University of New South Wales - School of Psychology - Scientia Professor Joseph P. Forgas

Research Areas: Affect and social cognition. Interpersonal behaviour. Social perception, person memory and attributions. Cognitive and interactional theories of personality. The perception of interaction episodes. Political perception and voting behaviour. Verbal and nonverbal communication. Group behaviour and group judgements. Multidimensional scaling methods in psychology.

Academic Career:

BA (Hons.), 1974, Macquarie University
D.Phil., 1977, University of Oxford
D.Sc., 1990, University of Oxford

Awards:

Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Germany, 1994
Australian Research Council Special Investigator Award, 1996
Australian Psychological Society Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 2004
Australian Psychological Society Early Career Award, 1982

Fellowships:

The Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio Centre, USA, 2004
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, Australia, 1987
Fellow, American Psychological Society, USA, 1999
Fellow, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, USA, 1987

Selected Publications:

Joseph P. Forgas, Kipling Williams & William von Hippel (2004). Social Motivation: Conscious and Unconscious Processes. Cambridge University Press, New York
Joseph P. Forgas & Michelle Cromer (2004). Affective influences on verbal communication: The effects of mood on equivocation in conflict situations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Joseph P. Forgas, Kipling Williams & William von Hippel (2003). Social Judgments: Implicit and Explicit Processes. Cambridge University Press, New York
Joseph P. Forgas & Kipling Williams (2002). The Social Self. Psychology Press, New York
Joseph P. Forgas (2002). Feeling and doing: affective influences on interpersonal behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 1-28.

Courses:

PSYC2061: Social and Developmental Psychology
PSYC3121: Social Psychology

Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 503
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-3037
Fax: (61-2) 9385-3641
Email: JP.Forgas@unsw.edu.au

Personal Homepage: http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/Users/jforgas/