Wesley G. Moons - Psychology - University of California, Davis

Wesley G. Moons
Department of Psychology Phone: (530) 752-7871
University of California, Davis Fax: (530) 752-2087
One Shields Avenue wgmoons@ucdavis.edu
Davis, CA 95616 www.SocialEmotionandEvaluationLab.com
EDUCATION
2008 Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Area: Social Psychology
2001 B.A. Boston College
Area: Psychology
EMPLOYMENT
2010-present Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
2008-2010 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, UCLA
RESEARCH GRANTS
2003-3006 National Institute of Health, National Research Service Award (F31MH070355),
“The Influence of Anger on Cognitive Processing” (PI)
AWARDS AND HONORS
2008 Charles G. McClintock Fellowship in Social Psychology – UC Santa Barbara
2008 Doctoral Student Travel Grant – UC Santa Barbara
2007 Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention – Ford Foundation
2005 Summer Institute, JDM Seminar – Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2003 Predoctoral Fellowship (Declined) – Ford Foundation
2003 Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention – National Science Foundation
2003 Humanities and Social Science Research Grant – UC Santa Barbara
2003 Diversity Travel Award – Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2002 Doctoral Scholars Fellowship – UC Santa Barbara

PUBLICATIONS
Jeong, E. S., Shi, Y., Baazova, A., Chiu, C., Nahai, A., Moons, W. G., & Taylor, S. E. (2010).
The relation of approach/avoidance motivation and message framing to the
effectiveness of charitable appeals. Social Influence, 6, 15-21.
Leonard, D. J., Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (2010) We’re mad as hell
and we’re not going to take it anymore: Anger self-stereotyping and collective action.
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14, 99-111.
Taylor, S. E., Seeman, T. E., Eisenberger, N. I., Kozanian, T. A., Moore, A. N., & Moons,
W. G. (2010). Effects of a supportive or unsupportive audience on biological and
psychological responses to stress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 47-
56.
Moons, W. G., Eisenberger, N. I., & Taylor, S. E. (2010). Anger and fear responses to
stress have different biological profiles. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 24, 215-219.
Moons, W. G., Leonard, D. J., Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (2009). I feel our pain:
Antecedent and consequences of emotional self-stereotyping. Journal of Experimental
Social Psychology, 45, 760-769.
Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2009). The impact of repetition-
induced familiarity on agreement with weak and strong arguments. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 32-44.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2007). Thinking straight while seeing red: The influence
of anger on information processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 706-
720.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Moons, W. G. Empathic forecast confirmation: Confirming predictions by inducing
expected emotions in others.
Moons, W. G., Chen, J. M., Mackie, D. M., &Sherman, D. K. Self-affirmation and affective
forecasting: Affirmation reduces anticipated negative affect.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Taylor, S. E., Moons, W. G., Eisenberger, N. I., Seeman, T. E., Grinblatt, M. Who’s afraid
of the SEC? Impact of framing on perceptions of investments.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. Stereotypes: A source of bias in affective forecasting.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. When thinking hard leads you astray.
Moons, W. G., Kim, H. S., & Mackie, D. M. Culture and empathic forecasting: Cultural
differences in predicting others’ emotional reactions.
Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M., & Garcia-Marques, T. Increasing agreement with
repeatedly presented persuasive arguments.
PRESENTATIONS
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2009). Inducing expected emotions in others. Presented
at the 10 th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa,
FL.
Leonard, D. J., Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (2009). We’re mad as hell
and we’re not going to take it anymore: Increasing collective action tendencies via group
emotion and self-stereotyping. Presented at the 10 th annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Chen, J. M., Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (2009). Emotional conditioning:
Exploring reactions to targets linked with specific emotions. Presented at the 10 th annual
meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Garcia-Marques, T., Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2008). Three roles of repetition:
Evidence in context of the “illusion of agreement” effect. Presented at the 15 th General
Meeting of the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP),
Opatija, Croatia.

