
Kathleen Cameron McCulloch
PAST APPOINTMENTS _______________________________________________________________
Assistant Professor, Idaho State University, USA: 2008 - 2012
EDUCATION _______________________________________________________________
Post-Doctoral Positions University of Illinois (2007)
University of Florida (2005-6)
Ph.D. Psychology, New York University (2004)
Major area: Social Psychology
Concentration: Cognitive Psychology
B.A. Psychology, University of Oregon (1995, Summa Cum Laude)
RESEARCH INTERESTS ___________________________________________________
Goal systems
Self-regulation
Nonconscious processes
Motivation
Attention
Person memory
Political psychology
PUBLICATIONS ___________________________________________________________
(1) Linkenauger, S., Wong, H. Y., Geuss, M., Stefanucci, J., McCulloch, K. C., Bülthoff, H. H., Mohler, B. J. & Proffitt, D. R. (in press). The perceptual homunculus: the perception of the relative proportions of the human body. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
(2) McCulloch, K. C., & Smallman, R. (2014). The implications of counterfactual mind-sets for the functioning of implementation intentions. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 635-644.
(3) Smith, P. K., McCulloch, K. C., Showstra, A. (2013). Moving closer to reach the top: Approach behavior increases one’s sense of power. Social Cognition, 13, 518-529.
(4) Hepler, J., Albarracin, D., McCulloch, K. C., & Noguchi, K. (2012). Being active and impulsive: The role of goals for action and inaction in self-control. Motivation and Emotion, 36, 416-424.
(5) Smallman, R., & McCulloch, K. C. (2012). Learning from yesterday’s mistakes to solve tomorrow’s problems: When functional counterfactual thinking and psychological distance collide. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 383-390.
(6) Schweiger-Gallo, I., McCulloch, K. C., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2012). Differential effects of antecedent- and response-focused implementation intentions on the regulation of disgust. Social Cognition, 30, 1-17.
(7) Smith, P. K., & McCulloch, K. C. (2012). Subliminal perception. Encyclopedia of
human behavior.
(8) McCulloch, K. C., Fitzsimons, G. M., Chua, S. N., Albarracin, D. (2011).
Vicarious goal satiation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 685-688.
(9) McCulloch, K. C., Li, H., Hong, S., & Albarracin, D. (2011). Naïve definitions of action and inaction: The continuum, spread, and valence of behaviors. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 227-234.
(10) McCulloch, K. C., & Albarracin, D. (2010). Attitude object. Cambridge dictionary of psychology. Cambridge University Press.
(11) Hassin, R. R., Bargh, J. A., Engell, A., & McCulloch, K. C. (2009). Implicit working memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 665-678.
(12) Schweiger-Gallo, I., Keil, A., McCulloch, K. C., Rockstroh, B., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2009). Strategic automation of emotion control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 11-31.
(13) McCulloch, K. C., Albarracin, D., & Durantini, M. R. (2008). A door to HIV interventions: How women-targeted materials can enhance women participation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 1211-1229.
(14) McCulloch, K. C., Ferguson, M. J., Kawada, C. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Taking a closer look: On the operation of nonconscious impression formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 614-623.
(15) McCulloch, K. C., Aarts, H., Fujita, K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Inhibition in goal systems:
A retrieval-induced forgetting account. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44, 857-865.
(16) Albarracin, D., Handley, I., Noguchi, K., McCulloch, K. C., Li, H., Leeper, J., Brown, R., Earl, A., & Hart, W. (2008). Increasing and decreasing motor and cognitive output: A model of general
action and inaction goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 510-523.
(17) Albarracin, D., Hart, W., & McCulloch, K. C. (2006). Associating versus proposing or associating what we propose: Comment on Gawronksi and Bodenhausen (2006). Psychological Bulletin, 132, 732-735.
(18) Gollwitzer, P. M., Bayer, U. C., & McCulloch, K. C. (2004). The control of the unwanted. In
R. Hassin & J. Bargh (Eds.), The new unconscious. Oxford University Press.
(19) Anderson, M. C., Green, C., & McCulloch, K. C. (2000). Similarity and inhibition in long-
term memory: Evidence for a two-factor theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory and Cognition, 26, 1141-1159.
(20) Anderson, M. C., & McCulloch, K. C. (1999). Integration as a general boundary condition
on interference in long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, 608-629.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS__________________________________________
(1) McCulloch, K. C. (2014). The effect of self-other similarity on vicarious goal satiation. Informal paper given at Person Memory Conference, (SESP preconference), Ohio.
