Valerie Purdie‐Vaughns
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Purdie‐Vaughns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Purdie‐Vaughns |
| SIGNATURE | VAUGHNS V P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 809 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The implicit power motive in intergroup dialogues about the history of slavery
This research demonstrates that individual differences in the implicit power motive (i.e., the concern with impact, influence, and control) moderate how African Americans communicate with White Americans in challenging intergroup dialogues. In a study with African American participants we find that the higher their implicit power motive, the more they use an affiliation strategy to communicate with a White American partner in a conversation conte…
Feeling left out, but affirmed: Protecting against the negative effects of low belonging in college
Diversity within Women of Color: Why Experiences Change Felt Stigma
Stand-Your-Ground is losing ground for racial minorities' health
Breaking the cycle of mistrust: Wise interventions to provide critical feedback across the racial divide.
Three double-blind randomized field experiments examined the effects of a strategy to restore trust on minority adolescents' responses to critical feedback. In Studies 1 and 2, 7th-grade students received critical feedback from their teacher that, in the treatment condition, was designed to assuage mistrust by emphasizing the teacher's high standards and belief that the student was capable of meeting those standards--a strategy known as wise feed…
Racial and mental illness stereotypes and discrimination: An identity-based analysis of the Virginia Tech and Columbine shootings
The Virginia Tech and Columbine High shootings are 2 of the deadliest school massacres in the United States. The present study investigates in a nationally representative sample how White Americans' causal attributions of these shooting moderate their attitudes toward the shooter's race. White Americans shown a vignette based on the Virginia Tech shooting were more likely to espouse negative beliefs about Korean American men and distance themselv…
Demystifying Values-Affirmation Interventions: Writing About Social Belonging Is a Key to Buffering Against Identity Threat
Two experiments examined for the first time whether the specific content of participant-generated affirmation essays—in particular, writing about social belonging—facilitated an affirmation intervention’s ability to reduce identity threat among negatively stereotyped students. Study 1, a field experiment, revealed that seventh graders assigned to a values-affirmation condition wrote about social belonging more than those assigned to a control con…
Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: How self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat
To the extent that stereotype and identity threat undermine academic performance, social psychological interventions that lessen threat could buffer threatened students and improve performance. Two studies, each featuring a longitudinal field experiment in a mixed-ethnicity middle school, examined whether a values affirmation writing exercise could attenuate the achievement gap between Latino American and European American students. In Study 1, s…
Internalizing the closet: Concealment heightens the cognitive distinction between public and private selves
The present studies are the first in which social psychological methods were used to test the popular claim that the experience of concealing a stigmatized social identity leads to a "divided self." For people with concealable stigmas, concealment in public settings makes the public-private dimension of self-expression particularly salient, leading them to organize self-relevant information along this dimension. The result is a strengthened cogni…
Culture, threat, and mental illness stigma: Identifying culture-specific threat among Chinese-American groups
Chronic threat and contingent belonging: Protective benefits of values affirmation on identity development
Two longitudinal field experiments in a middle school examined how a brief "values affirmation" affects students' psychological experience and the relationship between psychological experience and environmental threat over 2 years. Together these studies suggest that values affirmations insulate individuals' sense of belonging from environmental threat during a key developmental transition. Study 1 provided an analysis of new data from a previous…
Is multiculturalism bad for African Americans? Redefining inclusion through the lens of identity safety
Heritage- and ideology-based national identities and their implications for immigrant citizen relations in the United States and in Germany
How to keep on keeping on: Framing civil rights accomplishments to bolster support for egalitarian policies
Recursive Processes in Self-Affirmation: Intervening to Close the Minority Achievement Gap
A 2-year follow-up of a randomized field experiment previously reported in Science is presented. A subtle intervention to lessen minority students' psychological threat related to being negatively stereotyped in school was tested in an experiment conducted three times with three independent cohorts ( N = 133, 149, and 134). The intervention, a series of brief but structured writing assignments focusing students on a self-affirming value, reduced …
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Framing Strategies for Bridging Racial Divisions
Barack Obama's election as the first Black president of the United States has stimulated much discussion about progress toward racial equality in the United States. Opinion surveys document that White Americans reliably perceive the rate of progress toward racial equality as greater than do Black Americans. We focus on two psychological factors that contribute to these diverging perceptions: (1) the tendency of White Americans and Black Americans…
Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions
This research demonstrates that people at risk of devaluation based on group membership are attuned to cues that signal social identity contingencies--judgments, stereotypes, opportunities, restrictions, and treatments that are tied to one's social identity in a given setting. In 3 experiments, African American professionals were attuned to minority representation and diversity philosophy cues when they were presented as a part of workplace setti…
