Title:	Professor, Ph.D.
	Office:	243 Coffey Hall
	Phone:	773.508.3024
	E-mail:	vottati@luc.edu

 

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Personal Information

Ph.D., 1988, University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:
My research addresses both basic and applied issues that are relevant to social psychology. My basic research interests include attitudes, persuasion, social cognition, affect and cognition, metaphor and cognition, nonverbal behavior, stereotyping, and prejudice, My applied research interests include political psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and consumer psychology. In exploring these issues, I have adopted an information processing approach that incorporates the role of affect and nonverbal cues (e.g., a candidate's facial expression) into an overall model of social judgment and decision making (Iyengar & Ottati, 1994; Ottati & Wyer, 1990, 1993; Wyer & Ottati, 1993). My past work can be divided into five programs of research. These concern (1) processing style in political attitude formation tasks, (2) the unique role of episodic affect as a determinant of political attitudes, (3) the distinction between corrected and uncorrected social judgments, (4) cross-cultural and basic research concerning stereotypes and perceived group variability, and (5) cross-cultural research on subjective culture. My more recent work addresses a variety of concerns. These include the role of metaphor in mass communication and persuasion, the effects of stereotype suppression in a political impression formation task, and subliminal measurement of object evaluation.

Teaching Experience:

Graduate: Social psychology, social cognition, attitudes and attitude change, political psychology, consumer psychology, mass communication, judgment & decision making.

Undergraduate: Introductory psychology, social psychology, advanced social psychology, personality, experimental psychology, consumer psychology, mass media, voting behavior.
 

Publications - Edited Volume

Ottati, V., Tindale, R.S., Edwards, J., Bryant, F.B., Heath, L., O'Connell, D.C., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Posavac, E.J. (2002), The Social Psychology of Politics. Social Psychological Application to Social Issues, Vol. 5. New York, N.Y., Kluwer Academic -Plenum Publishers.
 

PUBLICATIONS - JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Triandis, H.C., Marin, G., Hui, H.C., Lisansky, J., & Ottati, V. (1984). Role perceptions of Hispanic young adults. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 15, 297-320.

Fishbein, M., Middlestadt, S., Ottati, V., Straus, S., & Ellis, A. (1988). Medical problems among ICSOM musicians: Overview of a national survey. Medical Problems of Performing Artists, March, 1-8.

Ottati, V., Fishbein, M., & Middlestadt, S.E. (1988). Determinants of voters' beliefs about the candidates' stands on the issues: The role of evaluative bias heuristics and the candidates' expressed message. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 517-529.

Ottati, V., Riggle, E.J., Wyer, R.S., Jr., Schwarz, N., & Kuklinski, J. (1989). The cognitive and affective bases of opinion survey responses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 404-415.

Ottati, V., & Wyer, R.S., Jr. (1990). The cognitive mediators of political choice: Toward a comprehensive model of political information processing. In J.A. Ferejohn and J.H. Kuklinski (Eds.), Information and Democratic Process (pp. 186-216). Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press.

Ottati, V. (1990). Determinants of political judgments: The joint influence of normative and heuristic rules of inference, Political Behavior, 12, 159-179.

Kuklinski, J.H., Riggle, E., Ottati, V., Schwarz, N., & Wyer, R.S. (1991). The cognitive and affective bases of political tolerance judgments. American Journal of Political Science, 35, 1-27.

Riggle, E., Ottati, V., Wyer, R.S., Kuklinski, J., & Schwarz, N.(1992). Bases of political judgments: The role of stereotypic and non-stereotypic information. Political Behavior, 14, 67-87.

Ottati, V., Steenbergen, M, & Riggle, E. (1992). The cognitive and affective components of political attitudes: Measuring the determinants of candidate evaluations. Political Behavior, 14, 423-442.

Wyer, R.S., Jr., & Ottati, V. (1993). Political information processing. In S. Iyengar and J. McGuire (Eds.) Explorations in Political Psychology (264-295), Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Ottati, V., & Wyer, R.S., Jr. (1993). Affect and political judgment. In S. Iyengar and J. McGuire (Eds.), Explorations in Political Psychology (296-320), Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Kuklinski, J.H., Riggle, E., Ottati, V., Schwarz, N., & Wyer, R.S. (1993). Thinking about political tolerance, more or less, with more or less information. In G. Marcus & R. Hanson (Eds.), Reconsidering the Democratic Public (225-248), University Park, PA.: Penn State University Press.

