Curriculum Vitae Dr. Michael A. Olson Fall 2014 School Address: Home Address: Department of Psychology 4407 Barbara Dr. Austin Peay Building Knoxville, TN 37918 University of Tennessee Phone: (865) 689-5258 Knoxville, TN 37996 Phone: (865) 974-8264 Fax: (865) 974-3330 Email: olson@utk.edu WWW: http://web.utk.edu/~molson2/ Education: Ph.D., Social Psychology, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1997 2003 B.S., Psychology, summa cum laude, with honors, Illinois State University, 1993 1997 Professional Positions: Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee, 2010 present Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee, 2004 2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, The Ohio State University, 2003 2004 Professional Affiliations: Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Association for Psychological Science Society for Personality and Social Psychology Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists Awards and Honors: University of Tennessee Thomas Jefferson Research Award nominee, 2013 University of Tennessee Chancellor's Excellence in Graduate Advising and Mentoring Award nominee, 2012 University of Tennessee College Convocation Teaching Award nominee, 2012, 2013 University of Tennessee Cunningham Outstanding Teaching Award Endowment nominee, 2012 University of Tennessee Psi Chi Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2012 Illinois State University Psychology Alumni Early Career Achievement Award, 2010 David V. & Kathryn G. White Teaching Award (by UT undergraduate vote, $1000), 2010 Ohio State University Department of Psychology Fred Brown Research Award, 2004 ISI Essential Science Indicators citation analysis identifying Fazio & Olson (2003) Annual Review article as a Fast Breaking Paper in Psychology/Psychiatry, April 2004 Ohio State Social Psychology MVP Award, 2003 Indiana University College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, 2000 Indiana University Department of Psychology Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Commendation, 1999 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, 1998 8 th Grade Science Award, Chiddix Junior High, 1988
Grants and Funding: Templeton Foundation, Beyond the shroud: Discerning Jesus in the mind s eye, 2013 (Co-I, $299,999) Florida State University Military Suicide Research Consortium, Using evaluative conditioning to improve marriage, 2014 (Co-I, $97,435) DoD/Minerva, Modeling and analysis of the role of social feedback and external events on opinion evolution in networked societies, 2013 (not funded) University of Tennessee Scholarly and Research Incentive Funds award, 2013 ($7,200) National Science Foundation, Implicit Attitude Development, 2010 (not funded) National Institute of Drug Abuse, Implicit Drug Attitudes (R21), 2008 (not funded) University of Tennessee Chancellor's Awards to Pursue External Funding, 2006 ($6000) Indiana University Undergraduate Summer Research Initiative Award, 1999 ($3200) Research Incentive Award, Indiana University College of Arts & Sciences, 1998 ($1500) Publications: Olson, M. A., & Zabel, K. L. (in press). Measures of prejudice. In T. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice. New York: Psychology Press. McNulty, J. K., Baker, L. R., & Olson, M. A. (in press). Implicit Self-Evaluations Predict Changes in Implicit Partner Evaluations. Psychological Science. Fazio, R. H., & Olson, M. A. (2014). The MODE model: Attitude-Behavior Processes as a Function of Motivation and Opportunity. In Sherman, J. W., Gawronski, B., & Trope, Y. (Eds.). Dual process theories of the social mind. New York: Guilford Press. Phillips, J. E., & Olson, M. A. (2014). When implicitly and explicitly measured racial attitudes align: The roles of social desirability and thoughtful responding. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 36, 125-132. McNulty, J. K., Olson, M. A., Meltzer, A. L. & Shaffer, M. J. (2013). Though they may be unaware, newlyweds implicitly know whether their marriage will be satisfying. Science, 342, 1119-1120. Widman, L., & Olson, M. A. (2013). On the relationship between automatic attitudes and self-reported sexual assault in men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 813-823. Widman, L., Olson, M. A., & Bolen, R. (2013). Self-reported sexual assault in convicted sex offenders and community men. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 28, 1519-1536. Olson, M. A., & Kendrick, R. V. (2012). Attitude Formation. In Ramachandran, V. S. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Second Edition (pp. 230-235). New York: Elsevier. Kendrick, R. V., & Olson, M. A. (2012). When feeling right leads to being right in the reporting of implicitly-formed attitudes, or how I learned to stop worrying and trust my gut. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1316-1321.
