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Dr. Michael Robinson Associate Professor Mail: Department of Psychology |
Research Area: Our lab studies cognition/affect relationships across a diversity of topic areas such as personality, self-regulation, automaticity, subjective well-being, and aggression. The work takes place at the intersection of personality, social, and cognitive psychology and generally concerns affective outcomes. A particular ongoing interest is the manner in which explicit and implicit components of personality interact in predicting emotional experiences and behaviors.
Teaching: So far, at NDSU, I've taught Experimental Social Psychology (470/670), Personality Psychology (468/668), and Emotions (782).
Michael D. Robinson
Curriculum Vitae
February, 2008
Office Address:
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105
Phone: (701) 231-6312
Email: Michael.D.Robinson@ndsu.edu
Education:
1990 – B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
1996 – Ph.D., University
of California, Davis
Advisor: Joel T. Johnson
Area: Social Psychology; Social Cognition
Professional History:
June 1996-June 1999 – Postdoctoral Fellow, NIMH Emotion Consortium
University of Wisconsin and University of Illinois
Directors: Paul Ekman and Richard J. Davidson
Advisor: Gerald L. Clore
Area: Social Cognition; Cognition and Emotion
June 1999-August 2001 – Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
Area: Cognition and Emotion
August 2001-2005 – Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University
August 2005-current – Associate Professor, North Dakota State University
Areas: Cognition and Emotion; Affect and Health; Personality/Social Psychology
Research Interests:
* Automatic and controlled processes in cognition and emotion
* Personality and emotion
* Implicit measures of personality
* The cognitive causes and consequences of emotion
* Emotion and self-regulation
* Emotion, cognition, and health
* Judgment processes related to subjective well-being
Teaching Interests:
* Personality psychology
* Social psychology
* Social cognition
* Emotion
Publications:
Compton, R. J., Robinson, M. D., Ode, S., Quandt, L. C., Fineman, S. L., & Carp, J. (in press). Error-monitoring ability predicts daily stress regulation. Psychological Science.
Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Caven, A. J. (in press). Why a Big Mac is a good mac: Associations between affect and size. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
Moeller, S. K., Robinson, M. D., & Zabelina, D. L. (in press). Personality dominance and preferential use of the vertical dimension of space: Evidence from spatial attention paradigms. Psychological Science.
Ode, S., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (in press). Can one’s temper be cooled?: A role for agreeableness in moderating neuroticism’s influence on anger and aggression. Journal of Research in Personality.
Robinson, M. D. (in press). Self-report. In: D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to affective sciences. Oxford University Press.
Robinson, M. D. (in press). Levels of processing. In: D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to affective sciences. Oxford University Press.
Robinson, M. D., & Barrett, L. F. (in press). Belief and feeling in self-reports of emotion: Evidence for semantic infusion based on self-esteem. Self and Identity.
Robinson, M. D., Moeller, S. K., & Goetz, P. W. (in press). Are self-deceivers enhancing positive affect or denying negative affect: Toward an understanding of implicit affective processes. Cognition and Emotion.
Robinson, M. D., Zabelina, D. L., Ode, S., & Moeller, S. K. (in press). The vertical nature of dominance-submission: Individual differences in vertical attention. Journal of Research in Personality.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (in press). The cognitive basis of trait anger and reactive aggression: An integrative analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (in press). Putting the brakes on antisocial behavior: Secondary psychopathy and post-error adjustments in reaction time. Personality and Individual Differences.
Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (2008). Approach, avoidance, and self-regulatory conflict: An individual differences perspective. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 65-79.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (2008). Clear heads are cool heads: Emotional clarity and the down-regulation of antisocial affect. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 308-326.
Goetz, M. C., Goetz, P. W., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). What’s the use of being happy?: Mood states, useful objects, and repetition priming effects. Emotion, 7, 675-679.
Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Friesen, C. K., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). What’s ‘up’ with God?: Vertical space as a representation of the divine. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 699-710.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). Aggressive cues activate hostile thoughts: People low, rather than high, in trait aggression are more susceptible. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 23-34.
Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., Crawford, L. E., & Ahlvers, W. J. (2007). When “light” and “dark” thoughts become light and dark responses: Affect biased brightness judgments. Emotion, 7, 366-376.
