Pamela K. Smith
Rady School of Management, Otterson Hall
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, #0553
La Jolla, California 92093-0553
U.S.A.
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Phone: (858) 822-7472
Email: psmith@rady.ucsd.edu
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I received my B.A. (with high honors) in psychology and creative writing from the University of Michigan in 1996. After working 3 years for Dr. Denise Park as a lab manager, I started graduate school in social psychology at New York University in 1999. I received my Ph.D. from NYU in 2004. My dissertation, advised by Yaacov Trope, received the 2005 Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Dissertation Award. I have previously worked at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, and Radboud University Nijmegen. As of July 1, 2009, I am an assistant professor at UCSD at the Rady School of Management.My main research interests are in how having or lacking social power affects low-level processes, particularly its nonconscious effects on basic cognition, motivation, and interpersonal behavior. I am also studying how particular cognitive styles are perceived as signs of power. Aside from my work on power, I am interested in basic systems--the BAS/BIS, approach vs. avoidance motivation, promotion vs. prevention--and how they explain the way people think, feel, and behave. I am also interested in extending construal-level theory to the real world, thinking how modern "distancing" technologies affect how we process information and relate to others.
 Journal Articles:
 Dijksterhuis, A., & Smith, P. K. (2005). What do we do unconsciously? And how? Journal of Consumer Psychology, 15, 225-229.
- Dijksterhuis, A., & Smith, P. K. (2002). Affective habituation: Subliminal exposure to extreme stimuli decreases their extremity. Emotion, 2, 203-214.
- Dijksterhuis, A., Smith, P. K., Van Baaren, R. B., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2005). The unconscious consumer: Effects of environment on consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 15, 193-202.
- Karremans, J. C., & Smith, P. K. (in press). Having the power to forgive: When the experience of power increases interpersonal forgiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- McKenna, K. Y. A., Green, A. S., & Smith, P. K. (2001). Demarginalizing the sexual self. Journal of Sex Research, 38, 302-311.
- Oettingen, G., Grant, H., Smith, P. K., Skinner, M., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2006). Nonconscious goal pursuit: Acting in an explanatory vacuum. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 668-675.
- Park, D. C., Lautenschlager, G., Hedden, T., Davidson, N. S., Smith, A. D., & Smith, P. K. (2002). Models of visuospatial and verbal memory across the adult life span. Psychology and Aging, 17, 299-320.
- Smith, P. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Nonconscious effects of power on basic approach and avoidance tendencies. Social Cognition, 26, 1-24.
- Smith, P. K., Dijksterhuis, A., & Chaiken, S. (2008). Subliminal exposure to faces and racial attitudes: Exposure to Whites makes Whites like Blacks less. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 50-64.
- Smith, P. K., Dijksterhuis, A., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2008). Powerful people make good decisions even when they consciously think. Psychological Science, 19, 1258-1259.
- Smith, P. K., Jost, J. T., & Vijay, R. (2008). Legitimacy crisis? Behavioral approach and inhibition when power differences are left unexplained. Social Justice Research, 21, 358-376.
- Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. (2008). Lacking power impairs executive functions. Psychological Science, 19, 441-447.
- Smith, P. K., & Trope, Y. (2006). You focus on the forest when you're in charge of the trees: Power priming and abstract information processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 578-596.
- Smith, P. K., Wigboldus, D. H. J., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2008). Abstract thinking increases one's sense of power. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 378-385.
Other Publications:
- Dijksterhuis, A., Aarts, H., & Smith, P. K. (2005). The power of the subliminal: On subliminal persuasion and other potential applications. In R. R. Hassin, J. S. Uleman, & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The new unconscious (pp. 77-106). New York: Oxford University Press.
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