Intersectional Invisibility: The Distinctive Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiple Subordinate-Group Identities
Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes
Researchers previously have investigated the role of race in capital sentencing, and in particular, whether the race of the defendant or victim influences the likelihood of a death sentence. In the present study, we examined whether the likelihood of being sentenced to death is influenced by the degree to which a Black defendant is perceived to have a stereotypically Black appearance. Controlling for a wide array of factors, we found that in case…
The detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction situation
Intersectional Invisibility: The Distinctive Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiple Subordinate-Group Identities
Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions
This research demonstrates that people at risk of devaluation based on group membership are attuned to cues that signal social identity contingencies--judgments, stereotypes, opportunities, restrictions, and treatments that are tied to one's social identity in a given setting. In 3 experiments, African American professionals were attuned to minority representation and diversity philosophy cues when they were presented as a part of workplace setti…
Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: How self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat
To the extent that stereotype and identity threat undermine academic performance, social psychological interventions that lessen threat could buffer threatened students and improve performance. Two studies, each featuring a longitudinal field experiment in a mixed-ethnicity middle school, examined whether a values affirmation writing exercise could attenuate the achievement gap between Latino American and European American students. In Study 1, s…
The detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction situation
Chronic threat and contingent belonging: Protective benefits of values affirmation on identity development
Two longitudinal field experiments in a middle school examined how a brief "values affirmation" affects students' psychological experience and the relationship between psychological experience and environmental threat over 2 years. Together these studies suggest that values affirmations insulate individuals' sense of belonging from environmental threat during a key developmental transition. Study 1 provided an analysis of new data from a previous…
Internalizing the closet: Concealment heightens the cognitive distinction between public and private selves
The present studies are the first in which social psychological methods were used to test the popular claim that the experience of concealing a stigmatized social identity leads to a "divided self." For people with concealable stigmas, concealment in public settings makes the public-private dimension of self-expression particularly salient, leading them to organize self-relevant information along this dimension. The result is a strengthened cogni…
Culture, threat, and mental illness stigma: Identifying culture-specific threat among Chinese-American groups
Diversity within Women of Color: Why Experiences Change Felt Stigma
How to keep on keeping on: Framing civil rights accomplishments to bolster support for egalitarian policies
Feeling left out, but affirmed: Protecting against the negative effects of low belonging in college
Heritage- and ideology-based national identities and their implications for immigrant citizen relations in the United States and in Germany
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Framing Strategies for Bridging Racial Divisions
Barack Obama's election as the first Black president of the United States has stimulated much discussion about progress toward racial equality in the United States. Opinion surveys document that White Americans reliably perceive the rate of progress toward racial equality as greater than do Black Americans. We focus on two psychological factors that contribute to these diverging perceptions: (1) the tendency of White Americans and Black Americans…
Racial and mental illness stereotypes and discrimination: An identity-based analysis of the Virginia Tech and Columbine shootings
The Virginia Tech and Columbine High shootings are 2 of the deadliest school massacres in the United States. The present study investigates in a nationally representative sample how White Americans' causal attributions of these shooting moderate their attitudes toward the shooter's race. White Americans shown a vignette based on the Virginia Tech shooting were more likely to espouse negative beliefs about Korean American men and distance themselv…
The implicit power motive in intergroup dialogues about the history of slavery
This research demonstrates that individual differences in the implicit power motive (i.e., the concern with impact, influence, and control) moderate how African Americans communicate with White Americans in challenging intergroup dialogues. In a study with African American participants we find that the higher their implicit power motive, the more they use an affiliation strategy to communicate with a White American partner in a conversation conte…
Stand-Your-Ground is losing ground for racial minorities' health
The detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction situation
Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes
Researchers previously have investigated the role of race in capital sentencing, and in particular, whether the race of the defendant or victim influences the likelihood of a death sentence. In the present study, we examined whether the likelihood of being sentenced to death is influenced by the degree to which a Black defendant is perceived to have a stereotypically Black appearance. Controlling for a wide array of factors, we found that in case…
Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions
This research demonstrates that people at risk of devaluation based on group membership are attuned to cues that signal social identity contingencies--judgments, stereotypes, opportunities, restrictions, and treatments that are tied to one's social identity in a given setting. In 3 experiments, African American professionals were attuned to minority representation and diversity philosophy cues when they were presented as a part of workplace setti…
Intersectional Invisibility: The Distinctive Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiple Subordinate-Group Identities
Recursive Processes in Self-Affirmation: Intervening to Close the Minority Achievement Gap
A 2-year follow-up of a randomized field experiment previously reported in Science is presented. A subtle intervention to lessen minority students' psychological threat related to being negatively stereotyped in school was tested in an experiment conducted three times with three independent cohorts ( N = 133, 149, and 134). The intervention, a series of brief but structured writing assignments focusing students on a self-affirming value, reduced …
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Framing Strategies for Bridging Racial Divisions
Barack Obama's election as the first Black president of the United States has stimulated much discussion about progress toward racial equality in the United States. Opinion surveys document that White Americans reliably perceive the rate of progress toward racial equality as greater than do Black Americans. We focus on two psychological factors that contribute to these diverging perceptions: (1) the tendency of White Americans and Black Americans…
How to keep on keeping on: Framing civil rights accomplishments to bolster support for egalitarian policies
Is multiculturalism bad for African Americans? Redefining inclusion through the lens of identity safety
Heritage- and ideology-based national identities and their implications for immigrant citizen relations in the United States and in Germany
Chronic threat and contingent belonging: Protective benefits of values affirmation on identity development
Two longitudinal field experiments in a middle school examined how a brief "values affirmation" affects students' psychological experience and the relationship between psychological experience and environmental threat over 2 years. Together these studies suggest that values affirmations insulate individuals' sense of belonging from environmental threat during a key developmental transition. Study 1 provided an analysis of new data from a previous…
Demystifying Values-Affirmation Interventions: Writing About Social Belonging Is a Key to Buffering Against Identity Threat
Two experiments examined for the first time whether the specific content of participant-generated affirmation essays—in particular, writing about social belonging—facilitated an affirmation intervention’s ability to reduce identity threat among negatively stereotyped students. Study 1, a field experiment, revealed that seventh graders assigned to a values-affirmation condition wrote about social belonging more than those assigned to a control con…
Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: How self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat
To the extent that stereotype and identity threat undermine academic performance, social psychological interventions that lessen threat could buffer threatened students and improve performance. Two studies, each featuring a longitudinal field experiment in a mixed-ethnicity middle school, examined whether a values affirmation writing exercise could attenuate the achievement gap between Latino American and European American students. In Study 1, s…
Internalizing the closet: Concealment heightens the cognitive distinction between public and private selves
The present studies are the first in which social psychological methods were used to test the popular claim that the experience of concealing a stigmatized social identity leads to a "divided self." For people with concealable stigmas, concealment in public settings makes the public-private dimension of self-expression particularly salient, leading them to organize self-relevant information along this dimension. The result is a strengthened cogni…
Culture, threat, and mental illness stigma: Identifying culture-specific threat among Chinese-American groups
Breaking the cycle of mistrust: Wise interventions to provide critical feedback across the racial divide.
Three double-blind randomized field experiments examined the effects of a strategy to restore trust on minority adolescents' responses to critical feedback. In Studies 1 and 2, 7th-grade students received critical feedback from their teacher that, in the treatment condition, was designed to assuage mistrust by emphasizing the teacher's high standards and belief that the student was capable of meeting those standards--a strategy known as wise feed…
Racial and mental illness stereotypes and discrimination: An identity-based analysis of the Virginia Tech and Columbine shootings
The Virginia Tech and Columbine High shootings are 2 of the deadliest school massacres in the United States. The present study investigates in a nationally representative sample how White Americans' causal attributions of these shooting moderate their attitudes toward the shooter's race. White Americans shown a vignette based on the Virginia Tech shooting were more likely to espouse negative beliefs about Korean American men and distance themselv…
Diversity within Women of Color: Why Experiences Change Felt Stigma
Stand-Your-Ground is losing ground for racial minorities' health
Feeling left out, but affirmed: Protecting against the negative effects of low belonging in college
The implicit power motive in intergroup dialogues about the history of slavery
This research demonstrates that individual differences in the implicit power motive (i.e., the concern with impact, influence, and control) moderate how African Americans communicate with White Americans in challenging intergroup dialogues. In a study with African American participants we find that the higher their implicit power motive, the more they use an affiliation strategy to communicate with a White American partner in a conversation conte…
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social group (7 works) · Social identity theory (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works)