Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Causal Attribution
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Ethics and Morality
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Organizational Behavior
- Political Psychology
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I conduct two related lines of research: one focusing on social justice and morality, and the other on political psychology.
My research on social justice investigates how and why people form a judgment that something is fair or unfair and the closely related question of what roles people's affective reactions and moral identities play in shaping their perceptions of fairness. My work on social justice also investigates how people work out the complexities of distributing both the benefits and burdens of cooperative living. For example, I have investigated whether people's cultural and political orientations influence what they consider to be a fair allocation of resources.
My second line of related research involves political psychology. For instance, I have investigated why liberals and conservatives make different attributions for the causes of social problems and consequently are differentially likely to help needy others.
Books:
- Neale, M. A., Mannix, E., & Mullen, E. (2010). Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Fairness and Groups. Emerald.
Journal Articles:
- Adams, G. S., & Mullen, E. (2012). The social and psychological costs of punishing. [Commentary on F. Guala’s “Reciprocity: Weak or Strong? What punishment experiments do (and do not) demonstrate]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
- Jordan, J., Mullen, E., & Murnighan, J. K. (2011). Striving for the moral self: The effects of recalling past moral actions on future moral behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 701-713.
- Maddux, W. W., Mullen, E., & Galinsky, A. G. (2008). Chameleons bake bigger pies and take bigger pieces: Strategic behavioral mimicry facilitates negotiation outcomes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 461-468.
- Morgan, G. S., Mullen, E., & Skitka, L. J. (2010). Understanding the ideo-attribution effect: Liberals’ and conservatives’ values motivate attributions for alleged misdeeds. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1241-1254.
- Mullen, E., Bauman, C. W., & Skitka, L. J. (2003). Avoiding the pitfalls of politicized psychology. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 3, 171-176.
- Mullen, E., & Nadler, J. (2008). Moral spillovers: The effect of moral violations on deviant behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1239-1245.
- Mullen, E., & Skitka, L. J. (2009). Comparing Americans' and Ukrainians' allocations of public assistance: The role of affective reactions in helping behavior. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 40, 301-318.
- Mullen, E., & Skitka, L. J. (2006). Exploring the psychological underpinnings of the moral mandate effect: Motivated reasoning, group differentiation, or anger? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 629-643.
- Mullen, E., & Skitka, L. J. (2006). When outcomes prompt criticism of procedures: An analysis of the Rodney King case. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 6, 1-14.
- Skitka, L. J., Bauman, C. W., & Mullen, E. (2004). Political tolerance and coming to psychological closure following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: An integrative approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 743-756.
- Skitka, L. J., & Mullen, E. (2002). The "dark side" of moral conviction. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2, 35-41.
- Skitka, L. J., & Mullen, E. (2002). Understanding judgments of fairness in a real-world political context: A test of the value protection model of justice reasoning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1419-1429.
- Skitka, L. J., Mullen, E., Griffin, T., Hutchinson, S., & Chamberlin, B. (2002). Dispositions, scripts, or motivated correction? Understanding ideological differences in explanations for social problems. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 470-487.
Other Publications:
- Mullen, E. (2007). The reciprocal relationship between affect and perceptions of fairness. In K. Tornblom & R. Vermunt (Eds.), Distributive and procedural justice: Research and social implications (pp. 15-37). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
- Skitka, L. J., Bauman, C. W., & Mullen, E. (2008). Morality and justice: An expanded theoretical perspective and empirical review. In K. A. Hegtvedt & J. Clay-Warner (Eds.), Advances in group processes: Justice (Vol. 25, pp 1-27). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
- Skitka, L. J., & Mullen, E. (2002). Psychological determinants of public opinion. In V. Ottati, et al., (Eds.), Social Psychological Application to Social Issues: The Social Psychology of Politics (pp. 107-134). New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers.
Courses Taught:
- Colloquium on the Teaching of Psychology
- Negotiations
- Organizational Behavior
- Social Psychology
- Social Psychology of Justice
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Elizabeth Mullen
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305-7298
United States
Phone: (650) 736-0596
Fax: (650) 725-9932