MICHAEL S. NORTH Curriculum Vitae December 2013 Department of Psychology, Columbia University (646) 483-8976 1190 Amsterdam Avenue MC 5501 msn2115@columbia.edu New York, NY 10027 http://mike- north.com ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2013- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Psychology Columbia University EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy 2010 M.A. in Psychology 2006 B.A. in Psychology (Highest Distinction, High Honors) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor AWARDS, HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Nominee, Emerging Alumni Scholars Award, Alumni Association 2011 American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award 2010 SPSSI Clara Mayo Award for Pre- Dissertation Research on Prejudice 2010 Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship in Discrimination Studies 2009-2013 Joint Degree Program in Psychology and Social Policy Fellowship 2009 Finalist, Humane Studies Fellowship 2008 Princeton First Year Science/Engineering Fellowship 2006 Phi Beta Kappa 2005 Otto Graf Undergraduate Honors Research Grant (declined) 2005 Tanner Memorial Research Award (for Innovative and Meritorious Undergraduate Research in Psychology) 2003-2006 James B. Angell Scholar (7 terms) PUBLICATIONS North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (in press). Social categories create and reflect inequality: Psychological and sociological insights. For J. Cheng, J. Tracy, & C. Anderson (Eds.), The Psychology of Social Status. New York: Springer.
Fiske, S.T., & North, M.S. (in press). Social psychological measures of stereotyping and prejudice. In G. Boyle & D. Saklofske (Eds.), Measures of Personality & Social Psychological Constructs. Elsevier/Academic Press. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (2013). A prescriptive, intergenerational- tension ageism scale: Succession, Identity, and Consumption (SIC). Psychological Assessment, 25(3) 706-713. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (2013). Act your (old) age: Prescriptive, ageist biases over Succession, Consumption, and Identity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(6), 720-734. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (2013). Subtyping ageism: Policy issues in Succession and Consumption. Social Issues and Policy Review, 7(1), 36-57. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (2013). Driven to exclude: How core social motives explain social exclusion. In C.N. DeWall (Ed.), Handbook of Social Exclusion (pp. 31-42). New York: Oxford University Press. North, M.S., Todorov, A., & Osherson, D.N. (2012). Accuracy of inferring self- and other- preferences from spontaneous facial expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 36(4), 227-233. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (2012). An inconvenienced youth? Ageism and its potential intergenerational roots. Psychological Bulletin, 138(5), 982-997. * Reprinted in S.T. Fiske (Ed.) (2013), Social Cognition. Sage. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (2012). The history of social cognition. In A.W. Kruglanski & W. Stroebe (Eds.), Handbook of the History of Social Psychology (pp. 81-100). New York: Psychology Press. North, M.S., Todorov, A., & Osherson, D.N. (2010). Inferring the preferences of others from spontaneous, low- emotional facial expressions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 1109-1113. *Melamed, D., & North, M.S. (2010). The future in inequality. Social Psychology Quarterly, 73(4), 346-347. * The authors contributed equally to this manuscript. Niiya, Y., Ballantyne, R., North, M.S., & Crocker, J. (2008). Gender, contingencies of self- worth, and achievement goals as predictors of academic cheating in a controlled, laboratory setting. Basic & Applied Social Psychology, 30(1), 76-83. North, M.S., Gleacher, A.A., Radigan, M., Greene, L., Levitt, J.M., Chassman, J., & Hoagwood, K. (2008). Evidence- Based Treatment and Dissemination Center (EBTDC): Bridging the research- practice gap in New York State. Report on Emotional & Behavioral Disorders in Youth, 8(1), 9-16. OTHER PUBLICATIONS North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (2013). Great (age- based) expectations. SPSP Talks. http://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/great- age- based- expectations/ MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW OR REVISION North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (invited revision under review). Eastern and Western attitudes toward elders: A cross- cultural meta- analysis. Masip, D., North, M.S., Todorov, A., & Osherson, D.N. (invited revision under review). Automated prediction of preferences using facial expressions.
