John Edwards is a social psychologist specializing in social cognition and individual differences. His general area of research concerns the motivational and personality factors that influence how people make judgments about other people. More specifically, he's studied how chronic uncertainty about the causes of events influences the judgments people make about other people's personalities.  He has also examined the ability of the various measures of information processing preference to predict effort in making social judgments.  More recently, he has been exploring people's cognition about situations, with the goal of understanding the qualities that people attribute to situations.

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Classes I Teach at Oregon State:
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Social Psychology(Psy 360 - usually in the Winter) 

Advanced Social Research Methods (Psy 460/560 - usually Fall) 

Social Cognition (Psy 464/564 - usually Winter and Spring) 

Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Psy 496/596 - usually Fall, Spring)

STUDY GUIDE FOR PSY 460 MIDTERM 1, FALL 03

(the above terms are a guess - see the Psychology Department Home Page for the most up-to-date list of course offerings by term)