Christopher Oveis - Harvard University

   


Christopher Oveis

Chris received his Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from UC Berkeley in 2009, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His research interests fall along four main lines: (1) emotion and social cognition; (2) social power; (3) cooperation and trust; and (4) positive emotions.

Vita

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Articles and Chapters:

Oveis, C., Horberg, E. J., & Keltner, D. (in press). Compassion, pride, and social intuitions of self-other similarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Download]

Horberg, E. J., Oveis, C., Keltner, D., & Cohen, A. B. (in press). Disgust and the moralization of purity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Download]

Oveis, C., Gruber, J., Keltner, D., Stamper, J. L., & Boyce, W. T. (2009). Smile intensity and warm touch as thin slices of child and family affective style. Emotion, 9, 544-548. [Download]

Oveis, C., Cohen, A. B., Gruber, J., Shiota, M. N., Haidt, J., & Keltner, D. (2009). Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia is associated with tonic positive emotionality. Emotion, 9, 265-270. [Download]

Van Kleef, G. A., Oveis, C., van der Löwe, I., LuoKogan, A., Goetz, J., & Keltner, D. (2008). Power, distress, and compassion: Turning a blind eye to the suffering of others. Psychological Science, 19, 1315-1322. [Download]

Gruber, J., Johnson, S. L., Oveis, C., & Keltner, D. (2008). Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: Too much of a good thing? Emotion, 8, 23-33. [Download]

Keltner, D., & Oveis, C. (2007). Elevation. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology (Vol. 1, p. 283). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [Download]

Keltner, D., Horberg, E. J., & Oveis, C. (2006). Emotional intuitions and moral play. Social Justice Research, 19, 208-217. [Download]

Keltner, D., Horberg, E. J., & Oveis, C. (2006). Emotions as moral intuitions. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), Affect in social thinking and behavior (pp. 161-175). New York: Psychology Press. [Download]

Contact Info:

Christopher Oveis, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Psychology
William James Hall 1418
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.496.8159
Email: oveis@wjh.harvard.edu
Web: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~oveis