North, M.S., Baron, S.G., & Todorov, A. (under revision). Major League Faceball: Facial inference, bias, and accuracy in an individual quantifiable performance domain. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (under revision). Enough to go around: Perceiving resource abundance reduces prescriptive ageism. WORK IN PROGRESS Reducing the racial achievement gap in STEM (with Valerie Purdie- Vaughns and Jonathan Cook). Neurobiological effects of identity threat (with Valerie Purdie- Vaughns and Jonathan Cook). Age in the justice system (with Valerie Purdie- Vaughns). Preference accuracy from the spontaneous, masked face (with Alex Todorov and Dan Osherson). Managing the (increasingly) intergenerational workplace (with Susan T. Fiske). Ageism: The workplace s subtle exclusion (with Susan T. Fiske). The benefits of older workers (with Hal E. Hershfield). Gender stereotypes over time (with Ashley Martin and Katherine Phillips) CHAIRED SYMPOSIA North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (January, 2012). Prejudice against some prejudices? Under-studied biases in social psychology. Presented at the 13 th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA. Speakers: Michael S. North, Nicole M. Stephens, Peter Hegarty & Chris Crandall. CONFERENCE & INVITED TALKS North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (November, 2013). Act your old age: Prescriptive, ageist biases over Succession, Consumption, and Identity. Department of Psychology Social Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (January, 2012). An inconvenienced youth: Ageism as intergenerational tension. Talk presented at the 13 th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T.* (July, 2011). An inconvenienced youth: Ageism s intergenerational tensions over Succession, Identity, Consumption (SIC). Presented as part of Symposium on Complicating demographic categories: The social psychology behind the boxes checked, at the meetings of the European Association of Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden. *(presenter) North, M.S. (December, 2010). Ageism and ageist, intergenerational tensions over social status. Invited talk at the Princeton Area Alumni Association Nassau Club, Princeton, NJ. North, M.S. (April, 2010). Succession, Identity, and Consumption: An Intergenerational, Prescriptive Approach to Ageism. Invited talk at the Four College Conference, New York University, New York, NY. North, M.S. (November, 2009). A new approach to ageism: Succession, Identity and Consumption. Invited talk at the Bridging Social Psychologies Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (January, 2012). A prescriptive, intergenerational scale of ageism: Succession, Identity, & Consumption. Poster presented at the Social Personality Gerontology Preconference, 13 th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (January, 2011). A prescriptive, intergenerational scale of ageism: Succession, Identity, & Consumption. Poster presentation at the 12 th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, TX. North, M.S., & Fiske, S.T. (January, 2010). Succession, Identity, and Consumption: Dimensions of control in age- based prejudice. Poster presentation at the 11 th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conferences, Las Vegas, NV. Gleacher, A.A., Levitt, J.M., North, M.S., Goldman, E., Hoagwood, K.E., & Albano, A.M. (August, 2007). The Evidence- Based Treatment and Dissemination Center: A New York State initiative to advance evidence- based treatments. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA. Gleacher, A.A., North, M.S., Levitt, J.M., Hoagwood, K.E., Albano, A.M., Radigan, M., & Goldman, E. (2007). The Evidence- Based Treatment and Dissemination Center (EBTDC): A New York State initiative to advance evidence- based treatments (EBTs). Poster presentation at National Institute of Mental Health Conference on Mental Health Services Research, Washington, DC. North, M.S., Farrington, A.L., Lynam, A.L., Niiya, Y., & Crocker, J. (April, 2006). Factors influencing academic cheating: Contingencies of self- worth and learning Goals. Poster presentation at the University of Michigan Undergraduate Psychology Research Forum, Ann Arbor, MI. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant in Instruction Quantitative Methods, (Fall 2011). Instructor: Andrew Conway. Average Teaching Evaluation: 4.7/5 Guest Lecturer Prejudice: Its Causes, Consequences, and Cures, (Fall 2012). Instructor: Stacey Sinclair. Quantitative Methods, (Fall 2011). Instructor: Andrew Conway. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Ad- hoc reviewer for: Chinese Science Bulletin Emotion Journal of Applied Social Psychology Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Psychological Record Psychology and Aging Psychology, Public Policy, & Law Research on Aging
CONSULTING Author, Instructor Test Bank, for S.T. Fiske, Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (2014, 3 rd ed.). New York: Wiley. Co- author, Instructor Test Bank, for S.T. Fiske, Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (2009, 2 nd ed.). New York: Wiley. UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2011 Co- organizer, Conference on Psychology and Policy- making, Princeton, NJ. 2010 Discussant, Conference on Psychology and Policy- making, Princeton, NJ. 2009-2012 Social area student representative, Psychology Department Colloquium Committee PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Academy of Management (AOM) American Psychological Association (APA) Association for Psychological Science (APS) Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) MEDIA The situation of ageism. The Situationist. http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/the- situation- of- ageism/ Ageism: Alive and kicking. APS Observer. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2013/september-13/ageism-alive-andkicking.html Three men, three ages. Which do you like? New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/booming/three-men-three-ages-who-do-youlike.html?ref=business&_r=0&pagewanted=all Act your age? Not if you hope to escape age discrimination. Time. http://business.time.com/2013/07/24/actyour-age-not-if-you-hope-to-escape-age-discrimination/ What the paradox of 3 Maxes reveals about ageism. Society for Human Resource Management. http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/diversity/articles/pages/paradox-of-maxes-ageism.aspx The new (malevolent) ageism. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/the-newmalevolent-ageism_b_3318495.html The next taboo? Scientific American. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/moral-universe/2013/05/10/the-nexttaboo/ Aw, don t do that, grandma. Boston Globe. http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/03/23/don-thatgrandma/ny91tq6fzvmu5d6qurfy7o/story.html
Researchers chart new path for study of ageism. home page. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/s36/49/28a93/index.xml?section=featured 4 fabulous examples of elders defying ageism. Care2. http://www.care2.com/greenliving/4-fabulous-examplesof-elders-defying-ageism-video.html Over 50 and Out of Work: Stories of the Great Recession. Documentary on unemployed older Americans. http://www.overfiftyandoutofwork.com/experts/susan- fiske- mike- north Ons gevreesde, oude zelf [Our dreaded, old self]. NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Science section, May 5-6, 2012. REFERENCES Susan T. Fiske Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs sfiske@princeton.edu (609) 258-0655 Alex Todorov Professor of Psychology atodorov@princeton.edu (609) 258-7463 Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Assistant Professor of Psychology Columbia University vpvaughns@psych.columbia.edu (212) 854-1954 Dan Osherson Professor of Psychology osherson@princeton.edu (609) 258-8009 Andrew Conway Senior Lecturer in Psychology; Statistics Head aconway@princeton.edu (609) 258-1243