David Hauser
Associate Professor
B.A., Gettysburg College, 2008
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2017
Name Pronunciation Guide:
"DAY-vid HOW-zer"
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Research Interests
David studies judgment and social cognition, namely how communication guides our inferences, preferences, and reasoning. His work investigates how seemingly innocuous words color evaluations, how metaphors guide understanding of abstract concepts like disease and health, and how common survey methods shape research conclusions.
Selected Publications
Hillman, J. G., Antoun, J., & Hauser, D. J. (2023). The improvement default: People presume improvement when lacking information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01461672231190719
Moss, A. J., Hauser, D. J., Rosenzweig, C., Jaffe, S. Robinson, J., & Litman, L. (2023). Using Market Research Panels for Behavioral Science: An Overview and Tutorial. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6, 1-25. https://doi-org.proxy.queensu.ca/10.1177/25152459221140388
Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2023). Semantic prosody: How neutral words with collocational positivity/negativity color evaluative judgments. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32, 98-104. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221127978
Hauser, D. J., Moss, A. J., Rosenzweig, C., Jaffe, S. Robinson, J., & Litman, L. (2023). Evaluating CloudResearch’s Approved Group as a solution for problematic data quality on MTurk. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 3953-3964. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-022-01999-x
Hauser, D. J. & Fleming, M. E. (2021). Mother nature’s fury: Antagonist metaphors for natural disasters increase forecasts of their severity and encourage evacuation. Science Communication, 43, 570-596. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10755470211031246
Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2020). The war on prevention II: Battle metaphors undermine cancer treatment and prevention and do not increase vigilance. Health Communication, 1-7.
Hauser, D. J., Ellsworth, P. C., & Gonzalez, R. (2018). Are manipulation checks necessary? Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 998.
Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2018). How seemingly innocuous words can bias judgment: Semantic prosody and impression formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 11-18.
Hauser, D. J., Nesse, R. M., & Schwarz, N. (2017). Lay theories and metaphors of health and illness. In Zedelius C., Muller, B., & Schooler J. W. (Eds.) The science of lay theories: How beliefs shape our culture, cognition, and health. (pp. 341-354). Springer.
Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2016). Semantic prosody and judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 882-896.
Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2016). Attentive Turkers: MTurk participants perform better on online attention checks than subject pool participants. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 400-407.
Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2015). IT'S A TRAP!: Instructional manipulation checks prompt systematic thinking on "tricky" tasks. SAGE Open, 5, 1-6.
Hauser, D. J. & Schwarz, N. (2015). The war on prevention: Bellicose cancer metaphors hurt (some) prevention intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 66-77.
Hauser, D. J., Preston, S. D., Stansfield, R. B. (2014). Altruism in the wild: When affiliative motives to help positive people overtake empathic motives to help the distressed. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1295-1305.
Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Friesen, C. K., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). What’s “up” with God?: Vertical Space as a representation of the divine. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 699-710.