Daniel Hrubes, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
PhD, University of Massachusetts
MS, University of Massachusetts
BGS, University of Michigan
daniel.hrubes@mountsaintvincent.edu
Dr. Hrubes is interested in how people use deception to achieve goals such as controlling their own emotions and influencing the emotions of those around them. His investigations include assessing the frequency with which individuals use these different types of deception as well as developing a reliable measure to assess people’s attitudes toward these types of deceptions.
Our impressions of others influence a variety of decisions including hiring decisions, personal relationship decisions, judicial sentencing decisions, and voting decisions. Understanding how people use the information available to them when forming these impressions is of considerable importance. Dr. Hrubes is also interested in how factors such as nonverbal behavior and motivation influence these judgments. He investigates these questions by combining theory from social cognition with practical information about the nonverbal displays that occur in real world settings.
Persuasion is a central part of our professional, political, economic, and social lives. Dr. Hrubes is interested in how variables such as nonverbal delivery style affect the success of persuasive appeals. Using a theoretical approach informed by current dual-process models of persuasion, he examines how the nonverbal behavior associated with persuasive appeals influences the mechanisms that underline attitude change. He is also interested in the interplay between values and attitudes in directing behavior. Understanding the relationship between general value orientations and specific attitudes and behaviors can help explain and predict a variety of important individual behaviors.
Areas of Interest
- “White lies,” or the motivation behind deception to control emotions
- The influence of attitudes and opinions on behaviors
- Persuasion
Courses
- PSYC 103 Introduction to Psychology I
- PSYC 104 Introduction to Psychology II
- PSYC 315 Research Methods
- PSYC 321 Social Psychology
- PSYC 375 Internship
- PSYC 405 Advanced Research Methods
- PSYC 432 Motivation and Emotion
- PSYC 450 Capstone: Psychology
- PSYC 475 Internship
Presentations
Hrubes, D., & Garcia, N. “Does Being Involved in White Lies Change the Way We Evaluate Them”. Eastern Psychological Association, 2020.
Hrubes, D., Fisher, P. H., Joh, A. S., Alexander, K. E., Brooks, P. J., & Saltzman, E. S. “Developing Employment-Related Skills for Psychology Majors”. Co-Chair: D. Hrubes. Teaching Symposium, Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Hrubes, D. , Brown, S., & Neil, D. “Individual Differences and Deception Role Influences an Judgments of Harmless Deceptions”. Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, 2017
Hrubes, D, Rodriguez, O., & Munroe, M. “Investigating Factors that Influence Judgments of Harmless Deceptions”. Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY, 2016
Hrubes, D., Fox, A., and Sepulveda, C., “The Influence of Deception Role and Relationship Type on Judgments of Deception,” Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Mass., 2014
Hrubes, D. and Blum, A., “Hypocrisy Regarding Attitudes toward the Use of Emotion Focused Deception,” Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Mass., 2008
Hrubes, D. and Mecca, P., “Development of the Emotion-Focused Deception Inventory,” Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pa., 2007
“Why do people lie?” Faculty Lecture Series, University of Mount Saint Vincent, 2005
Hrubes, D., Abrams, L., Tobon, C., Mayo, P., and Scali, D., “Attitudes toward three types of emotion focused deception,” Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Mass., 2005
Hrubes, D., Dwyer, J., and Signorile, E., “Gender differences in the use of emotion-focused deception,” Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., 2004
Hrubes, D., Signorile, E., and Dwyer, J., “Investigating the relationship between the use of emotion-focused deception, self-monitoring, and self-consciousness,” Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., 2004
Publications
Hrubes, D., Fisher, P. H., Joh, A. S., Alexander, K. E., Brooks, P. J., & Saltzman, E. S. “Developing Employment-Related Skills for Psychology Majors.” T. Ober, E. Che, J Brodsky, C. Raffaele, & P. J. Brooks (Eds.), How We Teach Now (Volume 2): The GSTA Guide to Transformative Teaching, 2020
Hrubes, D., Feldman, R. S., and Tyler, J., “Emotion-Focused Deception: The Role of Deception in the Regulation of Emotion,” P. Phiulippot & R.S. Feldman (Eds.), The Regulation of Emotion, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
Hrubes, D., Brown, T. C., and Ajzen, I., “Further tests of entreaties to avoid hypothetical bias in referendum contingent valuation,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2003
Hrubes, D., Daigle, J. J., and Ajzen, I., “A comparative study of beliefs, attitudes, and values among hunters, wildlife viewers, and other outdoor recreationists,” Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 7, 1-19, 2002
Hrubes, D. and Felderman, R. S. “Nonverbal displays as indicants of task difficulty,” Contemporary Educational Psychology, 26, 267-276, 2001
Hrubes, D., Ajzen, I., and Daigle, J. J., “Predicting Hunting Intentions and Behavior: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior,” Leisure Sciences, 23, 165-178, 2001