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Dr. Kristi Costabile joined the OSU-Marion faculty as an assistant professor in Fall, 2007. Dr. Costabile attended the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana for her undergraduate studies. There, she double-majored in psychology and rhetoric, graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in 1999. After spending a year as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer working with the Schools of Hope Literacy Project, Dr. Costabile attended the University of California at Santa Barbara earning her M.A. and Ph.D in Social Psychology and was awarded the University Award of Distinction. She then received an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship to conduct social psychological research at the Ohio State University in Columbus.
At the Ohio State University, Dr. Costabile teaches courses in social and general psychology, including stereotyping and prejudice, interpersonal relationships and research methods. She enjoys working with undergraduates on their own independent research projects (particularly those in the domain of social cognition and legal decision-making). Many of these honors students have gone on to pursue graduate studies in law or psychology.
Within the field of social psychology, Dr. Costabile’s research explores how organizational goals affect information processing and inference generation from a social-cognitive perspective. Specifically, she is interested in how narrative goals affect predictive inferences and causal attributions (e.g., Did Jimmy cut in line because he was rude or because he was in a hurry?). Additionally, Dr. Costabile’s work explores the applied consequences of narrative construction. She has investigated the factors that influence one’s susceptibility to narrative persuasion in public domains (e.g., novels, films); the cognitive processes involved in judicial decision making; and the ability of those with neuropsychological impairments to create self-narratives.