Katrina Fincher
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Email
fincherk@newschool.edu
Office Location
G - 80 Fifth Avenue
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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.
Degrees Held
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Affiliation
Association for Psychological Science Society for Judgment and Decision Making Society for Personality and Social Psychology National Latina/o Psychological Association Academy of Management
Recent Publications
Fincher, K.M., Tetlock, P.E. & Morris, M.W. (2017) Interfacing with Faces: Perceptual Humanization and Dehumanization, Current Directions in Psy. Sci. 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 Allison K. C., Paré E, Cicco Barker J, Kavanaugh K, Fincher, K., Sarwer DB. Predicting excess weight gain among overweight pregnant women: the PoEMS study. Journal of Women’s Health 2007; 16:1102, P-20.
Research Interests
morality, cognition, perception
Awards And Honors
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)
Current Courses
Humanization & Dehumanization
Independent Study
Independent Study (Fall 2019)
Methods of Inquiry
Methods of Inquiry (Fall 2019)
Moral Psychology
Polit Psyc: Moral, Hiera&Grps
Polit Psyc: Moral, Hiera&Grps (Fall 2019)
Senior Work Project
Senior Work Project (Fall 2019)