John Edwards
Principle Investigator
Reed Lodge
Corvallis, OR
United States
- Dr. Edwards is a social psychologist specializing in social cognition and individual differences. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Consulting Psychologists Press, and the Department of Defense.
- His general area of research concerns the motivational and personality factors that influence how people make judgments about other people. His specific areas of research concern:
- Causal uncertainty, or uncertainty about the causes of events (and related variables such as depression), and how it impacts social information processing. Recent research extends this work into the health domain.
- Intersections between Buddhist philosophy and social cognition
- Attributions about situations, with an emphasis on people’s understanding of the underlying qualities that people attribute to situations