WORK IN PROGRESS
Lee Jussim
(last updated, 1/13/12)
My new book will be coming out this
year,
2012:
Social Belief and
Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
Published by Oxford University Press.
Go:
Here
for advanced comments, the table of contents, and the proofs of the
introductory chapter.
FOR A SUMMARY OF OTHER WORK COMPLETED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS,
GO TO MY BIO
PAGE (The second half describes this work).
A short
preliminary
report on how to dramatically reduce grandmother death resulting from
exams
A short
statement
about intellectual imperialism within social psychology.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS SCALE
I am currently working on developing a Political Correctness scale --
to assess people's willingness
to lie in order to appear unprejudiced. It has been designed to catch
people
in the act of lying to appear unprejudiced on anonymous
questionnaires.
High scores should reflect
lying to appear unprejudiced; low scores should reflect honest
responding.
Examples of PC questions:
I have never noticed a person’s race when I first met them.
(Denial of awareness of obvious group differences).
I am always friendly when I encounter a homeless person.
(Exaggerated liking of a member of a stigmatized group).
The best statement of our work in progress can be found by
clicking
here.
Stereotypes and Prejudice
This includes studies of:
- The role of racial stereotypes in implicit and explicit person
perception
- Sources, manifestations, and consequences of anti-Semitism,
including hostility to Israel.
- Sources, manifestations, and consequences of prejudicea against
Muslims and Arabs
- Psychological sources of support for mass murder and genocide
- The role of racial, gender, and age stereotypes and prejudice in
the 2008 Presidential election.
- Political/ideological bias and prejudice, both among laypeople
and social scientists, including social psychologists
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Heather Nofziger, Tom Cain and I (in collaboration with a Social
Perception Lab
Alumna and Now Tenured Associate Professor, Stephanie Madon)
are also examining whether self-fulfilling prophecies accumulate
across perceivers. So, if two perceivers hold the same inaccurate
expectation for a target, is the self-fulfilling prophecy effect size
larger than when only one holds an inaccurate expectation?
Stay tuned, we may soon have an answer....
Although I am sometimes lax about updating it, some of this work can be
found at my
publication page.
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