Connor P. Principe

 
 

I am interested in how affect and emotion shape people’s views of each other across the lifespan. In particular, I am interested in how affect creates and maintains social stereotypes and how affect is generated from implicit cognitive processes. The goal of my dissertation is to better understand the relationships between judgments of attractiveness, typicality, processing speed, and physiological affect as measured by facial electromyography. At Pacific University, my research program will continue to examine the links between basic and unconscious cognitive processes such as perceptual fluency, affective priming, and evaluative matching that contribute to affective responses. Eventually, I hope to be able to make direct connections between these basic perceptions and feelings to complex real-world consequences, in particular, hiring discrimination. Finally, I am interested in finding the common ground between cognitive explanations of facial preference and evolutionary theories centering around the face as an indicator of good health and mate-value.

 

Publications

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought” - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi



“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” - Carl Sagan

Manuscripts under revision

Manuscripts in preparation

Principe, C. P. & Langlois, J. H. (2011). Faces differing in attractiveness elicit corresponding affective responses. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 140-148. doi: 10.1080/02699931003612098


Rew, D. L., Principe, C. P. (in press). Changes in stressors and health behaviors in pre-adolescents [Abstract]. Journal of Adolescent Health.


Principe, C. P., & Langlois, J. H. (in press). Shifting the prototype: Experience with faces influences affective preferences. Social Cognition.

Langlois, J. H., Griffin, A. M., Rubenstein, A. J., Rosen, L. R., Taylor-Partridge, T., Rennels, J. L., Hoss, R. A., & Principe, C. P. Infants link valence with facial attractiveness: Rudiments of a stereotype? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.



Langlois, J. H., Principe, C. P., Taylor-Partridge, T., & Griffin, A. M. The development of a model for the origins and significance of appearance-based stereotypes. Manuscript in preparation.


Principe, C. P., Langlois, J. H., Taylor-Partridge, T., Rosen, L. R., & Griffin, A. M. On rating faces: A scientific approach to obtaining unbiased ratings of facial attractiveness. Manuscript in preparation.


Principe, C. P., & Langlois, J. H. Attractiveness and categorical fit: Are unattractive faces unfacelike? Manuscript in preparation.




Manuscripts submitted

Principe, C. P., Rosen, L. H., Taylor-Partridge, T. & Langlois, J. H. Attractiveness differences between twins predicts evaluations of self and co-twin. Manuscript submitted.


Principe, C. P., & Langlois, J. H. To Wii or not to Wii: Avatars in attractiveness research. Manuscript submitted.


Rosen, L. H., Principe, C. P., & Langlois, J. H. Feedback seeking in early adolescence: Self-enhancement of self-verification? Manuscript submitted.