(2) Tobin, S. J., Greenaway, K. H., Hampton, J., Crittall, M., & McCulloch, K. C. (2014). The sweet taste of others' success: Examining the role of reward in vicarious goal satiation. Talk given at the European Association for Social Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
(3) Tobin, S. J., Greenaway, K. H., Hampton, J., Crittall, M., & McCulloch, K. C. (2014). The effect of other people’s goal attainment on observers’ reward state and motivation. Poster given at the Society of Australian Social Psychologists, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
(4) McCulloch, K. C. (2014). Nostalgia and Creativity. Invited Talk. Duck Conference in Social Cognition.
(5) McCulloch, K. C. (2013). Vicarious Goal Satiation: Beyond the phenomenon. Invited Talk. Social Cognition Preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(6) Vineyard, J., & McCulloch, K. C. (2013). The effects of nostalgia on creativity. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(7) McCulloch, K.C. (2012). Vicarious Goal Satiation. Invited Talk. Duck Conference in Social Cognition.
(8) McCulloch, K. C., & Fitzsimons, G. Co-chairs: Living Vicariously? Self-Regulation as a Social
Process. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference in San Antonio, TX, 2011. Presented the paper: Vicarious goal satiation.
(9) Fitzsimons, G. & McCulloch, Kathleen C. (2010). Vicarious goal satiation: Achieving through others. Talk given at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Minneapolis, MN.
(10) Schweiger-Gallo, I., McCulloch, K. C., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2010). Differential effects of antecedent- and response-focused implementation intentions on the regulation of disgust. Poster given at the Society for the Study of Motivation Conference, Boston, MA.
(11) Robison, S.K. & McCulloch, K.C. (2010). Hot or not: Political party identification and affect
regulation. Poster given at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
(12) Robison, S.K. & McCulloch, K.C. (2009). Automatic for the People: Political Party Identification and the Automaticity of Affect. Talk given at the Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Vancouver, B.C.
(13) McCulloch, K. C., & Ferguson, M. J. Co-chairs: In Hot Pursuit: New Questions and Answers in Research on Automatic Goal Pursuit for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference in Tampa, Florida, 2009. Presented the paper: Taking a closer look: How an impression formation goal unfolds automatically.
(14) McCulloch, K. C., Bodurtha, K., Marshall, J., Albarracin, D. (2008). The effects of observation and goal completion status on goal contagion and vicarious goal satisfaction. Poster given at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Alburqueque, NM.
(15) McCulloch, K. C. (2007). Taking a closer look: On the operation of nonconscious impression formation. Talk given at the Person Memory Interest Group Conference, Zion, Illinois.
(16) McCulloch. K. C., & Albarracin, D. (2007). Wait for it! The differential sensitivity of a general action goal to subordinate goal trajectories. Poster given at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.
(17) McCulloch, K. C., Noguchi, K., & Albarracin, D. (2006). Flip-flopping of general action and inaction states: A study on mental representation. Poster given at the Association for Consumer Research Conference, Orlando, FL.
(18) Bargh, J. A., & McCulloch, K. C. (2005). Unintended consequences of intended evaluations, or what unconscious goal operation can tell us about conscious goal pursuit.
Talk given at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, New Orleans, LA.
(19) Schweiger-Gallo, I., McCulloch, K. C., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2005). Don’t get so emotional! Volitional control of emotions via implementation intentions. Poster given at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, New Orleans, LA.
(20) McCulloch, K. C., Hassin, R., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). How are automatic inferences
encoded? Evidence from conscious and nonconscious impression formation.
Poster given at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Austin, TX.
(21) McCulloch, K. C., Aarts, H., & Bargh, J. A. (2003). Inhibition in goal representations: A
mechanistic account. Poster given at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology
Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
(22) Bargh, J. A., & McCulloch, K. C. (2001). I know you better than I think: Priming the
impression formation goal sets trait inferences into gear. Talk given at the Society of
Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, TX.
(23) McCulloch, K. C., Gray, R., & Thornton, I., M. (2000). Incidental effects of attention on
face processing. Poster given at the ARVO Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
(24) Canseco, E., Inoue, K., McCulloch, K. C. & Neville, H. (1998). An ERP cross-linguistic
study of grammatical processing: Effects of family history of handedness and language proficiency. Poster given at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, CA.
(25) McCulloch, K. C., & Anderson, M. C. (1996). The effect of mnemonic strategies on
retrieval-induced forgetting. Poster given at the Psychonomics Society Conference, Chicago, IL.