Lee, Y., & Ottati, V. (1993). Determinants of in-group and out-group perceptions of heterogeneity: An investigation of Sino-American stereotypes. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 24, 298-316.

Iyengar, S., & Ottati, V. (1994). Cognitive perspective in political psychology. In R.S. Wyer & T.K. Srull (Eds.), Handbook of Social Cognition, Second Edition, Vol. 2 (143-188), Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Lee, Y., & Ottati, V. (1995). Perceived in-group homogeneity as a function of group membership salience and stereotype threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 612-621.

Graesser, A.C., & Ottati, V. (1995). Why stories? Some evidence, questions, and challenges. In R.S. Wyer & T.K. Srull (Eds.), Advances in Social Cognition (Vol. VII), Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story (121-132), Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ottati, V., & Lee, Y. (1995). Accuracy: A neglected component of stereotype research. In Y. Lee, L. Jussim, & C.R. McCauley (Eds.), Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences (29-59), Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Ottati, V., & Isbell, L. (1996). Effects of mood during exposure to target information on subsequently reported judgments: An on-line model of misattribution and correction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 39-53.

Ottati, V. (1996). When the survey question directs retrieval: Implications for assessing the cognitive and affective predictors of global evaluation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 1-21.

Ottati, V., Terkildsen, N., & Hubbard, C. (1997). Happy faces elicit heuristic processing in a televised impression formation task: A cognitive tuning account. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1144-1156.

Graesser, A., Kennedy, T., Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Ottati, V. (1999). The use of computational cognitive models to improve questions on surveys and questionnaires. In M. Sirken, D. Herrmann, S. Schechter, N. Schwarz, J. Tanur, & R. Tourangeau (Eds.), Cognition and survey research (199-216), New York: Wiley.

McCauley, C., Ottati, V., Lee, Y. (1999). National differences in economic growth: The role of personality and culture. In Y. Lee, C.R. McCauley, & Draguns (Eds.), Personality and person perception across cultures (85-102), Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Ottati, V., Triandis, H.C., Hui, C.H. (1999). Subjective culture and the workplace: Comparing Hispanic and Mainstream naval recruits. In Y. Lee, C.R. McCauley, & Draguns (Eds.), Personality and person perception across cultures (235-254), Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Ottati, V., Graesser, A., Rhoads, S. (1999). The effect of metaphor on processing style in a persuasion task: A motivational resonance model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 688-697.

Ottati, V. (2001). The psychological determinants of political judgment. In A. Tesser & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes (615-634), Oxford: Blackwell.

Lee, Y., & Ottati, V. (2001). Attitudes Toward Illegal Immigration into the U.S.: California Proposition 187. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 23, 430-443.

Ottati, V., & Deiger, M. (2002). Visual cues and the candidate evaluation process. In Ottati, V., Tindale, R.S., Edwards, J., Bryant, F.B., Heath, L., O'Connell, D.C., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Posavac, E.J. (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Politics. Social Psychological Application to Social Issues, Vol. 5 (75-87). New York, N.Y., Kluwer Academic - Plenum Publishers.

Ottati, V., Wyer, R.S., Deiger, M., Houston, D. (2002). The psychological determinants of candidate evaluation and voting preference. In Ottati, V., Tindale, R.S., Edwards, J., Bryant, F.B., Heath, L., O'Connell, D.C., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Posavac, E.J. (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Politics. Social Psychological Application to Social Issues, Vol. 5 (3-28). New York, N.Y., Kluwer Academic - Plenum Publishers.

Isbell, L., Ottati, V. (2002). The emotional voter: Effects of episodic affective reactions on candidate evaluation. In Ottati, V., Tindale, R.S., Edwards, J., Bryant, F.B., Heath, L., O'Connell, D.C., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Posavac, E.J. (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Politics. Social Psychological Application to Social Issues, Vol. 5 (55-74). New York, N.Y., Kluwer Academic - Plenum Publishers.

Lee, Y., Ottati, V., Guo, D. (2002). Understanding and preventing depression among Mainland Chinese children. Prevention and Treatment, Vol. 5, Article 10, May 8.

Lee, Y., & Ottati, V. (2002).  Attitudes toward U.S. Immigration Policy:  The role of ingroup-outgroup bias, economic concern, and obedience to law.  Journal of Social Psychology, 142, 617-634..

Corrigan, P.W., Watson, A.C., Ottati, V. (2003).  From whence comes mental illness stigma?  International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 49, 142-157.