Ode, S., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). Agreeableness and the self-regulation of negative affect: Findings involving the neuroticism/somatic distress relationship. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 2137-2148.
Robinson, M. D. (2007). Gassing, braking, and self-regulating: Error self-regulation, well-being, and goal-related processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 1-16.
Robinson, M. D. (2007). Lives lived in milliseconds: Using cognitive methods in personality research. In: R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 345-359). New York: Guilford Press.
Robinson, M. D. (2007). Personality, affective processing, and self-regulation: Toward process-based views of extraversion, neuroticism, and agreeableness. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 223-235.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2007). Traits, states, and encoding speed: Support for a top-down view of neuroticism/stress relations. Journal of Personality, 75, 95-120.
Robinson, M. D., & Compton, R. J. (2007). The happy mind in action: The cognitive basis of subjective well-being. In: M. Eid & R. J. Larsen (Eds.), The science of subjective well-being (pp. 220-238). New York: Guilford Press.
Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., Wilkowski, B. M., & Ode, S. (2007). Introversion, inhibition, and displayed anxiety: The role of error reactivity processes. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 558-578.
Robinson, M. D., Ode, S., Moeller, S. K., & Goetz, P. W. (2007). Neuroticism and affective priming: Evidence for a neuroticism-linked negative schema. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1221-1231.
Robinson, M. D., Ode, S., Wilkowski, B. M., & Amodio, D. M. (2007). Neurotic contentment: A self-regulation view of neuroticism-linked distress. Emotion, 7, 579-591.
Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). The happy spotlight: Positive mood and selective attention to rewarding information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1124-1136.
Weger, U. W., Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Inhoff, A. W. (2007). Things are sounding up: Affective influences on auditory tone perception. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 517-521.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). Where danger lies: The spatial priming of negative affect. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 85-90.
Wilkowksi, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). Keeping one’s cool: Trait anger, hostile thoughts, and the recruitment of limited capacity control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1201-1213.
Wilkowksi, B. M., Robinson, M. D., Gordon, R. D., & Troop-Gordon, W. (2007). Tracking the evil eye: Trait anger and selective attention within ambiguously hostile scenes. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 650-666.
Zabelina, D. L., Robinson, M. D., & Anicha, C. L. (2007). The psychological tradeoffs of self-control: A multi-method investigation. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 463-473.
Armstrong, J. F., Wittrock, D. A., & Robinson, M. D. (2006). Implicit associations in tension-type headaches: A cognitive analysis based on stress reactivity processes. Headache, 46, 1281-1290.
Engel, S. G., Robinson, M. D., Wonderlich, S. J., Meier, B. P., Wonderlich, S. A., Crosby, R. D., et al. (2006). Does the avoidance of body and shape concerns reinforce eating disordered attitudes?: Evidence from a manipulation study. Eating Behaviors, 7, 368-374.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2006). Does “feeling down” mean seeing down?: Depressive symptoms and vertical selective attention. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 451-461.
Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., Gaither, G. A., & Heinert, N. J. (2006). A secret attraction or defensive loathing?: Homophobia, defense, and implicit cognition. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 377-394.
Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (2006). Turning the other cheek: Agreeableness and the regulation of aggression-related primes. Psychological Science, 17, 136-142.
Ready, R.E., Robinson, M.D., & Weinberger, M. (2006). Age differences in the organization of emotion knowledge: Effects involving valence and time frame. Psychology and Aging, 21, 726-736.
Robinson, M. D., & Cervone, D. (2006). Riding a wave of self-esteem: Perseverative tendencies as dispositional forces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 103-111.
Robinson, M. D., & Compton, R. J. (2006). The automaticity of affective reactions: Stimulus valence, arousal, and lateral spatial attention. Social Cognition, 24, 469-495.
Robinson, M. D., Goetz, M. C., Wilkowski, B. M., & Hoffman, S. J. (2006). Driven to tears or to joy: Response dominance and trait-based predictions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 629-640.
Robinson, M. D., Mitchell, K. A., Kirkeby, B. S., & Meier, B. P. (2006). The self as a container: Implications for implicit self-esteem and somatic symptoms. Metaphor and Symbol, 21, 147-167.
