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Steven Young
Assistant Professor sgyoung@fdu.edu
School of Psychology
Fairleigh Dickinson University |
About me
My research focuses on the social cognitive and motivational
processes that allow people to attend to, remember, and interpret
the most socially significant stimuli in their environment. Within
this theme, I have several active lines of investigation. For
example, my research on face recognition focuses on how social
categories and group membership motivate people to carefully attend
to and remember important individuals (e.g., ingroup members) or
disregard and poorly encode others (e.g., outgroup members). I also
research how social and motivational factors influence the
processing of expressions of emotion. My second line of research on
social belongingness explores how relationships influence social
cognition and motivation more broadly, including how we perceive the
important people in our lives and how losing social connections
directs our attention to social information that may facilitate
establishing new relationships.
Publications
Bernstein, M.J., Sacco,
D.F., Young, S.G., Cook, E., & Hugenberg, K. (in press). Being ‘in’
with the in-crowd: The effects of social exclusion and inclusion are
enhanced by shared ingroup status. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin.
Bernstein, M.J., Young,
S.G., & Claypool, H.M (in press). Is Obama’s win a gain for
African-Americans? Changes in implicit racial prejudice following
the 2008 election. Social Psychology.
Hugenberg,
K., Young, S.G., Sacco, D.F., & Bernstein, M.J. (in press).
Social cognitive influences on the processing of emotion and
identity recognition. To appear in A.J. Calder, G. Rhodes, J.V.
Haxby, and M. H. Johnson, (Eds.), The Handbook of Face Perception.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hugenberg,
K., Young, S.G., Bernstein, M.J., & Sacco, D.F. (in press).
The categorization-individuation model: A social cognitive model of
recognition biases. Psychological Review.
Jones,
I.F., Young, S.G., & Claypool, H.M. (in press). Approaching the
familiar: On the ability of mere exposure to direct approach and
avoidance behaviors. Motivation and Emotion.
Sacco, D.F., Brown, C.M., Young S.G., Bernstein, M.J., & Hugenberg,
K. (in press). Social acceptance facilitates male engagement in
multiple mating tactics. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin.
Slepian, M.L., Young, S.G., Rule, N.O., Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N.
(in press). Embodied impression formation: Social judgments and
motor cues to approach and avoidance. Social Cognition.
Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (in press). Individuation motivation
and face expertise operate jointly to produce the Own Race Bias.
Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Young, S.G., Sacco, D.F., & Hugenberg, K. (in press). Vulnerability
to disease is associated with a domain-specific preference for
symmetrical faces relative to symmetrical non-face stimuli.
European Journal of Social Psychology.
Bernstein, M.J., Sacco,
D.F., Brown, C.M., Young, S.G., & Claypool, H.M. (2010). A
preference for genuine smiles following social exclusion. Journal
of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 196-199.
Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2010). Mere social
categorization modulates identification of facial expressions of
emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99,
964-977.
Young S.G., Bernstein, M.J.,
& Hugenberg, K. (2010). When do Own-Group Biases in face recognition
occur? Encoding versus post-encoding. Social Cognition, 28,
240-250.
Young, S.G., & Claypool,
H.M. (2010). Familiarity differentially effects attention
allocation to threatening and non-threatening stimuli. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 424-427.
Brown, C.M., Young, S.G.,
& McConnell, A.R. (2009). Seeing close others as we see ourselves:
One’s own-self-complexity is reflected in meaningful others.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 515-523.
Brown, C.M., Young, S.G.,
Sacco, D.F., Bernstein, M.J., & Claypool, H.M. (2009). Social
acceptance facilitates interest in mating. Evolutionary
Psychology, 7, 11-27.
Young, S.G., Bernstein,
M.J., & Claypool. H.M. (2009). Rejected by the nation: The electoral
loss of a candidate included in the self is experienced as personal
rejection. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 9,
315-326.
Young, S.G., Hugenberg,
K., Bernstein, M.J., & Sacco, D.F. (2009). Intergroup salience
decreases recognition for same-race faces. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1123-1126.
Bernstein, M.J., Young,
S.G., Brown, C.M., Sacco, D.F., & Claypool, H.M. (2008). Adaptive
responses to social exclusion: Social rejection improves detection
of real and fake smiles. Psychological Science, 19, 981-983.
Shriver, E., Young, S.G.,
Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M.J., & Lanter, J. (2008). Class, race,
and the face: Outgroup contextual cues attenuate the own-race
advantage in face recognition. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 34, 260-274.
Bernstein, M.J., Young, S.G., & Hugenberg, K. (2007). The cross
category effect: Mere social categorization is sufficient to
elicit an own-group bias in face recognition. Psychological
Science, 18, 706-712.
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