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David DeSteno
Associate Professor
125 Nightingale
(617) 373-7884 (office)
(617) 373-8714 (fax)
d.desteno@neu.edu

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Research

Dr. DeSteno's research centers on the role of the emotion system in social cognition and social behavior. His lab takes a multilevel and multiprocess approach to examining the psychological and biological functions, phenomenologies and consequences that are associated with discrete emotional states. Current projects focus on the effects of specific emotions on several types of volitional and automatic social judgments (e.g. risk assessment, persuasion, prejudice) on the cultural and evolved aspects of social emotions (e.g. jealousy, gratitude), and on individual differences in attention to and utilization of affective information.

Frequently Taught Courses

Undergraduate:
Social Psychology
Research Methods in Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Psychology of Emotion

Graduate:
Social Cognition
Emotion and the Social Mind
Advanced Quantitative Analysis