Lee, Y-T., Takaku, S., Ottati, V. & Yan, G. (2004). Perception and interpretation of terrorism, justice, and conflict: Three cultures and two sides of one coin. In Y-T. Lee, C. R. McCauley, F. Moghaddam, & S. Worchel (eds.), The psychology of ethnic and cultural conflict (217-234). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Watson, A.C., Corrigan, P.W., Ottati, V. (2004). Police officer attitudes toward and decisions about persons with mental illness.  Psychiatric Services, 55 (1), 49-53.

Watson, A.C., Corrigan, P.W., Ottati, V. (2004). Police responses to persons with mental illness: Does the label matter?  Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 32, 378-385.

Ottati, V., Bodenhausen, G., Newman, L. (2005).  Social psychological models of mental illness stigma.  In P. Corrigan, P. (Ed.), On the stigma of mental illness: Practical strategies for research and social Change (99-128). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Watson, A., Ottati, V., Lurigio, A., Heyrman, M. (2005).  Stigma and the police. In P. Corrigan, P. (Ed.), On the stigma of mental illness: Practical strategies for research and social Change (197-218). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

 Ottati, V., Edwards, J., Krumdick, N. (2005).  Attitudes and attitude change:  Intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary applications.  In D. Albarracin, B.T. Johnson, & M.P. Zanna (Eds.), The handbook of attitudes (707-742).  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ottati, V., Claypool, H., Gingrich, B. (2005). Effects of a Group Stereotype on Memory for Behaviors Performed by a Group Member.  European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 797-808.

Isbell, L.M., Ottati, V., & Burns, K.C.  (2006).  Affect and politics: Effects on judgment, processing, and information seeking.  In D.P. Redlawsk (Ed.), Feeling politics: Emotion in political information processing (57-86). New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.

Ottati, V., Krumdick, N. (2007).  Attitudes and behavior: Critical Issues.  In I. Ajzen, D. Albarracin, & R. Hornik (Eds.), Prediction and change of health behavior (101-107). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 

PRESENTATIONS AND CONVENTION ACTIVITIES

Kuklinski, J.H., Ottati, V., Riggle, E., Schwarz, N., & Wyer, R.S. The influence of candidate physical attractiveness on voters' judgments about the candidate. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, September, 1987.

Fishbein, M., Ottati, V., & Middlestadt, S. Truth versus balance as factors influencing political judgments. Invited Address at the 21st Inter-American Congress of Psychology, Havana, Cuba, 1987.

Kuklinski, J.H., Riggle, E., Ottati, V., Schwarz, N., & Wyer, R.S., Jr. Experiments on the applications of principals in political judgment. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, April, 1987.

Ottati, V. The cognitive and affective determinants of political judgments. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1988.

Ottati, V. A psychological analysis of substantive and non-substantive determinants of political judgment. Invited Presentation with the SUSB Cognitive Science Group, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, November, 1988.

Ottati, V. Determinants of political judgments: The joint influence of normative and heuristic rules of inference. Invited Presentation at the Shambaugh Conference on Communication, Cognition, and Political Judgments and Action, University of Iowa, Iowa City, November, 1988.

Ottati, V., & Terkildsen, N. Perceptions of the candidates' stands on the issues: The role of projection and the candidates' expressed message. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, April, 1989.

Ottati, V., & Terkildsen, N. Perceptions of the candidates' stands on the issues: An experimental approach to the study of projection effects. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, April, 1990.

Ottati, V. Social Psychological Analyses of Political Judgment and Choice. Panel Chair and Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 1990.

Lee, Y., & Ottati, V. Determinants of in-group and out-group perceptions of heterogeneity: An investigation of Sino- American stereotypes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, August, 1990.

Ottati, V. Priming and Framing in Election Campaigns. Panel Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1991.

Ottati, V., Terkildsen, N., & Hubbard, C. Processing verbal and nonverbal social information cues: The appraisal of a televised political candidate. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April, 1993.

Ottati, V., Terkildsen, N., & Hubbard, C. The effect of facial display on processing style in an impression formation task. Presented to the Social Cognition Group, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, October, 1994.

Ottati, V., & Isbell, L. Mood and impression formation. Presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, October, 1994.

Ottati, V., Terkildsen, N., & Hubbard, C. Specific issues, global ideology, and visual image: An interdependent model of candidate evaluation. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1994.

Lee, Y., & Ottati, V. Accuracy: A neglected component of stereotype research. Presented at the Stereotype Accuracy Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, June, 1994.

