Dr. Benjamin Meagher
Associate Professor PsychologyDr. Benjamin Meagher joined 快猫短视频 in 2017. He teaches courses in introductory, social and cognitive psychology.
Areas of expertise
Dr. Meagher specializes in environmental, social and personality psychology. His current research interests include studying how individual differences in motivation and personality influence impressions of the physical environment, whether certain types of physical settings can help people perform and cope in more effective ways, and in what way the composition of a group 鈥 particularly in terms of its virtues 鈥 impacts the success or experience of individual members when they are together.
You can read more about his research at his website.
Education
- Ph.D., social psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (2014)
- M.A., social psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (2011)
- B.A., psychology, Gordon College, Wenham, MA (2007)
Honors, grants and awards
- 鈥淐ollective intellectual humility: Investigating when and how intellectual humility enhances group outcomes,鈥 grant from The Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project, 2017鈥2019
- 鈥淎ssessing change in intellectual humility across a 5-week course,鈥 subcontract from The John Templeton Foundation grant #58942, 2016鈥2017
- Jack Shand Research Award, 鈥淧hysically situated religiosity: Investigating the relationship between environmental design, religious beliefs, and worship experience,鈥 grant from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2017鈥2019
- Constant H. Jacquet Research Award, 鈥淛udgments of religious qualities and the identification of spiritual exemplars,鈥 grant from the Religious Research Association, 2010-2011
Published work
- 鈥Ecologizing social psychology: The physical environment as a necessary constituent of social processes,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2019
- 鈥Moral representativeness and satisfaction with one鈥檚 religious community,鈥&苍产蝉辫;International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 29, 2018
- 鈥Deciphering the religious orientation of a sacred space: Disparate impressions of worship settings by congregants and external observers,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Environmental Psychology, 55, 2018
- 鈥Seeking the safety of sociofugal space: Environmental design preferences following social ostracism,鈥 with K.L. Marsh, K. L., Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 2017
- 鈥There鈥檚 no place like a neurotic鈥檚 home: Neuroticism moderates the prioritization of restorative properties in home environments,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Individual Differences, 37, 2016
- 鈥Perceiving sacred space: Religious orientation moderates impressions of religious settings,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Environment and Behavior, 48, 2016
- 鈥Contrasting self-report and consensus ratings of intellectual humility and arrogance,鈥 with J.C. Leman et al., Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 2015
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