Robert C. Sinclair
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My research is focused on the effects of affect in social and cognitive processes, attitude formation and change, biases in survey responding, sexual behavior, and applications of social cognition in marketing and organizational behavior.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Causal Attribution
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Organizational Behavior
- Person Perception
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Brown, N. R., & Sinclair, R. C. (1999). Estimating number of lifetime sexual partners: Men and women do it differently. Journal of Sex Research, 36, 292-297.
- Mark, M. M., Sinclair, R. C., & Wellens, T. R. (1991). The effect of completing the Beck Depression Inventory on self-reported mood state: Contrast and assimilation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 457-465.
- Sinclair, R. C. (1988). Mood, categorization breadth, and performance appraisal: The effects of order of information acquisition and affective state on halo, accuracy, information retrieval, and evaluations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 42, 22-46.
- Sinclair, R. C., Hoffman, C., Mark, M. M., Martin, L. L., & Pickering, T. L. (1994). Construct accessibility and the misattribution of arousal: Schachter and Singer revisited. Psychological Science, 5, 15-19.
- Sinclair, R. C., Lee, T., & Johnson, T. E. (1995). The effect of social comparison feedback on aggressive responses to erotic and aggressive films. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 25, 818-837.
- Sinclair, R. C., & Mark, M. M. (1995). The effects of mood state on judgmental accuracy: Processing strategy as a mechanism. Cognition and Emotion 9, 417-438.
- Sinclair, R. C., & Mark, M. M. (1991). Mood and the endorsement of egalitarian macrojustice versus equity-based microjustice principles. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 369-375.
- Sinclair, R. C., Mark, M. M., & Clore, G. L. (1994). Mood-related persuasion depends on (mis)attributions. Social Cognition, 12, 309-326.
- Sinclair, R. C., Mark, M. M., Moore, S. E., Lavis, C. A., & Soldat, A. S. (2000). An electoral butterfly effect. Nature, 408, 665-666.
- Sinclair, R. C., Mark, M. M., & Shotland, R. L. (1987). Construct accessibility and generalizability across response categories. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 13, 239-252.
- Soldat, A. S., Sinclair, R. C., & Mark, M. M. (1997). Color as an environmental processing cue: External affective cues can directly affect processing strategy without affecting mood. Social Cognition, 15, 55-71.
Other Publications:
- Evans, M. E., & Sinclair, R. C. (in press). Assessing the true cost of imported foods in Tonga: Securing food, health, and traditional values through sustainable use of marine resources. Proceedings of the Conference of the World Council of Whalers.
- Sinclair, R.C. (in press). Social science, rocket science, and dealing with the media. Psynopsis.
- Sinclair, R. C., & Mark, M. M. (1992). The influence of mood state on judgment and action: Effects on persuasion, categorization, social justice, person perception, and judgmental accuracy. In L. L. Martin & A. Tesser (Eds.), The construction of social judgments, (pp. 165-193). Hillsdale, NJ. Erlbaum.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Research Methods
- Advanced Social Psychology
- Analyses of Complex Experiments
- Human Motivation
- Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- Introductory Psychology
- Introductory Research Methods
- Proseminar in Social and Cultural Psychology
- Social Psychology
Robert C. Sinclair
Department of Psychology
Laurentian University
A226C Arts Building, Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
Canada
- Phone: (705) 675-1151, ext. 4250
- Fax: (705) 675-4889