Dr. Carlee Beth Hawkins
Assistant Professor
(e-mail)
Education: Ph.D., 2013
University of Virginia
Specialization:
Social Psychology
Phone:
(618) 650-2253
Office:
AH-0132
About Dr. Hawkins
Dr. Carlee Beth Hawkins is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. After completing her PhD in social psychology at the University of Virginia in 2013, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Then, Dr. Hawkins taught psychology for four years at University of Illinois Springfield. Carlee is also a researcher with Project Implicit, a virtual laboratory for research and education of implicit cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness or control. Carlee has given lectures and led workshops on the impact of implicit cognition on institutional decision making and social interactions in the workplace to diverse groups including human resource professionals, senior executives, and physicians. Carlee’s research interests concern motivations and strategies for reducing the impact of bias on social and political judgment and behavior. Carlee’s teaching interests include statistics and research methods, social psychology, psychology of prejudice and stereotyping, multicultural psychology, and psychology of identity. Carlee and her partner Brett have one child, Anita, and two dogs, Finn and Fiki. Carlee also teaches yoga and enjoys cycling, reading, traveling, and cooking.
Mentoring Statement
Carlee is available to mentor students interested in implicit cognition, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, multicultural psychology, and political psychology.
Representative Publications
(*Denotes undergraduate collaborator)
- Hawkins, C. B. & Vandiver, A. J.* (in press). Human caregivers perceive racial bias in their pet dogs. Groups Processes and Intergroup Relations.
- Hawkins, C. B., Fitzgerald, C. E.*, & Nosek, B. A. (2015). In search of an association between conception risk and prejudice. Psychological Science, 26, 249-252.
- Hawkins, C. B. & Ratliff, K. A. (2015). Trying but failing: Implicit attitude transfer is not eliminated by overt or subtle objectivity manipulations. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 37, 31-43.
- Hawkins, C. B. & Nosek, B. A. (2012). Motivated independence? Implicit party identity predicts political judgments among self-proclaimed Independents. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1441-1455.
- Hawkins, C. B. & Nosek, B. A. (2012). When ingroups aren’t “in”: Perceived political belief similarity moderates religious ingroup favoritism. PLoS ONE, 7, e50945.
- Nosek, B. A., Hawkins, C. B., & Frazier, R. S. (2011). Implicit social cognition: From measures to mechanisms. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 152-159.
