 490-515). Volume II. New York: Guilford Press.

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