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Research Overview
Dr. Dovidio’s research interests include stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and altruism and helping. He shared the 1985 and 1998 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for the best paper of the year on intergroup relations with Samuel L. Gaertner for their work on aversive racism and ways to reduce bias and the 2001 Prize with Kerry Kawakami for their research on reducing spontaneous stereotyping. He received SPSSI’s Kurt Lewin Award in 2004 for his career contributions to the study of prejudice and discrimination.
Dr. Dovidio’s recent research has explored the ways that subtle bias affects the nature of interracial interaction and how it shapes divergent perspectives for majority and minority group members, ultimately producing miscommunication and distrust. He has considered how these processes contribute to racial disparities in health, health care, and health-related behaviors. For example, unintentional bias can affect the diagnoses and recommendations by providers, interfere with communication between providers and patients, and undermine patient adherence to recommended procedures. Dr. Dovidio is collaborating on projects that examine the impact of racial attitudes on the effectiveness of HIV interventions and suggest interventions to reduce the adverse impact of aversive racism in health care settings.
Education
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1977 (social psychology)
M.A., University of Delaware, 1976 (social psychology)
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1973 (psychology)
Featured Publications
Demoulin, S., Leyens, J-P, & Dovidio, J. F. (Eds.) (in press). Intergroup misunderstandings: Impact of divergent social realities. New York: Psychology Press.
Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., & Lamoreaux, M. J. (in press). Leadership across group divides: The challenges and potential of a common group identity. In T. L. Pittinsky (Ed.), Crossing the divide: Intergroup leadership in a world of difference. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., Saguy, T., & Halabi, S. (in press). From when to why: Understanding how contact reduces bias. In U. Wagner, L. R. Tropp, G. Finchilescu, & C. Tredoux (Eds.), Improving intergroup relations: Building on the legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Pearson, A. R., West, T. V., Dovidio, J. F., Renfro, S. P., Buck, R., & Henning, R. (in press). The fragility of intergroup relations: Divergent effects of audio-visual feedback in intergroup and intragroup interaction. Psychological Science.
Dovidio. J. F., Gaertner, S. L., John, M. S., Halabi, S., Saguy, T., Pearson, A. R., & Riek, B. M. (2008). Majority and minority perspectives in intergroup relations: The role of contact, group representation, threat, and trust in intergroup conflict and reconciliation. In A. Nadler, T. Malloy, & J. D. Fisher (Eds.), Social psychology of intergroup reconciliation (pp. 227-253). New York: Oxford University Press.
Dovidio, J. F., Penner, L. A., Albrecht, T. L., Norton, W. E., Gaertner, S. L., & Shelton, J. N. (2008). Disparities and distrust: The implications of psychological processes for understanding racial disparities in health and health care. Social Science and Medicine, 67, 478-486.
Saguy, T., Dovidio, J. F., & Pratto, F. (2008).Beyond contact: Intergroup contact in the context of power relations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 432-445.
Burgess, D., van Ryn, M., Dovidio, J. F., & Saha, S. (2007). Reducing bias among healthcare providers: Lessons from social-cognitive psychology. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22, 882-887.
Dovidio, J. F., & Esses, V. M. (2007). Psychological research and public policy: Bridging the gap. Social Issues and Policy Review, 1, 5-14.
Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (2007). New directions in aversive racism research: Persistence and pervasiveness. In C. W. Esqueda (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Motivational aspects of prejudice and racism (pp. 43-67). New York: Springer.
Kawakami, K., Phills, C. E., Steele, J. R. & Dovidio, J. F. (2007). (Close) Distance makes the heart grow fonder: Improving implicit racial attitudes and interracial interactions through approach behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 957-971.
Dovidio, J. F., Hebl, M., Richeson, J., & Shelton, J. N. (2006). Nonverbal communication, race, and intergroup interaction. In V. Manusov & M. L. Patterson (Eds.), Handbook of nonverbal communication (pp. 481-500). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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., Glick, P. G., & Rudman, L. (Eds.) (2005). On the nature of prejudice: Fifty years after Allport. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Gaertner, S. L., & Dovidio, J. F. (2000). Reducing intergroup bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model. Philadelphia, PA: The Psychology Press.
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