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Jamie Barden

Jamie Barden

My research focuses on the diverse processes underlying evaluative judgments, ranging from the least thoughtful automatic processes to the most thoughtful meta-cognitive processes.

A second line of work focuses on processes and biases that result from placing the self and others into social categories. Much of my research integrates these two interests.

Current projects in the lab include investigating the impact of activating negative stereotypes after a poor academic performance, meta-cognitive processes in attitude accessibility and attitude certainty, and ingroup bias in judging the hypocrisy of others.

I have received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Psychological Foundation. I have published in journals including JPSP, JESP, and PSPB.

For a decade, I have served as CO-PI for the Statistics and Evaluation Institute, which provides free graduate research methods and statistics training for Howard University graduate students, with support from ETS. I am a former Associate Editor at BASP and have been twice elected to local political office as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner.

Primary Interests:

  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Health Psychology
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Person Perception
  • Persuasion, Social Influence
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
  • Social Cognition

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Journal Articles:

  • Barden, J., Maddux, W. W., Petty, R. E., & Brewer, M. B. (2004). Contextual moderation of racial bias: The impact of social roles on controlled and automatically activated attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 5-22.
  • Barden, J., & Petty, R. E. (2008). The mere perception of elaboration creates attitude certainty: Exploring the thoughtfulness heuristic. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 489-509.
  • Barden, J., Rucker, D. D., & Petty, R. E. (2005). "Saying one thing and doing another": Examining the impact of event order on hypocrisy judgments of others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1463-1474.
  • Barden, J., Rucker, D. D., Petty, R. E., & Rios, K. (2014). Order of actions mitigates hypocrisy judgments for ingroup more than outgroup members. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 17, 590-601.
  • Barden, J., & Tormala, Z. L. (2013). Elaboration and Attitude Strength: The New Meta-cognitive Perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
  • Clark, J. K., Thiem, K. C., Barden, J., O’Rourke, J. L., & Evans, A. T. (2015). Stereotype validation: The effects of activating negative stereotypes after intellectual performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 531-552.
  • Gwinn, J., Barden, J., Judd, C. M. (2015). Face recognition in the presence of angry expressions: A target-race effect rather than a cross-race effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 1-10.
  • Maddux, W. W., Barden, J., Brewer, M. B., & Petty, R. E. (2005). Saying no to negativity: The effects of context and motivation to control prejudice on automatic evaluative responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 19-35.

Courses Taught:

  • Attitudes and Persuasion Seminar (Graduate)
  • Attitudes and Social Cognition (Graduate)
  • Experimental Psychology (Undergraduate, with lab)
  • General Social Psychology (Undergraduate)
  • Group Dynamics (Graduate)
  • Intergroup Dynamics and Race Relations (Graduate)
  • Research Methods and Statistics I (Undergraduate, with lab)

Jamie Barden
Department of Psychology, Howard University
Room N-179, CB Powell Building
525 Bryant Street, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20059
United States of America

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