Social Psychology Faculty

Social psychology; prejudice and stereotyping; implicit and explicit expressions of prejudice; self-regulation; attitude expression; emotion; human motivation; individual differences.

Current research focuses on the impact of the source of people's motivation to respond without prejudice on their attitudes, affect, and behavior in prejudice-relevant situations. Other related work explores the relationship between people's implicit and explicit expressions of prejudice and people's response to nonprejudiced social pressure.

Plant, E. A., & Peruche, B. M. (2005). The Consequences of Race for Police Officers’ Responses to Criminal Suspects. Psychological Science, 16, 180-183.

Plant, E. A., Peruche, B. M., & Butz, D. A. (2005). Eliminating Automatic Racial Bias: Making Race Non-Diagnostic for Responses to Criminal Suspects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 141-156.

Plant, E. A. (2004). Responses to interracial interactions over time. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1458-1471.

Plant, E. A., & Devine, P.G., (2003). Antecedents and Implications of Intergroup Anxiety. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 790 – 801.

Devine, P. G., Plant, E. A., Amodio, A. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Vance, S. L. (2002). Exploring the relationship between implicit and explicit prejudice: The role of motivations to respond without prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 835-848.

Plant, E. A., & Devine P. G. (1998). Internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 811-832.