Todd L Pittinsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 2281150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd L Pittinsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd L |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittinsky |
| SIGNATURE | PITTINSKY T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9115-3090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Backtalk
Retouching of school photos is going beyond simply removing glare from students’ glasses to include teeth whitening, removing freckles, and other adjustments to students’ appearance. Todd Pittinsky argues that schools should not include these kinds of services as part of their photography options because they send a message to students that their actual appearance is not acceptable
The Caregiving Ambition
Caregiving is essential for both maintaining cultures and building human capital. Yet unfortunately caregiving (paid, unpaid) is seriously and systemically undervalued. The undervaluation of caregiving leads naturally to the undervaluation of caregiving ambition, the strong desire of many women and men to not just care for others out of duty or obligation but with passion and ambition. The more society tries to categorize—and limit—caregiving as …
Backtalk
When hate-fueled acts of vandalism or violence happen, school leaders’ impulse is often to sweep them away as quickly as possible. Todd Pittinsky encourages them to use these incidents as opportunities to educate. Students and community members may not be aware of the antisemitism and other forms of hate within their own communities and going public can serve as a wake-up call. Creating educational events in response can give students a sense of …
Taking Care With Caregiving Robots
“AI is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity”—Stephen Hawking [1]
Caregiving Ambition
Leaders Who Lust
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked: 1. Power: the ceaseless craving to control. 2. Money: the limitless desire to accrue great wealth. 3. Sex: the constant hunt for sexual gratifica…
Backtalk
Students who come from wealthy families and schools often have an advantage when it comes to science fairs. Parents with the time and resources to do so often get involved in every stage of the science fair project, enabling their students to create projects that are far beyond what they could achieve on their own. Todd L. Pittinsky suggests adding constraints by requiring students to develop projects based on a small list of items. Such constrai…
Backtalk
As school buildings have reopened during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers have been understandably anxious about their own health, and that of their students. But should students know how worried their teachers are? Todd Pittinsky suggests that teachers avoid shielding students from knowledge of the risks of exposure while also being thoughtful in their teaching approaches and managing their own anxiety to serve as role models. He also encourages …
A multidimensional model of collective narcissism
The impact of collective narcissism on intergroup and intragroup relations has seen a recent surge in attention. Since collective narcissism is a relatively new topic of study, with only a single published measure, its structure and composition require further investigation. A pilot study investigated a multidimensional model of collective narcissism and identified four factors: entitlement/exploitativeness, dominance/arrogance, apathy, and admir…
Algorithms and Ethical Diversity
Discusses approaches to developing a more holistic view of technology and society
Empathic Joy in Positive Intergroup Relations
Research on empathy focuses almost exclusively on its negative variety, empathic sorrow, either by defining empathy as a state involving negative emotions or by confining its empirical study to the negative. In contrast, we investigate empathy's positive variety, empathic joy. We do so in the context of intergroup relations. A total of 1,216 predominantly White teachers participated in a yearlong investigation of whether their attitudes toward, a…
The Psychological Study of Positive Behavior Across Group Boundaries
Negative intergroup processes such as prejudice and conflict have been a traditional focus of social psychological research, while work that explicitly focuses on the determinants of positive intergroup processes is still in its infancy. Reflecting these relatively recent developments in the social and behavioral sciences, this volume's contributions represent current directions in psychological theorizing and research on positive and proactive b…
Global bystander nonintervention
Commentary and Rejoinder on and
Individual variability in adherence to the norm of group interest predicts outgroup bias
The norm of group interest dictates that group members should consider the interests of their group. We propose that individual variability in adherence to this norm accounts for intergroup attitudes and behavior. Study 1 developed a measure for the norm of group interest, and found that adherence to the norm predicted evaluations of the outgroup independent of group identification and collective self-esteem. Studies 2 and 3 demonstrated that the…
Liking is not the opposite of disliking
Two studies tested the hypotheses that positive and negative attitudes toward minority groups are not interchangeable in predicting positive versus negative behaviors toward those groups. In Study 1, positive attitudes about Latinos were a better predictor of a positive behavior toward Latinos than were negative attitudes or stereotyped positive attitudes. In Study 2, positive attitudes about African Americans were a better predictor of positive …
A two-dimensional model of intergroup leadership
The model presented argues that leadership involves bringing together not only diverse individuals but also the subgroups to which they belong. The model further argues that this does not require replacing people's subgroup identities with a superordinate group identity (turning "us" and "them" into "we"); bringing together diverse individuals and their subgroups can be accomplished by promoting positive relations among subgroups, even as their d…
