Oscar Ybarra
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1043
U.S.A.
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Phone: (734) 763-3156
I conduct research on social intelligence and how people navigate their web of relationships in a mixed motive world. My research programs fall along four lines, and the common
denominator is that the social and the intellectual support each other. I study
how people understand and make decisions about the social aspects of
the world versus those related to tasks and work, how people make
decisions about others and the cognitive biases that may preclude
creating social connections, how social interaction and relationships
support and enhance cognitive abilities and performance, and how the
cognitively stimulating nature of social interaction is affected by trust and the
extent to which people mentalize and attempt to coordinate with one another.
 Journal Articles:
- Chan, E., Ybarra, O., & Schwarz, N. (2006) Reversing the affective congruity effect: The role of target accessibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 32, 365-372.
- Garcia, S.M., & Ybarra, O. (2007). People accounting: Numerical imbalances and social-based choice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43, 802-809.
- Rios Morrison, K., & Ybarra, O. (2008). The effects of realistic threats and group identification on social dominance orientation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 156-163.
- Sanchez-Burks, J., Neuman, E.J., Ybarra, O., Kopelman, S., Park, H., & Goh, K. (2008). American optimism about the consequences of workgroup conflict. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 1, 53-76.
- Ybarra, O. Burnstein, E., Winkielman, P., Keller, M.C., Manis, M., Chan, E., & Rodriguez, J. (2008). Mental exercising through simple socializing: Social interaction promotes general cognitive functioning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 248-259.
- Ybarra, O., Chan, E., Park, H., Burnstein, E., Monin, B., & Stanik, C. (2008). Life’s recurring challenges and the fundamental dimensions: An integration and its implications for cultural differences and similarities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 1083-1092.
Other Publications:
- Stephan, W.G., Ybarra, O., & Rios Morrison, K. (In press). Intergroup threat theory. To be published in T. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Ybarra, O., Keller, M.C., Chan, E., Baron, A.S., Hutsler, J., Garcia, S.M., Sanchez-Burks, J., & Rios Morrison, K. (2007). The social prediction dynamic: A legacy of cognition and mixed-motives. In J.P. Forgas, M.G. Haselton, & B. von Hippel (Eds.), Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition (pp. 263-277). Psychology Press: New York.
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