James Sidanius

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 Political Psychology Prejudice/Stereotyping Laboratory Home Page Psychology of Power Laboratory   James Sidanius Department of Psychology Harvard University William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 U.S.A. Home Page Work: (617) 495-3804 Home: (617) 945-5662 Mobile: (310) 880-9523 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: Jost, J. T., & Sidanius, J. (2004). Political Psychology: Key Readings. Ann Arbor, MI: Psychology Press. Sears, D. O., Sidanius, J., & Bobo, L. (2000). Racialized Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago press. Sidanius, J., Levin, S., van Laar, C., & Sears, D. O. (2008). “The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus.” New York: The Russell Sage Foundation. 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. Ho, A., Thomsen, L., & Sidanius, J. (2009). Perceived Academic Competence and Overall Job Evaluations: The Case of African and European American students' evaluations of African and European American professors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39,389-400. Navarrete, C.D., Olsson, A., Ho, A.K., Mendes, W.B., Thomsen, L., Sidanius, J. (in press). Fear extinction to an outgroup face: The role of target gender. Psychological Science. Pratto, F., Sidanius, J., & Levin, S, (2006). Social Dominance Theory and the Dynamics of Intergroup Relations: Taking Stock and Looking Forward. European Review of Social Psychology, 17, 271-320. 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., 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., Green. E.G.T., & Sidanius, J. (2008). We will hunt them down: How social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism fuel ethnic persecution of immigrants in fundamentally different ways. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1455-1464. 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.

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