PhD, Illinois, 1977.  Professor of Psychological Sciences Editor, Journal of Social Cognition Fellow, American Psychological Association Organizer, Duck Conference on Social Cognition Member, NIH SGP Grant Panel Send e-mail to carlston@psych.purdue.edu Mailing Address: Purdue University Department of Psychological Sciences 703 Third Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081 Phone: (765) 494-6889 Fax: (765) 496-1264

Primary research interests are in person perception, impression formation and social cognition. The current focus of this work is on the origin, organization and use of different kinds of mental representations of people and events. Representative issues include the factors affecting spontaneous trait inference and categorization and reliance on self-referent vs. other-referent information in impressions of the self or of others.

Recent Publications

Carlston, D. E., & Mae, L. (2003).  The accidental tourist: Capturing incidental (versus intentional) impressions. In G. V. Bodenhausen & A. J. Lambert (Eds.) Foundations of Social Cognition: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (pp. 97-130). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.     Claypool, H. M., & Carlston, D. E. (2002). The effects of verbal and visual interference on impressions: An associated systems approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 425-433.     Skowronski, J. J., Carlston, D. E., Mae, L. & Crawford, M. T. (1998). Spontaneous trait transference: Communicators take on the qualities they describe in others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 837-848.     Carlston, D. E. & Smith, E. R. (1996). Principles of mental representation. In E. T. Higgins & A. W. Kruglanski (Eds.) Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles (pp. 184-210). New York: Guilford Press.     Carlston, D. E. (1994).  Associated systems theory:  A systematic approach to the cognitive representation of persons and events. In R. S. Wyer (Ed.) Advances in Social Cognition: Vol. 7. Associated Systems Theory (pp.  1-78). Hillsdale, NY: Erlbaum.