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my research explores:

how data-driven methods help us measure collective and idiosyncratic understandings of contemporary topics in race, sexuality, and migration discourse 

how analytic methods and philosophical commitments (e.g., social epistemologies and ontologies) shape knowledge-building in psychology 


representation of social others

this project combines insights from computational methods and memory & evaluation processes to study individual and collective representations of others. specific focus on the flexible or rigid representation of categories (e.g., across time, learning, context, institutions, political projects, groupings), their origins, and how these representations may reflect and justify social oppression or motivate social change.

publications

martinez, j.e., oh, d., todorov, a. mental representations of immigrants encode racialized expectations of sociostructural positions. psyarxiv. ๐Ÿ“

martinez, j.e., oh, d., todorov, a. immigrant face-ism: documentation statuses evoke racialized mental representations. psyarxiv. ๐Ÿ“

martinez, j.e., todorov, a. (in press). mapping varied mental representations: the case of representing illegalized immigrants. social cognition.

verosky, s., tyack., l., martinez, j.e. (2021). the group extremity effect: group ratings of negatively and positively evaluated groups of faces are more extreme than average ratings of their members. journal of experimental social psychology.

martinez, j.e., feldman, l.a., feldman, m.j., cikara, m. (2021). narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and policy preferences. psychological science. ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿ“„

verosky, s.c., porter, j., martinez, j.e., todorov, a. (2018). robust effects of affective person learning on evaluation of faces.journal of personality and social psychology, 114(4), 516-528. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000109 ๐Ÿ“Š

martinez, j.e. (2017). social-cognitive representational spaces: ontology and consequences. master thesis.

martinez j.e., mack m.l., gelman b.d., preston a.r. (2016). knowledge of social affiliations biases economic decisions. plos one, 11(7): e0159918. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159918 ๐Ÿ“Š

media coverage
works in progress

(inter)subjectivity & theory-making

important to this project is the development of methods to better quantify disagreements or shared understandings of controversial issues across contexts and steer them in anti-oppressive directions & to understand how these methods, in turn, should inform psychological theorizing.

publications

ledgerwood, a., et. al. disrupting racism and global exclusion in academic publishing: recommendations and resources for authors, reviewers, and editors from spsp’s acemap task force. psyarxiv

albohn, d.n., martinez, j.e., todorov. a. determinants of shared and idiosyncratic contributions to judgments of faces. psyarxiv

martinez, j.e., paluck, e.l. analytic racecraft: race-based averages create illusory group differences in perceptions of racism. psyarxiv ๐Ÿ“

martinez, j.e., (2023). facecraft: reification of race in psychological research with faces. perspectives on psychological science. ๐Ÿ“„

cikara, m., martinez, j.e., lewis, n. jr. (2022). moving beyond social categories by incorporating context more deeply in social psychological theory. nature reviews psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44159-022-00079-3

martinez, j.e., funk, f, todorov, a. (2020). quantifying idiosyncratic and shared contributions to judgmentbehavior research methods. 52, 1428โ€“1444. doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01323-0 ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿ“Š

gantman, a., gomila, r., martinez, j.e., matias, j.n., paluck, e.l., starck, j., wu, s., yaffe, n. (2018). a pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication. behavioral and brain sciences. 41, e127. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18000626

works in progress

martinez, j.e., uddenberg, s., gandhi, l., labbree, b., todorov, a., kahneman, d. (in prep). stable judge x case interactions contribute greatly to sentencing disparities

martinez, j.e., labbree, b., uddenberg, s., todorov, a. (in prep). meaningful “noise”: comparative judgments contain stable idiosyncratic contributions


queer sexual health

this project focuses on identifying social barriers or facilitators to PrEP uptake (a daily pre-exposure prophylaxis pill for hiv prevention). specific focus on mapping stereotypes of men who take PrEP and how different socio-medical understandings of PrEP might promote or prevent collective regulation of sexual health .

publications

martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. framing hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis as a private or public matter. psyarxiv

van dijk, m., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2022). bridging the sero-divide: attitudes of PrEP users towards sex partners living with hiv. aids care. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1954588 ๐Ÿ“„

van dijk, m., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2022). quality of sex life and perceived sexual pleasure of informal PrEP users in the netherlands. journal of sex research. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2021.1931653 ๐Ÿ“„

van dijk, m., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2021). slow uptake of PrEP: behavioral predictors and the influence of price on PrEP uptake among msm with a high interest in PrEP. aids & behavior. ๐Ÿ“„

van dijk, m., kamps, r., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2020). socio-sexual experiences of early PrEP adopters outside formal healthcare in the netherlands. aids & behavior.

martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2020). social judgments of sexual behavior and use of hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis. social cognition, 38(1), 1-20. doi: 10.1521/soco.2020.38.1.01 ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿ“Š

martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2019). pre-exposure prophylaxis sorting among men who have sex with men. aids care, 31(3), 388-396. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2018.1533229. ๐Ÿ“Š

works in progress

martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (in prep). harnessing social psychological insights for the advancement of hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis


other areas of interest

through my prior experience as a lab manager, i was able to study visual and executive cognition across development.

publications

roe, m.a., martinez, j.e., mumford, j.a., taylor w.p., cirino, p.t., fletcher, j.m., juranek, j.j., church, j.a. (2018). control engagement during sentence and inhibition fMRI tasks in children with reading difficulties. cerebral cortex. bhy170. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy170

martinez, j.e., mack, m.l., bauer, j-r., roe, m.a., church, j.a. (2018). perceptual biases during cued task switching relate to decision process differences between children and adults. journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance. 44(10), 1603-1618. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000552. ๐Ÿ“„ ๐Ÿ“Š

bauer, j-r.*, martinez, j.e.*, roe, m.a., church, j.a. (2017). consistent performance differences despite manipulation of cue switching variables in children and adults. frontiers in psychology. 8:1304. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01304 ๐Ÿ“Š