Matthew Weeks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4084179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Weeks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Weeks |
| SIGNATURE | WEEKS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8326-2449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications
We report three studies investigating race‐based shifts in interpersonal judgments of SES, investigating potential racism‐related correlates and implications for social judgments. Study 1 examined differences in these race‐based shifts based on respondent race and SES, as well as social dominance orientation, while Study 2 investigated differences based on explicit racial prejudice and motivations to control prejudiced responses. While replicatin…
Intersectional implicit bias: Evidence for asymmetrically compounding bias and the predominance of target gender
Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets. Across five studies ( N = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age. Overall, the largest and most consistent evaluative bias was pro-women/anti-men bias, followed by smaller but nonetheless consistent pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class biases. By contrast, we observed less consistent effects of …
Shifting perceptions of social class: Race-based shifts in class-related occupations
Based on social expectations associating White and Black racial categories with higher and lower ends of the social hierarchy, respectively, the criteria used in interpersonal judgments of social class categorizations should differ between White and Black targets, with Black targets needing objectively lower criteria than White targets to achieve a particular subjective level of social class. In an analysis of the occupations assigned to Working-…
Approaches to Representing Social Hierarchy Level and Social Constructs: Methodological Exploration and Recommendations
Recent social psychological investigations on the social hierarchy have largely occurred without clear delineations in the language used to reference the different strata in the hierarchy (e.g., upper‐class vs. rich vs. high socioeconomic status [SES]). Both within and between research reports, labels can be used inconsistently. We report four studies comparing social hierarchy category labels (SHCLs) on empirically relevant dimensions. Study 1 e…
Revisiting cognitive complexity of religious topics: Multiple complexity, religious fundamentalism, and a quest orientation
Socioeconomic status is not judged equally: Target race shifts standards in interpersonal judgments of SES
Across three studies, respondents made SES judgments of targets varying in Race (White or Black) and SES (Low or High), including global subjective SES , financial success, and educational attainment. As Whites and Blacks are stereotypically associated with upper and lower SES , respectively, the Shifting Standards Model ( SSM ) of stereotype judgments predicted the pattern of interpersonal objective and subjective judgments. In Study 1, in a bet…
Generational perceptions at work: In-Group Favoritism and Out-Group Stereotypes
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between stereotypes, in-group favoritism, and in-group bolstering effects across generations. Design/methodology/approach Based on the trends found in a qualitative study on generational stereotypes, questions on work ethic, work-life balance, and use of technology were administered to 255 participants identified as Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers. Hypotheses predicted t…
The Implicit Associations Between Religious and Nonreligious Supernatural Constructs
The present studies furthered understanding of the implicit relationships between traditional religious (RS) and nonreligious supernatural (NRS) concepts. Moving beyond the study of explicit beliefs, we accounted for the distinctions within NRS concepts, applying recent developments in the understanding of the correspondence in beliefs in these phenomena
The Implicit Relationship Between Religious and Paranormal Constructs
Several decades worth of research have produced mixed results concerning the relationship between beliefs in religious and paranormal phenomena. While this previous work focused on the explicit measurement of these beliefs, these studies focused on a new level of analysis. Specifically, what is the implicit relationship between religious and paranormal constructs? In Study 1, participants completed a version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT)…
Using Religious Affiliation to Spontaneously Categorize Others
The informativeness of a social category strongly influences the degree to which a target will be categorized along that dimension; given the social significance of religion, categorizing on the basis of religious affiliation seems likely. We used a statement recognition paradigm across 3 studies to assess this hypothesis. In Study 1, participants categorized targets along a religious dimension but not a visually salient alternative dimension. In…
Changing Marriage Role Expectations: 1961–1996
Religious Attributions and Proximity of Influence: An Investigation of Direct Interventions and Distal Explanations
Investigations into religious attributions have focused on attributer's immediate, proximal causes of events, paying little attention to underlying, distal explanations. In an effort to explain the relatively low incidence of religious attributions and further a new model of proximal-distal attributions, we present two experiments investigating the proximal and distal use of religious and nonreligious supernatural attributions. Participants in bo…
