Daniel Rovenpor | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

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PhD, 2016, University of Massachusetts Amherst

MS, 2013, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Area(s):

Social Psychology

Dissertation:

Are People Motivated to Experience Emotions for their Cognitive Impacts? The Motivational Implications of Cognitive Appraisal Theories of Emotion

Masters Thesis:

Do Control Beliefs Help People Approach or Avoid Negative Stimuli? Context-Dependant Effects of Control Beliefs

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Research

Throughout my research, I aim to better understand the ways in which a small number of related psychological constructs – certainty, control, and causal attributions – powerfully shape a wide variety of personal and societal outcomes. By more fully understanding the impacts of these fundamental constructs, I aim to shed light on the basic mechanisms underlying emotion, attitudes, social cognition, intergroup conflict, and social justice.

Publications

Rovenpor, D. R., Leidner, B., Kardos, P., & O’Brien, T. C. (2016). Meaning threat can promote peaceful, not only military-based approaches to intergroup conflict: The moderating role of ingroup glorification. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 544-562.

Isbell, L. M., Rovenpor, D. R., & Lair, E. C. (2016). The impact of negative emotions on abstract and concrete thought depends on accessible information processing styles. Emotion, 16(7) 1040-1049.

Isbell, L. M., Lair, E. C., & Rovenpor, D. R. (2016). The impact of affect on out-group judgments depends on dominant information processing styles: Evidence from incidental and integral affect paradigms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(4) 485-497.

Li, M., Rovenpor, D. R., & Leidner, B. (2016). Regulating the scope of an emotion regulation perspective on intergroup reconciliation. Psychological Inquiry, 27(2), 117-123.

Isbell, L. M., Lair, E. C., & Rovenpor, D. R. (2013). Affect-as-Information about processing styles: A cognitive malleability approach. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 93-114.

Rovenpor, D. R., Skogsberg, N. J., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2013). The choices we make: An examination of situation selection in younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 28(2), 365-376.

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