Is Valuing Equality Enough? Equality Values, Allophilia, and Social Policy Support for Multiracial Individuals
We conducted a field study to investigate positive intergroup attitudes (i.e., allophilia) and equality values as potential antecedents of social policy support for multiracial individuals. Participants (N = 97) reported their social policy support for multiracial individuals in two ways—support for the recognition of “multiracial” as a distinct racial category (recognition) and support for multiracial individuals' access to programs and policies…
Negative Outgroup Leader Actions Increase Liking for Ingroup Leaders
We conducted two studies to examine how information about outgroup leaders' negative actions affect ingroup leader favorability ratings. Study 1 found that people hold more favorable attitudes toward ingroup leaders (i.e. their own nation's leaders) when learning of negative actions of outgroup leaders (i.e. another nation's leaders). Study 2 replicated the finding, examining social identity strength as a moderator of this effect, and found that …
Domain-specific effects of stereotypes on performance
We report the results of an experiment mirroring an earlier study that found that Asian American women performed better on a math test when their Asian identity was salient and worse when their female identity was salient (Ambady, Shih, Kim, & Pittinsky, 2001 Ambady, N., Shih, M., Kim, A., and Pittinsky, T. L., 2001. Stereotype susceptibility in children: Effects of identity activation on quantitative performance, Psychological Science 12 (5) (20…
Knowledge Nomads
The authors propose a new Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) perspective on the relationship between organizational commitment and worker mobility. Theories have long presumed that worker mobility and worker commitment are inversely related. Increased mobility, in dominant models of organizational commitment, comes at the expense of commitment to organization and, therefore, at the expense of the positive outcomes of commitment. We examine…
Stereotype Susceptibility in Children
A growing body of research indicates that the activation of negative stereotypes can impede cognitive performance in adults, whereas positive stereotypes can facilitate cognitive performance. In two studies, we examined the effects of positive and negative stereotypes on the cognitive performance of children in three age groups: lower elementary school, upper elementary school, and middle school. Very young children in the lower elementary grades…
Will a Category Cue Affect You? Category Cues, Positive Stereotypes and Reviewer Recall for Applicants
Stereotype Susceptibility
Recent studies have documented that performance in a domain is hindered when individuals feel that a sociocultural group to which they belong is negatively stereotyped in that domain. We report that implicit activation of a social identity can facilitate as well as impede performance on a quantitative task. When a particular social identity was made salient at an implicit level, performance was altered in the direction predicted by the stereotype…
Identity Adaptiveness
Most empirical work that examines the effects of stereotypes on targets considers only one of a target's many social identities. This study examined how individuals implicitly affectively orient themselves toward their social identities in situations in which one or another of these identities is relatively adaptive. An adaptive identity is one associated with stereotypes that predict desirable performance in a given context. One hundred and twen…
Liking is not the opposite of disliking
Two studies tested the hypotheses that positive and negative attitudes toward minority groups are not interchangeable in predicting positive versus negative behaviors toward those groups. In Study 1, positive attitudes about Latinos were a better predictor of a positive behavior toward Latinos than were negative attitudes or stereotyped positive attitudes. In Study 2, positive attitudes about African Americans were a better predictor of positive …
A two-dimensional model of intergroup leadership
The model presented argues that leadership involves bringing together not only diverse individuals but also the subgroups to which they belong. The model further argues that this does not require replacing people's subgroup identities with a superordinate group identity (turning "us" and "them" into "we"); bringing together diverse individuals and their subgroups can be accomplished by promoting positive relations among subgroups, even as their d…
Is Valuing Equality Enough? Equality Values, Allophilia, and Social Policy Support for Multiracial Individuals
We conducted a field study to investigate positive intergroup attitudes (i.e., allophilia) and equality values as potential antecedents of social policy support for multiracial individuals. Participants (N = 97) reported their social policy support for multiracial individuals in two ways—support for the recognition of “multiracial” as a distinct racial category (recognition) and support for multiracial individuals' access to programs and policies…
Empathic Joy in Positive Intergroup Relations
Research on empathy focuses almost exclusively on its negative variety, empathic sorrow, either by defining empathy as a state involving negative emotions or by confining its empirical study to the negative. In contrast, we investigate empathy's positive variety, empathic joy. We do so in the context of intergroup relations. A total of 1,216 predominantly White teachers participated in a yearlong investigation of whether their attitudes toward, a…
Identity Adaptiveness
