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Alexa Tullett
Assistant Professor

Alexa Tullett

Primary Concentration:

Social Psychology

Contact Information:

Office: 410 Gordon Palmer
Phone: (205) 348-0607
FAX: (205) 348-8648
E-Mail: atullett@bama.ua.edu

Website: www.alexatullett.com

Courses:

Introduction to Psychology (PY101)
Psychological Answers to Philosophical Questions (PY491)
Advanced Social Psychology (PY672)


Research Interests

Dr. Tullett's research examines how people make sense of the world. Her work touches on political, religious, and scientific domains, exploring how people maintain their beliefs, what they think of people with opposing beliefs, and what it takes for people to change their minds. Some of her work is meta-scientific, using psychological research methods to study the operation of psychology as a field. 

Publications

Tullett, A. M., Feinberg, M., Mensch, Z., Hart, W., & Gottlieb, S. (2017). The political reference point: How geography shapes political identity. PLOS ONE.
 
Grant, B. J., Fetterman, Z., Weyhaupt, M. B., Kim, M., & Tullett, A. M. (in press). It takes two: A replication. Journal of Research in Personality. 
 
Tortoriello, G., Hart, W., Richardson, K., & Tullett, A. M. (in press). Do narcissists try to make romantic partners jealous on purpose? An examination of motives for deliberate jealousy-induction among subtypes of narcissism. Personality and Individual Differences.
 
Hart, W., Richardson, K., Tortoriello, G., & Tullett, A. M. (in press). Strategically out of control: A self-presentational conceptualization of narcissism and low self-control. Personality and Individual Differences.
 
Tullett, A. M., & Plaks, J. P. (2016). Testing the link between empathy and lay theories of happiness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(11), 1505-1521.
 
Tullett, A. M., Hart, W. P., Feinberg, M., Fetterman, Z., & Gottlieb, S. (2016). Is ideology the enemy of inquiry? Examining the link between political orientation and interest in novel data. Journal of Research in Personality, 63, 123-132.
 
Tullett, A. M. (2015). In search of true things worth knowing: Considerations for a new article prototype. Social Psychological and Personality Compass, 9(4), 188-201.
 
Tullett, A. M., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Inzlicht, M. (2015). Right-frontal cortical asymmetry predicts increased proneness to nostalgia. Psychophysiology, 52, 990-996.
 
Randles, D., Inzlicht, M., Proulx, T., Tullett, A. M., & Heine, S. (2015). Is dissonance reduction a special case of fluid compensation? Evidence that dissonant cognitions cause compensatory affirmation and abstraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108(5), 697-710.
 
Teper, R., Tullett, A. M., Page-Gould, E., & Inzlicht, M. (2015). Errors in moral forecasting: Perceptions of affect shape the gap between moral behaviors and moral forecasts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(7), 887-900.
 
Hart, W., Adams, J., & Tullett, A. M. (2015). “It’s complicated” – Sex differences in perceptions of cross-sex friendships. The Journal of Social Psychology.
 
Tullett, A. M., Kay, A. C., & Inzlicht, M., (2014). Randomness increases self-reported anxiety and neurophysiological correlates of performance monitoring. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(5), 628-635.
 
Tullett, A. M., Prentice, M., Teper, R., Nash, K., Inzlicht, M., & McGregor, I. (2013). Neural foundations of meaning and threat. In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. Lindberg (Eds.). The Psychology of Meaning. American Psychological Association.
 
Tullett, A. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Inzlicht, M. (2012). Right frontal cortical asymmetry predicts empathic reactions: Support for a link between withdrawal motivation and empathy. Psychophysiology, 49, 1145-1153.
 
Tullett, A. M., Teper, R. & Inzlicht, M. (2011). Confronting meaninglessness: A new framework for understanding responses to unsettling events. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(5), 447-453.
 
Inzlicht, M., Tullett, A. M., & Good, M. (2011). The need to believe: A neuroscience account of religion as a motivated process. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1(3), 192-212 [Target article].
 
Inzlicht, M., Tullett, A. M., & Good, M. (2011). Existential neuroscience: A proximate explanation of religion as flexible meaning and palliative. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1(3), 244-251 [Commentary on the target article “The need to believe: A neuroscience account of religion as a motivated process”].
 
Inzlicht, M., Tullett, A. M., Legault, L., & Kang, S. K. (2011). Lingering effects: Stereotype threat hurts more than you think. Social Issues and Policy Review, 5, 227-256.
 
Inzlicht, M., Tullett, A. M., & Gutsell, J. N. (2011). Stereotype threat spillover: The short and long-term effects of coping with threats to social identity. In M. Inzlicht & T. Schmader (Eds.). Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application. New York: Oxford University Press.
 
Tullett, A. M., & Inzlicht, M. (2010). The voice of self-control: Blocking the inner voice increases impulsive responding. Acta Psychologica, 135, 252-256.
 
Inzlicht, M. & Tullett, A. M. (2010). Reflecting on God: Religious primes can reduce neurophysiological response to errors. Psychological Science, 21, 1184-1190.
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