Cathy McFarland, Professor

Department of Psychology
8888
University Drive
Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
CANADA

Email: mcfarlan@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-4096

Lab: Social Cognition Lab – AQ 3134 (Lab Office) & AQ 3126 778-782-4096

   

   

 

 

Research Interests:

Social cognition: biases in autobiographical memory;
mood and social judgment; social and temporal comparison processes.

 

Teaching Interests:

Social psychology, Research Methods, Statistics

 

Education:

 

B.A.(Honors) University of Alberta, 1978
M.A. University of Waterloo, 1981
Ph. D. University of Waterloo, 1983

 

Publications: 

 

McFarland, C., & Buehler, R. (2012). Negative moods and the motivated remembering of past selves: The role of implicit theories of personal stability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 242-263.

 

White, K., & McFarland, C. (2009). When are moods most likely to influence consumers’ product preferences? The role of mood focus and perceived relevance of moods. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 19, 526-536.

 

McFarland, C., Buehler, R., von Ruti, R., Nguyen, L., & Alvaro, C. (2007). The impact of negative moods on self-enhancing cognitions: The role of reflective vs. ruminative mood orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 728-750.

 

Buehler, R., McFarland, C., Spyropolous, V., & Lam, K.C.H. (2007). Motivated prediction of future feelings: Effects of negative mood and mood orientation on affective forecasts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1265-1278.

 

McFarland, C., Cheam, A., & Buehler, R. (2007). The perseverance effect in the debriefing paradigm: Replication and extension. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 233-240.

 

Lam, K.C.H., Buehler, R., McFarland, C., Ross, M., & Cheung, I. (2005). Cultural differences in affective forecasting: The role of focalism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1296-1309.

 

McFarland, C., White, K., & Newth, S. (2003). Mood acknowledgment and correction for the mood-congruency bias in social judgment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 483-491.

 

Buehler, R., & McFarland, C. (2001). The intensity bias in affective forecasting: The role of temporal focus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1480-1493.

 

McFarland, C., Buehler, R., & MacKay, L. (2001). Affective responses to social comparisons with extremely close others. Social Cognition, 19, 547- 586.

 

McFarland, C., & Alvaro, C. (2000). The impact of motivation on temporal comparison: Coping with traumatic events by perceiving personal growth. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 327-343.

 

McFarland, C., & Buehler, R. (1998). The impact of negative affect on autobiographical memory: The role of self-focused attention to moods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1424-1440.

 

McFarland, C., & Buehler, R. (1997). Negative affective states and the motivated retrieval of positive life events: The role of affect acknowledgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 200-214.

 

Salekin, R., Ogloff, J.R.P., McFarland, C., & Rogers, R. (1995). Influencing jurors' perceptions of guilt: Expression of emotionality during testimony. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 13, 293-305. 

 

McFarland, C., & Buehler, R. (1995). Collective self-esteem as a moderator of the frog-pond effect in reactions to performance feedback. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 1055-1070.

 

McFarland, C., & Miller, D.T. (1994). The framing of relative performance feedback: Seeing the glass as half empty or half full. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1061-1073.

 

McFarland, C., Ross, M., & Giltrow, M. (1992). Biased recollections in older adults: The role of implicit theories of aging. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 837-850.  

 

Miller, D.T., & McFarland, C. (1991). When social comparison goes awry: The case of pluralistic ignorance. In J. Suls & T.A. Wills (Eds.), Social comparison: Contemporary theory and research (pp. 287-313). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

 

Miller, D.T., Turnbull, W., & McFarland, C. (1990). Counterfactual thinking and social perception: Thinking about what might have been. In M.P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 23, pp. 305-332). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.  

 

Turnbull, W., Miller, D.T., & McFarland, C. (1990). Distinctiveness, identity and bonding. In J.M. Olson & M.P. Zanna (Eds.), Self-inference processes: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 6, pp. 115-133). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.   

 

McFarland, C., & Miller, D.T. (1990). Judgments of self-other similarity: Just like others only more so. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 475-484.

 

Miller, D.T., Turnbull, W., & McFarland, C. (1989). When a coincidence is suspicious: The role of mental simulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 581-589.

 

McFarland, C., Ross, M., & DeCourville, N. (1989). Women's theories of menstruation and biases in recall of menstrual symptoms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 522-531.  

 

Miller, D.T., Turnbull, W., & McFarland, C. (1988). Particularistic and universalistic evaluation in the social comparison process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 908-917.

 

Ross, M., & McFarland, C. (1988). Constructing the past: Biases in personal memories. In D. Bar-Tal & A. Kruglanski (Eds.), The social psychology of knowledge (pp. 299-314). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

McFarland, C., & Ross, M. (1987). The relation between current impressions and memories of self and dating partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 13, 228-238.

 

Miller, D.T., & McFarland, C. (1987). Pluralistic ignorance: When similarity is interpreted as dissimilarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 298-305.

 

Miller, D.T., & McFarland, C. (1986). Counterfactual thinking and victim compensation: A test of norm theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 12, 513-519.  [Reprinted in A., Peplau, D. Sears, J. Freedman, & S. Taylor (Eds.), Readings in social psychology: Classic and contemporary contributions. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1988.]

 

McFarland, C., Ross, M., & Conway, M. (1984). Self-persuasion and self-presentation as mediators of anticipatory attitude change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 529-540.  

 

Ross, M., McFarland, C., Conway, M., & Zanna, M.P. (1983). The reciprocal relation between attitudes and behaviour recall: Committing people to newly formed attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 257-267.

 

McFarland, C., & Ross, M. (1982). The impact of causal attributions and level of performance on affective reactions to success and failure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 937-946.   

 

Ross, M., McFarland, C., & Fletcher, G. (1981). The effect of attitude on the recall of personal histories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 627-634. [Reprinted in E. Aronson (Ed.), Readings about the social animal. New York: W.H. Freeman and Co., 1991.]

 


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