Tom Holtgraves

Institution Ball State University Current Position Professor Highest Degree Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Nevada at Reno, 1984 Research Interests Communication Interpersonal Processes Judgment/Decision Making Person Perception Personality Persuasion/Social Influence Social Cognition Courses Taught Advanced Statistics Introduction to the Study of Personality Psychology of Language Research Methods Social Psychology Theories of Personality   Tom Holtgraves Department of Psychological Science Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306 United States Home Page Phone: (765) 285-1716 My primary research program investigates the social psychological factors involved in the production and comprehension of language. This includes research on social psychological variables impacting how speakers phrase their remarks, particularly in terms of politeness and/or indirectness, as well as the manner in which social psychological variables impact how hearers comprehend, remember, and interpret remarks. Additionally, related research involves the role of language in person perception and attribution, the wording of survey questions, and persuasion. I have secondary research interests in social desirability processes, gambling and risk taking, and personality and information processing. Books: Holtgraves, T. M. (2002). Language as social action: Social psychology and language use. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Journal Articles: Holtgraves, T. (2008). Automatic intention recognition in conversation processing. Journal of Memory and Language. Holtgraves, T. (2008). Conversation, speech acts, and memory. Memory & Cognition. Holtgraves, T. (2005). Diverging interpretations associated with the perspectives of the speaker and recipient in conversations. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 551-566. Holtgraves, T. M. (2004). Social desirability and self-reports: Testing models of socially desirable responding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 30, 161-172 Holtgraves, T. M. (1998). Interpreting indirect replies. Cognitive Psychology, 37, 1-27. Holtgraves, T. M. (1997). Politeness and memory for the wording of remarks. Memory and Cognition, 25, 106-116. Holtgraves, T. M. (1997). Styles of language use: Individual and cultural variability in conversational indirectness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 624-637. Holtgraves, T. M., Eck, J., & Lasky, B. (1997). Face management, question wording, and social desirability. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27,1650-1672. Holtgraves, T. M., & Han, T. L. (2007). A procedure for studying online conversational processing using a chat bot. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 156-163. Holtgraves, T. M., & Kashima, Y. (2008). Language, meaning, and social cognition. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12, 73-94. Holtgraves, T. M., & Lasky, B. (1998). Powerful language and persuasion. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 17.

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