Daniel C. Molden

Institution Northwestern University Current Position Assistant Professor of Psychology Highest Degree Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Columbia University, 2003 Research Interests Attribution Close Relationships Interpersonal Processes Judgment/Decision Making Motivation/Goal Setting Person Perception Self/Identity Social Cognition Courses Taught Methods in Social Psychology Motivated Thinking Personality Psychology Social Cognitin Social Inference and Person Perception Social Psychology   Daniel C. Molden Department of Psychology Northwestern University 2029 Sherdian Road Evanston, Illinois 60208 U.S.A. Home Page Phone: (847) 491-7710 Fax: (847) 491-7859 One of my main interests is the ways in which people's motivations (i.e., their needs, desires, and goals) can influence their basic cognitive process (i.e., their perception, categorization, and recall of information) and the implications this has for judgment and behavior. Thus far, I have pursued this interest in several different ways. The first involves examining how people's preferences for using certain types of judgment strategies that "feel right" to them can affect the impressions they form of themselves and others. The second involves examining how these preferences affect the way in which people engage in and respond to social interactions. Another one of my main interests is how people's deeply held, but seldom consciously articulated theories about the social world affect the way they perceive and interpret social information. I have primarily pursued this interest by examining how these "implicit theories" can affect the way in which people process information related to other people's behaviors. Journal Articles: Higgins, E. T., Idson, L. C., Freitas, A. L., Spiegel, S., & Molden, D. C. (2003). Transfer of value from fit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1140-1153. Liberman, N., Molden, D. C., Idson, L. C., & Higgins, E. T. (2001). Promotion and prevention focus on alternative hypotheses: Implications for attributional functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 5-18. Molden, D. C., & Dweck, C. S. (2006). Finding "meaning" in psychology: A lay theories approach to self-regulation, social perception, and social development. American Psychologist, 61, 192-203. Molden, D. C., & Higgins, E. T. (in press) How preferences for eager versus vigilant judgment strategies affect self-serving outcomes, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Molden, D. C., & Higgins, E. T. (2004). Categorization under uncertainty: Resolving vagueness and ambiguity with eager versus vigilant strategies. Social Cognition, 22, 248-277. Molden, D. C., Lucas, G. M., Gardner, W. L., Dean, K., & Knowles, M. (in press). Motivations for prevention or promotion following social exclusion. Being rejected versus being ignored. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Molden, D. C., Plaks, J. E., & Dweck, C. S. (2006). "Meaningful" social inferences: Lay theories and inferential processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 738-752. Sivanathan, N., Molden, D. C., Galinsky, A.D., & Ku, G. (in press). The promise and peril of self-affirmation in de-escalation of commitment. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Other Publications: Dweck, C. S., & Molden, D. C. (2008). Self-Theories: The Construction of Free Will. In J. Baer, J. C. Kaufman, & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.) Psychology and free will. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dweck, C. S., & Molden, D. C. (2005). Self-theories: Their impact on competence motivation and acquisition. In A. Elliot & C. S. Dweck (Eds.) Handbook of competence and motivation (pp. 122-140). New York: Guilford Press. Higgins, E. T., & Molden, D. C. (2003). How strategies for making judgments and decisions affect cognition: Motivated cognition revisited. In G. V. Bodenhausen, & A. J. Lambert (Eds.) Foundations of social cognition (pp. 211-236). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Molden, D. C., & Dweck, C. S. (2000). Meaning and motivation. In Carol Sansone & Judith M. Harackiewicz (Eds.) Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: The Search for Optimal Motivation and Performance. San Diego: Academic Press. Molden, D. C., & Higgins, E. T. (2005). Motivated thinking. In K. Holyoak, & B. Morrison (Eds.) Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (pp. 295-320). New York: Cambridge University Press. Molden, D. C., Lee, A. Y., & Higgins, E. T. (2008). Motivations for promotion and prevention. In J. Shah & W. Gardner (Eds.) Handbook of Motivation Science (pp. 169-187). New York: Guilford Press Molden, D. C. & Miele, D. B. (in press). The origins and influences of promotion-focused and prevention-focused achievement motivations. In M. Maehr, S. Karabenick, & T. Urdan (Eds.), Advances in Motivation and Achievement (Vol. 15). New York: Elsevier

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