Welcome to the Social Cognition Lab at the University of Texas at Austin!

Our research aims at understanding social judgments and social behavior by identifying their underlying mental processes. Central questions are concerned with the antecedents, mental underpinnings, and downstream consequences of spontaneous and deliberate responses to objects, individuals, groups, and social issues. To address these questions, our research utilizes a combination of lab and online studies, explicit and implicit measures, and computational modeling. Major lines of current research include moral judgment and decision-making, attitude formation and change, and effects of misinformation. In addition to these major themes, our work is concerned with basic questions of psychological measurement and meta-theoretical issues in the construction and evaluation of psychological theories.