CV
SCOTT A. AKALIS
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Webpage: www.aboutscott.com
Phone: (312) 795-7367
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Education
Ph.D.,
Social
Psychology
M.A.,
Social
Psychology
B.A.,
Dual
Majors: Psychology (honors) & Multidisciplinary Models of the Mind (ad hoc)
Academic Honors &
Fellowships
2006 Society for Personality
& Social Psychology Runner-Up Poster Award
2003-06 George W. Goethals Teaching
Prize
2002
(2004-07) National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellowship
2002
(2002-04)
2002 Jacob K. Javits Graduate
Fellowship (declined)
2002 Northwestern University
“MayCourt” Member, Scholarship Category
2001-02 Northwestern Honors Program in
Psychology
2001 Rhodes Scholarship
Competition, Semi-Finalist
2001 Phi Beta Kappa (as
junior)
2001 Golden Key International
Honour Society (declined)
1998-02 Northwestern
1998 National Merit Scholar
Academic Leadership
Activities
2005-07 Harvard Psychology Department
Study Pool Committee member
2005-06 Harvard Social Psychology
Research Workshop Committee member
2004 Research Fellow at the
Mind & Life Summer Institute for Meditation Research
2002-03 Graduate Student Council
Representative for the Harvard Psychology Department
2000-02 Student Activities Board
Representative for the Northwestern Psychology Department
2000-01 President of Northwestern
Undergraduate Psychology Association
2000 Graduate of Northwestern
Undergraduate Leadership Program
1999-01 Justice on the Northwestern
Associated Student Government Judicial Board
1996,
97 Odyssey of the Mind
State Championship Team Member (creative problem-solving competition)
Teaching & Advising
Experience
2005-07 Undergraduate Honors Thesis
Co-Supervisor at Harvard (5 students)
2003-07 Undergraduate Research (Psy
910r) Co-Supervisor at Harvard (2-6 students each year)
2003-07 Academic Advisor for Harvard
Psychology Concentrators (~25 students each year)
2003-06 Instructor of Sophomore
Tutorial: “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of Psychology”
Self-designed, year-long undergraduate seminar course
at Harvard
2003-06 Non-resident Tutor of
Psychology for
Advising and taking part in house activities with
undergraduates
2000 Faculty Instructor for
the Leadership division of the National High School Institute at Northwestern
2000 Teaching Assistant for
Northwestern’s Undergraduate Leadership Program
1995-97;
1999 Mathematics and
Research Publications
Akalis,
S. A., Nannapaneni, J., & Banaji, M. R. (under review). Manual shifts in
automatic preferences: The
effect of self-generated associations on
implicit attitudes.
Akalis, S. A., Banaji, M. R., & Kosslyn, S. M.
(2008). Crime alert!: How thinking about
a single suspect automatically
shifts stereotypes toward an entire group.
Du Bois Review, 5.
Akalis,
S. A. (2008). A new spin on losses looming larger than gains: Asymmetric
implicit associations
from slot machine experience. Journal of Behavioral
Decision Making, 21, 378-398.
Epley,
N., Waytz, A., Akalis, S., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). When we need a human:
Motivational determinants
of anthropomorphism. Social Cognition,
26, 143-155.
Epley,
N., Akalis, S., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). Creating social
connection through inferential
reproduction: Loneliness and perceived
agency in gadgets, gods, and greyhounds. Psychological Science, 19,
114-120.
Research Presentations
Akalis,
S. A. (May, 2007). A new spin on losses looming larger than gains: Asymmetric
implicit associations from slot machine experience. Oral defense of
dissertation at the Harvard Psychology Department,
Adams,
R., Akalis, S., Banaji, M. R., & Pittinsky, T.L. (January, 2007). The
effects of implicit attitude awareness on mock juror
decision-making. Poster
presentation at the Society of Personality and Social
Psychology,
Akalis,
S. A. (January, 2007).
Social Psychology,
Akalis, S. A., Nannapaneni, J., & Banaji, M.
R. (January, 2006). Do-it-yourself mental
makeovers: How self-generated thoughts shift implicit
attitudes. Poster
presented at the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology,
Akalis, S. A., Nannapaneni, J., & Banaji, M.
R. (June, 2005). Implicit attitude
change: Can do-it-yourself debiasing work? Poster presented at the Association
for
the Scientific
Study of Consciousness,
Epley, N., & Akalis, S. A. (February, 2005).
Detecting versus enhancing anthropomorphic agents: The divergent effects of
fear and loneliness. Paper presented in
“Other minds? How people
perceive non-human agents,” T. Chartrand (Chair), Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Akalis, S. A., Nannapaneni, J., & Banaji, M.
R. (February, 2005). Meditating on
malleability: Implicit attitude change via concentration.
Poster presented at the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
Akalis, S. A., & Banaji, M. R. (November, 2004).
Compassion & context-independent implicit attitude change. Paper presented
at the Harvard Social Psychology
Research Workshop,
Akalis, S. A., & Banaji, M. R. (May, 2004). Buddha,
big bellies, & blizzards: Implicit attitude malleability via concentration.
Paper presented to the Harvard
Psychology Department,
Akalis,
S. A., & Banaji, M. R. (January, 2004). Prime & prejudice: Exploratory
studies on eliciting tolerance. Poster presented at
the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology,
Akalis, S. A.,
& Banaji, M. R. (April, 2003). God & groups: A divine perspective on social
cognition. Paper presented at the Harvard Social Psychology Research
Workshop,
Research Grants
2005 Tom Slick Research Award
in Consciousness to M. R. Banaji, S. A. Akalis, & J. Nannapaneni
2004,
2005 Gordon Allport
Restricted Funds Grants
2001
2001 Northwestern University
Grant for Undergraduate Summer Research (declined)
1998-02 Northwestern University
College Scholar Research Stipend
Research Experience
2002-03 Akalis, S. A., & Banaji,
M. R. (unpublished). Prime & prejudice: Exploratory studies on eliciting
tolerance.
2001-02 Akalis, S. A., & Gardner,
W. (unpublished honors thesis). Play-Doh & perseverance: Exploring the
positive consequences of creative
experience.
2001 Akalis, S. A., &
Gardner, W. (unpublished undergraduate project). Denying death by affirming
stereotypes.
2000-02 Research Assistant for Dr.
Wendi Gardner at Northwestern University
1999-00 Research Assistant for Dr.
Neal Roese at Northwestern University
Research Interests
Implicit Attitude Dynamics:
Change, Mental Control
Formation
Applications for social
cognition, economics, & marketing
Economics & Risk
Anthropomorphism & Zoomorphism
Physical Attraction & Sexuality
Creativity
Religion