Moons, W. G., Leonard, D. J., Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (2008). I feel our pain:
Convergence in intergroup emotions. Presented at the 80 th annual meeting of the
Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Leonard, D. J., Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M., & Smith, E. R. (2008). I Feel What We Feel:
Conformity to group-based emotion norms. Presented at the 9 th annual meeting of the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Garcia-Marques, T., Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M. (2007). The more I see it the more I
agree with it? The role of elaboration in “illusion agreement.” Presented at the 9 th
annual meeting of the European Social Cognition Network, Brno, Czech Republic.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2007). Angry but thoughtful: Anger triggers analytic
processing. Presented at the 79 th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological
Association, Chicago, IL.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2007). Empathetic forecasting: Accuracy in predicting
others’ emotional reactions. Presented at the 8 th annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2006). Consequences of cognitive elaboration on
unrelated attitudes. Presented at the 7 th annual meeting of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Moons, W. G., Collins, H. R., & Mackie, D. M. (2005). In person or on paper: Social
presence impairs eyewitness testimony. Presented at the 17 th annual meeting of the
American Psychological Society, Lost Angeles, CA.
Stephens, L., Reed, M. R., von Boettinger, A., Nemerov, M., Wright, C. L., Hamilton, D. L.,
Moons, W. G., & Thurston, J. (2005). Student leaders’ perceptions of group entitivity
and related characteristics. Presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern
Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2004). Anger makes the mind work harder: The impact
of anger on information processing. Presented at the 6 th annual meeting of the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Collins, H. R., Moons, W. G., Mackie, D. M., & Mayer, R. E. (2004). Social presence
disrupts eyewitness testimony. Presented at the 16 th annual meeting of the American
Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Moons, W. G., & Mackie, D. M. (2004). The influence of anger on relevant and irrelevant
information processing tasks. Presented at the 5 th annual meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Mackie, D. M., Claypool, H., Garcia-Marques, T., Moons, W. G., McIntosh, A., & Udall, A.
(2003). Repetition and persuasive processing: Effects on motivation? Presented at the 4 th
annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
Moons, W. G., Collins, E., & Canavan, D. (2002). Enthusiasm is contagious. Presented at
the 3 rd annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah,
GA.
STATISTICAL EXPERTISE
2005-2009 Statistical Consultant – Anacapa Sciences, Inc.
2007 Graduate Structural Equation Modeling Teaching Assistant
2004 Statistical Consultant – UC Santa Barbara
2003 Applied Statistics Workshop – UC Santa Barbara
2003-2007 Statistical Consultant – Stat-help.com
MEDIA MENTIONS
Last Call – New York Times
Hope This Makes You Mad – ABC News.com
Anger Fuels Better Decisions – Yahoo News
Need to Make a Decision? Get Angry – MSNBC.com
Study: Anger Fuels Better Decision Making – Fox News.com
Off to Work? Don’t Forget Your Temper – Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada)
The Correct Way to Manage Anger – Chicago Tribune
Don’t Make Us Angry… – Chicago Tribune
Study: Anger Can Lead to Clearer Thinking – Washington Times
The Level-Headed Hothead: Anger Enables Analysis – Psychology Today

REVIEWER
Why Anger Can Make You Smarter – Ladies’ Home Journal
When Getting Angry is Good for You – Shape Magazine
NPR Sound Medicine with Jeremy Shere
CNN News with Michelle Marques
Washington Post Radio with Bob Kur
KOMO 1000 News in Seattle with Nancy Barrick
European Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Learning and Individual Differences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SERVICE
Instructor
Psychology of Emotion
Social Influence
Social Psychology
Teaching Assistant
Social Influence Structural Equation Modeling (Graduate)
Social Norms Statistics
Cultural Psychology Introductory Psychology
Intergroup Relations Psychopathology
2011 Society for Personality and Social Psychology GASP Luncheon Chair
2002-2008 UCSB Graduate Executive Committee Representative
2005-2008 UCSB Graduate Representative to Department Executive Committee
2004-2008 UCSB Social Psychology Area Lab Manager
2007-2008 UCSB Social Emotions Lab Manager

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
Society for Personality and Social Psychology