Staff profile

• Kevin is interested in the effects of prosocial behavior on social perception, cognition, and social systems. Particularly, he wonders how being kind changes the way we perceive other people and the world? Additionally, he is interested in how subtle effects of kindness in one situation may be transmitted to other situations by means of body language.
• These effects are likely to be intimately tied up with the identity of the actor and those they interact with. Therefore, notions of self (including social identity and group dynamics) are integral to Kevin's consideration of his topic.
• Other fields that are important for Kevin's research are cognitive dissonance, self-perception theory, assumed similarity bias, and expectancy effects.
• Supervisors:
• Patrick Kotzur
• Stefania Paolini
• Publications:
• Rumble, A.C., Willcox, K.J., Imada, H., & Yansen, D. (2022). Beyond Reciprocity: Forgiveness, Generosity and Punishment in Continuing Dyadic Social Dilemmas. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology.
• Imada, H., Hopthrow, T., Abrams, D., Willcox, K., Yansen, D., & Rumble, A. (2024), Intergroup Cooperation under Crossed Categorization. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology.

Journal Article

• Imada, H., Ito, A., Hopthrow, T., Abrams, D., Yansen, D., Willcox, K., & Rumble, A. (online). Cooperation and crossed categorization in a minimal group context: testing the bounded generalized reciprocity and social identity accounts. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2024.2388345