Sian Beilock
Sian Beilock's research explores the psychological mechanisms driving skill learning and performance. She is interested in how people get to be good at what they do (in activities ranging from sports to academics to business), as well as why people sometimes perform below their potential or "choke under pressure" in high-stakes situations.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Books:
Journal Articles:
- Beilock, S. L. (2008). Math performance in stressful situations. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 339-343
- Beilock, S. L., Bertenthal, B. I., McCoy, A. M., & Carr, T. H. (2004). Haste does not always make waste: Expertise, direction of attention, and speed versus accuracy in performing sensorimotor skills. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11, 373-379.
- Beilock, S. L., & Carr, T. H. (2005). When high-powered people fail: Working memory and "choking under pressure" in math. Psychological Science, 16, 101-105.
- Beilock, S. L., & Carr, T. H. (2001). On the fragility of skilled performance: What governs choking under pressure? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 701-725.
- Beilock, S. L., Carr, T. H., MacMahon, C., & Starkes, J. L. (2002). When paying attention becomes counterproductive: Impact of divided versus skill-focused attention on novice and experienced performance of sensorimotor skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8, 6-16.
- Beilock, S. L., Gunderson, E. A., Ramirez, G., & Levine, S. C. (2010). Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 107(5), 1060-1063.
- Beilock, S. L., & Holt, L. E. (2007). Embodied preference judgments: Can likeability be driven by the motor system? Psychological Science, 18, 51-57.
- Beilock, S. L., Jellison, W. A., Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., & Carr, T. H. (2006). On the causal mechanisms of stereotype threat: Can skills that don't rely heavily on working memory still be threatened? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1059-1071.
- Beilock, S. L., Lyons, I. M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2008). Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 13269-13273.
- Beilock, S. L., Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2007). Stereotype threat and working memory: Mechanisms, alleviation, and spillover. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 256-276.
- Holt, L. E., & Beilock, S. L. (2006). Expertise and its embodiment: Examining the impact of sensorimotor skill expertise on the representation of action-related text. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 694-701.
- Lyons, I., & Beilock, S. L. (2009). Beyond quantity: Individual differences in working memory and the ordinal understanding of numerical symbols. Cognition, 113, 189-204.
- Lyons, I., Cieslak, M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Nusbaum, H., Small, S., & Beilock, S. L. (2010). The role of personal experience in the neural processing of action-related language. Brain and Language, 112, 214-222.
- Yang, S., Gallo, D., & Beilock, S. L. (2009). Embodied memory judgments: A case of motor fluency. Journal of Experiment Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35, 1359-1365.
Courses Taught:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Embodied Cognition
- The Mind
Sian Beilock
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago
5848 South University Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States of America
- Phone: (773) 834-3713
- Fax: (773) 702-0886