Benjamin R. Meagher

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	M.A., Social Psychology, 2011, University of Connecticut B.A., Psychology, 2007, Gordon College Primary advisor: Marsh Secondary advisor: Johnson Joined program, Fall 2009
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	Situational Affordances and Action Coordination Values and Attitudes Psychology of Religion		Awarded Maurice Farber Graduate Fellowship, 2011-2014 2010 Awardee, Constant H. Jacquet Research Award from the Religious Research Association Inducted into Phi Alpha Chi, Gordon College’s Honor Society, 2007 Gordon College Presidential Honors, 2005 - 2007 Selection to Gordon-at-Oxford Scholars Program, 2005 - 2006
	Publications
	Meagher, B. R., & Kenny, D. A. (submitted for publication). "Judge, that ye shall be judged": Interpersonal judgments of religious characteristics within faith communities. Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2011). Judgments of interior spaces: The role of affordances. In E. Charles & J. Smart (Eds.) Studies in perception and action XI (pp. 163-167). New York: Erlbaum. Hodges, B. H., Meagher, B. R., Norton, D., McBain, R., & Kimball, A. (under revision). Speaking from ignorance: The dynamics of agreeing and disagreeing with correct and incorrect majorities.
	Presentations
	Meagher, B. R., & Marsh, K. L. (2012, January). The costs of working together: Coordination concerns influence judgments of distance. Poster to be presented at the 13th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. Meagher, B. R. & Marsh, K. L. (2011, July). Judgments of interior spaces: The role of affordances. Poster presented at the 16th International Conference on Perception and Action, Ouro Preto, Brazil. Meagher, B. R. & Marsh, K. L. (2011, March). Distance judgments for joint action: The perceptual consequences of anticipated coordination. Paper presented at the 82nd annual conference of the Eastern Psychological Association, Cambridge, MA. Meagher, B. R. & Marsh, K. L. (2011, February). The role of body-environment relationship in perceptions of space. Paper presented at Embodiment in Social and Personality Psychology Preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX. Meagher, B. R. & Marsh, K. L. (2011, February). Embodied social perception: The effect of anticipated joint action on judgments of distance. Poster presented at the 12th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX. Meagher, B. R. (2009, October). The implications of anticipated joint action on distance perception. Talk given at the Perception-Action Workshop, Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Meagher, B. R., Dennis, A., McBain, R., Norton, D., Wu, J., & Hodges, B. (2008, February). Speaking from ignorance: An inverse Asch effect. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
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