Jim Sherman
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University
1101 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7007
U.S.A.
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Professor Sherman has research interests in the following areas: (1) Perceiving groups and perceiving individuals. this work focuses on similarities and differences in the processes by which we form impressions of groups (e.g., stereotypes) and the processes involved in impression formation of individuals. Some of the issues involved are: memory based versus on-line processing; illusory correlation; group types (e.g., intimacy and task groups, social categories); entitativity of social objects. (2) Dual process models of judgment and of persuasion. The goal is to demonstrate the operation of two independent processes (and how these processes operate) in judgments, problem solving, resolving conflicts, and reactions to persuasive messages. (3) Psychology and the law. This work analyzes the ways in which psychology theory and research can be used to inform legal doctrine, legal principles, and decisions in both civil and criminal law. (4) Models of preference, in particular a Feature Matching model (related to Tversky's contrast model for similarity). This model is applied to detection of change, preferences, approach-avoidance conflict, post-decision regret, social comparison, and categorization. The model involves the factors of shared and unique features of items in the choice set and direction of comparison.
 Journal Articles:
- Dhar, R., Nowlis, S. M., & Sherman, S. J. (1999). Comparison effects on the construction of consumer preferences. Journal of Consumer Research, 26, 293-306.
- Ferreira, M. B., Garcia-Marques, L., Sherman, S. J., & Sherman, J. W. (2006). Automatic and controlled components of judgment and decision making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 7997-813.
- Hamilton, D. L., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Perceiving persons and groups. Psychological Review, 103, 336-355.
- Lickel, B., Hamilton, D. L., Wieczorkowska, G., Lewis, A., Sherman, S. J., & Uhles, A.N. (2000). Varieties of groups and the perception of group entitativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 223-246.
- Scholten, M., & Sherman, S. J. (2006). Tradeoffs and conflict: The double-mediation model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 237-261.
- Sherman, S. J., Castelli, L., & Hamilton, D. L. (2002). The spontaneous use of a group typology as an organizing principle in memory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82,328-342.
- Sherman, S. J., & Hoffmann, J. L. (in press). The psychology and law of voluntary manslaughter. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
- Sherman, S. J., Houston, D. A., & Eddy, D. (1999). Cancellation-and-focus: A feature matching model of choice. European Review of Social Psychology, 10, 169-197.
- Sherman, S. J., & McConnell, A. R. (1996). The role of counterfactual thinking in reasoning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10, 113-124.
- Spencer-Rodgers, J., Hamilton, D. L., & Sherman, S. J. (2007). The central role of entitativity in stereotypes of social categories and task groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 369-388.
Other Publications:
- Beike, D. R., & Sherman, S. J. (1994). Social inference: Inductions, deductions, and analogies. In R. S. Wyer & T. K. Srull (Eds.), Handbook of Social Cognition (2nd. ed., Vol. 1, pp. 209-285). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Hamilton, D. L., Sherman, S. J., Crump, S. A., & Spencer-Rodgers, J. (In press). The role of entitativity in stereotyping: Processes and parameters. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Johnson, M. K., & Sherman, S. J. (1990). Constructing and reconstructing the past and the future in the present. In E. T. Higgins & R. M. Sorrentino (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition: Foundations of social behavior (Vol. 2, pp. 482-526). New York: Guilford Press.
- Sherman, S. J., Beike, D. R., & Ryalls, K. R. (1999). Dual-processing accounts of inconsistencies in responses to general versus specific cases. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual process theories in social psychology (pp. 203-227). New York: Guilford.
- Sherman, S. J., & Johnson, A. L. (2003). Perceiving groups: How, what, and why? In G. V. Bodenhausen & A. J. Lambert (Eds.), Foundations of social cognition: A Festschrift in honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr (pp. 155-180). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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