Jason Plaks
Department of Psychology
4003 Sidney Smith Hall
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
Canada
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Phone: 416-946-7010
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I am a social/personality psychologist interested in the links between cognition and motivation. Current research concerns people’s implicit theories of personality and action and their connection to the motivation for prediction and control. This research has implications for basic person perception and stereotyping processes, achievement behavior, and moral reasoning. A second line of research concerns motivated and strategic aspects of automatic, stereotype-guided behavior. |
 Journal Articles:
- Cesario, J., Plaks. J.E., & Higgins, E.T. (2006). Automatic social behavior as motivated preparation to interact. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 893-910.
- Leach, F.R. & Plaks, J.E. (2009). Regret for errors of commission versus omission in the near-term and far-term: The role of level of abstraction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 221-229.
- Plaks, J. E., Grant, H., & Dweck, C. S. (2005). Violations of implicit theories and the sense of prediction and control: Implications for motivated person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 245-262.
- Plaks, J.E., McNichols, N.K, & Fortune, J.L. (2009). Thoughts versus deeds: Distal and proximal intent in lay judgments of moral responsibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1687-1701.
- Plaks, J.E & Stecher, K. (2007). Unexpected improvement, decline, and stasis: A prediction confidence perspective on achievement success and failure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 667-684.
- Plaks, J. E., Stroessner, S. J., Dweck, C. S., & Sherman, J. W. (2001). Person theories and attention allocation: Preferences for stereotypic vs. counterstereotypic information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 876-893.
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