Intro

My name is Tim Faber and I am currently a PhD candidate at the Social Psychology dept at the University of Amsterdam working with Kai Jonas. In my research line I am interested in the contextual nature of social attention (and cognition) and more specifically how attentional processes for others placed in different contexts modulates the link between perception-action. My goal is to find out how visual attention for specific parts of a social scene can determine whether and which behavioral responses are activated. On a more theoretical level I want to explore how people alternate between mimicry and unique behavioral responses dependent on the context in which they perceive others.

I am using gaze-tracking methodology (faceLAB v. 5.0.2) linked with a Presentation (Neurobs) extension to program my experiments.

Interests

Social cognition, motor cognition, (non-)embodiment, attention, eye-tracking, mirror neuron system, action coordination, game theory.

Funding

My PhD project is funded by NWO and KLI

• De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

• Kurt Lewin Institute

• Faber, T., & Jonas, K. J. (in press). Perception in a social context: Attention for response-functional means. Social Cognition .

• Bélanger, J., Faber, T., & Gelfand, M. (in press). Supersize My Identity: When Thoughts of Contracting Swine Flu Boost One's Patriotic Identity. Journal of Applied Social Psychology .

• Kopetz, C., Faber, T., Fishbach, A., & Kruglanski, A. (2011). Multifinality constraints effect: How goal multiplicity narrows the means set to a focal end. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100 , 810-826.
  

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