Research Interests: Cognitive processing mechanisms related to attraction to members of the opposite sex; evolutionary psychology; terror management theory; ambivalence as a psychological process as well as its relationship to reactions to members of racial minorities and the handicapped; perspective-taking and self-awareness.
Research Facilities: Rooms for individual and group administered experiments; computer lab stations for presentation of research protocols, on-line video image manipulation, data recording and analysis; audio and video recording equipment.
Selected Publications
Hass, R.G. & Eisenstadt, D. Comparing theories and measures of ambivalent attitudes: A three-dimensional surface plot analysis and a reanalysis of experimental data. Presented at the American Psychological Association convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 1993.
Hass, R.G. & Nussbaum, A. Cognitive processing of physical attractiveness information by men and women. Presented at the Eastern Psychological Association convention, Arlington, Virginia, 1993.
Hass, R.G., Katz, I., Rizzo, N., Bailey, J., & Moore, L. (1992) When racial ambivalence evokes negative affect, using a disguised measure of mood. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 786-797.
Hass, R.G. & Eisenstadt, D. (1990) The effects of self-focused attention on perspective-taking and anxiety. Anxiety Research: An International Journal, 2, 165-176.
Katz, I. & Hass, R.G. (1988) Racial ambivalence and American value conflict: Correlational and priming studies of dual cognitive structures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 893-905.
Hass, R.G. (1984). Perspective-taking and self-awareness: Drawing an E on your forehead. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 788-798.
