Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Dr. James Olson obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo and has been a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, since 1978. He served as Chair of the Psychology Department from 1998 to 2003. He has conducted research on many topics, including attitudes, justice, social cognition, and humor. He has published more than 100 articles and chapters and has co-edited 15 books. He is a co-organizer of the Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology, a well-known series of conferences on various topics in personality and social psychology. He has served as an Associate Editor of three scientific journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 1995 to 1998. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

• 1. The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking: New Evidence, New Challenges, New Insights Neal J. Roese and Kai Epstude2. Stereotype Threat and LearningRobert J. Rydell and Kathryn L. Boucher3. Changing Our Implicit Minds: How, When, and Why Implicit Evaluations Can Be Rapidly RevisedJeremy Cone, Thomas C. Mann and Melissa J. Ferguson4. The Motivational Underpinnings of Belief in GodKristin Laurin and Aaron C. Kay5. Implicit Theories: Assumptions That Shape Social and Moral CognitionJason E. Plaks