

Tiffany Ito
Professor Ito directs the University of Colorado Social Neuroscience Laboratory. The laboratory focuses on addressing social psychological issues using a multi-level perspective that integrates psychological and physiological measures. Dr. Ito focuses in particular on issues related to prejudice, attitudes, and emotion.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
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Journal Articles:
- Ito, T. A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2000). Electrophysiological evidence of implicit and explicit categorization processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 660-676.
- Ito, T. A., Larsen, J. T., Smith, N. K., & Cacioppo, J. T. (1998). Negative information weighs more heavily on the brain: The negativity bias in evaluative categorizations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 887-900.
- Ito, T. A., Thompson, E., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2004). Tracking the timecourse of social perception: The effects of racial cues on event-related brain potentials. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1267-1280.
- Ito, T.A., & Urland, G.R. (2005). The influence of processing objectives on the perception of faces: An ERP study of race and gender perception. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 21-36.
- Ito, T. A., & Urland, G. R. (2003). Race and gender on the brain: Electrocortical measures of attention to the race and gender of multiply categorizable individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 616-626.
Courses Taught:
- Current Research in Stereotyping and Prejudice
- Emotion
- Emotions and Intergroup Relations
- Introduction to Social Neuroscience
- Professional Development
- Psychology and Biology of Emotion
- Psychophysiological Methods
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Social Neuroscience
- Social Psychology
- The Social Brain
- Theories and Research in Emotion
Tiffany Ito
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Colorado at Boulder
345 UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0345
United States of America
- Phone: (303) 492-5879
- Fax: (303) 492-2967