Most empirical work that examines the effects of stereotypes on targets considers only one of a target's many social identities. This study examined how individuals implicitly affectively orient themselves toward their social identities in situations in which one or another of these identities is relatively adaptive. An adaptive identity is one associated with stereotypes that predict desirable performance in a given context. One hundred and twen…
Knowledge Nomads
The authors propose a new Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) perspective on the relationship between organizational commitment and worker mobility. Theories have long presumed that worker mobility and worker commitment are inversely related. Increased mobility, in dominant models of organizational commitment, comes at the expense of commitment to organization and, therefore, at the expense of the positive outcomes of commitment. We examine…
The Psychological Study of Positive Behavior Across Group Boundaries
Negative intergroup processes such as prejudice and conflict have been a traditional focus of social psychological research, while work that explicitly focuses on the determinants of positive intergroup processes is still in its infancy. Reflecting these relatively recent developments in the social and behavioral sciences, this volume's contributions represent current directions in psychological theorizing and research on positive and proactive b…
Will a Category Cue Affect You? Category Cues, Positive Stereotypes and Reviewer Recall for Applicants
Commentary and Rejoinder on and
Individual variability in adherence to the norm of group interest predicts outgroup bias
The norm of group interest dictates that group members should consider the interests of their group. We propose that individual variability in adherence to this norm accounts for intergroup attitudes and behavior. Study 1 developed a measure for the norm of group interest, and found that adherence to the norm predicted evaluations of the outgroup independent of group identification and collective self-esteem. Studies 2 and 3 demonstrated that the…
Global bystander nonintervention
Negative Outgroup Leader Actions Increase Liking for Ingroup Leaders
We conducted two studies to examine how information about outgroup leaders' negative actions affect ingroup leader favorability ratings. Study 1 found that people hold more favorable attitudes toward ingroup leaders (i.e. their own nation's leaders) when learning of negative actions of outgroup leaders (i.e. another nation's leaders). Study 2 replicated the finding, examining social identity strength as a moderator of this effect, and found that …
Stereotype Susceptibility
Recent studies have documented that performance in a domain is hindered when individuals feel that a sociocultural group to which they belong is negatively stereotyped in that domain. We report that implicit activation of a social identity can facilitate as well as impede performance on a quantitative task. When a particular social identity was made salient at an implicit level, performance was altered in the direction predicted by the stereotype…
Identity Adaptiveness
Most empirical work that examines the effects of stereotypes on targets considers only one of a target's many social identities. This study examined how individuals implicitly affectively orient themselves toward their social identities in situations in which one or another of these identities is relatively adaptive. An adaptive identity is one associated with stereotypes that predict desirable performance in a given context. One hundred and twen…
Will a Category Cue Affect You? Category Cues, Positive Stereotypes and Reviewer Recall for Applicants
Stereotype Susceptibility in Children
A growing body of research indicates that the activation of negative stereotypes can impede cognitive performance in adults, whereas positive stereotypes can facilitate cognitive performance. In two studies, we examined the effects of positive and negative stereotypes on the cognitive performance of children in three age groups: lower elementary school, upper elementary school, and middle school. Very young children in the lower elementary grades…
Knowledge Nomads
The authors propose a new Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) perspective on the relationship between organizational commitment and worker mobility. Theories have long presumed that worker mobility and worker commitment are inversely related. Increased mobility, in dominant models of organizational commitment, comes at the expense of commitment to organization and, therefore, at the expense of the positive outcomes of commitment. We examine…
Domain-specific effects of stereotypes on performance
We report the results of an experiment mirroring an earlier study that found that Asian American women performed better on a math test when their Asian identity was salient and worse when their female identity was salient (Ambady, Shih, Kim, & Pittinsky, 2001 Ambady, N., Shih, M., Kim, A., and Pittinsky, T. L., 2001. Stereotype susceptibility in children: Effects of identity activation on quantitative performance, Psychological Science 12 (5) (20…
Negative Outgroup Leader Actions Increase Liking for Ingroup Leaders
We conducted two studies to examine how information about outgroup leaders' negative actions affect ingroup leader favorability ratings. Study 1 found that people hold more favorable attitudes toward ingroup leaders (i.e. their own nation's leaders) when learning of negative actions of outgroup leaders (i.e. another nation's leaders). Study 2 replicated the finding, examining social identity strength as a moderator of this effect, and found that …
Is Valuing Equality Enough? Equality Values, Allophilia, and Social Policy Support for Multiracial Individuals
We conducted a field study to investigate positive intergroup attitudes (i.e., allophilia) and equality values as potential antecedents of social policy support for multiracial individuals. Participants (N = 97) reported their social policy support for multiracial individuals in two ways—support for the recognition of “multiracial” as a distinct racial category (recognition) and support for multiracial individuals' access to programs and policies…
