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Katrina Fincher studies moral psychology. Her research focuses on the basic cognitive and perceptual psychological mechanisms that enable people to live in social groups, in particular three mechanisms that enable this transition; perceptual dehumanization (her primary focus), covert retribution, and sacred values. 

Degrees Held

PhD, University of Pennsylvania 

Professional Affiliation

Association for Psychological Science

Society for Judgment and Decision Making

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

National Latina/o Psychological

Association Academy of Management

Recent Publications

Fincher, K. M. (2019). . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 143–157.

Morris, M. W., Savani, K., & Fincher, K. (2019). . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(1), 46–68.

Fincher, K.M., Tetlock, P.E. & Morris, M.W. (2017) , Current Directions in Psy. Sci. ​

Fincher, K.M. & Morris, M.W.  (2016) , Psychological Inquiry, 27:4.

Fincher, K.M., & Tetlock, P.E. (2016) , Journal of Experimental Psychology : General.  

Fincher. K.M & Tetlock, P.E. (2015) . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.  

Tetlock, P.E. & Fincher, K.M., (2014) . "Theory and Explanation in Social Psychology." Guilford Press, New York.

Mellers B, Ungar L, Baron J, Ramos J, Gurcay B, Fincher K.M., Scott S.E., Moore D, Atanasov P, Swift SA, Murray T, Stone E, & Tetlock, P (2014). . Psychological science, 25(5), 1106-1115.  

Baron, J. Metz, S.E., Scott, S., & Fincher, K.M. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 4 (2015) 265-284.  

Hormes, J. M., Rozin, P., Green, M. C., & Fincher, K. (2013). . Frontiers in Psychology, 4.  

Mellers, B., & Fincher, K.M.(2013) Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 202, Amsterdam: The Netherlands, 2013, pp. 3-19. 

Rozin, P., Fincher, K.M., Guillot, L,.,Rozin, A., & Tsukayama, E. (2013). . Judgment & Decision Making, 8(4).  

Fedotova, N., Fincher, K.M., Goodwin, G., & Rozin P. (2012) . Emotion Review.  

Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & Fincher, K.M. (2009). . Science, 323, 1179-1180  

Allison K. C., Paré E, Cicco Barker J, Kavanaugh K, Fincher, K., Sarwer DB. Predicting excess weight gain among overweight pregnant women: the PoEMS study. Journal of Women’s Health 2007; 16:1102, P-20.  

Research Interests

morality, cognition, perception  

Awards And Honors

2016 Mortimer D. Sackler Summer Institute in Neuroscience and Law

2010–2015 Russell Ackoff Student Research Fellowship, Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School (Total Awards: $17,500)

2009–2015 Mellon Fellowship, Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania (Total Awards: $280,000)

2013–2015 Benjamin Franklin Summer Fellowship Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania (Total Awards: $6,300)