Matthew T Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1932190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew T Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew T |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5620-983X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How hostile attribution bias affects attachment anxiety/avoidance and relationship satisfaction
This is the first cross-cultural study of the contribution of romantic hostile attribution bias to relationship satisfaction that takes into account the role of attachment orientation. In two studies conducted 1 year apart, data were collected in three countries during COVID (Western culture country-the United Kingdom, Eastern culture country-China, geographically distinct country-New Zealand). Both studies indicated that hostile attribution bias…
Emotion in motion
The ability to quickly and accurately recognise emotional states is adaptive for numerous social functions. Although body movements are a potentially crucial cue for inferring emotions, few studies have studied the perception of body movements made in naturalistic emotional states. The current research focuses on the use of body movement information in the perception of fear expressed by targets in a virtual heights paradigm. Across three studies…
Holding on & letting go
The current research examined the phenomenon of fading affect bias - the tendency for affect associated with negative events to fade more than affect associated with positive events - within the context of romantic relationships. Participants recalled and evaluated positive and negative relationship-specific and non-relationship autobiographical events. Participants also completed measures of attachment avoidance and anxiety. Multi-level modeling…
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Thinking About Other People
Three experiments examined whether people spontaneously generate evaluations of target individuals under circumstances in which they are also known to generate spontaneous trait inferences (STIs). The first experiment used a standard savings-in-relearning paradigm to explore whether exposure to trait-implicative behavior descriptions facilitates the learning of evaluatively-congruent, as well as behavior-implied, personality traits. Evidence for …
Stereotypic vision
Three studies examined how participants use race to disambiguate visual stimuli. Participants performed a first-person-shooter task in which Black and White targets appeared holding either a gun or an innocuous object (e.g., a wallet). In Study 1, diffusion analysis (Ratcliff, 1978) showed that participants rapidly acquired information about a gun when it appeared in the hands of a Black target, and about an innocuous object in the hands of a Whi…
Entitativity, identity, and the fulfilment of psychological needs
Inference making and linking both require thinking
Evidence for the underestimation of implicit in-group favoritism among low-status groups
Seeing, but not thinking
The renegotiation of social identities in response to a threat to self-evaluation maintenance
Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference
A functional perspective on group memberships
When mutations meet motivations
Reactance, Compliance, and Anticipated Regret
Perceived entitativity, stereotype formation, and the interchangeability of group members
Raw conditional probabilities are a flawed index of associative strength
Skowronski and Welbourne (1997) argue that raw conditional probabilities may be a flawed index of associative strength in recall, and may need to be corrected for chance before they can be safely interpreted. Three experiments examined this idea in the context of an experimental paradigm used by Hamilton, Driscoll and Worth (1989). Participants in this paradigm were asked to read items describing a social target. The items each pertained to one o…
Spontaneous trait transference
Spontaneous trait transference occurs when communicators are perceived as possessing the very traits they describe in others. Study 1 confirmed that communicators become associated with the trait implications of their descriptions of others and that such associations persist over time. Study 2 demonstrated that these associations influence specific trait impressions of communicators. Study 3 suggested that spontaneous trait transference reflects …
Perceived entitativity, stereotype formation, and the interchangeability of group members
A functional perspective on group memberships
Stereotypic vision
Three studies examined how participants use race to disambiguate visual stimuli. Participants performed a first-person-shooter task in which Black and White targets appeared holding either a gun or an innocuous object (e.g., a wallet). In Study 1, diffusion analysis (Ratcliff, 1978) showed that participants rapidly acquired information about a gun when it appeared in the hands of a Black target, and about an innocuous object in the hands of a Whi…
Entitativity, identity, and the fulfilment of psychological needs
Inference making and linking both require thinking
Reactance, Compliance, and Anticipated Regret
Evidence for the underestimation of implicit in-group favoritism among low-status groups
Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference
Seeing, but not thinking