Howerton, D. M., Meltzer, A. L., & Olson, M. A. (2012). Honeymoon vacation: Sexualorientation prejudice and inconsistent behavioral responses. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34, 146-151. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2012). Reducing automatically-activated racial prejudice through implicit evaluative conditioning. In G. Haddock & G. Maio (Eds.), Psychology of Attitudes. London: Sage. Jones, C. R., Olson, M. A., & Fazio (2010). Evaluative Conditioning: The How Question. Chapter in J. M. Olson & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 43). San Diego: Academic Press. Han, H. A., Czellar, S., Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2010). Malleability of attitudes or malleability of the IAT? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 286-298. Olson, M. A. (2009). Measures of prejudice. In T. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice (pp. 367-381). New York: Psychology Press. Olson, M. A. (2009). Implicit Prejudice. In J. Levine & M. Hogg (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Newbery Park, CA: Sage. *Winner, "Outstanding Reference Source" award at the American Library Association midwinter meeting, 2011 Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2009). Implicit and explicit measures of attitudes: The perspective of the MODE model. In Petty, R. E., Fazio, R. H., & Briñol, P. (Eds.), Attitudes: Insights from the new implicit measures (pp. 19-64). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Hitlan, R. T, Pryor, J. B., Hesson-McInnis, M. S., & Olson, M. (2009). Antecedents to gender harassment: An analysis of person and situation factors. Sex Roles, 61, 794-807. Olson, M. A., & Crawford, M. T., & Devlin, W. (2009). Evidence for the underestimation of implicit in-group favoritism among low status groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1111-1116. Olson, M. A., Kendrick, R. V. & Fazio, R. H. (2009). Implicit covariation learning in evaluative vs. non-evaluative dimensions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 398-403. Olson, M. A., Fazio, R. H., & Han, H. A. (2009). Conceptualizing personal and extrapersonal associations. Social Psychology and Personality Compass, 3, 152-170. Johnson, C. S., Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2009). The contents of getting acquainted in interracial interactions: Avoiding intimacy but approaching race. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 557-571. Jones, C. R., Fazio, R. H., & Olson, M. A. (2009). Implicit misattribution as a mechanism underlying evaluative conditioning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 933-948.
Olson, M. A., & Kendrick, R. V. (2008). Origins of attitudes. In W. Crano & R. Prislin (Eds.), Attitudes and Persuasion. New York: Psychology Press. Fazio, R. H., & Olson, M. A. (2008). Implicit measures in social cognition: Their meaning and use. In C. Roberts & R. Jowell (Eds.), Attitude Measurement. New Delhi: Sage. Olson, M. A. (2007). The MODE model. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Newbery Park, CA: Sage. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2007). Discordant evaluations of Blacks affect nonverbal behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1214-1224. Olson, M. A., Fazio, R. H., & Hermann, A. D. (2007). Reporting tendencies underlie discrepancies between implicit and explicit measures of self-esteem. Psychological Science, 18, 287-291. Han, H. A., Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2006). The influence of experimentally-created extrapersonal associations on the Implicit Association Test. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 259-272. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2006). Reducing automatically-activated racial prejudice through implicit evaluative conditioning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 421-433. Miller, S. C., Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2004). Perceived reactions to romantic relationships: When Race is Used as a Cue to Status. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7, 354-369. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2004). Trait inferences as a function of automaticallyactivated racial attitudes and motivation to control prejudiced reactions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 26, 1-12. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2004). Reducing the influence of extra-personal associations on the Implicit Association Test: Personalizing the IAT. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 653-667. Fazio, R. H., & Olson, M. A. (2003). Implicit measures in social cognition: Their meaning and use. Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 54, 297-327. Fazio, R. H., & Olson, M. A. (2003). Attitude structure and function. In M. A. Hogg and J. Cooper (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Social Psychology, (pp. 139-160). London: Sage. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2003). Relations between implicit measures of prejudice: What are we measuring? Psychological Science, 14, 36-39. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2002). Implicit acquisition and manifestation of classically conditioned attitudes. Social Cognition, 20, 89-103.
Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2001). Implicit attitude formation through classical conditioning. Psychological Science, 12, 413-417. Symposia and Programs Chaired at Professional Conferences: Attitudes Preconference Co-Organizer (2009-2011). Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Annual Meeting Site Coordinator (Fall, 2006). Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Knoxville, TN. Symposium Chair (November, 2005). Motivated Social Cognition: Great Goals, Efforts, and Expectations. A symposium at the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Atlantic Beach, FL. Conference Organizer (planning and program committee; October, 1999). Social Psychologists of Indiana, Bloomington, IN. Invited Presentations: Johnson, C. S., Olson, M. A., & Zabel, K. L. (Spring, 2012). The role of content in intergroup interactions. Talk presented at the University of Colorado, Social Psychology Colloquium Series. Olson, M. A. (October, 2010). Implicit Attitudes: Origins and Consequences. Invited Colloquium presented to the Illinois State University Department of Psychology, Normal, IL. Olson, M. A. (September, 2010). Implicit Attitudes: Origins and Consequences. Invited Colloquium presented to the Social Psychology Group, Indiana University Department of Psychology, Bloomington, IN. Olson, M. A. (April, 2009). Current Controversies in the Implicit Measurement of Social Attitudes. Invited Colloquium presented to the Social Psychology Group, Purdue University Department of Psychology, West Lafayette, IN. Olson, M. A. (November, 2006). Discordant evaluations of Blacks affect nonverbal Behavior. Invited address presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Society for Social Psychology, Knoxville, TN. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (October, 2004). Nonverbal Indicators of Intergroup Anxiety as a Function of Discordant Evaluations of Blacks. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Society for Social Psychology, Clemson, SC. Olson, M. A., & Fazio, R. H. (May, 2002). Implicit evaluative conditioning: Implicit measures and racial prejudice. Invited Address presented at Special Interest Meeting on Human Evaluative Conditioning, Le Lignely, Belgium. Pryor, J. B, Olson, M. A., & Hitlan, R. (October, 1999). Experimental studies of some of the antecedents of gender harassment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, St. Louis, MO.
Pryor, J. B., Hitlan, R., Olson, M. & Hahn, E. (May,1999). Gender harassment: Some social psychological studies of the antecedents. Invited address at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Conference Presentations (most recent 3 years): Kendrick, R. V., Olson, M. A., & Collier, J. S. (May, 2014). Evaluative conditioning in the absence of cognitive resources and intentional covariation detection. Poster presented at the 26 th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. Olson, M. A, Zabel, K. L., & Johnson, C. S. (January, 2014). Controversy level of interaction content moderates cognitive depletion effects in interracial interactions. Poster presented at the 14 th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Zabel, K. L., & Olson, M. A. (January, 2014). Inclusiveness need state activation, automatic prejudice, and the moderating role of social dominance orientation. Poster presented at the 14 th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. Zabel, K. L., & Olson, M. A. (May, 2013). Motivated endorsement of interethnic ideologies: An optimal distinctiveness approach. Poster presented at the 85 th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Zabel, K. L., & Olson, M. A. (January, 2013). Effects of target construal on activation of conflict avoidance and positive group treatment motives and social judgments. Poster presented at the 14 th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. Kendrick, R.V., & Olson, M.A. (January, 2013). On the prevention of evaluativelyconditioned attitudes. Poster presented at the 2013 meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. Howerton, D.M., Travis, C.B., Olson, M.A., Bains, J.S., Bresee, S.J., Sammons, F.B. (August, 2013). Heart disease recommendations: The effects of physician benevolent sexism and experience. Poster presented at the 121 st Annual American Psychological Association Convention, Honolulu, HI. Johnson, C. S., Olson, M. A., & Zabel, K. L. (June, 2012). Content in intergroup interaction. Talk presented at the Duck Conference on Social Cognition, Corolla, NC. Zabel, K. L., & Olson, M. A. (January, 2012). The effects of target construal on activating conflict avoidance motives and influencing social judgments. Poster to be presented at the 13th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. Zabel, K. L., Zabel, K. L., Olson, M. A., & Christopher, A. N. (January, 2012). Personality, interethnic ideology, and prejudice: The underlying predictors and mediational roles of interethnic ideology. Poster to be presented at the 13th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Professional Service Activities: Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2010-2014 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2007-2013 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 2008-present Ad hoc reviewer, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Cognition and Emotion, Emotion, European Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Science, Social Issues and Policy Review, Social Psychology and Personality Science Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation University Service Activities: Institutional Review Board, 2011-present University STRIDE committee, 2013-present University of Tennessee Faculty Speakers Bureau, 2005-2010 Departmental Service Activities (most recent 2 years): 2013 2014 Organizer, Social Behavior Research Group Chair, Research Allocation Committee SONA administrator Undergraduate Program Committee Experimental Faculty Admissions Committee Faculty mentor (Shteynberg) Faculty Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee Executive Committee 2012 2013 Organizer, Social Behavior Research Group Chair, Research Allocation Committee Undergraduate Program Committee Experimental Faculty Admissions Committee Faculty mentor (Shteynberg) Faculty Peer Teaching Evaluation Committee Promotion and Tenure sub-committee (Cooper) Undergraduate Advisor search committee Doctoral/Master s Chairs: Richard Kendrick, Doctoral Chair, IP Kevin Zabel, Master s Chair, IP Erin Christen, Doctoral Chair, IP Joy Phillips, Doctoral Chair, 2012 Caroline Mann, Doctoral Chair, 2009 Laura Widman, Doctoral Chair, 2009 Aric Gerke, Master s Chair, 2007
Undergraduate Thesis Chairs: Autumn Manning, 2014 Agnieszka Rykaczewska, 2012 Calumn Yeaman, 2010 Tiffany Smith, 2010 Julie Maccarone, 2010 Doctoral/Master s Committee Members: Crystal Sherline, IP Amy Heger, IP Chris Silver, IP Joe Salvatore, 2014 Ashley Lenentine, 2013 Sarah Fischer, 2013 Elaine Henry, 2013 Lydia Eckstein-Jackson, 2012 Dawn Howerton, 2012 Matt Schaffer, 2012 Andrea Meltzer, 2012 Jessica Owens, 2012 Taejun Lee, 2011 Jessica Smith, 2011 Erin O Mara, 2011 Katherin Williams, 2011 John Richardson, 2010 Xiaojing Sheng, 2009 Joseph Dickson, 2009 Mark Daniels, 2008 Noah Roost, 2007 Teaching at the University of Tennessee: Undergraduate Social Psychology, 360 Undergraduate Psychology of Prejudice, 482 Graduate Social Psychology, 550 Graduate Psychology of Attitudes, 530 Graduate Seminar, Psychology of Prejudice, 601 References: Dr. Russell H. Fazio Department of Psychology 1885 Neil Ave. The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210-1222 Phone: 614-688-5408 Email: fazio.11@osu.edu Dr. Lowell Gaertner Department of Psychology
University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 Phone: 865-974-3348 Email: gaertner@utk.edu Dr. Joel Cooper 2-S-17 Green Hall Psychology Department Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: 609-258-4464 Email: jcoops@princeton.edu Dr. Steven J. Sherman Department of Psychology Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Phone: 812-855-0136 Email: sherman@indiana.edu