My current research focuses on the cognitive dynamics of person construal. More specifically, I am interested in questions such as when we construe individuals in terms of their social group memberships versus personal attributes, how our knowledge of or familiarity with the individuals in question changes these construals, and how higher-order causal beliefs (e.g., about the nature of personality, about society and social structure) impact the stereotypes we have and how we use them.

Primary Interests:

Intergroup Relations
Interpersonal Processes
Person Perception
Personality, Individual Differences
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Intergroup Relations
Interpersonal Processes
Person Perception

Personality, Individual Differences
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

Macrae, C. N., Quinn, K. A., Mason, M. F., & Quadflieg, S. (2005). Understanding others: The face and person construal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 686-695.
Quinn, K. A., Hugenberg, K., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2004). Functional modularity in stereotype representation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 519-527.
Quinn, K. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2005). Categorizing others: The dynamics of person construal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 467-479.
Quinn, K. A., Mason, M. F., & Macrae, C. N. (2009). Familiarity and person construal: Individual knowledge moderates the automaticity of category activation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 852-861.

Other Publications:

Quinn, K. A., Macrae, C. N., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2003). Social cognition. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science (Vol. 4, pp. 66-73). London: Macmillan Reference Ltd.
Quinn, K. A., Macrae, C. N., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2003). Stereotyping and impression formation: How categorical thinking shapes person perception. In M. A. Hogg & J. Cooper (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of social psychology (pp. 87-109). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Courses Taught:

Applied Psychology
Experimental Study of Social Behavior
Mass Media and Persuasion
Media Psychology
Political Psychology
Social Cognition
Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience
Social Psychology

Applied Psychology
Experimental Study of Social Behavior
Mass Media and Persuasion
Media Psychology
Political Psychology

Social Cognition
Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience
Social Psychology

Kimberly Quinn
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)121 414 8327