Biography
I was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. But, I've lived all over the country, ping-ponging between Buffalo, San Diego, Chicago, and Los Angeles. My favorite thing about being part of the CSUN community is working with and learning from students.
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, Social Psychology
M.A., University of Chicago, Social Psychology
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, English Literature
B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, Psychology and English Literature
Courses Taught
- PSY 321/L: Introduction to Research Methods
- PSY 345: Social Psychology
- PSY 479PD: Prejudice and Stereotyping Senior Capstone
- PSY 500:Graduate Seminar in Professional Development
- PSY 540: Graduate Seminar in Advanced Social Psychology
Selected Publications
Ma, D. S., Kantner, J., Benitez, J., & Dunn, S. (2022). Are morphs a valid substitute for real multiracial faces in race categorization research?. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(1), 95-104.
Correll, J., Ma, D. S., & Davis, J. P. (2021). Perceptual tuning through contact? Contact interacts with perceptual (not memory-based) face-processing ability to predict cross-race recognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104058.
Ma, D. S., Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (2018). The effects of category and physical features on stereotyping and evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 42-50.
Ma, D. S., Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (2016). Context Dependency at Recall: Decoupling Context and Targets at Encoding. Social Cognition, 34, 119-132.
Ma, D. S., Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (2015). The Chicago face database: A free stimulus set of faces and norming data. Behavior research methods, 47(4), 1122-1135.
Correll, J., Hudson, S. M., Guillermo, S. & Ma, D. S. (2014), The Police Officer's Dilemma: A Decade of Research on Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8: 201-213. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12099
Ma, D. S. & Devos, T. (2013). Every Heart Beats True, for the Red, White, and Blue: National Identity Predicts Voter Support. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. doi: 10.1111/asap.12025.
Correll, J., Lemoine, C., & Ma, D. S. (2011). Hemispheric Asymmetry in Cross-Race Face Recognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1162-1166.
Ma, D. S. & Correll, J. (2011). Target Prototypicality Moderates Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 391-396.
Research and Interests
My research focuses on social psychological phenomena related to stereotyping and prejudice. Members of my research lab and I examine the ways in which race shapes thoughts, influences judgments, and impacts behavior. Currently, we are investigating different aspects of how individuals process human faces, including identifying the features that give rise to racial categorizations among monoracial and multiracial faces.