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Mark Baldwin is a social-personality psychologist and professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research examines the cognitive representation of self and patterns of social relatedness.

Early Life and Educational Background

Baldwin was born on October 23, 1957, in Toronto, Canada. He completed his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Toronto in 1979, conducting his Honours thesis with Shelly Chaiken. He then studied social-personality psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, earning his M.A. in 1982 and his Ph.D. in 1984 both under the direction of John Holmes.

Professional Career

Baldwin secured a postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which supported him to work with Nancy Cantor at the University of Michigan (1984–1985) and then Brian Shaw at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (1985–1986). He then paused his academic career to co-write and co-host an award winning children’s television...

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  • Bartz, J. A., Baldwin, M. W., & Lydon, J. E. (2015). An expectancy-value approach to attachment. In V. Zayas & C. Hazan (Eds.), Bases of adult attachment: From brain to mind to behavior. New York: Springer.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., Lydon, J. E., McClure, M. J., & Etchison, S. (2010a). Measuring implicit processes in close relationships. In B. Gawronski & K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications (pp. 426–444). New York: Guilford.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., Baccus, J. R., & Milyavskaya, M. (2010b). Computer game associating self-concept to images of acceptance can reduce adolescents’ aggressiveness in response to social rejection. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 855–862.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., & Dandeneau, S. D. (2009). Putting social psychology into serious games. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 547–565.

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  • Dandeneau, S. D., Baldwin, M. W., Baccus, J. R., Sakellaropoulo, M., & Pruessner, J. C. (2007). Cutting stress off at the pass: Reducing vigilance and responsiveness to social threat by manipulating attention. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 651666.

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  • Baldwin, M. W. (Ed.). (2005). Interpersonal cognition. New York: Guilford Press.

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  • Ratelle, C. F., Baldwin, M. W., & Vallerand, R. J. (2005). On the cued activation of situational motivation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 482–487.

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  • Baccus, J. R., Baldwin, M. W., & Packer, D. J. (2004). Increasing implicit self-esteem through classical conditioning. Psychological Science, 15, 498–502.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., Baccus, J. R., & Fitzsimons, G. M. (2004). Self-esteem and the dual processing of interpersonal contingencies. Self and Identity, 3, 81–93.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., & Main, K. J. (2001). The cued activation of relational schemas in social anxiety. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1637–1647.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., & Sinclair, L. (1996). Self-esteem and “if...then” contingencies of interpersonal acceptance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 1130–1141.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., Keelan, J. P. R., Fehr, B., Enns, V., & Koh-Rangarajoo, E. (1996). Social cognitive conceptualization of attachment working models: Availability and accessibility effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 94–104.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., & Fehr, B. (1995). On the instability of attachment style ratings. Personal Relationships, 2, 247–261.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., Fehr, B., Keedian, E., Seidel, M., & Thomson, D. W. (1993). An exploration of the relational schemas underlying attachment styles: Self-report and lexical decision approaches. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 746–754.

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  • Baldwin, M. W. (1992). Relational schemas and the processing of social information. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 461–484.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., Carrell, S. E., & Lopez, D. F. (1990). Priming relationship-schemas: My advisor and the Pope are watching me from the back of my mind. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 26, 435–454.

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  • Baldwin, M. W., & Holmes, J. G. (1987). Salient private audiences and awareness of the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1087–1098.

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Baldwin, M. (2017). Baldwin, Mark W.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_369-1

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