Lee Jussim.

Acknowledges Lee Jussim for outstanding, integrative scholarship at the interface between social, developmental, and educational psychology and for demonstrating both the power of social psychological theory for analyzing critical social issues and the power of field-based studies for assessing and refining theory. Through a combination of field- and laboratory-based studies, Jussim has illuminated when stereotyping and social perceptions influence behavior, leading to expectancies effects, across many social contexts. A citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Jussim's work are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Social stigma—The psychology of marked relationships.

Reviews the book, Social stigma—The psychology of marked relationships by Edward Jones, Amerigo Farina, Albert Hastorf, Hazel Marks, Dale Miller, Robert Scott, and Rita French (1984). This book presents one of the more incisive analyses to date of the stigmatizing process. It is a scholarly and timely review of the literature examining the social and psychological factors of relationships between those who are "normal" and those who are "deviant" in some fashion. Individuals with differences—the disabled, the disfigured, ex-mental patients, and ex-convicts—are considered. The material presented is relevant for the social scientist exploring the vicissitudes of stereotyping, and also for the practicing clinician attempting to deal with the daily demands of rehabilitation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sex Role Conceptualizations in Adolescents and Adults.

Sex role development was studied in seventh graders, twelfth graders, and adults. A 1976 cross-sectional study by Urberg and Labouvie-Vief was replicated 2 years later and the results examined for evidence of age and cultural change in degree of sex role stereotyping. Twelfth graders were found to be the most stereotyped and adults the least, with no significant differences between older and younger adults. Cultural change was evident for some of the traits examined, but the degree to which the subjects used stereotypes did not change. Male and female subjects described themselves in almost identical terms but engaged in stereotyping when describing an opposite-sex ideal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Having an Open Mind: The Impact of Openness to Experience on Interracial Attitudes and Impression Formation.

This article considers how Openness to Experience may mitigate the negative stereotyping of Black people by White perceivers. As expected, White individuals who scored relatively high on Openness to Experience exhibited less prejudice according to self-report measures of explicit racial attitudes. Further, White participants who rated themselves higher on Openness to Experience formed more favorable impressions of a fictitious Black individual. Finally, after observing informal interviews of White and Black targets, White participants who were more open formed more positive impressions of Black interviewees, particularly on dimensions that correspond to negative racial stereotypes. The effect of Openness to Experience was relatively stronger for judgments of Black interviewees than for judgments of White interviewees. Taken together these findings suggest that explicit racial attitudes and impression formation may depend on the individual characteristics of the perceiver, particularly whether she or he is predisposed to consider stereotype-disconfirming information. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)