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Thinking About Other People
Three experiments examined whether people spontaneously generate evaluations of target individuals under circumstances in which they are also known to generate spontaneous trait inferences (STIs). The first experiment used a standard savings-in-relearning paradigm to explore whether exposure to trait-implicative behavior descriptions facilitates the learning of evaluatively-congruent, as well as behavior-implied, personality traits. Evidence for …
When mutations meet motivations
The renegotiation of social identities in response to a threat to self-evaluation maintenance
Spontaneous trait transference
Spontaneous trait transference occurs when communicators are perceived as possessing the very traits they describe in others. Study 1 confirmed that communicators become associated with the trait implications of their descriptions of others and that such associations persist over time. Study 2 demonstrated that these associations influence specific trait impressions of communicators. Study 3 suggested that spontaneous trait transference reflects …
Raw conditional probabilities are a flawed index of associative strength
Skowronski and Welbourne (1997) argue that raw conditional probabilities may be a flawed index of associative strength in recall, and may need to be corrected for chance before they can be safely interpreted. Three experiments examined this idea in the context of an experimental paradigm used by Hamilton, Driscoll and Worth (1989). Participants in this paradigm were asked to read items describing a social target. The items each pertained to one o…
Spontaneous trait transference
Spontaneous trait transference occurs when communicators are perceived as possessing the very traits they describe in others. Study 1 confirmed that communicators become associated with the trait implications of their descriptions of others and that such associations persist over time. Study 2 demonstrated that these associations influence specific trait impressions of communicators. Study 3 suggested that spontaneous trait transference reflects …
Reactance, Compliance, and Anticipated Regret
Perceived entitativity, stereotype formation, and the interchangeability of group members
When mutations meet motivations
A functional perspective on group memberships
The renegotiation of social identities in response to a threat to self-evaluation maintenance
Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference
Seeing, but not thinking
Evidence for the underestimation of implicit in-group favoritism among low-status groups
Inference making and linking both require thinking
Entitativity, identity, and the fulfilment of psychological needs
Thinking About Other People
Three experiments examined whether people spontaneously generate evaluations of target individuals under circumstances in which they are also known to generate spontaneous trait inferences (STIs). The first experiment used a standard savings-in-relearning paradigm to explore whether exposure to trait-implicative behavior descriptions facilitates the learning of evaluatively-congruent, as well as behavior-implied, personality traits. Evidence for …
Stereotypic vision
Three studies examined how participants use race to disambiguate visual stimuli. Participants performed a first-person-shooter task in which Black and White targets appeared holding either a gun or an innocuous object (e.g., a wallet). In Study 1, diffusion analysis (Ratcliff, 1978) showed that participants rapidly acquired information about a gun when it appeared in the hands of a Black target, and about an innocuous object in the hands of a Whi…
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Holding on & letting go
The current research examined the phenomenon of fading affect bias - the tendency for affect associated with negative events to fade more than affect associated with positive events - within the context of romantic relationships. Participants recalled and evaluated positive and negative relationship-specific and non-relationship autobiographical events. Participants also completed measures of attachment avoidance and anxiety. Multi-level modeling…
Emotion in motion
The ability to quickly and accurately recognise emotional states is adaptive for numerous social functions. Although body movements are a potentially crucial cue for inferring emotions, few studies have studied the perception of body movements made in naturalistic emotional states. The current research focuses on the use of body movement information in the perception of fear expressed by targets in a virtual heights paradigm. Across three studies…
How hostile attribution bias affects attachment anxiety/avoidance and relationship satisfaction
This is the first cross-cultural study of the contribution of romantic hostile attribution bias to relationship satisfaction that takes into account the role of attachment orientation. In two studies conducted 1 year apart, data were collected in three countries during COVID (Western culture country-the United Kingdom, Eastern culture country-China, geographically distinct country-New Zealand). Both studies indicated that hostile attribution bias…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Perception (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (6 works)