A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Address: Department of Psychology Lehigh University 17 Memorial Drive East Bethlehem, PA, 18015 Phone: 613-758-6779 Fax: 613-758-6277 Email: djp208@lehigh.edu Educational History: 2007-2008, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University 2003-2007, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 2002-2003, M.A., Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 1997-2001, B.A. (Hon.), Psychology, McGill University Employment History 2009-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University B. PUBLICATIONS Book Chapters Cunningham, W. A., Packer, D. J., Kesek, A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2009). Implicit measures of attitudes: A physiological approach. In R. E. Petty, R. H. Fazio, & P. Brinol (Eds.), Attitudes: Insights from the New Implicit Measures (pp. 485-512). New York: Psychology Press. MacDonald, G., & Packer, D. J. (2009). Persuasion. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Packer, D. J. (In press). The dissenter s dilemma and a social identity solution. Invited chapter for J. Jetten & M. Hornsey (Eds.), Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference, and Defiance. Packer, D. J., Kesek, A., & Cunningham, W. A. (In press). Self-regulation and evaluative processing. In A. Todorov, S. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind. Packer, D. J. (In press). Obedience and conformity. Invited chapter for V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Second Edition. Articles in Refereed Journals Baccus, J. R., Baldwin, M. W., & Packer, D. J. (2004). Increasing implicit self-esteem through classical conditioning. Psychological Science, 15, 498-502. 1/8
Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (2006). Looking to the future: How possible aged selves influence prejudice toward older adults. Social Cognition, 24, 218-247 Cunningham, W. A., Zelazo, P. D., Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel J. J. (2007). An iterative reprocessing model of evaluation. Social Cognition, 25, 736-760. Packer, D. J. (2008). On being both with us and against us: A normative conflict model of dissent in social groups. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12, 50-72. Packer, D. J. (2008). Identifying systematic disobedience in Milgram s obedience experiments: A metaanalytic review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 301-304. Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008). The neural substrates of ingroup bias: An fmri investigation. Psychological Science, 19, 1131-1139. Packer, D. J. (2009). Avoiding groupthink: Whereas weakly identified members remain silent, strongly identified members dissent about collective problems. Psychological Science, 20, 546-548. Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009). Neural correlates of reflection on goal states: The role of regulatory focus and temporal distance. Social Neuroscience, 4, 412-425. Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (2010). Loyal deviance: Testing the normative conflict model of dissent in social groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 5-18. Remedios, J., Chasteen, A. L., & Packer, D. J. (In press). Sunny side up: The reliance on positive age stereotypes in descriptions of future older selves. Self and Identity. Under Review Packer, D. J. (Under review). The interactive influence of conscientiousness and openness to experience on dissent. Revise and resubmit at Social Influence. Packer, D. J., Chasteen, A. L., & Kang, S. K. (Under review). Identities lost and gained: Identifying with a future ingroup buffers the threat of losing a currently valued group membership. Revise and resubmit at British Journal of Social Psychology. In Preparation Packer, D. J., & Fujita, K. (In prep.). Taking the long-view: The influence of time on opinion expression among group members. Manuscript in preparation. Packer, D. J., Van Bavel, J. J., Johnsen, I., & Cunningham, W. A. (In prep.). Costs and benefits be damned: The impact of moral construals on voting intentions. Manuscript in preparation. Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Johnsen, I., & Cunningham, W. A. (In prep.). Moral evaluations: Fast, extreme and universally prescriptive. Manuscript in preparation. Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (In prep.). Modulation of fusiform face area following minimal exposure to motivationally relevant faces. Manuscript in preparation. Kesek, A., Cunningham, W. A., Packer, D. J., & Zelazo, P. D. (In prep.). Implicit goal priming is more powerful than explicit instruction in children. Manuscript in preparation. 2/8
C. HONORS AND AWARDS 2009, Williamson Prize in Social Sciences, Lehigh University 2008, Nomination for Governor General s Gold Medal, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 2007, Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2003, Certificate of Academic Excellence, Canadian Psychological Association 2000, McConnell Award for Academic Excellence, McGill University D. RESEARCH FUNDING Competitively Awarded Research/Stipend Grants 2007-2009, PI, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $81,000 2004-2007, PI, Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $105,000 2002-2004, PI, Ontario Graduate Scholarships (2), $30,000 2000, Summer Research Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, $5,000 E. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Organized or Chaired Symposiums Morrison, K. R., & Packer, D. J. (January, 2010). United and divided we stand: On the collective and personal functions of conformity and dissent. Symposium organized for Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (May, 2006). 1 st Annual York University University of Toronto Symposium for Social and Personality Psychology, Toronto. Van Bavel, J. J., & Packer, D. J. (June, 2005). Social and temporal aspects of the self: Implications for interpersonal and intergroup relations. Symposium organized for the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal. Invited Presentations/Colloquia Packer, D. J. (September, 2009). Avoiding groupthink: Psychological factors influencing opinion expression in social groups. Invited talk presented at Social Research Seminar, Department of Psychology, Princeton University. Packer, D. J. (June, 2008). Loyal deviance: A normative conflict model of dissent and its implications for collective identity. Invited talk presented at Group Processes Pre-conference, European Association for Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia Packer, D. J. (April, 2008). Divided we stand? Loyal deviance and its implications for collective identity. Invited talk presented at Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (August, 2006). Evaluation and the self: An fmri investigation of common underlying processes. Invited talk presented at Queen s University, Department of Psychology, Kingston. 3/8
Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Dion, K. L. (June, 2006). Attitudes toward same sex marriage: Genuine religious opposition or merely anti-gay prejudice? Invited talk presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary. Chasteen, A. L., & Packer, D. J. (November, 2005). Looking to the future: How possible aged selves influence prejudice toward older adults. Invited talk presented at 58 th Annual Scientific Meeting, Gerontological Society of America, Orlando. Refereed Presentations Conference Talks Packer, D. J. (January, 2010). The influence of social identity and personality variables on dissent: Collective identification, and openness to experience X conscientiousness. Talk to be presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. Packer, D. J. (October, 2009). The dissenter s dilemma, and a social identity solution. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Portland, Maine. Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (February, 2008). The power of in-group bias: The neural substrates and evaluative implications of membership in novel groups. Talk presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Packer, D. J. (January, 2007). On uncomfortable conformity and predicting when group members dissent on principle. Talk presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN. Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (June, 2005). The impact of future identities on current intergroup relations. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal. Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (May, 2005). How thoughts about old age affect current age bias. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago. Chasteen, A. L., & Packer, D. J. (August, 2003). Aging, gender, and age-based intergroup relations. Talk presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto. Baccus, J. R., Baldwin, M. W., & Packer, D. J. (June, 2003). Increasing implicit self-esteem through classical conditioning. Talk presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto. Refereed Presentations Conference Posters Packer, D. J. & Cunningham, W. A. (October, 2009). Neural correlates of reflection on goals: Distinguishing domain-specific and domain-general processes. Poster presented at 3 rd annual Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference, New York, NY. Van Bavel, D. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (October, 2009). The neural substrates of ingroup bias. Poster presented at 3 rd annual Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference, New York, NY. Packer, D. J., & Moeller, B. (February, 2009). Whether it entails conformity or dissent, strongly identified members publicly express concern about collectively-harmful group problems. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Tampa, FL. Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Johnsen, I., & Cunningham, W. A. (February, 2009). The processes and outcomes associated with moral versus pragmatic evaluation. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Tampa, FL. 4/8
Chasteen, A., L., Kang, S. K., Remedios, J., & Packer, D. J. (February, 2009). What does it mean to identify with your age group? Distinguishing between cohort and youth identification. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Tampa, FL. Remedios, J., Chasteen, A. L., & Packer, D. J. (February, 2009). Thinking about our future selves: The role of age-related stereotypes. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Tampa, FL. Packer, D. J. (November, 2008). Loyal deviance: Testing the normative conflict model of dissent in social groups. Poster presented at the International Scholars Research Exposition, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Packer, D. J. (February, 2008). Using meta-analysis to identify systematic disobedience in Milgram s obedience experiments. Poster presented at Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Kesek, A., Packer, D. J., Zelazo, P. D., & Cunningham, W. A. (February, 2008). Implicit goal activation in children. Poster presented at Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Waggoner, A. S., & Cunningham, W. A. (January, 2007). Flexibility in automatic social evaluations: Induced motivational states shift automatic intergroup categorizations and evaluations. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis. Kang, S., Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (January, 2007). Anticipating future stigma: Extending the rejectionidentification model to future group memberships. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis. Chasteen, A. L., Packer, D. J., & Kamis, R. (January, 2007). The blackest of sheep: How group members react to individuals who leave their group. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis. Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (May, 2006). Rationality as a social institution: A preliminary model of decisionmaking. Poster presented at the Southern Ontario Behavioral Decision Research Conference, Toronto. Chasteen, A. L., & Packer, D. J. (April, 2006). How do fear of aging and age group identification influence intergenerational relations? Poster presented at the 2006 Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta. Thomas, R. C., Packer, D. J., & Hasher, L. (April, 2006). Age differences in heuristic use of mood in estimating the frequency of emotional events. Poster presented at the 2006 Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta. Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (January, 2006). Anticipating old age: How thoughts about aging affect current age-group identities. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Palm Springs. Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., Farb, N., Gonzalez, J., Chasteen, A. L., & Cunningham, W. A. (January, 2006). Feeling two things at once: A functional dissociation between implicit and explicit ambivalence toward social groups. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Palm Springs. Chasteen, A. L., & Packer, D. J. (January, 2006). How do fear of aging and age group identification influence intergenerational relations? Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Palm Springs. 5/8
