Ferguson, Melissa J.
Associate Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
- Human Information Processing of Social Environments
- Nature and complexity of information activated in memory by stimuli
- Automatic evaluative processing
- Conscious and nonconscious goal pursuit
- Effects of automatically activated, complex knowledge structures on perception and behavior
primary investigator of
- AUTOMATIC EVALUATION AS A MECHANISM OF SELF-REGULATION | Research Grant
- IDEOLOGICAL AND AUTOMATIC: STUDIES ON THE COGNITIVE MECHANICS OF IDEOLOGIES | Research Grant
- WHEN ARCHIMEDES AND KING SOLOMON MEET: WISDOM AS INTUITIVE PROBLEM SOLVING | Research Grant
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Psychology (PSYCH) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Cognitive Science | minor graduate field
- Communication | graduate field
- Psychology | graduate field
teaching
teaching focus
- Social Cognition | Sociology 380
teaches
- PSYCH 4700 - Undergraduate Research in Psychology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- PSYCH 4710 - Advanced Undergraduate Research in Psychology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- PSYCH 4700 - Undergraduate Research in Psychology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- PSYCH 4710 - Advanced Undergraduate Research in Psychology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- PSYCH 3800 - Social Cognition (TR 01:25:PM-02:40:PM) | fall 2008 class