Robinson, M. D., & Neighbors, C. (2006). Catching the mind in action: Implicit methods in personality research and assessment. In: M. Eid & E. Diener (Eds.), Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology (pp. 115-125). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Robinson, M. D., & Oishi, S. (2006). Trait self-report as a “fill in” belief system: Categorization speed moderates the extraversion/life satisfaction relation. Self and Identity, 5, 15-34.
Robinson, M. D., & von Hippel, W. (2006). Rose-colored priming effects: Life satisfaction and affective priming. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1, 187-197.
Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (2006). Loving, hating, vacillating: Agreeableness, implicit self-esteem, and neurotic conflict. Journal of Personality, 74, 935-978.
Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., Kirkeby, B. S., & Meier, B. P. (2006). Stuck in a rut: Perseverative response tendencies and the neuroticism/distress relationship. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 78-91.
Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (2006). Unstable in more ways than one: Reaction time variability and the neuroticism/distress relationship. Journal of Personality, 74, 311-343.
Rokke, P. D., & Robinson, M. D. (2006). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: A new approach to preventing relapse (book review). Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 654-655.
Storbeck, J., Robinson, M. D., & McCourt, M. E. (2006). Semantic processing precedes affect retrieval: The neurological case for cognitive primacy in visual processing. Review of General Psychology, 10, 41-55.
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Solberg, E. C. (2006). You may worry, but can you recognize threats when you see them?: Neuroticism, threat identifications, and negative affect. Journal of Personality, 74, 1481-1506.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (2006). Stopping dead in one’s tracks: Motor inhibition following incidental evaluations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 479-490.
Wilkowski, B. M., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2006). Agreeableness and the prolonged spatial processing of antisocial and prosocial information. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 1152-1168.
Clore, G. L., Storbeck, J., Robinson, M. D., & Centerbar, D. (2005). Seven deadly sins of research on affect. In: L. F. Barrett, P. M. Niedenthal, & P. Winkielman (eds.), Emotion and consciousness (pp. 384-408). New York: Guilford Press.
Kirkeby, B. S., & Robinson, M. D. (2005). Impulsive behavior and stimulus-response variability in choice reaction time. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 263-277.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2005). The metaphorical representation of affect. Metaphor and Symbol, 20, 239-257.
Robinson, M. D., & Kirkeby, B. S. (2005). Happiness as a belief system: Individual differences and priming in emotion judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1134-1144.
Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (2005). Rotten to the core: Neuroticism and implicit evaluations of the self. Self and Identity, 4, 361-372.
Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., & Solberg, E. C. (2005). What shields some can shackle others: The approach-related consequences of threat categorizations vary by agreeableness. European Journal of Personality, 19, 575-594.
Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., & Vargas, P. T. (2005). Extraversion, threat categorizations, and negative affect: A reaction time approach to avoidance motivation. Journal of Personality, 73, 1397-1436.
Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., Zetocha, K. J., & McCaul, K. D. (2005). Smoking and the Implicit Association Test: When the contrast category determines the theoretical conclusions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27, 201-212.
Robinson, M. D., & Tamir, M. (2005). Neuroticism as mental noise: A relation between neuroticism and reaction time standard deviations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 107-114.
Gasper, K., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Locating the self in the stream of emotion: Problems and promises. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 145-149.
Johnson, J. T., Robinson, M. D., & Mitchell, E. B. (2004). Inferences about the authentic self: When do actions say more than mental states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 615-630.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Does quick to blame mean quick to anger?: The role of agreeableness in dissociating the blame/anger relationship? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 856-867.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Why the sunny side is up: Associations between affect and vertical position. Psychological Science, 15, 243-247.
Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2004). Why good guys wear white: Automatic inferences about stimulus valence based on color. Psychological Science, 15, 82-87.
Robinson, M. D. (2004). Personality as performance: Categorization tendencies and their correlates. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 127-129.
Robinson, M., D., Storbeck, J., Meier, B. P., & Kirkeby, B. S. (2004). Watch out! That could be dangerous: Valence-arousal interactions in evaluative processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1472-1484.
Robinson, M. D., Vargas, P. T., Tamir, M., & Solberg, E. C. (2004). Using and being used by categories: The case of negative evaluations and daily well-being. Psychological Science, 15, 521-526.
