Carrie A. Langner
Assistant Professor
Office: 47-23D
Phone: (805) 756-5705
Email: clangner@calpoly.edu
Education
Ph.D., Social and Personality Psychology, University of California at Berkeley
B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan
Courses Taught
PSY 202 General Psychology
PSY 252 Social Psychology
PSY 352 Conflict Resolution
Research Interests
I investigate the psychological and social costs of power imbalances as well as the psychological processes that can counteract these costs. My research indicates that having low power is associated with behavioral inhibition and negative emotion and my current work focuses on understanding the long-term health implications of low power and behavioral inhibition. One factor that may help counteract these costs is collective action. I am studying why people become politically involved and how this involvement can buffer low status individuals from negative health outcomes. I am also interested in the translation of research on status and health for policy-makers concerned with issues of poverty and inequity.
Selected Publications/Professional Activities
- Langner, C. A. (2008, June). Federal hate crime legislation and the role of psychological science. In C. A. Langner & E. Levy Paluck (Chairs), Psychology and policy: Perspectives from the local, federal, and international Level. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Chicago, IL.
- Chen, S., Langner, C. A., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2009). When dispositional and role power fit: Implications for self-expression and self-other congruence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(3), 710-727.
- Langner, C. A. & Keltner, D. (2008). Social power and emotional experience: Actor and partner effects within dyadic interactions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 848-856.
- Keltner, D., Langner, C. A., and Allison, M. L. (2006). Power and moral leadership. In D. Rhode (Ed.), Moral leadership: The theory and practice of power, judgment and policy. Stanford Center on Ethics. Jossey Bass.
- Langner, C. A. and Winter, D. G. (2001). The motivational basis of concessions and compromise: Archival and laboratory studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81 (4), 711-727.