Michael Gill, Associate Professor and Graduate
Program Director
340 Chandler Hall, 610.758.6577
mjg6@lehigh.edu

Academic History
University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., 1998, Psychology
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, B.A./B.S., 1993
Psychology/Accounting

Research Interests
Social explanations and their relation to social orientations/social emotions; Bases of prosocial orientations; Intergroup attitudes; Stereotypes and prejudice

Teaching Interests
Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Selected Publications

Andreychik, M. R . & Gill, M.J.  (in press). Ingroup identity moderates the impact of social explanations on     intergroup attitudes: External explanations are not inherently prosocial.  Personality and Social     Psychology Bulletin.

Gill, M. J. & Andreychik, M. A. (in press). Getting emotional about explanations: Social explanations and
   social explanatory styles as bases of prosocial emotions and intergroup attitudes. Social and
   Personality  Psychology Compass.

Gill, M. J. & Andreychik, M. R. (2007). Explanation and intergroup emotion: Social explanations as a
    foundation of prejudice-related compunction. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations [Special    Issue  on Intergroup Emotion], 10, 87-106.

Gill, M.J. (2004). When information does not deter stereotyping: Prescriptive stereotyping can bias
    judgments under conditions that  discourage descriptive stereotyping. Journal of Experimental
    Social Psychology, 40(5), 619-632.

Gill, M.J. & Swann, W.B., Jr. (2004). On what it means to know someone: A matter of pragmatics.
   Journal of  Personality and Social Psychology, 86(3), 405-418.

Gill, M. J. (2003). Biased against "them" more than "him": Stereotype use in group-directed and
    individual-directed judgment. Social Cognition, 21(3), 321-348.

Gilbert, D. T., Gill, M. J., & Wilson, T. D. (2002). The future is now: Temporal correction in affective
    forecasting. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88, 403-444. 

Gilbert, D. T. & Gill, M. J. (2000). The momentary realist. Psychological Science, 11, 394-398.

Gill, M.J., Swann, W.B., Jr., & Silvera, D.H.  (1998).  On the genesis of confidence. Journal of Personality
    and Social Psychology, 75(5), 1101-1114.

Swann, W.B., Jr. & Gill, M.J.  (1998).  Beliefs, confidence, and the widows Ademoski:  On knowing what
    we know about others.  In Yzerbyt, V.Y,  Lories, G., & Dardenne, B.  (Eds.), Metacognition:  Cognitive and
    social dimensions. London:  Sage.

Swann, W.B., Jr. & Gill, M.J.  (1997).  Confidence and accuracy in person perception:  Do we know what
    we think we know about our relationship partners? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 
    747-757.