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Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1967
Professional Experience
- Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1984-90
- Chair, NIH Behavioral Medicine Study Section, 1984-88
- NIMH Small Group Processes Study Section, 1996-2000
Research Interests
- Information seeking and hypothesis testing strategies. How do people develop hypotheses, choose questions to test these hypotheses, evaluate answers to these questions, and draw inferences and make judgments? Biases and errors in the processes are focused on. Both cognitive and motivational factors are considered.
- Illusory correlation--how and when people learn mistaken associations between factors, especially as it plays a role in acquiring beliefs about the associations of traits with individuals or groups. Processes of illusory correlation are considered, and on-line vs. Recall-based judgment is an important aspect of this work.
- A Feature matching model (related to Tversky's contrast model for similarity) is applied to detection of change, preferences, approach-avoidance conflict, post-decision
regret, social comparison, and categorization.
Representative Publications
Johnson, M. K. & Sherman, S. J. 91990). Constructing and reconstructing the past and the future in the present.
In E. T. Higgins & R. M. Sorrentino (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation and Cognition: Foundations of Social Behavior (Vol. 2, pp. 482-526). New York: Guilford Press.
Slowiaczek, L. M., Klayman, J., Sherman, S.J. & Skov, R. B. (1992). Information Selection and Use in Hypothesis Testing: What is a Good Question, and What is a Good Answer?
Memory and Cognition, 20, 392-405.
Beike, D. R. & Sherman, S. J. (1994). Social Inference: Inductions, deductions, and analogies.
In R. S. Ayer & T. K. Scull (Eds.), Handbook of Social Cognition, Second Edition (Volume 1, pp. 209-285). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Houston, D. A. & Sherman, S. J. (1995). Cancellation and focus: The role of shared and unique features in the choice process.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 31, 357-378.
Hamilton, D. L. & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Perceiving persons and groups.
Psychological Review, 103, 336-355.
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