A longitudinal study of the marriage role expectations of college women: 1961?1984
A comparison of the marriage-role expectations of college women enrolled in a functional marriage course in 1961, 1972, and 1978
A methodological caution on the use of the term ?parent(s)? in family research
Marriage role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Vocational role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Changing Marriage Role Expectations: 1961–1996
Generational perceptions at work: In-Group Favoritism and Out-Group Stereotypes
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between stereotypes, in-group favoritism, and in-group bolstering effects across generations. Design/methodology/approach Based on the trends found in a qualitative study on generational stereotypes, questions on work ethic, work-life balance, and use of technology were administered to 255 participants identified as Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers. Hypotheses predicted t…
A comparison of the marriage-role expectations of college women enrolled in a functional marriage course in 1961, 1972, and 1978
Intersectional implicit bias: Evidence for asymmetrically compounding bias and the predominance of target gender
Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets. Across five studies ( N = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age. Overall, the largest and most consistent evaluative bias was pro-women/anti-men bias, followed by smaller but nonetheless consistent pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class biases. By contrast, we observed less consistent effects of …
Religious Attributions and Proximity of Influence: An Investigation of Direct Interventions and Distal Explanations
Investigations into religious attributions have focused on attributer's immediate, proximal causes of events, paying little attention to underlying, distal explanations. In an effort to explain the relatively low incidence of religious attributions and further a new model of proximal-distal attributions, we present two experiments investigating the proximal and distal use of religious and nonreligious supernatural attributions. Participants in bo…
A longitudinal study of the marriage role expectations of college women: 1961?1984
The Implicit Relationship Between Religious and Paranormal Constructs
Several decades worth of research have produced mixed results concerning the relationship between beliefs in religious and paranormal phenomena. While this previous work focused on the explicit measurement of these beliefs, these studies focused on a new level of analysis. Specifically, what is the implicit relationship between religious and paranormal constructs? In Study 1, participants completed a version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT)…
Using Religious Affiliation to Spontaneously Categorize Others
The informativeness of a social category strongly influences the degree to which a target will be categorized along that dimension; given the social significance of religion, categorizing on the basis of religious affiliation seems likely. We used a statement recognition paradigm across 3 studies to assess this hypothesis. In Study 1, participants categorized targets along a religious dimension but not a visually salient alternative dimension. In…
Marriage role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications
We report three studies investigating race‐based shifts in interpersonal judgments of SES, investigating potential racism‐related correlates and implications for social judgments. Study 1 examined differences in these race‐based shifts based on respondent race and SES, as well as social dominance orientation, while Study 2 investigated differences based on explicit racial prejudice and motivations to control prejudiced responses. While replicatin…
Socioeconomic status is not judged equally: Target race shifts standards in interpersonal judgments of SES
Across three studies, respondents made SES judgments of targets varying in Race (White or Black) and SES (Low or High), including global subjective SES , financial success, and educational attainment. As Whites and Blacks are stereotypically associated with upper and lower SES , respectively, the Shifting Standards Model ( SSM ) of stereotype judgments predicted the pattern of interpersonal objective and subjective judgments. In Study 1, in a bet…
The Implicit Associations Between Religious and Nonreligious Supernatural Constructs
The present studies furthered understanding of the implicit relationships between traditional religious (RS) and nonreligious supernatural (NRS) concepts. Moving beyond the study of explicit beliefs, we accounted for the distinctions within NRS concepts, applying recent developments in the understanding of the correspondence in beliefs in these phenomena
Vocational role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Marriage role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
A comparison of the marriage-role expectations of college women enrolled in a functional marriage course in 1961, 1972, and 1978
A methodological caution on the use of the term ?parent(s)? in family research
A longitudinal study of the marriage role expectations of college women: 1961?1984
Changing Marriage Role Expectations: 1961–1996