Ottati, V., Isbell, L. The role of affect in political information processing. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April, 1995.

Ottati, V. Framing Effects. Panel discussant and chair at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April, 1995.

Ottati, V., Isbell, L. Effects of mood at exposure on subsequent judgments of a target person: A model of assimilation and contrast. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1995.

Ottati, V., Isbell, L. Evaluating a political candidate: Does affect play a unique causal role? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, New York, NY, July, 1995.

Ottati, V., Rhoads, S., Graesser, A. Metaphor and persuasion. Presented to the Social Cognition Group, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, March, 1996.

Ottati, V., Rhoads, S., Graesser, A. Metaphor and persuasive communication. Presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, March, 1996.

Ottati, V., Terkildsen, N., & Hubbard, C. Happy faces elicit heuristic processing in a candidate evaluation task: A cognitive tuning account. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April, 1996.

Ottati, V., Graesser, A., & Rhoads, S. Metaphor and persuasion. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1996.

Ottati, V., Terkildsen, N., & Hubbard, C. Happy faces elicit heuristic processing in an impression formation task: A cognitive tuning account. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1996.

Lee, Y., Ottati, V., & Hussain, I. California proposition 187: A case of cultural conflict or national economic concern? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, April, 1997.

Ottati, V., Rhoads, S., & Graesser, A. Metaphor and persuasion: An affective resonance model. Colloquium Presentation at the Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, April, 1997.

Ottati, V., Rhoads, S., & Graesser, A. The effect of metaphor on processing style in a persuasion task: Two experiments. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1997.

Ottati, V. The effect of affective cues on processing style. Colloquium Presentation at the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago, October, 1997.

Ottati, V. Exporting the affect as information approach: Processing effects elicited by facial display and figurative language. Presented at the Fourth Annual S.P.O.C Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 1998.

Ottati, V. Affective cues and processing style: Beyond mood. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1998.

Ottati, V. Subjective culture and the workplace: Comparing Hispanic and mainstream naval recruits. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI, April, 1999.

Ottati, V. Mood. Panel Moderator at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, April, 1999.

Ottati, V. Metaphor and persuasive communication: The motivational resonance hypothesis. Invited Address at the Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July, 1999.

Lee, Y., Ottati, V. Perceived variability and modality within and between bounded social entities: A multi-factorial approach. Presented at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussells, Belgium, July, 1999.

Ottati, V., Claypool, H., Gingrich, B., & Houston, D. Effects of a stereotype and personalized expectancy on memory for behaviors performed by a group member: The dual-coding hypothesis. Invited Colloquium at the Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, January, 2000.

Ottati, V., Claypool, H., Gingrich, B. Memory for behaviors performed by a group member: The dual-coding hypothesis. Presented at the Sixth Annual S.P.O.C. Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2000.

Ottati, V., Mae, L., Coats, S., DeCoster, J., Smith, E. Does unconscious evaluation exist? Presented at the Annual S.P.A.M. Conference, St. Louis, MO, April, 2000.

Ottati, V., Mae, L., Coats, S., DeCoster, J., Smith, E. Moderation of the automatic evaluation effect. Presented at the Seventy-Second Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2000.

Ottati, V. Emotion Concepts, facial expressions, and political judgment. Invited presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, Atlanta, GA, October, 2000.

Ottati, V. Unconscious Evaluation: Previously known versus newly encountered attitude objects. Invited Colloquium at the Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, November, 2000.

Ottati, V. Facial expressions and candidate evaluation. Invited Presentation at the Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, November, 2000.

Ottati, V. Social cognition in organizational settings. Invited Presentation at the Department of Social Psychology and Methodology, University of Madrid-Autonoma, Madrid, Spain, February 14, 2001.

Ottati, V. Attitude formation and change in organizational settings. Invited Presentation at the Department of Social Psychology and Methodology, University of Madrid-Autonoma, Madrid, Spain, February 15, 2001.

Spinos, A.R., Ottati, V. The effect of need, insistence, and benevolent sexism on interpreting helping. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Toronto, Canada, June, 2001.

Ottati, V. Moderation of the Unconscious Evaluation Effect: Implications for Research on Prejudice. Invited Presentation at the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research, University of Chicago Law School - Kane Center, Chicago, IL, September 21, 2001.

Ottati, V. Psychological and Social Implications of September 11. Panel Discussant at a meeting of the Committee on Diversity Affairs, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 11, 2001.

