Michael Inzlicht Edits Book on Stereotype Threat

An edited volume on stereotype threat is now been published by Oxford University Press. The book, titled Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application is edited by Michael Inzlicht and Toni Schmader (University of British Columbia) and features articles from Claude Steele, Joshua Aronson, Steven Spencer, Geoff Cohen, Wendy Berry Mendes, Jennifer Richeson, and Paul Sackett. The book also features abstracts for each chapter, policy boxes that translate the research to real world policy issues. Plus, each chapter is very short and thus highly readable.

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Posted on Nov 25, 2011 by admin

Alex Kogan and Emily Impett in November issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Alex Kogan and Emily Impett, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California Berkeley, the University of California San Francisco, and Oregon State University, published a paper in the November edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science titled "Thin-slicing of the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene and the evaluation and expression of the prosocial disposition." Their study found that a person's genotype of the rs53576 single nucleotide polymorphism of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) predicted how kind, trustworthy, and compassionate complete strangers judged a person to be on the basis of seeing only 20 seconds of behavior. The findings speak to the impact even slight genetic variation can have on behavior and people's intuitive ability to detect these differences and make evaluations about a person's prosociality using them.

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Posted on Nov 15, 2011 by admin

Shauna Kushner and Jennifer Tackett in recent issues of Journal of Personality Disorders and Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

Shauna Kushner and Jennifer Tackett, in collaboration with R. Michael Bagby and Lena Quilty at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, published a paper in the August issue of Journal of Personality Disorders entitled, "The hierarchical structure of the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP-BQ)." The research examines the hierarchical structure of a dimensional measure of personality pathology using Goldberg's (2006) Bass-Ackwards method, and its ability to predict symptoms of DSM-IV personality disorders.

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Shauna Kushner, Jennifer Tackett, and Michael Bagby have also published a paper in the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment entitled, "The structure of internalizing disorders in middle childhood and evidence for personality correlates." The research suggests that, contrary to the current DSM-IV model, depression and anxiety symptoms in middle childhood may be better conceptualized as a unitary factor of internalizing symptoms. In addition, the research suggests that big five personality correlates may help differentiate childhood psychopathology structure before it is manifest at the symptom level.

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Posted on Oct 27, 2011 by admin

Jessica Remedios, Alison Chasteen, Nick Rule and Jason Plaks in November Issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Jessica Remedios (PhD4 student), along with professors Alison Chasteen, Nick Rule and Jason Plaks have co-authored a paper titled: "Impressions at the Intersection of Ambiguous and Obvious Social Categories: Does Gay + Black = Likable?" in the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

In two studies, the authors show that positive gay stereotypes may confer evaluative benefits to Black gay targets, even when perceivers are unaware of targets' sexual orientations. Participants exposed to faces of Black men demonstrated explicit and implicit biases towards liking gay targets more than straight targets. These findings highlight the striking extent to which less visible categories, like sexual orientation, influence person perception and determine the first impressions that individuals form about others.
Posted on Oct 20, 2011 by admin

Spring 2011 SSHRC Ph.D. scholarship winners

Samantha Joel (supervised by Geoff MacDonald), Xiaowen Xu (co-supervised by Jason Plaks and Jordan Peterson), and Jeffery Yen (supervised by Romin Tafarodi) have all been awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship. The CGS is awarded to graduate students who demonstrate an especially high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities. Congratulations to Samantha Joel, Xiaowen Xu, Jeffery Yen!

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Posted on Oct 19, 2011 by admin

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