Dr. Adair's research focuses on the impact of culture and low/high context communication on interdependent work outcomes including negotiation outcome, conflict resolution, interpersonal trust, and team performance.
Dr. Colombatto's research explores various aspects of human perception and cognition at the intersection of vision science, cognitive psychology, and social psychology — with a special focus on the visual roots of social cognition.
Dr. Friedman is interested in social cognition in children and adults, and many other topics. His recent research has investigated how people understand thoughts, emotions, and actions; how they think about ownership, rights, and responsibilities; and how they think about fiction, pretense, and counterfactual possibilities.
Dr. Itier investigates the temporal dynamics of cognitive processes involved in the perception and recognition of face identity, facial expressions of emotion, gaze discrimination and their interactions, and how these processes relate more broadly to social cognition and individual traits. She is particularly interested in the central role of eyes in these processes, at the behavioural and neural levels.
Dr. Ratliff's research is in the area of attitudes and social cognition and generally seeks to understand how attitudes and stereotypes form and how they influence judgements and behavior. She uses a variety of tools and methods for understanding bias in different domains, though most of her research is focused on intergroup attitudes.