A two-dimensional model of intergroup leadership
The model presented argues that leadership involves bringing together not only diverse individuals but also the subgroups to which they belong. The model further argues that this does not require replacing people's subgroup identities with a superordinate group identity (turning "us" and "them" into "we"); bringing together diverse individuals and their subgroups can be accomplished by promoting positive relations among subgroups, even as their d…
Liking is not the opposite of disliking
Two studies tested the hypotheses that positive and negative attitudes toward minority groups are not interchangeable in predicting positive versus negative behaviors toward those groups. In Study 1, positive attitudes about Latinos were a better predictor of a positive behavior toward Latinos than were negative attitudes or stereotyped positive attitudes. In Study 2, positive attitudes about African Americans were a better predictor of positive …
Individual variability in adherence to the norm of group interest predicts outgroup bias
The norm of group interest dictates that group members should consider the interests of their group. We propose that individual variability in adherence to this norm accounts for intergroup attitudes and behavior. Study 1 developed a measure for the norm of group interest, and found that adherence to the norm predicted evaluations of the outgroup independent of group identification and collective self-esteem. Studies 2 and 3 demonstrated that the…
Commentary and Rejoinder on and
Global bystander nonintervention
Empathic Joy in Positive Intergroup Relations
Research on empathy focuses almost exclusively on its negative variety, empathic sorrow, either by defining empathy as a state involving negative emotions or by confining its empirical study to the negative. In contrast, we investigate empathy's positive variety, empathic joy. We do so in the context of intergroup relations. A total of 1,216 predominantly White teachers participated in a yearlong investigation of whether their attitudes toward, a…
The Psychological Study of Positive Behavior Across Group Boundaries
Negative intergroup processes such as prejudice and conflict have been a traditional focus of social psychological research, while work that explicitly focuses on the determinants of positive intergroup processes is still in its infancy. Reflecting these relatively recent developments in the social and behavioral sciences, this volume's contributions represent current directions in psychological theorizing and research on positive and proactive b…
Leaders Who Lust
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked: 1. Power: the ceaseless craving to control. 2. Money: the limitless desire to accrue great wealth. 3. Sex: the constant hunt for sexual gratifica…
Backtalk
Students who come from wealthy families and schools often have an advantage when it comes to science fairs. Parents with the time and resources to do so often get involved in every stage of the science fair project, enabling their students to create projects that are far beyond what they could achieve on their own. Todd L. Pittinsky suggests adding constraints by requiring students to develop projects based on a small list of items. Such constrai…
Backtalk
As school buildings have reopened during the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers have been understandably anxious about their own health, and that of their students. But should students know how worried their teachers are? Todd Pittinsky suggests that teachers avoid shielding students from knowledge of the risks of exposure while also being thoughtful in their teaching approaches and managing their own anxiety to serve as role models. He also encourages …
A multidimensional model of collective narcissism
The impact of collective narcissism on intergroup and intragroup relations has seen a recent surge in attention. Since collective narcissism is a relatively new topic of study, with only a single published measure, its structure and composition require further investigation. A pilot study investigated a multidimensional model of collective narcissism and identified four factors: entitlement/exploitativeness, dominance/arrogance, apathy, and admir…
Algorithms and Ethical Diversity
Discusses approaches to developing a more holistic view of technology and society
The Caregiving Ambition
Caregiving is essential for both maintaining cultures and building human capital. Yet unfortunately caregiving (paid, unpaid) is seriously and systemically undervalued. The undervaluation of caregiving leads naturally to the undervaluation of caregiving ambition, the strong desire of many women and men to not just care for others out of duty or obligation but with passion and ambition. The more society tries to categorize—and limit—caregiving as …
Backtalk
When hate-fueled acts of vandalism or violence happen, school leaders’ impulse is often to sweep them away as quickly as possible. Todd Pittinsky encourages them to use these incidents as opportunities to educate. Students and community members may not be aware of the antisemitism and other forms of hate within their own communities and going public can serve as a wake-up call. Creating educational events in response can give students a sense of …
Taking Care With Caregiving Robots
“AI is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity”—Stephen Hawking [1]
Caregiving Ambition
Backtalk
Retouching of school photos is going beyond simply removing glare from students’ glasses to include teeth whitening, removing freckles, and other adjustments to students’ appearance. Todd Pittinsky argues that schools should not include these kinds of services as part of their photography options because they send a message to students that their actual appearance is not acceptable
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social group (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Social identity theory (6 works)