PRESS ____________________________________________________
(1) Gender Affects Reaction to HIV-Prevention Materials
Medical News Today (06/12/08); Newspicker (06/12/08); AndhraNews.net (06/11/08); Krify News (06/11/08); News-Medical.net (06/11/08); hivplusmag (06/11/08); theCheers.org Magazine (06/11/08); Science Daily (06/10/08); Biomedicine (6/10/08); www.scientificblogging.com (6/10/08); Science Codex(6/10/08); VerticalNews (6/10/08); physorg.com
(2) Vicarious Goal Satiation
The Economist (09/03/11); Psychologytoday.com (06/02/11); Idaho State Journal (06/24/11); Psychcentral.com; Medical Digest; Dailykos (06/07/11); 43rdstateblues.com; dukechronicle.com (06/09/11); thecoreidaho.com (6/25/11); thejhub (06/24/11); Radio Interviews with Boise State Radio (NPR affiliate, 06/11) & KISU (07/11); Dubai Business Breakfast (07/17/11); Dubai News (07/24/11).
TEACHING INTERESTS ____________________________________________________
Social Cognition
Self-regulation
Propaganda and Persuasion
Neuroscience/Biopsychology
Automaticity
Person Memory
Cognition
Motivation
TEACHING ___________________________________________________
Present: Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Methods, Psychology of Advertising
Assistant Professor – Idaho State University
Introductory Psychology, Introductory Statistics, Social Psychology (undergraduate and graduate level), Cognitive Psychology (graduate level), Research Methods, Persuasion & Propaganda, Self-Regulation
Visiting Assistant Professor – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Attitudes and Behavior Change
Visiting Assistant Professor – University of Florida
Propaganda, Persuasion, and Attitudes
Teaching Assistant – New York University
Neuroscience, Cognition, Violence and Aggression in Society
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS ____________________________________________
Visiting Scholar University of Konstanz, Germany, 2001-2004
University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 2001
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2003
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES ____________________________________________
Ad Hoc Reviewer Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
American Psychologist
Social Cognition
European Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology
Journal of Learning and Individual Differences
Cognitive Psychology
Invited Rapporteur Economic and Social Science Research Council
GRANT ACTIVITY ______________________________________________________
1) Radical Futures Grant Lancaster University 2014
2) Security Lancaster Small Grant Lancaster University 2014
3) Friends Programme Funding Scheme Lancaster University 2013
3) Early Career Research Committee Grant Lancaster University 2013
4) Faculty Research Council Grant Idaho State University 2010
5) Undergraduate Research Grant (mentor) Idaho State University 2010
6) WE LEAD Seed Grant Idaho State University 2009
7) WE LEAD Collaboration Grant Idaho State University 2009
ADMINISTRATION & SERVICE ______________________________________________________
Lancaster University
1) Exams Tutor current
2) Social Masters Coordinator current
3) Advanced Social Psychology Coordinator current
4) Masters Dissertation Coordinator current
5) Teaching Committee current
6) Outreach / School Liaison Officer 2012-2014
7) International Officer 2012-2014
8) PhD Dissertation Co-Advisor 2013
Bethany Richardson
9) Masters Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Rayner, Constantinos Michael, Christiana Theodorou
Idaho State University
1) University Library Committee
Chair (2010 – 2011)
Member (2009-2010)
2) Experimental Training Committee Member (2008-2011)
3) Thesis/Dissertation Committee Member
Cliff Rone, Sara Rowland, Kristine Johnson, Maxwell Moholy, Pat Van Wyk, Margaret Leggreta, Cameron Staley, Allison Day, Galatia Cepeda, Kendra Westerhaus, Hilary Stratton, Verena Roberts, Kelly Pearce, Jared Vineyard
4) Comprehensive Exam Committee Member
5) Internal Evaluation Committee Clinical PhD Program (External Reviewer)
6) Departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee Member
Dr. Maria Wong, Dr. Tera Letzring, Dr. Josephine Garabaldi
7) Library Promotion, Tenure, Periodic Review Committee Member
8) Undergraduate Advisor
SOCIETIES ______________________________________________________
The Society of Social Experimental Psychology – inducted 2012
REFERENCES _____________________________________________________________
Dr. John Bargh
Dept. of Psychology
Yale University
2 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
(203) 432-4547
john.bargh@yale.edu
Dr. Peter Gollwitzer
Dept. of Psychology
New York University
6 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
(212) 998-7875
peter.gollwitzer@nyu.edu
Dr. Michael Anderson
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge England, CB2 7EF
+44 (0)1223 273 695
michael.anderson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr. Dolores Albarracin
The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania
3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-7041
dalbarra@asc.upenn.edu