Solberg, E. G., Diener, E., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Why are materialists less satisfied? In: T. Kasser & A. Kanner (Eds.), Psychology and consumer culture: The struggle for a good life in a materialistic world (pp. 29-48). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Storbeck, J., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Preferences and inferences in encoding visual objects: A systematic comparison of semantic and affective priming. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 81-93.
Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Knowing good from bad: The paradox of neuroticism, negative affect, and evaluative processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 913-925.
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., Clore, G. L., Martin, L. L., & Whitaker, D. (2004). Are we puppets on a string?: The contextual meaning of unconscious expressive cues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 237-249.
Robinson, M. D., Rokke, P. D., & Tamir, M. (2003). Feeling about thinking: The role(s) of affect in social cognition. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 48, 356-358.
Robinson, M. D., Solberg, E. C., Vargas, P., & Tamir, M. (2003). Trait as default: Extraversion, subjective well-being, and the distinction between neutral and positive events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 517-527.
Robinson, M. D., Vargas, P., & Crawford, E. G. (2003). Putting process into personality, appraisal, and emotion: Evaluative processing as a missing link. In J. Musch & C. Klauer (Eds.), The psychology of evaluation: Affective processes in cognition and emotion (pp. 275-306). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2002). Belief and feeling: An accessibility model of emotional self-report. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 934-960.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2002). Episodic and semantic knowledge in emotional self-report: Evidence for two judgment processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 198-215.
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2002). The epistemic benefits of trait-consistent mood states: An analysis of extraversion and mood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 663-677.
Johnson, J. T., Long, D. L., & Robinson, M. D. (2001). Is a cause conceptualized as a generative force?: Evidence from a recognition memory paradigm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 398-412.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2001). Simulation, scenarios, and emotional appraisal: Testing the convergence of real and imagined reactions to emotional stimuli. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1520-1532.
Robinson, M. D., Johnson, J. T., & Shields, S. A. (2001). The gender heuristic and the database. In: W. Gerrod Parrott (Ed.), Emotions in social psychology: Key readings in social psychology (pp. 157-169). Philadelphia, P.A.: Psychology Press. (Note: This is an edited version of our 1998 paper listed above.)
Clore, G. L., & Robinson, M. D. (2000). What is emotion regulation?: In search of a phenomenon. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 163-166.
Robinson, M. D. (2000). The reactive and prospective functions of mood: Its role in linking daily experiences and cognitive well-being. Cognition and Emotion, 14, 145-176.
Robinson, M. D., Johnson, J. T., & Robertson, D. A. (2000). Process versus content in eyewitness metamemory monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6, 207-221.
Robinson, M. D., & Ryff, C. D. (1999). The role of self-deception in perceptions of past, present, and future happiness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 595-606.
Robinson, M., D. (1998). Running from William James’ bear: A review of preattentive mechanisms and their contributions to emotional experience. Cognition and Emotion, 12, 667-696.
Robinson, M. D., & Johnson, J. T. (1998). How not to enhance the confidence-accuracy relation: The detrimental effects of attention to the identification process. Law and Human Behavior, 22, 409-428.
Robinson, M. D., Johnson, J. T., & Shields, S. A. (1998). The gender heuristic and the database: Factors affecting the perception of gender-related differences in the experience and display of emotions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 20, 206-219.
Robinson, M. D., & Johnson, J. T. (1997). Is it emotion or is it stress?: Gender stereotypes and the perception of subjective experience. Sex Roles, 36, 235-258.
Robinson, M. D., Johnson, J. T., & Herndon, F. (1997). Reaction time and assessments of cognitive effort as predictors of eyewitness memory accuracy and confidence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 416-425.
Robinson, M. D., & Johnson, J. T. (1996). Recall memory, recognition memory, and the eyewitness confidence-accuracy correlation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 81, 587-594.
Robinson, M. D., Johnson, J. T., & Shields (1995). On the advantages of modesty: The benefits of a balanced self-characterization. Communication Research, 22, 575-591.
