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Heather Gray, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Division on Addictions |
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Heather Gray is a Research Associate at the Division
on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of Harvard
Medical School, and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
She received her PhD in social psychology from Harvard University in 2006,
where she studied interpersonal sensitivity and social cognition. From
2006-2008, she was a post-doctoral fellow with the Boston University Health
and Disability Research Institute. During this time she began to apply her
interests associated with interpersonal sensitivity and social cognition to
matters of health and rehabilitation.
Dr. Gray joined the Division during 2008. At the Division, she is interested
in pursuing research that connects addiction science with interpersonal
sensitivity and social cognition. She is serving as co-principal
investigator (with Dr. Debi LaPlante) on an NIAAA-funded study that seeks to
develop a new measure of the extent to which an individual thinks of himself
or herself as a “drinker.” Drs. Gray and LaPlante are developing and
validating this measure among a college population, but seek to extend its
use to other populations, with the expectation that this new measure will
predict risky drinking behavior better than traditional measures. Dr. Gray
also is actively involved with a number of Division-wide projects, including
the evaluation of a responsible gaming program for casino employees, the
evaluation of a computer-guided self-help program for program gamblers, and
the development of new technology for assessing behavioral and psychiatric
disturbances among hard-to-track populations.
Selected Publications
2010
- Gray, H. M., & Tickle-Degnen, L. (2010). A meta-analysis of performance on emotion recognition tasks in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology, 24(2), 176-191.
- LaPlante, D. A., Gray, H. M., Bosworth, L. B., & Shaffer, H. J. (In Press). Thirty years of lottery public health research: Methodological strategies and trends. Journal of Gambling Studies, 26, 301-329.
2008
- Gray, H. M., Mendes, W. B., & Denny-Brown, C. (2008). An in-group advantage in detecting intergroup anxiety. Psychological Science, 19, 1233-1237.
- Mendes, W. B., Gray, H. M., Mendoza-Denton, R., Major, B., & Epel, E. S. (2008). Why egalitarianism might be good for your health: Physiological thriving during stressful intergroup encounters. Psychological Science, 11, 991-998.
- Gray, H. M. (2008). To what extent, and under what conditions, are first impressions valid? In N. Ambady & J. Skowronski (Eds.), First Impressions. New York: Guilford.
2007 and earlier
- Gray, H. M., Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2007). Dimensions of mind perception. Science, 315, 619.
- Gray, H. M. & Ambady, N. (2006). Methods for the study of nonverbal behavior. In V. Manusov & M. L. Patterson (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Nonverbal Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Choi, Y. S., Gray, H. M. & Ambady, N. (2005). The glimpsed world: Unintended communication and unintended perception. In R. Hassin, J. Bargh, & J. Uleman (Eds.), The New Unconscious. New York: Oxford.
- Gray, H. M., Ambady, N., & Lowenthal, W. T., & Deldin, P. (2004). P300 as an index of attention to self-relevant stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 216-224.
- Ambady, N., & Gray, H. M. (2002). On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 947-961.
- Shih, M., Ambady, N., Richeson, J. A., Fujita, K., & Gray, H. M. (2002). Stereotype performance boosts: The impact of self-relevancy and the manner of stereotype activation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 638-647.