Michael Inzlicht

Michael Inzlicht
Born (1972-06-20)June 20, 1972
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Citizenship Canadian
Fields Social Psychology
Neuroscience
Cognitive Sciences
Institutions University of Toronto
Wilfrid Laurier University
New York University
Alma mater Brown University
McGill University

Michael Inzlicht is professor of psychology at the University of Toronto recognized in the areas of social psychology and neuroscience. Although he has published papers on the topics of prejudice, academic performance, and religion, his most recent interests have been in the topics of self-control, where he borrows methods from affective and cognitive neuroscience to understand the underlying nature of self-control, including how it is driven by motivation[1] In the early 2000s, Inzlicht and his colleagues demonstrated that small, seemingly benign characteristics of an environment could play a large role in determining how stereotyped groups perform on academic tests. They found, for example, that the number of men in a small group could determine whether women succeeded (fewer men) or failed (more men) a math test.[2][3] More recently, Michael has primarily focused on improving our understanding of self-control and the related concepts of cognitive control and executive function (mental processes that allow behavior to vary adaptively depending on current goals). Much of his work explores the building blocks of control, including its neural, cognitive, emotional, and motivational foundations.[4][5][6] At the same time—and at a different level of analysis—he also explores the various ways that self-control can be influenced by various cultural and situational factors, including mindfulness meditation,[7] quality of motivation,[8] religious belief,[9] and stigmatization.[10] Another feature of Michael's work is that he takes a social affective neuroscience approach to address questions of interest. Thus, he combines neuroimaging, cognitive reaction time, physiological, and behavioral techniques to understand and explain social behaviour. This interdisciplinary approach provides a fuller, more integrated understanding of social behavior, emotion, and the brain.

Selected Awards & Honours

Selected Publications

References

  1. ↑ Professional Profile: Michael Inzlicht.
  2. ↑ APA Online: College women underperform on tests when in the minority.
  3. ↑ Inzlicht, Michael; Ben-Zeev, Talia (2000). "A threatening intellectual environment: Why females are susceptible to experiencing problem-solving deficits in the presence of males". Psychological Science. 11: 365–371. doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00272.
  4. ↑ Saunders, Blair; Milyavskaya, Marina; Inzlicht, Michael (2015). "What does cognitive control feel like? Effective and ineffective cognitive control is associated with divergent phenomenology". Psychophysiology: 1205–1217. doi:10.1111/psyp.12454.
  5. ↑ Inzlicht, Michael; Schmeichel, Brandon (2012). "What is ego depletion? Toward a mechanistic revision of the resource model of self-control". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 7: 450–463. doi:10.1177/1745691612454134.
  6. ↑ Inzlicht, Michael; Bartholow, Bruce; Hirsh, Jacob (2015). "Emotional foundations of cognitive control". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19: 126–132. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.01.004.
  7. ↑ Teper, Rimma; Segal, Zindel; Inzlicht, Michael (2013). "Inside the mindful mind: How mindfulness enhances emotion regulation through improvements in executive control". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 22: 449–454. doi:10.1177/0963721413495869.
  8. ↑ Legault, Lisa; Inzlicht, Michael (2013). "Self-determination, self-regulation, and the brain: Autonomy improves performance by enhancing neuroaffective responsiveness to self-regulation failure". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105: 123–138. doi:10.1037/a0030426.
  9. ↑ Inzlicht, Michael; Tullett, Alexa; Good, Marie (2011). "The need to believe: a neuroscience account of religion as a motivated process". Religion, Brain, & Behavior. 1: 192�251. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2011.647849. line feed character in |title= at position 36 (help); replacement character in |pages= at position 4 (help)
  10. ↑ Inzlicht, Michael; Kang, Sonia (2010). "Stereotype threat spillover: How coping With threats to social identity affects aggression, eating, decision making, and attention". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99: 467–481. doi:10.1037/a0018951.
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