Religious Attributions and Proximity of Influence: An Investigation of Direct Interventions and Distal Explanations
Investigations into religious attributions have focused on attributer's immediate, proximal causes of events, paying little attention to underlying, distal explanations. In an effort to explain the relatively low incidence of religious attributions and further a new model of proximal-distal attributions, we present two experiments investigating the proximal and distal use of religious and nonreligious supernatural attributions. Participants in bo…
Using Religious Affiliation to Spontaneously Categorize Others
The informativeness of a social category strongly influences the degree to which a target will be categorized along that dimension; given the social significance of religion, categorizing on the basis of religious affiliation seems likely. We used a statement recognition paradigm across 3 studies to assess this hypothesis. In Study 1, participants categorized targets along a religious dimension but not a visually salient alternative dimension. In…
The Implicit Relationship Between Religious and Paranormal Constructs
Several decades worth of research have produced mixed results concerning the relationship between beliefs in religious and paranormal phenomena. While this previous work focused on the explicit measurement of these beliefs, these studies focused on a new level of analysis. Specifically, what is the implicit relationship between religious and paranormal constructs? In Study 1, participants completed a version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT)…
The Implicit Associations Between Religious and Nonreligious Supernatural Constructs
The present studies furthered understanding of the implicit relationships between traditional religious (RS) and nonreligious supernatural (NRS) concepts. Moving beyond the study of explicit beliefs, we accounted for the distinctions within NRS concepts, applying recent developments in the understanding of the correspondence in beliefs in these phenomena
Generational perceptions at work: In-Group Favoritism and Out-Group Stereotypes
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between stereotypes, in-group favoritism, and in-group bolstering effects across generations. Design/methodology/approach Based on the trends found in a qualitative study on generational stereotypes, questions on work ethic, work-life balance, and use of technology were administered to 255 participants identified as Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers. Hypotheses predicted t…
Revisiting cognitive complexity of religious topics: Multiple complexity, religious fundamentalism, and a quest orientation
Socioeconomic status is not judged equally: Target race shifts standards in interpersonal judgments of SES
Across three studies, respondents made SES judgments of targets varying in Race (White or Black) and SES (Low or High), including global subjective SES , financial success, and educational attainment. As Whites and Blacks are stereotypically associated with upper and lower SES , respectively, the Shifting Standards Model ( SSM ) of stereotype judgments predicted the pattern of interpersonal objective and subjective judgments. In Study 1, in a bet…
Approaches to Representing Social Hierarchy Level and Social Constructs: Methodological Exploration and Recommendations
Recent social psychological investigations on the social hierarchy have largely occurred without clear delineations in the language used to reference the different strata in the hierarchy (e.g., upper‐class vs. rich vs. high socioeconomic status [SES]). Both within and between research reports, labels can be used inconsistently. We report four studies comparing social hierarchy category labels (SHCLs) on empirically relevant dimensions. Study 1 e…
Shifting perceptions of social class: Race-based shifts in class-related occupations
Based on social expectations associating White and Black racial categories with higher and lower ends of the social hierarchy, respectively, the criteria used in interpersonal judgments of social class categorizations should differ between White and Black targets, with Black targets needing objectively lower criteria than White targets to achieve a particular subjective level of social class. In an analysis of the occupations assigned to Working-…
Intersectional implicit bias: Evidence for asymmetrically compounding bias and the predominance of target gender
Little is known about implicit evaluations of complex, multiply categorizable social targets. Across five studies ( N = 5,204), we investigated implicit evaluations of targets varying in race, gender, social class, and age. Overall, the largest and most consistent evaluative bias was pro-women/anti-men bias, followed by smaller but nonetheless consistent pro-upper-class/anti-lower-class biases. By contrast, we observed less consistent effects of …
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications
We report three studies investigating race‐based shifts in interpersonal judgments of SES, investigating potential racism‐related correlates and implications for social judgments. Study 1 examined differences in these race‐based shifts based on respondent race and SES, as well as social dominance orientation, while Study 2 investigated differences based on explicit racial prejudice and motivations to control prejudiced responses. While replicatin…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 works)