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Professor Mason currently has two lines of research, both of which she has explored using a combination of behavioral, functional imaging (fMRI) and patient-based (split-brain) approaches. The first is concerned with social perception or how people form impressions and make inferences about other people. Her second line of research is concerned with elucidating why the mind has a strong proclivity for undirected, unintended thought -- why it "wanders" - and how this capacity might be adaptive. Professor Mason is also a Decision Science Fellow at Columbia University's Brain Imaging Center. Professor Mason teaches the Leadership and the Research Methods Course.

• Fall 2009
  Leadership Development
  
• Spring 2009
  (PhD) Proseminar
  
Advanced Seminar in Social Cognition
Leadership Development

• Fall 2008
  Leadership Development
  
• Summer 2008
  Leadership
  
• Fall 2007
  (PhD) Research Methods
  

Intentionality in Intuitive Versus Analytic Processing: Insights from Social Cognitive Neuroscience In Psychological Inquiry (2009) Coauthor(s): Michael Morris, Malia Mason

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

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

Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought In Science (2007) Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, Michael I. Norton, John Van Horn, Daniel M. Vegner, Scott Grafton, C. Neil Macrae

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

The Look of Love: Gaze Shifts and Person Perception In Psychological Science (2005) Coauthor(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) Coauthor(s): J. Cloutier, Malia Mason, C. Neil Macrae

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

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

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

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

Understanding others: The face and person construal In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2004) Coauthor(s): C. Neil Macrae, K. 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) Coauthor(s): Mikki Hebl, J. Xu, Malia Mason

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

Spontaneous mental time travel in the default state In Cognitive Science (2010) Coauthor(s): Malia Mason, M. Bar, C. Neil Macrae