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Jesse Preston
Assistant Professor
PhD Harvard University
Social-Personality Division
| Office: | 235 Psychology Building |
| Phone: | (217) 333-4921 |
| Fax: | (217) 244-5876 |
| Email: | jlp at illinois dot edu |
| Website: | SPN Professional Profile |
My research encompasses three interrelated topics: causal thinking and explanation, perceptions of agency, and attributions to superstition and supernatural forces.
Representative Publications:
- Preston, J., & Epley, N. (2009). Science and God: An automatic opposition between ultimate explanations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 238-241.
- Dijksterhuis, A., Preston, J., Wegner, D. M., & Aarts, H. (2008). Effects of subliminal priming of self and God on judgments of authorship. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 2-9.
- Preston, J., & Wegner, D. M. (2007). The eureka error: Inadvertent plagiarism by misattributions of effort. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 575-585.
- Preston, J., Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2006). The Godfather of soul. Behavioral and Brain Science, 29, 481-482.
- Preston, J., & Epley, N. (2005). Explanations versus applications: The explanatory power of valuable beliefs. Psychological Science, 16, 826-832.
Classes Recently Taught:
- Psych 332: Research methods in Social Psychology
- Graduate seminar in Judgment and Decision Making