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Institution
Harvard University
Current Position
Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Political Psychology from University of Stockholm, 1977
Research Interests
 | Culture/Ethnicity |
| Gender |
| Intergroup Relations |
| Interpersonal Processes |
| Political Psychology |
| Prejudice/Stereotyping |
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James Sidanius
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (617) 495-3804
Jim Sidanius received his Ph. D. at the University of Stockholm, Sweden in 1977. Before joining the faculty at Harvard in 2006, he taught at several universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Stockholm, Carnegie‑Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, Princeton University, UCLA and Harvard University.
Professor Sidanius has primary research interests in the interface between political ideology and cognitive functioning, the connection between ethnic and national identities within the context of multiethnic states, the political psychology of gender, prejudice and institutional discrimination, and the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice and conflict. Most of his recent work has concerned some of the implications of social dominance theory, a general model concerning the development and maintenance of group-based social hierarchy and social oppression.
 Books:
 Sidanius, J., & Pratto, F. (1999). Social dominance: An intergroup theory of social hierarchy and oppression. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Federico, C. M., & Sidanius, J. (2002). Racism, ideology, and affirmative action, revisited: The antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 82, 488-502.
- Federico, C. M., & Sidanius, J. (2002). Sophistication and the antecedents of Whites’ racial-policy attitudes: Racism, ideology, and affirmative action in America. Public Opinion Quarterly, 66, 145-176.
- Haley, H., & Sidanius, J. (2006). The positive and negative framing of affirmative action: A group dominance perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32 656-668.
- Haley, H., & Sidanius, J. (2005). Person-organization congruence and the maintenance of group-based social hierarchy: A social dominance perspective. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 8, 187-203.
- Levin, S., Henry, P. J., Pratto, F., & Sidanius, J. (2003). Social dominance and social identity in Lebanon: Implications for support of violence against the West. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 6, 353-368.
- Levin, S., Van Laar, C., & Sidanius, J. (2003). The effects of ingroup and outgroup friendships on ethnic attitudes in college: A longitudinal study. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 6, 76-92.
- Sidanius, J., Haley, H., Molina, L., & Pratto, F. (2007). Vladimir’s choice and the distribution of social resources: A group dominance perspective. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10, 259-268.
- Sidanius, J., Henry, P. J., Pratto, F., & Levin, S. (2004). Arab attributions for the attack on America: The case of Lebanese sub-elites. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 403-416.
- Sidanius, J., Mitchell, M., Haley, H., & Navarrete, C. D. (2006). Support for harsh criminal sanctions and criminal justice beliefs: A social dominance perspective. Social Justice Research, 19, 433-449.
- Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., van Laar, C., & Levin, S. (2004). Social dominance theory: Its agenda and method. Political Psychology, 25, 845-880.
- Sidanius, J., Van Laar, C., Levin, S., & Sinclair, S. (2004). Ethnic enclaves and the dynamics of social identity on the college campus: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 96-110.
- Thomsen, L., Sidanius, J., & Fiske, A. (2007). Interpersonal leveling, Independence, and Self-enhancement: A comparison between Denmark and the US, and a relational practice framework for cultural psychology. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 445-469.
- Van Laar, C., Levin, S., Sinclair, S., & Sidanius, J. (2005). The effect of university roommate contact on ethnic attitudes and behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 329-345.
Other Publications:
- Sidanius, J., & Kurzban, R. (2003). Evolutionary approaches to political psychology. In D. O. Sears, L. Huddy, and R. Jervis (Eds.), Handbook of Political Psychology (pp. 146-181). New York: Oxford University Press.
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