Ottati, V. Stereotype Accuracy and Modal Personality in Applied Situations. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR), Minneapolis, MN, October, 19, 2001.

Ottati, V. (with Bodenhausen, G., Sherman, J., Wittenbrink, B.). Roundtable Discussion: Implicit Stereotyping and Prejudice: A Critical Look at the Measures. Presented at the Eighth Annual S.P.O.C. Conference, Chicago, IL, April, 2002.

Deiger, M., Ottati, V. Interest as a mediator in the motivational resonance model. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2002.

Spinos, A. R., Ottati, V. Interpreting offers of help: The impact of need, insistence, and benevolent sexism. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2002.

Spinos, A.R., Ottati, V. Concern or condescension: Sexism as a moderator in interpretations of cross-gender helping. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, LA, June, 2002.

Deiger, M., Ottati, V. Metaphor and persuasion: Examining the moderating role of effort. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, New Orleans, LA, June, 2002.

Ottati, V., Spinos, A.  Role of sexism in the perception of helping behavior. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2002.

Lee, Y., Takaku, S., Ottati, V., Yan, G. Terrorism and heroism as seen by Islamic, Eastern, and Christian civilizations.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August, 2002.

Spinos, A.R, Ottati, V.  Should chivalry be dead?  Interpretations of Chivalrous Helping Behavior.  Presented at the 28^th Annual Feminist Psychology Conference, Association for Women in Psychology, Jersey City, NJ, March, 2003.

Isbell, L., Ottati, V., Burns, K.  Affect and politics: Effects on judgment, processing, and information selection.  Presented at the Shambaugh Conference – Affect and Cognition in Political Action, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, March, 2003.

Ottati, V., Hart, W., Isbell, L.  Correction effects in political judgment: The case of candidate evaluation. Invited Presentation at the Departments of Psychology and Political Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April, 2003.

Deiger, M.E., Ottati, V., Bryant, F.B.  Political Cognitive Motivation Scale.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2003.

Ottati, V., Mae, L., Coats, S., DeCoster, J., Smith, E.R. Automatic evaluation of previously known and recently encountered attitude objects.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, January, 2004.

Krumdick, N., Ottati, V., Deiger, M.  Metaphors and persuasive communication: The cognitive coherence hypothesis.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, January, 2004.

Ottati, V.  Affect, image, and candidate evaluation.  Invited Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2004.

Ottati, V.  Assimilation and contrast in candidate evaluation: Biases in the American voter.  Invited Presentation at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, August, 2004.

Ottati, V.  Social identity and global ethnic conflict. Co-convener of Invited Symposium at the 28^th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August, 2004.

Ottati, V. Social Cognition in a cultural context.  Presented at the 28^th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August, 2004.

Claypool, H., Ottati, V., Gingrich, B.  Effects of a group stereotype on memory for behaviors performed by a group member.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA, January, 2005.

Ottati, V., Hart, W.  The physical attractiveness stereotype revisited:  Effects on candidate evaluation.  Invited Presentation at the Annual Meeting of Social Psychologists of Chicago, IL, April, 2005.

Krumdick, N.D., Ottati, V., Joines, R.C.  Religious hierarchy adherence, authoritarianism, and the distinction between hostile and benevolent sexism.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2005.

Ottati, V.  Visual Cues and Stereotyping.  Invited Presentation at the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, June, 2005.

Krumdick, N.D., Ottati, V.  Religious authoritarianism and right-wing authoritarianism: Implications for the study of sexism.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA, January, 2006.

Ottati, V., Krumdick, N., Aalai, A., Renstrom, R.  Metaphor and persuasion: Effects on motivation and ability to engage in central processing.  Invited Presentation at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, April, 2006.

Ottati, V.  Political and Health Psychology.  Moderator at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 2006.

Ottati, V., Hart, W.  Effect of physical attractiveness on voters’ evaluation of a political leader: Assimilation and contrast.  Invited Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Chicago, IL, November, 2006.

Ottati, V., Hart, W.  Physical attractiveness and impression formation: The moderating role of expertise and cognitive load.  Invited Presentation at the Department of Psychology, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, November, 2006.

Krumdick, N.D., Aalai, A., Rentstrom, R.A., Ottati, V.C.  Metaphor and persuasion: The role of cognitive coherence.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN, January, 2007.

Krumdick, N.D., Rentstrom, R.A , Aalai, A., Ottati, V.C.  Metaphor and persuasion: Effects of  cognitive coherence.  Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May 2007.