Honoree
Eliot R. Smith
AWARDS
- Titled Professor (2008)
- WAR YEARS CHANCELLOR'S PROFESSOR
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Indiana University Bloomington
- National Academies (2012)
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
BIOGRAPHY
Eliot R. Smith is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, having moved from Purdue University in 2003 to join the IU faculty. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Much of Dr. Smith's research focuses on prejudice and intergroup behavior, especially the role of the emotions that people experience when they think of themselves as members of a group (such as a political party or an ethnic, religious, or national group). Other major research interests include person perception and stereotyping, as well as embodied cognition, the investigation of the role of the body in shaping people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors - especially toward other people. His research has been funded extensively by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Smith has been honored with the Gordon Allport Prize for contributions to the study of intergroup relations, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Theoretical Innovation Prize, and the Thomas M. Ostrom Award for contributions to social cognition. He has served as Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review, and Associate Editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. His role in establishing the Summer Institute in Social Psychology, a national 2-week intensive summer school for graduate students, was recently recognized with the Service Award for Contributions on Behalf of Personality-Social Psychology.
Much of Dr. Smith's research focuses on prejudice and intergroup behavior, especially the role of the emotions that people experience when they think of themselves as members of a group (such as a political party or an ethnic, religious, or national group). Other major research interests include person perception and stereotyping, as well as embodied cognition, the investigation of the role of the body in shaping people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors - especially toward other people. His research has been funded extensively by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Smith has been honored with the Gordon Allport Prize for contributions to the study of intergroup relations, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Theoretical Innovation Prize, and the Thomas M. Ostrom Award for contributions to social cognition. He has served as Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review, and Associate Editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition. His role in establishing the Summer Institute in Social Psychology, a national 2-week intensive summer school for graduate students, was recently recognized with the Service Award for Contributions on Behalf of Personality-Social Psychology.
