How do we make sense of other people and form impressions of them? My current research relates to mindreading and person perception. For instance, I am studying how people infer the motives and intentions of others, particularly as those motives relate to trait judgments that we make about others. I am also studying prejudice and stigma with John Pryor.
Reeder, G. D., & Pryor, J. B. (2000). Attitudes toward persons with HIV/AIDS: Linking a functional approach with underlying process. In G. Maio & J. Olson (Eds.), Why we evaluate: Functions of attitudes (pp. 295-323). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.