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UPCOMING TALKS

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

For a complete list of talks and publications, please see my CV.

 

UPCOMING TALKS

Purdie-Vaughns, V. (June 2012). Keynote Address at the National Science Foundation Joint Annual Meeting for Principal Investigators, Division of Human Resource Development. Washington, D.C.

 

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

*Publications with graduate students, undergraduates, or post-doctoral fellows

Sedlovskaya, A.*, Purdie-Vaughns, V., Eibach, R., LaFrance, M., Romero-Canyas, R., & Camp, N. (under review). Internalizing the closet: Stigma concealment heightens the cognitive distinction between public and private selves.

Purdie-Vaughns, V., Cook, J. E.*, Cohen, G. L., Sumner, R., Garcia, J., & Apfel, N. (under review). A wrinkle in time: Transformational nature of the 2008 Presidential election on adolescents’ long term motivation and achievement.

Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Ditlmann, R.* (under review). Through the prism of colorblindness: Priming egalitarianism or bias affects construal of colorblind ideologies for racial minorities.

Shnabel, N.*, Purdie-Vaughns, V., Cook, J.E.*, Garcia, J., & Cohen, G.L. (under review) Demystifying values-affirmation interventions: Writing about social-belonging is a key to buffering against stereotype threat.

Cook, J.E.*, Purdie-Vaughns, V., Garcia, J., Taborsky-Barba, S., Tomassetti, S., & Davis, E. (under review). A randomly-assigned values-intervention reduces body mass in response to stereotype threat.

Yang, L., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Link, B., & Phelan, J. (under review). Culture, threat and stigma: Integrating ‘Threat to moral personhood’ with mental illness stigma.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Cook, J.E.*, Purdie-Vaughns, V., Garcia, J., & Cohen, G.L. (2012). Chronic threat and contingent belonging: Protective benefits of values affirmation on identity development. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102 (3) 479-496. Download PDF.

Eibach, R. & Purdie-Vaughns, V. (2011). How to keep on keeping on: Framing civil rights accomplishments to bolster support for egalitarian policies. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47 (1) 274-277. Download PDF.

Ditlmann, R.*, Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Eibach, R.. (2011). Heritage and ideology-based national identities and their implications for immigrant citizen relations in the United States and in Germany. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35 (4) 395-405. Download PDF.

Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Ditlmann, R. (2010). Reflections on diversity science in social psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 21 (2) 153-159. Download PDF.

Mock, S.E., Sedlovskaya, A., Purdie-Vaughns, V. (2010). Gay and bisexual men’s disclosure of sexual orientation in the workplace, Journal of Applied Gerontology, 9 (3) 1-10. Download PDF.

Purdie-Vaughns, V., Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Sumner, R., Cook, J. E.*, & Apfel, N. H. (2009). Improving minority academic performance: How a values-affirmation intervention works. Teachers College Record, September 23, 2009. Download PDF.

Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Apfel, N., & Brzustoski, P. (2009). Recursive processes in self-affirmation: Intervening to close the minority achievement gap. Science, 324, 400-403. Download PDF.

Eibach, R. & Purdie-Vaughns, V. (2009). Change We Can Believe In? Barack Obama’s Framing Strategies for Bridging Racial Divisions. Du Bois Review, 6 (1), 137-152. Download PDF.

Purdie-Vaughns, V., Steele, C.M., Davies, P., Ditlmann, R.*, Randall Crosby, J. (2008). Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African-Americans in mainstream settings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Download PDF.

Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Eibach, R. (2008). Intersectional invisibility: The ideological sources and social consequences of non-prototypicality. Sex Roles. Download PDF.

Brooks, R. & Purdie-Vaughns. (2007). The supermodular architecture of inclusion. Harvard Review of Law and Gender, 30, 379-387. Download PDF.

Adams, G., Garcia, D. & Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Steele, C. (2006) The detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction situation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Eberhardt, J.L., Davies, P.G., Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Johnson, S.L. (2006). Looking deathworthy: Perceived stereotypicality of black defendants predicts capital sentencing outcomes, Psychological Science, 17 (5), 383-388. Download PDF.

Eberhardt, J.L., Goff, P.A., Purdie, V.J., & Davies, P.G. (2004). Seeing Black: Race, Crime, and Visual Processing, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 87 (6), 876–893. Download PDF.

Mendoza-Denton, R., Downey, G., Purdie, V., & Davis, A. (2002). Sensitivity to status-based rejection: Implications for African-American students' college experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 896-918. Download PDF.

Purdie, V., & Downey, G. (2000). Rejection sensitivity and adolescent girls’ vulnerability to relationship-centered difficulties. Child Maltreatment: Journal of American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, 5(4), 338-349.

Downey, G., Purdie, V., & Schaffer-Neitz, R. (1999). Anger transmission from mother to child in mothers with a chronic pain condition and well mothers. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61(1), 62-73. Download PDF.