Katrina Fincher studies moral psychology. Her research focuses on the basic cognitive and perceptual psychological mechanisms that enable people to live in social groups, in particular three mechanisms that enable this transition; perceptual dehumanization (her primary focus), covert retribution, and sacred values. 

PhD 2015, University of Pennsylvania

BA 2008, University of Pennsylvania

Association for Psychological Science

Society for Judgment and Decision Making

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

National Latina/o Psychological Association

Academy of Management

Fincher, K.M., Tetlock, P.E. & Morris, M.W. (2017) Interfacing with Faces: Perceptual Humanization and Dehumanization, Current Directions in Psy. Sci.

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Fincher, K.M. & Morris, M.W.  (2016) Look Again: The Value in Distinguishing Three Processes Underlying Social-Perceptual Effects, Pychological Inquiry, 27:4,

 

​Fincher, K.M., & Tetlock, P.E. (2016) Perceptual Dehumanization of Faces Is Activated by Norm Violations and Facilitates Norm Enforcement, Journal of Experimental Psychology : General

 

Fincher. K.M & Tetlock, P.E. (2015) Brutality Undercover of Ambiguity: Covert Retributivism and Punitiveness Traps. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

 

Tetlock, P.E. & Fincher, K.M., (2014) Social Functionalism. "Theory and Explanation in Social Psychology." Guilford Press, New York

 

Mellers B, Ungar L, Baron J, Ramos J, Gurcay B, Fincher K.M., Scott S.E., Moore D, Atanasov P, Swift SA, Murray T, Stone E, & Tetlock, P (2014). Psychological strategies for winning a geopolitical forecasting tournament. Psychological science, 25(5), 1106-1115.

 

Baron, J. Metz, S.E., Scott, S., & Fincher, K.M. Why does the Cognitive Reflection Test (sometimes) predict utilitarian moral judgment (and other things)? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 4 (2015) 265-284.

 

Hormes, J. M., Rozin, P., Green, M. C., & Fincher, K. (2013). Reading a book can change your mind, but only some changes last for a year: food attitude changes in readers of The Omnivore's Dilemma. Frontiers in Psychology, 4.

 

Mellers, B., & Fincher, K.M.(2013) Surprise: A belief or an emotion? Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 202, Amsterdam: The Netherlands, 2013, pp. 3-19.

 

Rozin, P., Fincher, K.M., Guillot, L,.,Rozin, A., & Tsukayama, E. (2013). Glad to be sad, and other examples of benign masochism. Judgment & Decision Making, 8(4).

 

Fedotova, N., Fincher, K.M., Goodwin, G., & Rozin P. (2012) How Much Do Thoughts Count?: Preference for Emotion versus Principle in Judgments of Antisocial and Prosocial Behavior. Emotion Review.

 

Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & Fincher, K.M. (2009). From oral to moral. Science, 323, 1179-1180

 

 

morality, cognition, perception

 

2016 Mortimer D. Sackler Summer Institute in Neuroscience and Law

 

2010–2015 Russell Ackoff Student Research Fellowship,

Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School

(Total Awards: $17,500)

 

2009–2015 Mellon Fellowship, Department of Psychology

University of Pennsylvania

(Total Awards: $280,000)

 

2013–2015 Benjamin Franklin Summer Fellowship

Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

(Total Awards: $6,300)

 

2013 Diversity Fund Travel Fellowship

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

(Total Award, $500)

 

2011 Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Neuroscience Bootcamp

University of Pennsylvania