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Broadly, I study implicit motives such as achievement, affiliation, and power, while my specific area of interest is the distinction between approach and avoidant achievement motives--known as hope of success and fear of failure respectively. One major theme of my research is that of motive assessment, which I explore through developing a coding system for measuring hope of success and fear of failure and by defining best practices for measuring implicit motives using the Picture Story Exercise. Another theme of my research involves behavioral correlates of implicit motives; I combine methods from personality, cognitive, and social psychology to investigate the effects of motivation on instrumental learning and hormone changes, as well as on social comparison strategies. I am currently starting a third line of research on the intersecting influences of cultural and gender identity, motivation, and social context on psychological resilience. Finally, my first introduction to psychological research was a study on the authoritarian personality, and this is a line of research that I continue to pursue.
Education
2006 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Ph.D. in Personality Psychology
2001 Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
B.A. in Psychology
Research Interests
- Achievement motivation
- Motive assessment
- Social comparison
- Cultural psychology of resilience
- Authoritarianism
Schultheiss, O. C., & Pang, J. S. (in press). Implicit measures of motivation and personality. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley & R. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology. New York: Guilford. Peterson, B. E. & Pang, J. S. (2006). Authoritarianism and the pursuit of leisure. The Journal of Social Psychology, 146, 443-461. Pang, J. S., & Schultheiss, O. C. (2005). Assessing implicit motives in U. S. college students: Effects of picture type and position, gender and ethnicity, and cross-cultural comparisons. Journal of Personality Assessment, 85(3), 280-294. Schultheiss, O. C., Pang, J. S., Torges, C. M., Wirth, M. M., & Treynor, W. (2005). Perceived facial expressions of emotions as motivational incentives: Evidence from a differential implicit learning paradigm. Emotion, 5, 41-54. Peterson, B. E., Duncan, L. E., & Pang, J. S. (2002). Authoritarianism and political impoverishment: Deficits in knowledge and civic disinterest. Political Psychology, 23(1), 97-112.
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