Balbir Singh, Ph.D.
Welcome! I am a social-cognitive psychologist.
I am an Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College.
I am interested in how people perceive faces and how this may impact downstream social processes. Scroll down for more information!
Some questions I ask
in my research
How do people perceive faces?
How do people learn cross-race identities?
How can we reduce bias in decision making?
Why do people misrecognize cross-race faces?
They are my friend, do I still see their racial category?
How can we reduce bias in Police Decisions’ to Shoot?
Publications and CV
Publications:
2024 - Can a Single Cue Reduce Bias? - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
2024 - A Contest Study to Reduce Attractiveness-Based Discrimination in Social
Judgment - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2024 - Examining the Impact of Social and Perceptual Encoding
Strategies on the Cross-Race Recognition Deficit - European Journal of Social Psychology
2024 - Nonlinear Relationships Between Eye Gaze and Recognition Accuracy for Ethnic Ingroup and Outgroup Faces - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
2022 - Face Templates for the Chicago Face Database - Behavioral Research Methods
2021 - Does Cross-Race Contact Improve Cross-Race Face Perception? A Meta-Analysis of the Cross-Race Deficit and Contact - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
2020 - When Practice Fails to Reduce Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot: The Case of Cognitive Load - Social Cognition
Pre-prints:
Does awareness diminish the effectiveness of health nudges?
Curriculum Vitae:
Teaching Philosophy
I see my role as a guide. In my classes, students will learn the material, and they will be challenged to critically analyze why.