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Coreen Farris |
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My research program focuses on the determinants of sexually coercive behavior among young men. I approach the question from a social information processing perspective and have focused on understanding the perceptual decoding errors that are implicated in sexual violence, as well as the situational factors that increase risk for misperception of women’s sexual intent. Many social-perception processes operate outside of awareness and thus are not amenable to introspective access. Thus, I have an integrated, methodological interest in formal process models of perception. I pursued hybrid training in clinical and cognitive science in my graduate career, and I consider the translation of rigorous and powerful computational models of basic perception to clinically relevant processes to be central to my current research program and future plans. Explicating the role of misperception of women’s sexual interest cues in sexually coercive incidents is the conceptual thread that runs through all of my research. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Psychology, supported by the Variation in Mental Function and Dysfunction Training Grant, and working with Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Policy |
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Coreen Farris Carnegie Mellon University Department of Psychology, Baker Hall 336A 500 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 |
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Contact Information |
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Phone: 412.268.6113 Fax: 412.268.2798 E-mail: cfarris@andrew.cmu.edu |
