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John Dovidio



Professor (Ph.D., 1977, University of Delaware)

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Research Interests
  • Intergroup relations
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Altruism and Helping
  • Nonverbal Communication
My work centers around issues of social power and social relations, both between groups and between individuals. I explore both conscious (explicit) and unconscious (implicit) influences on how people think about, feel about, and behave toward others based on group membership. I continue to conduct research on aversive racism, a contemporary subtle form of prejudice, and on techniques for reducing conscious and unconscious biases.
 

Sample Publications

Dovidio, J. F., Piliavin, J. A., Schroeder, D. A., & Penner, L . A. (2006). The social psychology of prosocial behavior. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Dovidio, J. F., & Hebl, M. R. (2005). Discrimination at the level of the individual: Cognitive and affective factors. In R. L. Dipboye & A. Colella (Eds.), Discrimination at work: The psychological and organizational bases (pp. 11-35). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Dovidio, J. F., Glick, P. G., & Rudman, L. (Eds.) (2005). On the nature of prejudice: Fifty years after Allport. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., Piliavin, J. A., & Schroeder, D. A. (2005). Prosocial behavior: Multi-level perspectives. Annual Review of Psychology.

Dovidio, J. F., ten Vergert, M., Stewart, T. L., Gaertner, S. L., Johnson, J. D., Esses, V. M., Riek, B. M., & Pearson, A. R. (2004). Perspective and prejudice: Antecedents and mediating mechanisms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1537-1549.