Brad Sagarin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Phone: (815)753-7067
Fax: (815)753-8088
bsagarin@niu.edu
Office: PM 416
Personal Web Page
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Arizona State University, 1999
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Attitude change; resistance to persuasion; deception, jealousy, and infidelity; evolutionary psychology; human sexuality; statistical approaches to missing data and non-compliance.
FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES
- Psyc 433 Laboratory in Personality and Social Psychology
- Psyc 606 Multiple Regression
- Psyc 624 Attitude Change
- Psyc 671J Evolutionary Psychology
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Sagarin, B. J., & Skowronski, J. J. (in press). The implications of imperfect measurement for free-choice carry-over effects: Reply to M. Keith Chen’s (2008) "Rationalization and cognitive dissonance: Do choices affect or reflect preferences?" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Sagarin, B. J., Cutler, B., Cutler, N., Lawler-Sagarin, K. A., & Matuszewich, L. (in press). Hormonal changes and couple bonding in consensual sadomasochistic activity. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- Edlund, J. E., Heider, J. D., Scherer, C. R., Farc, M. M., & Sagarin, B. J. (2006). Sex differences in jealousy in response to actual infidelity. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 462-470.
- Scherer, C. R., & Sagarin, B. J. (2006). Indecent influence: The positive effects of obscenity on persuasion. Social Influence, 1, 138-146.
- Sagarin, B. J. (2005). Reconsidering evolved sex differences in jealousy: Comment on Harris (2003). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 62-75.
- Sagarin, B. J., Cialdini, R. B., Rice, W. E., & Serna, S. B. (2002). Dispelling the illusion of invulnerability: The motivations and mechanisms of resistance to persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 526-541.
