Stephen Read
University of Southern California
Professor of Psychology
Education B.A. Psychology, Princeton University, 5/1974 Ph.D. Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 8/1981 Postdoctoral Training Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, 09/1982-08/1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Department of Psychology, 09/1981-08/1982 Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History Tenure Track Appointments Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California, 01/01/1998- Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California, 01/01/1990-01/01/1998 Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Southen California, 01/01/1984-01/01/1990 PostDoctoral Appointments NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 1982-1984 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 1981-1982 Description of Research Summary Statement of Research Interests Professor Read has five main areas of research. His primary area of interest is in computational models of social reasoning and social behavior. He focuses on neural network models of personality and social behavior, legal and everyday decision making, causal reasoning, and causal learning. He is also interested in models of human motivation. The creation of realistic personality in computer based intelligent agents in virtual reality training systems. Coherence based, constraint satisfaction based models of decision making and impression formation. The structure and dynamics of human personality. The use of interactive media in changing risky sexual behavior. Research Specialties Neural Network Models of Social Reasoning and Personality. Knowledge structures in causal reasoning and decision making. Narrative models of social explanation. Use of Interactive Media to change risky social behaviors. Structure and function of belief systems. Role of beliefs and attitudes in information processing.
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Email: read@usc.edu
Homepage: www.stephenjread.com