John Dovidio

About

John Dovidio is the Carl I. Hovland Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and of Epidemiology at Yale University. His work centers around issues of social power and social relations, both between groups and between individuals. He explores both conscious (explicit) and unconscious (implicit) influences on how people think about, feel about, and behave toward others based on group membership. Dr. Dovidio continues to conduct research on aversive racism, a contemporary subtle form of prejudice, and on techniques for reducing conscious and unconscious biases. His research further investigates how the bias of health care providers and perceptions by members of traditionally disadvantaged groups of being stigmatized affect medical interactions, decisions, and outcomes. His latest book is 'Unequal Health: Anti-Black Racism and the Threat to America's Health,' published by Cambridge University Press in September 2023.

Research topics

• Geography

Selected publications

• Best research practices for using the Implicit Association Test

  Behavior Research Methods · 2021-09-13 · 180 citations

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  Interest in unintended discrimination that can result from implicit attitudes and stereotypes (implicit biases) has stimulated many research investigations. Much of this research has used the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure association strengths that are presumed to underlie implicit biases. It had been more than a decade since the last published treatment of recommended best practices for research using IAT measures. After an initial draft by the first author, and continuing through…

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• Implicit-Bias Remedies: Treating Discriminatory Bias as a Public-Health Problem

  Gothic.net · 2022-05-01 · 138 citations

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  Accumulated findings from studies in which implicit-bias measures correlate with discriminatory judgment and behavior have led many social scientists to conclude that implicit biases play a causal role in racial and other discrimination. In turn, that belief has promoted and sustained two lines of work to develop remedies: (a) individual treatment interventions expected to weaken or eradicate implicit biases and (b) group-administered training programs to overcome biases generally, including imp…

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• The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures

  Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2021-10-26 · 90 citations

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  In many countries, individuals who have represented the majority group historically are decreasing in relative size and/or perceiving that they have diminished status and power compared with those self-identifying as immigrants or members of ethnic minority groups. These developments raise several salient and timely issues, including (a) how majority-group members’ cultural orientations change as a consequence of increasing intercultural contact due to shifting demographics; (b) what individual,…

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• States of Belonging

  2021 · 32 citations

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• Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority‐group acculturation

  British Journal of Social Psychology · 2024-09-16 · 7 citations

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  Abstract Psychological research has begun considering the dynamics involved in majority‐group acculturation, which is the extent to which cultural majority groups adopt the culture of immigrants and minority groups. However, previous research has predominantly concentrated on reactions to ‘immigrants’ or ‘minority groups’ as a homogenous entity, overlooking the nuanced perceptions and varied valuations attributed to different groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity among immigrant and minority gro…

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Recent grants

• Improving Retention and Facilitating Career Reentry for Women Scientists with a Consortium of Universities

  NSF · $374k · 2013–2019

• Gateway Groups and Intergroup Relations

  NSF · $436k · 2018–2023

Frequent coauthors

• Samuel L. Gaertner

  140 shared

• Michelle van Ryn

  130 shared

• Sara E. Burke

  Syracuse University

  127 shared

• Sean M. Phelan

  Mayo Clinic in Florida

  127 shared

• Sylvia Perry

  University of Vermont

  118 shared

• Diana J. Burgess

  University of Minnesota

  115 shared

• Rachel R. Hardeman

  University of Minnesota

  115 shared

• Mark W. Yeazel

  University of Minnesota Medical Center

  106 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Psychology

  University of Delaware

  1977

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