Heidi A Vuletich
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi A Vuletich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vuletich |
| SIGNATURE | VULETICH H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8614-4333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions
Traditional psychological approaches to reduce discrimination typically focus on addressing the biases of people. This paper recommends policies aimed at changing the environments that activate and perpetuate biases as a necessary companion to interventions aimed at educating individuals. This reasoning is grounded in the Bias of Crowds model, a theoretical approach to implicit bias that emphasizes how situations or environments can make negative…
Convergent Validity of Two Implicit Racial Bias Measures for Individuals and Contexts
Correlations among implicit measures of racial bias tend to be weak, raising questions about their validity. Weak individual-level correlations, however, could reflect a temporally unstable construct. According to the Bias of Crowds model, implicit bias can be fleeting for individuals but, when aggregated, reveals which concepts are widely accessible for a population. Using this framework, we hypothesized that correlations between two tests—the I…
The Great Migration and Implicit Bias in the Northern United States
The spatial patterning of present-day racial bias in Southern states is predicted by the prevalence of slavery in 1860 and the structural inequalities that followed. Here we extend the investigation of the historical roots of implicit bias to areas outside the South by tracing the Great Migration of Black southerners to Northern and Western states. We found that the proportion of Black residents in each county ( N = 1,981 counties) during the yea…
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children
The R 3 ISE Integrative Framework suggests that racist policies and practices have a multigenerational impact on children's development. • Regional levels of historical racism were positively correlated with contemporary structural inequality and implicit bias. • These regional differences were not significantly associated with the outcomes of Black children in high quality ECE programs. • High ECE programs show promise as places where Black chil…
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model
Race differences in Black and white adolescents’ academic gender stereotypes across middle and late adolescence
Objectives: We examined race differences in adolescents' beliefs about boys' and girls' English, math, and science abilities, testing the hypothesis that Black adolescents would rate girls' abilities more favorably than boys' across all domains. In contrast, we expected that White adolescents would report traditional stereotypes favoring boys in math and science and favoring girls in English, and that developmental change would reflect increasing…
The partisan trade-off bias
The development of academic and nonacademic race stereotypes in African American adolescents
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine developmental change and gender differences in the Black-White race stereotype endorsement of African American adolescents. In Grades 7, 10, and 12, African American students ( N = 563; 313 girls) reported their perceptions of the competence of Blacks and Whites in academic, music, and sports domains. Multilevel growth modeling (MLM) was used to assess change from Grade 7 to Grade 12. Separate…
Historical roots of implicit bias in slavery
Significance Geographic variation in implicit bias is associated with multiple racial disparities in life outcomes. We investigated the historical roots of geographical differences in implicit bias by comparing average levels of implicit bias with the number of slaves in those areas in 1860. Counties and states more dependent on slavery in 1860 displayed higher pro-White implicit bias today among White residents and less pro-White bias among Blac…
The Bias of Crowds
As public awareness of implicit bias has grown in recent years, studies have raised important new questions about the nature of implicit bias effects. First, implicit biases are widespread and robust on average, yet are unstable across a few weeks. Second, young children display implicit biases indistinguishable from those of adults, which suggests to many that implicit biases are learned early. Yet, if implicit biases are unstable over weeks, ho…
The development of academic and nonacademic race stereotypes in African American adolescents
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine developmental change and gender differences in the Black-White race stereotype endorsement of African American adolescents. In Grades 7, 10, and 12, African American students ( N = 563; 313 girls) reported their perceptions of the competence of Blacks and Whites in academic, music, and sports domains. Multilevel growth modeling (MLM) was used to assess change from Grade 7 to Grade 12. Separate…
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children
The R 3 ISE Integrative Framework suggests that racist policies and practices have a multigenerational impact on children's development. • Regional levels of historical racism were positively correlated with contemporary structural inequality and implicit bias. • These regional differences were not significantly associated with the outcomes of Black children in high quality ECE programs. • High ECE programs show promise as places where Black chil…
The partisan trade-off bias
Race differences in Black and white adolescents’ academic gender stereotypes across middle and late adolescence
Objectives: We examined race differences in adolescents' beliefs about boys' and girls' English, math, and science abilities, testing the hypothesis that Black adolescents would rate girls' abilities more favorably than boys' across all domains. In contrast, we expected that White adolescents would report traditional stereotypes favoring boys in math and science and favoring girls in English, and that developmental change would reflect increasing…
The Bias of Crowds
As public awareness of implicit bias has grown in recent years, studies have raised important new questions about the nature of implicit bias effects. First, implicit biases are widespread and robust on average, yet are unstable across a few weeks. Second, young children display implicit biases indistinguishable from those of adults, which suggests to many that implicit biases are learned early. Yet, if implicit biases are unstable over weeks, ho…
Historical roots of implicit bias in slavery
Significance Geographic variation in implicit bias is associated with multiple racial disparities in life outcomes. We investigated the historical roots of geographical differences in implicit bias by comparing average levels of implicit bias with the number of slaves in those areas in 1860. Counties and states more dependent on slavery in 1860 displayed higher pro-White implicit bias today among White residents and less pro-White bias among Blac…
The development of academic and nonacademic race stereotypes in African American adolescents
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine developmental change and gender differences in the Black-White race stereotype endorsement of African American adolescents. In Grades 7, 10, and 12, African American students ( N = 563; 313 girls) reported their perceptions of the competence of Blacks and Whites in academic, music, and sports domains. Multilevel growth modeling (MLM) was used to assess change from Grade 7 to Grade 12. Separate…
Race differences in Black and white adolescents’ academic gender stereotypes across middle and late adolescence
Objectives: We examined race differences in adolescents' beliefs about boys' and girls' English, math, and science abilities, testing the hypothesis that Black adolescents would rate girls' abilities more favorably than boys' across all domains. In contrast, we expected that White adolescents would report traditional stereotypes favoring boys in math and science and favoring girls in English, and that developmental change would reflect increasing…
The partisan trade-off bias
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model
The Great Migration and Implicit Bias in the Northern United States
The spatial patterning of present-day racial bias in Southern states is predicted by the prevalence of slavery in 1860 and the structural inequalities that followed. Here we extend the investigation of the historical roots of implicit bias to areas outside the South by tracing the Great Migration of Black southerners to Northern and Western states. We found that the proportion of Black residents in each county ( N = 1,981 counties) during the yea…
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children
The R 3 ISE Integrative Framework suggests that racist policies and practices have a multigenerational impact on children's development. • Regional levels of historical racism were positively correlated with contemporary structural inequality and implicit bias. • These regional differences were not significantly associated with the outcomes of Black children in high quality ECE programs. • High ECE programs show promise as places where Black chil…
Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions
Traditional psychological approaches to reduce discrimination typically focus on addressing the biases of people. This paper recommends policies aimed at changing the environments that activate and perpetuate biases as a necessary companion to interventions aimed at educating individuals. This reasoning is grounded in the Bias of Crowds model, a theoretical approach to implicit bias that emphasizes how situations or environments can make negative…
Convergent Validity of Two Implicit Racial Bias Measures for Individuals and Contexts
Correlations among implicit measures of racial bias tend to be weak, raising questions about their validity. Weak individual-level correlations, however, could reflect a temporally unstable construct. According to the Bias of Crowds model, implicit bias can be fleeting for individuals but, when aggregated, reveals which concepts are widely accessible for a population. Using this framework, we hypothesized that correlations between two tests—the I…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Implicit bias (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Crowds (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works)