Associate Professor

431 Peretsman Scully Hall

epronin@princeton.edu

Ph.D., Stanford University

Curriculum Vit? (46.33 KB)

Summary Much of my research concerns natural asymmetries in the way we perceive ourselves versus the way we perceive others. It further concerns the different processes involved in self and social perception, and how these processes can lead us to misperceive and misunderstand ourselves and others in ways that can produce conflict between individuals and groups. For example, I investigate the causes and consequences of people's tendency to perceive insight in their own judgments -- but bias and other forms of irrationality in others' judgments. These attributions are particularly harmful in our era of heightened political polarization. Another area of research concerns the surprising consequences of thought speed. In everyday life, our thoughts sometimes move slowly and at other times seem to race. By experimentally manipulating the pace of people's thoughts, I have found that fast thinking leads to positive mood, heightened energy, increased self-esteem, more risk-taking, and lower depressive symptoms. Current work in the lab is focused in these two major areas.






Representative Publications
Cheek, N. N., Blackman, S. F., & Pronin, E. (2020). Seeing the subjective as objective:? People perceive the taste of those they disagree with as biased and wrong. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. DOI: 10.1002/bdm.2201

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Laird, A. A., & Pronin, E. (2019). Professors’ romantic advances undermine students’ academic interest, confidence, and identification. Sex Roles, 83, 1-15.? DOI: 10.1007/s11199-019-01093-1

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Yang, K., & Pronin, E. (2018). Consequences of thought speed. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 57, 167-222.

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Pronin, E., & Schmidt, K. (2012). Claims and denials of bias and their implications for policy. In E. Shafir, Ed., The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy (pp. 195-216).?Princeton, NJ:? Princeton University Press.

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Pronin, E. (2009). The introspection illusion. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 41, 1-68. ?

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