Mauricio Carvallo

Carvallo, Mauricio

Ph.D. (2007, State University of New York at Buffalo )

Assistant Professor ,
Social/Personality Psychology

mcarvallo at ou dot edu

My research focuses primarily on the study of interpersonal motivations and the role they play in the construction and maintenance of the self, close relationships, and social judgment. For example, I am interested in how belongingness needs constitute a basic motivation—even among people who claim not to need relationships, how the desire for closeness in relationships helps define the self-concept, and how belongingness needs influence people’s perceptions of discrimination and other well documented phenomena such as the false consensus and the effects of similarity upon attraction. I am also interested in how people’s implicit self-associations influence major life decisions, such as were people choose to live or whom to marry, and the role that these self-associations play in self-regulation.

Gabriel, S., Carvallo, M., Jaremka, L, & Tippin, B. (In Press). A friend is a present you give to your “Self”: Avoidance of intimacy moderates the effects of friends on self-liking. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Carvallo, M., & Pelham, B. W. (2006). When fiends become friends: The need to belong and perceptions of personal and group discrimination. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 94-105.

Carvallo, M., & Gabriel, S. (2006). No man is an island: The need to belong and dismissing avoidant attachment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 697-709.

Gabriel, S., Carvallo, M., Dean, K. K., Tippin, B., & Renaud, J. (2005). How I see me depends on how I see we: The role of attachment style in social comparison. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1561-1572.

Brendl, C. M., Chattopadhyay, A., Pelham, B. W., & Carvallo, M. (2005). Name letter branding: Valence transfers when product specific needs are active. Journal of Consumer Research, 32, 405-415.

Pelham, B. W., Carvallo, M., & Jones, J. T. (2005). Implicit egotism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 106-110.

Jones, J. T., Pelham, B. W., Carvallo, M., & Mirenberg, M. C. (2004). How do I love thee? Let me count the Js: Implicit egotism and interpersonal attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 665-683.

Pelham, B. W., Carvallo, M., DeHart, T., & Jones, J. T. (2003). Assessing the validity of implicit egotism: A reply to Gallucci (2003). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 800-807.

Jost, J. T., Pelham, B. W., & Carvallo, M. R. (2002). Non-conscious forms of system justification: Implicit and behavioral preferences for higher status groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 586-602.

Blanton, H., Pelham, B. W., DeHart, T., & Carvallo, M. (2001). Overconfidence as dissonance reduction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 373-385.