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Mark Hallahan

Associate Professor, Department Chair

Areas of Expertise

Social psychology, person perception, impression formation, causal attribution

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University; MA, Social psychology, Harvard University; BA, Psychology, Amherst College

Biography

Mark received his Ph.D. in Social psychology from Harvard University in 1995. He has taught at ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ since 1999 and currently serves as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Personality and Social Psychology.

Awards

  • Arthur J. O'Leary Faculty Recognition Award, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½, 2006
  • Honorable Mention, Student Research Award,  Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995
  • Tozier Fund, Harvard University, 1994-95
  • Stimpson Fund, Harvard University, 1994-95
  • Student Research Award, Social Science Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994
  • Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991
  • Amherst Memorial Fellowship, Amherst College, 1991-92
  • William James Merit Scholarship, Harvard University, 1990-92
  • John Woodruff Simpson Fellowship, Amherst College, 1988

Publications

1. Ambady, N., Hallahan, M. & Rosenthal, R.. (1995).  On judging and being judged accurately in zero acquaintance situations.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, p. 518-529. 

2. Lee, F., Hallahan, M. & Herzog, T. A. (1996).  Explaining real life events: How culture and domain shape attributions.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 732-741.

3. Hallahan, M. & Rosenthal, R. (1996a) Statistical power: Concepts, procedures, and applications.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 489-499.

4. Hallahan, M. & Rosenthal, R. (1996b).  Contrast analysis in educational research.  Journal of Research in Education, 6, 3-17.

5. Halverson, A. M., Hallahan, M., Hart, A. J. & Rosenthal, R. (1997).  Reducing the biasing effect of judges' nonverbal behavior with simplified jury instructions.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 590-598.

6. Hallahan, M., Lee, F. & Herzog, T. A. (1997)  It’s not just whether you win or lose, it’s also where you play the game: A naturalistic, cross-cultural examination of the positivity bias.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 28, 768-778.

7. Hallahan, M. (1999) The hazards of mechanical hypothesis testing: A commentary on Krueger.  Psycoloquy, 10, 001.  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.001

8. Ambady, N., Hallahan, M. & Connor, B. (1999).  Accuracy of judgments of sexual orientation from thin slices of behavior.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 538-547.

9. Hallahan, M. & Rosenthal, R. (2000). Interpreting and reporting results. In H. E. A. Tinsley. & S. D. Brown. (Eds.), The Handbook of Applied Multivariate Statistics and Mathematical Modeling (pp. 125-149).  San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

10.  Lee, F. & Hallahan, M.  (2001). Do Situational Expectations Produce Situational Inferences?  The Role of Future Expectations in Directing Inferential Goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 545-556. 

11.  Ambady, N. & Hallahan, M.  (2002). Using nonverbal representations of behavior: Perceiving sexual orientation (pp. 320-332).  In S. M. Kosslyn, A. M. Galaburda & Christen, Y. (Eds.), The Languages of the Brain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

12.  Garcia, S. M., Hallahan, M. & Rosenthal, R. (2007)  Poor expression: Concealing social class stigma.  Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 99-107.

13.  Hallahan, M. (2007).  Prototypes. In R. F. Baumeister & K D.. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (vol 2, pp 714-716).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

14.  Fox, A., Bukatko, D., Hallahan, M. & Crawford, M. (2007).  The Medium Makes a Difference: Gender Similarities and Differences in Instant Messaging.  Journal of Social Psychology and Language, 26, 389-397.

15.  Hallahan, M., Borders, J., & Schmidt, R. C. (2013). Does motor synchrony really create interpersonal cooperation? In T. Davis, P. Passos, M. Dicks & J.A. Weast-Knapp (Eds.), Studies in Perception & Action XII (pp. 24-28). New York, NY: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group.