Steven Neuberg is a Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. He received his bachelor's from Cornell University and a master's and doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University. Neuberg integrates social-cognitive and evolutionary approaches in his research exploring the origins, nature, and nuances of prejudices and stereotypes, and the ways that fundamental motivations shape cognition and social behavior. He is the co-director of the Kenrick-Neuberg Social Cognition Laboratory. He also founded the ASU Global Group Relations Project, a multidisciplinary and global study of factors, including religion, which shape intergroup conflict. Neuberg is a fellow of multiple scientific societies and the recipient of several teaching awards, including ASU’s 2012 Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award.
Interests include evolutionary approaches to human sociality; stigma; prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination; effects of ecology on social cognition and behavior; motivation influences on cognition; religion and conflict.
Our lab is is currently exploring the following issues, and others like them:
Our approach is an integrative one, pulling together theory and findings from social psychology, ecological psychology, and evolutionary biology to explore fundamental questions of social cognition and behavior.
Selected Recent Publications:
In press
Kenrick, D.T., Cohen, A. B., Neuberg, Sl. L., & Cialdini, R. B. (in press). The science of anti-scientific thinking. Scientific American.
Cohen, A. B., & Neuberg, S. L. (in press). Religious cultures and religious conflict. S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford.
2017
Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, A. C. (2017). Discriminating ecologies: A life history approach to stigma and health. In B. Major, J. F. Dovidio, & B. G. Link (Eds.), Handbook of stigma, discrimination and health (pp. 125-145). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Schaller, M., Kenrick, D.T., Neel, B., & Neuberg, S. L. (2017). Evolution and human motivation: A fundamental motives framework. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11. Online only, DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12319.
*Sng, O., Neuberg, S. L., Varnum, M. E. W., & Kenrick, D. T. (2017). The crowded life is a slow life: Population density and life history strategy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112, 736-754.
2016
*Filip-Crawford, G., & Neuberg, S.L. (2016). Homosexuality and pro-gay ideology as pathogens? Implications of a disease-spread lay model for understanding anti-gay behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
*Krems, J.A., Dunbar, R., Neuberg, S. (2016). Something to talk about: Are conversation sizes constrained by mental modeling abilities? Evolution and Human Behavior.
*Krems, J.A., Neel, R., Neuberg, S.L., Puts, D.A., & Kenrick, D.T. (2016, April). Women selectively guard their (desirable) mates from ovulating women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(4), 551-573.
Neel, R., Kenrick, D.T., White, A. E., & Neuberg, S.L. (2016). Individual differences in fundamental social motives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(6), 887-907.
Neuberg, S.L., & Schaller, M. (2016). An evolutionary threat-management approach to predudices. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 1-5.”
*Williams, K.E., *Sng, O., & Neuberg, S. L. (2016). Ecology-driven stereotypes override race stereotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,113(2), 310-315.
*Sng, O., *Williams, K. E. G., & Neuberg, S. L. (2016). Evolutionary approaches to stereotyping and prejudice. In C. Sibley & F. K. Barlow (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of the psychology of prejudice (pp. 21-46). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2015
*Krems, J.A., *Filip-Crawford, G., & Neuberg, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (2015). Is she angry? (Sexually desirable) Women ‘see’ anger on female faces. Psychological Science, 26, 1655-1663.
2014
Neuberg, S.L., & Schaller, M. (2014). Evolutionary social cognition. M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology (Vol. 1, Attitudes and social cognition, pp. 3 - 45, E. Borgida & J. A. Bargh [Assoc. Eds.]). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Neuberg, S.L., Warner, C.M., *Mistler, S.A., *Berlin, A., *Hill, E. D., *Johnson, J.D., *Filip-Crawford, G., Millsap, R.E., Thomas, G., Winkelman, M., Broome, B.J., Taylor, T.J., & Schober, J. (2014). Religion and intergroup conflict: Findings from the Global Group Relations Project. Psychological Science, 25, 198-206.
*Pirlott, A.G., & Neuberg, S.L. (2014). Sexual prejudice: Avoiding unwanted sexual interest? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 92-101.
2013
Neuberg, S. L., & *Sng, O. (2013). A life history theory of social perception: Stereotyping at the intersections of age, sex, and ecology (and race). Social Cognition, 31, 696–711.
*Kenrick, A. C., *Shapiro, J. R., & Neuberg, S. L. (2013). Do parental bonds break anti-fat stereotyping? Parental work-ethic ideology and disease concerns predict bias against heavy-weight children. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 723-731.
*Neel, R., *Neufeld, S.L., & Neuberg, S.L. (2013). Would an obese person whistle Vivaldi? Targets of prejudice self-present to minimize the appearance of specific threats. Psychological Science, 24, 678-687.
2012 and earlier
Schaller, M., & Neuberg, S.L. (2012). anger, disease, and the nature of prejudice(s). J. Olson & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 46, pp. 1 - 55). Burlington, VT: Academic Press. [Winner, Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues]
*Neel, R., Becker, D.V., Neuberg, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (2012). Who expressed what emotion? Men grab anger, women grab happiness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 583-586.
Neuberg, S. L., Kenrick, D. T., & Schaller, M. (2011). Human threat management systems: Self-protection and disease avoidance. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 1042-1051.
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PPS 503 | Prejudice/Intergroup Relations |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 451 | Stereotyping/Prejudice/Discrim |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 501 | Supervised Teaching |
PSY 590 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 591 | Seminar |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 790 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 501 | Supervised Teaching |
PSY 590 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 594 | Conference and Workshop |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 790 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 590 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 790 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 451 | Stereotyping/Prejudice/Discrim |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 501 | Supervised Teaching |
PSY 590 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 790 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 501 | Supervised Teaching |
PSY 590 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 594 | Conference and Workshop |
PSY 595 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 790 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 795 | Continuing Registration |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 551 | Advanced Social Psychology |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
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