Conference Presentations:
Moeller, S. K., Ode, S., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (February, 2008). Dominant minds are vertical minds: Spatial attention processes. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Ode, S., Robinson, M. D., & Feltman, R. (February, 2008). The benefits of mindfulness depend on what’s in your mind: A role for mindfulness in moderating neuroticism/distress relations. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., Ode, S., & Meier, B. P. (February, 2008). Neuroticism and cognitive control: Toward an interactive framework. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (February, 2008). A regulatory perspective on trait anger. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Robinson, M. D. (November, 2007). Error regulation and self-regulation. Invited talk, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
Robinson, M. D. (March, 2007). Neurotic contentment: A self-regulation perspective. Invited talk, University of Rochester, NY.
Ode, S., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (January, 2007). Agreeableness as self-regulation: Its role in moderating neuroticism-related depression. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Robinson, M. D. (January, 2007). The correlates of individual differences in automaticity and cognitive control: Evidence from daily experience. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., & Wilkowski, B. M. (January, 2007). Agreeable self-regulation: A social cognition perspective. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
van Boven, L, & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2007). Boys don’t cry: Cognitive busyness increases gender stereotypic emotion memory. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Wilkowski, B. M., Robinson, M. D., & Ode, S. (January, 2007). Clear feelings are cool feelings: The role of emotional clarity in anger regulation. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2006). The happy mind in action. Invited talk, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Caven, A. J. (January, 2006). The bigger the better: Associations between affect and size. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Ode, S., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (January, 2006). Igniting and extinguishing the flame: Interactive effects of neuroticism and agreeableness in predicting anger/aggression. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Robinson, M. D., & Tamir, M. (January, 2006). Epistemic consequences of mood for affective processing: Interactions of mood and personality. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Tamir, M., & Robisnon, M. D. (January, 2006). A happy spotlight: The effects of positive affect on selective attention. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2006). The spontaneous self-regulation of aggressive primes by low anger individuals. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2005). Why some people are stuck in the past: States, traits, and episodic encoding skills. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2005). Assumptions about stimulus valence based on vertical position. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, L. A.
Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2005). On feeling down and attending down: Depressive symptoms and vertical selective attention. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Wilkowski, B. M., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2005). Pausing in thought or ready to fight: Trait anger and task switching behavior following violent thoughts. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (May, 2004). Agreeable people and the self-regulation of hostile thoughts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Zetocha, K., Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & McCaul, K. D. (March, 2004). Assessing smokers’ and non-smokers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards smoking: Are they different? Poster presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2004). Down and out: Negative affect and vertical selective attention. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2004). Recognizing bad things can be hedonically pleasing: Traits, implicit approach and avoidance, and mood states. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2003). Personality as categorization. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Meier, B. P. & Robinson, M. D. (May, 2003). Blame accessibility, anger, and the moderating role of agreeableness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Robinson, M. D. (July, 2002). Are extraverts happier?: A trait as belief perspective. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Cuenca, Spain.
Clore, G. L., Robinson, M. D., Tamir, M., & Centerbar, D. (July, 2002). When motions make emotions. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Cuenca, Spain.
Clore, G. L., Robinson, M. D., Tamir, M., & Centerbar, D. (February, 2002). Are emotions responses to stimuli or interpretations of stimuli? Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, Georgia.
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (May, 2001). Trait-state congruency in affective processing. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Storbeck, J. L., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (April, 2001). When preferences need inferences: A direct comparison of affect and cognition. Poster presented at the Social, Cognitive, and Neuroscience Conference, Los Angeles, California.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (February, 2001). Dissociating belief and feeling in self-reports of emotion. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Crawford, E. G., Joncich, A. D., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 2000). Don’t just smile and nod: Motor effects on emotional experience are cognitively mediated. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 2000). Aggregation and belief in self-reports of emotion: Evidence from a new reaction time paradigm. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 2000). When do we really know what we want?: Trait-state congruency in affective processing. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (May, 2000). Aggregation and belief in self-reports of emotion. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Robinson, M. D., & Ryff, C. D. (February, 2000). Self-deception and judgments of future well-being. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Nashville, Tennessee.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 1998). Ambivalent affect and emotion labeling: Evidence for a new two-factor theory. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Würzberg, Germany.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 1998). The comparative automaticity of fear. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Würzberg, Germany.
