Dr. Christina Brown
Assistant Professor of Psychology
browncm@arcadia.edu
Dr. Christina Brown is a social-personality psychologist. Her research explores how aspects of the self and our social and emotional experiences influence behavior. For example, she studies how self-concept structure moderates a number of basic psychological processes, such as memory and self-regulation. She also adopts an evolutionary psychology approach in her research on how people respond to social acceptance and rejection.
Representative Publications and Presentations
- Garczynski, A. M., &Brown, C. M. (In press).Active self-aspects as a basis for encoding specificity effects in memory. Self and Identity.
- McConnell, A. R., Brown, C. M., &Shoda, T. M. (In press).The self.In D. E. Carlston (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of social cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- McConnell, A. R., Brown, C. M., Shoda, T. M., Stayton, L. E., & Martin, C. E. (2011). Friends with benefits: On the positive consequences of pet ownership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 1239-1252.
- Brown, C. M., Diekman, A. B., Tennial, R. E., & Solomon, E. D. (2011). Alone and happy: Personality moderates the effect of happy mood on social approach. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 702-705.
- Brown, C. M., & McConnell, A. R. (2011).Discrepancy-based and anticipated emotions in behavioral self-regulation.Emotion, 11, 1091-1095.
- Sacco, D. F., Brown, C. M., Young, S. G., Bernstein, M. J., &Hugenberg, K. (2011). Social inclusion facilitates risky mating behavior in men. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 985-998.
- McConnell, A. R., &Brown, C. M. (2010). Dissonance averted: Self-concept organization moderates the effect of hypocrisy on attitude change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 361-366.
- Brown, C. M.,& McConnell, A. R. (2009b). Effort or escape: Self-concept structure determines self-regulatory behavior. Self and Identity, 8, 365-377.
- Brown, C. M.,Young, S. G., & McConnell, A. R. (2009). Seeing close others as we see ourselves: One’s own self-complexity is reflected in perceptions of meaningful others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 515-523.
- Brown, C.M., & McConnell, A. R. (2009a). When chronic isn’t chronic: The moderating role of active self-aspects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 3-15.
- Brown, C.M., Young, S. G., Sacco, D. F., Bernstein, M. J., & Claypool, H. M. (2009). Social inclusion facilitates interest in mating. Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 11-27.
- Bernstein, M. J., Young, S. G., Brown, C. M., Sacco, D. F., & Claypool, H. M. (2008). Adaptive responses to social exclusion: Social rejection improves detection of real and fake smiles. Psychological Science, 19, 981-983.
