Stephen J. Read

Expert on race and economic inequality in the U.S.
  • Professor of Psychology
Office: (213) 740-2291

Expertise

  • reasoning and complex decision making
  • legal/courtroom decision making(by jurors, lawyers, judges)
  • causal reasoning and explanation
  • everyday decision making
  • social cognition - study of the role thatcognitive processes play in socialbehavior
  • how people make sense of themselvesand others
  • cognitive processes and their role insocial interaction
  • social information processing
  • personality in virtual agents
  • social psychology