Robinson, M. D. (November, 1997). Sex differences in emotion, and the implication for measuring subjective well-being. Paper presented at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Awards/Recognition:
Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, College Honors, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Awarded membership to ISRE (International Society for Research on Emotions) and SESP (Society for Experimental Social Psychology).
Recipient of the 2004 College of Science and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Research, North Dakota State University.
Recipient of the 2005-2008 James A. Meier Junior Professor Award, North Dakota State University.
Awarded tenure two years early, 2005, North Dakota State University.
Appointed Associate Editor for Journal of Personality, 2005-2007; Re-appointed for 2007-2009 term.
Listed among most published authors at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin with 6 articles published in this journal in the last 10 years.
Research featured in a London Times article (“Just look up to find happiness”, written by Roger Dobson & Jonathan Carr-Brown, published July 24, 2005).
Editor’s pick selection at Science, September 2005 issue (Vol. 309, 2).
Appointed Associate Editor for Cognition and Emotion, 2007-2009.
Appointed Consulting Editor for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Science, 2007-2009.
Recipient of the 2007 Waldron Research Award, a University-Wide Research-Award, North Dakota State University.
Research featured in American Psychology Association (APA) Monitor, November, 2007.
Elected as a Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS), 2007.
Awards/Recognition for Mentees:
Advisor for John Whitney, who received the Janet Trisch Memorial Award for the most outstanding honor’s thesis, 2000, University of Illinois.
Title: The influence of perceptual cues on affective processing: Are congruency effects inevitable?
Advisor for Justin Storbeck, who received a grant from the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, 2000.
Advisor for Justin Storbeck, who received the Janet Trisch Memorial Award for the most outstanding honor’s thesis, 2001, University of Illinois.
Title: Preferences and inferences in encoding visual objects: A systematic comparison of semantic and affective priming.
Advisor for Maya Tamir, who was awarded the 2002 Nancy Hirschberg memorial award for outstanding research or scholarship at the University of Illinois. Title: The epistemic benefits of trait-consistent mood states: An analysis of extraversion and mood.
Advisor for Brian P. Meier, who received a two-year Doctoral Dissertation fellowship from the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR/NSF), North Dakota State University, 2003-2004.
Advisor for Maya Tamir, who was awarded the 2004 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Award for outstanding student publication.
Title: Are we puppets on a string?: The contextual meaning of unconscious expressive cues.
Advisor for Brian P. Meier, who was awarded a Martin Seligman Research Alliance Micro-Grant for his dissertation work, 2004.
Title: Using metaphor to promote positive affect.
Advisor for Brian P. Meier, who was the recipient of the 2004 College of Science and Mathematics Ph.D. Student Award for Excellence in Research, North Dakota State University.
Advisor for Brian P. Meier, who accepted a tenure-track job at
Gettysburg College, 2005.
Advisor for Maya Tamir, who accepted a tenure-track job at Boston
College, 2006.
Advisor for Benjamin M. Wilkowski, who received a two-year Doctoral Dissertation fellowship from the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR/NSF), North Dakota State University, 2006-2008.
Advisor for Darya Zabelina, who received the Estensen Award for the most outstanding graduating senior in psychology, North Dakota State University, 2007.
Advisor for Ashley Randall, who received a Fulbright Award to study in Switzerland, 2007-2008.
Advisor for Roger Feltman, who received the Estensen Award for the most outstanding graduating senior in psychology, North Dakota State University, 2008.
Grants (Principle Investigator):
P.I. on Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant, September, 2004
North Dakota State University
P.D.: Mark McCourt, Visual Neuroscience
Grant Title: Vigilance and Avoidance in Affective Visual Processing
5 years, $719,000
(Note: Because I currently have an RO1, my portion of the funded COBRE grant was dropped.)
P.I. on grant MH68241-001, August 2003-June 2007
North Dakota State University
Grant Title: Personality, Antisocial Thoughts, and Aggression
4 years, $565,000
P.I. on NSF grant SBR 9817649, June 1999-June 2002,
University of Illinois and North Dakota State University
Grant Title: The Comparative Automaticity of Fear
3 years, $310,000
Michael D. Robinson
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105
Email: Michael.D.Robinson@ndsu.edu
Phone: (701) 231-6312
Fax: (701) 231-8426
Updated 2/14/08