Chasteen, A. L., & Packer, D. J. (January, 2005). I like them, but don t want to be them: How age-group identification moderates the effects of older possible selves on age bias. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, New Orleans. Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (March, 2004). Stereotyping my future self: The content of older possible selves and their impact on age-based bias. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta. Packer, D. J., & Chasteen, A. L. (January, 2004). Stereotyping my future self: The content of older possible selves and their impact on age-based bias. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Austin. Baccus, J. R., Baldwin, M. W., & Packer, D. J. (August, 2003). Enhancing implicit self-esteem through classical conditioning. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto. Baccus, J. R., Baldwin, M. W., & Packer, D. J. (February, 2003). Classical conditioning of implicit self-esteem. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Los Angeles. Baccus, J. R., Baldwin, M. W., & Packer, D. J. (February, 2002). Can implicit self-esteem be modified via classical conditioning? Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Savannah. Other Local Presentations Packer, D. J. (February, 2009). Differentiation within groups, and the psychological importance of making unique contributions. Talk presented at Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University. Packer, D. J. (November, 2008). Differentiation within groups, and the psychological importance of making unique contributions. Talk presented at the Social Cognition Research Group, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University. Packer, D. J. (November, 2008). Avoiding groupthink: Factors affecting opinion expression among strongly identified group members. Talk presented at the Group for Attitudes and Persuasion, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University. Packer, D. J. (October, 2007). Responsible deviance: Psychological factors underlying principled acts of dissent. Talk presented at the Social Cognition Research Group, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University. Packer, D. J. (October, 2006). Where does the self live, and what does it do there? An fmri investigation of self-processing. Talk presented at Social, Personality and Abnormal Psychology Area Meeting, University of Toronto. Packer, D. J. (May, 2007). Identifying systematic disobedience in Milgram s obedience experiments: Implications for interrogations and dissent. Talk presented at 2 nd Annual York University University of Toronto Symposium for Social and Personality Psychology, Toronto. Packer, D. J. (May, 2006). How perceived power discrepancies affect willingness to take action against an outgroup. Talk presented at 1 st Annual York University University of Toronto Symposium for Social and Personality Psychology, Toronto. Packer, D. J. (October, 2005). An identity model of dissent. Talk presented at Social, Personality and Abnormal Psychology Area Meeting, University of Toronto. 6/8
Packer, D. J. (November, 2004). Categorization may contaminate: On the implicit association test and the uncertainty principle. Talk presented at Social, Personality and Abnormal Psychology Area Meeting, University of Toronto. Packer, D. J. (October, 2004). Taking advantage of the double cohort: How competition for entry affects adjustment to the group. Talk presented at Social, Personality and Abnormal Psychology Area Meeting, University of Toronto. Packer, D. J. (February, 2004). The construction of older possible-selves and their implications for age-based bias. Talk presented at Social, Personality and Abnormal Psychology Area Meeting, University of Toronto. Packer, D. J. (November, 2003). Me be like you one day: The content of age stereotypes and their impact on age-based bias. Talk presented at Cognitive Science @ Scarborough Lecture Series, University of Toronto. F. TEACHING AND RESEARCH ADVISING Courses Advising Graduate Seminar on Social Cognition, Lehigh University (PSY 406): Spring 2010 Introduction to Psychology, Lehigh University (PSY 001): Fall 2009, Spring 2010 Self & Identity, Lehigh University (PSY 384): Spring 2009, Fall 2009 Social Cognition, University of Toronto: Summer 2005 Undergraduate Honors, Lehigh University: Jonathan Lui (In progress) Undergraduate Supervised Research, Lehigh University: Kristen Arestad (In progress) John Lalomio (In progress) Tara Troiano (In progress) Ph.D. Committees Comprehensive Exams: Courtney Ignarri, Psychology, Lehigh University (In progress) Jessica Eye, Psychology, Lehigh University (In progress) External Dissertation Examiner: Marc Chan, Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia (2009) G. SERVICE Current Service to University 2009-present, Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prize Committee, Lehigh University 2009-present, Psychology Department Publicity and Promotion, Lehigh University Starting 2010, Psychology Department Participant Pool Coordinator, Lehigh University 7/8
Professional Service Ad Hoc Reviewing Previous Service Personality and Social Psychology Review Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience NeuroImage British Journal of Social Psychology European Journal of Social Psychology Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Basic and Applied Social Psychology Journal of Applied Social Psychology Journal of General Psychology 2006-2007, Colloquium Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 2005-2006, Cofounder, York University/University of Toronto Symposium on Social and Personality Psychology 2005-2006, Co-chair, Social, Personality and Abnormal Psychology Area Meeting, University of Toronto 2003-2005, President, Psychology Graduate Students Association, University of Toronto 2002-2003, Vice-President, Psychology Graduate Students Association, University of Toronto H. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Association for Psychological Science Social Psychology Network Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society 8/8