Fac Staff Detail

Malia has two primary lines of research. In her first line of research she examines how the mind manages itself. She is particularly interested in understanding how people intuitively decide where to channel their attention, how deeply to process information and when to shift their attention elsewhere. Her second line of research is devoted to exploring the tactics that people use to understand others’ attitudes and explain their behavior.

• Summer 2012
  Managerial Negotiations (MBA)
  Seminar in Managerial Negotiations (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2012
  Managerial Negotiations (MBA)
  
• Spring 2011
  Managerial Negotiations (MBA)
  
• Fall 2011
  (PHD) Advanced Micro Seminar (PHD)
  
• Fall 2010
  (PHD) Advanced Micro Seminar (PHD)
  
• Spring 2009
  (PhD) Proseminar (PHD)
  Advanced Seminar in Social Cognition (MBA)
  Leadership Development (MBA)
  
• Fall 2009
  Leadership Development (MBA)
  

Mind Reading In The Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (2012)
Author(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason

Mind Perception In The Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (2012)
Author(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason

Strategic Intuition In Handbook of Intuition Research (2011)
Author(s): William Duggan, Malia Mason

Exploring the Past and Impending Future in the Here and Now: Mind-Wandering in the Default State In Cognitive Science Compendium, vol. 2 (2009)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Moshe Bar, C. Neil Macrae

Specialization in Relational Reasoning: The Efficiency, Accuracy, and Neural Substrates of Social versus Non-Social Inferences In Social Psychological and Personality Science (2010)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Joe Magee, Ko Kuwabara, Louise Nind

Moral Decisions and Testosterone: When the Ends Justify the Means In Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology (2010)
Author(s): Malia Mason

Culture, Attribution and Automaticity: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience View In Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (2010)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Michael Morris

Male susceptibility to attentional capture by power cues In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2010)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Shu Zhang, Rebecca Dyer

When Arnold is "The Terminator," we no longer see him as a man: The temporal determinants of person perception In Experimental Psychology (2010)
Author(s): Kimberly Quinn, Malia Mason, Neil Macrae

Familiarity and person construal: Individuating knowledge moderates the automaticity of category activation In European Journal of Social Psychology (2009)
Author(s): Kimberly Quinn, Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae

Intentionality in intuitive versus analytic processing: Insights from social cognitive neuroscience In Psychological Inquiry (2009)
Author(s): Michael Morris, Malia Mason

Neural Mechanisms of Social Influence In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2009)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Rebecca Dyer, Michael I. Norton

Perspective-taking from a social neuroscience standpoint In Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (2008)
Author(s): Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae

Response to comment on "Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought" In Science (2007)
Author(s): Malia Mason

The Units of Thought In Hippocampus (2007)
Author(s): Moshe Bar, Elissa Aminoff, Malia Mason, Mark Fenske

On construing others: Category and stereotype activation from facial cues In Social Cognition (2006)
Author(s): Malia Mason, J. Cloutier, C. Neil Macrae

The Look of Love: Gaze Shifts and Person Perception In Psychological Science (2005)
Author(s): Malia Mason, E. P. Tatkow, C. Neil Macrae

The perceptual determinants of person construal: reopening the social-cognitive toolbox In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2005)
Author(s): J. Cloutier, Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae

Thinking about actions: The neural substrates of person knowledge In Cerebral Cortex (2004)
Author(s): Malia Mason, J. Banfield, C. Neil Macrae

Categorizing and individuating others: The neural substrates of person perception In Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2004)
Author(s): Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae

Look into my eyes: Gaze direction and person memory In Memory (2004)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Bruce Hood, C. Neil Macrae

The owl and the pussycat: Gaze cues and visuospatial orienting In Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (2004)
Author(s): S. Quadflieg, Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae

Understanding others: The face and person construal In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2004)
Author(s): C. Neil Macrae, Kimberly Quinn, Malia Mason, S. Quadflieg

Weighing the care: patients' perceptions of physician care as a function of gender and weight In International Journal of Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders (2003)
Author(s): Mikki Hebl, J. Xu, Malia Mason

Are you looking at me? Eye gaze and person perception In Psychological Science (2002)
Author(s): C. Neil Macrae, Bruce Hood, A. B. Milne, A. C. Rowe, Malia Mason

Seven Continents Petroleum: Fall 2011
Author(s): Ko Kuwabara, Malia Mason

A Primer on Personal Development: Spring 2008
Author(s): Daniel Ames, Malia Mason, Dana Carney

A Lay Theory of Homophily: Relational Information in First Impressions Working Paper (2011)
Author(s): Xi Zou, Malia Mason

The Effect of Thought Trajectory on Mood Working Paper (2010)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Moshe Bar

Racial Neutrality and Racial Paralysis Working Paper (2010)
Author(s): Michael I. Norton, Malia Mason, Joe Vandello, Andrew Biga, Rebecca Dyer

The powerful size others down: The link between power and estimates of others' size In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2018)
Author(s): Andy J. Yap, Malia Mason, Daniel Ames

Precise Offers Are Potent Anchors: Conciliatory Counteroffers and Attributions of Knowledge in Negotiations In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2013)
Author(s): Malia Mason, Alice J. Lee, Elizabeth A. Wiley, Daniel Ames