About Me
I'm a PhD candidate in the Social and Personality Psychology program at Cornell University. My research is concerned with two related, but distinct, questions:
First, how does emotion affect our beliefs, attitudes, and choices? My interest in this question has motivated my research on how specific emotions, such as anger, influence people's use of the anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic; and on how dispositional proneness to disgust is related to political attitudes and ideology.
Second, how do we think about emotion, both as a factor in our own decisions and as an explanation of the actions of others? This question has led me to research the circumstances under which people prefer to choose intuitively (with their "guts"), rather than rationally; as well as how perceptions of an actor's emotional state can affect moral blame.
Sample Papers
Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., & Bloom, P. (in press). Conservatives are more easily disgusted. Cognition & Emotion.
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Inbar, Y., Pizarro, D.A., Knobe, J., & Bloom, P. (under review) Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays.
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