Fourth-Year Graduate Student
Kristin [dot] Pauker [at] tufts [dot] edu Psychology Department
490 Boston Ave.
Medford, MA 02155
617-627-3694
I received an A.B. in Psychology from Dartmouth College in 2002, and am currently a fourth-year graduate student. Prior to coming to Tufts, I worked in several developmental labs and have been combining my background in developmental research and eye-tracking with my passion for issues in Social Psychology. My central research interests are 1) the environmental, motivational, and social factors that influence racial categorization and identity 2) the development of racial category knowledge in children, including acquisition of stereotypes and knowledge of social norms 3) person perception at the boundaries of categories, including categorization of and memory for racially ambiguous individuals.

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • Pauker, K. J., Ambady, N., Weisbuch, M., Sommers, S. R., Adams, R. B., Jr., & Ivcevic, Z. (in revision). Not so Black and White: Memory for ambiguous group members.
  • Pauker, K. J., Apfelbaum, E. P., Sommers, S. R., Norton, M. I., Ambady, N. (in revision). When social development leads to underperformance: Race and social categorization.
  • Johnson, K. L., Freeman, J., Pauker, K. J.,& Ambady, N. (submitted). Race is gendered: Overlapping stereotype content confounds social categories.
  • Pauker, K. J., & Ambady, N. (in press) Multiracial faces: The boundaries of race. Journal of Social Issues.
  • Pauker, K. J., & Ambady, N. (2008, February). What are you: When ambiguity in appearance may lead to enhanced social processing. In D. Peery (chair), What are you? Emerging empirical perspectives on multiracialism. Symposium conducted at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Pauker, K. J., Yano, R. Xu, Y. & Ambady, N. (2007, May). Environmental influences in stereotyping. Poster presented at Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
  • Pauker, K. J., Yano, R. & Ambady, N. (2007, January). Deciding "What are you?": The consequences of categorizing ambiguity. Poster presented at Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
  • Pauker, K. J. (2006, January). The Development of Stereotype Content. Talk presented at the Development of Intergroup Relations Pre-conference, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.