Robert J Rydell
Biographic Data
| ID | 650323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Rydell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rydell |
| SIGNATURE | RYDELL R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4786-9654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Role of Executive Functions in Stereotyping in the Face of Stereotype-Inconsistent Exemplars
Controlled processing of stereotype-inconsistent information (e.g., stereotype reduction, subtyping) requires motivation and ability. Research on ability in stereotyping has focused on general attentional resources, neglecting specific cognitive abilities underlying the controlled processing of stereotype-inconsistent information. We examined the roles of the executive functions of updating, inhibition, and switching in stereotype reduction and m…
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty
The temporal dynamics of the link between configural face processing and dehumanization
Configural face processing impacts race disparities in humanization and trust
The Face of Humanity: Configural Face Processing Influences Ascriptions of Humanness
Across three studies, we test the hypothesis that the perceived “humanness” of a human face can have its roots, in part, in low-level, feature-integration processes typical of normal face perception—configural face processing. We provide novel evidence that perceptions of humanness/dehumanization can have perceptual roots. Relying on the well-established face inversion paradigm, we demonstrate that disruptions of configural face processing also d…
Forecasting the experience of stereotype threat for others
Negative Exposure: Watching Another Woman Subjected to Dominant Male Behavior During a Math Interaction Can Induce Stereotype Threat
This research examined whether simply watching videos of a man behaving dominantly toward a woman during a math-related interaction hurts women’s math performance. Men and women watched videos of male–female interactions related to math (stereotype-relevant) or studying (stereotype-neutral) in which the male was dominant, the female was dominant, or the two were equally dominant. Women who watched a video of a dominant male in a math interaction …
Formation, representation, and activation of contextualized attitudes
Competition in stereotyped domains: Competition, social comparison, and stereotype threat
The current work examines a novel and specific way in which competition can hurt the performance of negatively stereotyped individuals: by evoking stereotype threat. In four experiments, we demonstrate that women's underperformance in math when primed with competition was due to feeling worried about confirming negative stereotypes about women's math ability (i.e., stereotype threat), that the activation of negative performance stereotypes for wo…
The Prevalence and Nature of Unrequited Love
Unrequited love (UL) is unreciprocated love that causes yearning for more complete love. Five types of UL are delineated and conceptualized on a continuum from lower to greater levels of interdependence: crush on someone unavailable, crush on someone nearby, pursuing a love object, longing for a past lover, and an unequal love relationship. Study 1a found all types of UL relationships to be less emotionally intense than equal love and 4 times mor…
Discrepancies between implicit and explicit attitude measures as an indicator of attitude strength
The current research investigates whether implicit–explicit attitudinal discrepancy (IED) weakens attitudes as explicit discrepancies do. Across two experiments, we found that IED is an indicator of weak attitudes. In Experiment 1, we found that individuals with greater IED toward exercise were more swayed by a self‐perceptual manipulation than individuals with lower IED toward exercise. In Experiment 2, we found that the stability and predictive…
Reducing stereotype threat in order to facilitate learning
Recent stereotype threat research has demonstrated that negative stereotypes about women's math ability can impair their mathematical learning. This experiment extends this research by examining whether presenting “gender fair” information can reduce learning decrements (on a focal and transfer task) and if the timing of this information matters. Women (N = 140) and men (N = 60) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: control, stereotyp…
Can I borrow a feeling? Spillover of negative arousal from inconsistent information during attitude formation diminishes perceptions of well-being
The effect of negative performance stereotypes on learning
Stereotype threat (ST) research has focused exclusively on how negative group stereotypes reduce performance. The present work examines if pejorative stereotypes about women in math inhibit their ability to learn the mathematical rules and operations necessary to solve math problems. In Experiment 1, women experiencing ST had difficulty encoding math-related information into memory and, therefore, learned fewer mathematical rules and showed poore…
On the experience of self-relevant feedback: How self-concept organization influences affective responses and self-evaluations
Multiple social identities and stereotype threat: Imbalance, accessibility, and working memory
In 4 experiments, the authors showed that concurrently making positive and negative self-relevant stereotypes available about performance in the same ability domain can eliminate stereotype threat effects. Replicating past work, the authors demonstrated that introducing negative stereotypes about women's math performance activated participants' female social identity and hurt their math performance (i.e., stereotype threat) by reducing working me…
Consequences of discrepant explicit and implicit attitudes: Cognitive dissonance and increased information processing
Changing categorization of self can change emotions about outgroups
Forming implicit and explicit attitudes toward individuals: Social group association cues
The authors explored how social group cues (e.g., obesity, physical attractiveness) strongly associated with valence affect the formation of attitudes toward individuals. Although explicit attitude formation has been examined in much past research (e.g., S. T. Fiske & S. L. Neuberg, 1990), in the current work, the authors considered how implicit as well as explicit attitudes toward individuals are influenced by these cues. On the basis of a syste…
Differentiating Reactive and Suspicious Jealousy
In contrast to viewing jealousy as a unitary construct, this research differentiates jealousy into reactive (emotional components of jealousy) and suspicious jealousy (cognitive and behavioral components of jealousy), for which manifestations and antecedents differ. Besides finding that reactive and suspicious jealousy could be delineated, the results of two studies found evidence for discriminant validity and that greater reactive jealousy was r…
Implicit and explicit attitudes respond differently to increasing amounts of counterattitudinal information
This research examined the processes by which explicit and implicit attitudes changed to systematically differing levels of counterattitudinal (CA) information. Explicit attitudes changed quickly in response to relatively small amounts of CA information, reflecting rule‐based reasoning. On the other hand, implicit attitudes changed more slowly in the face of CA information, reflecting the progressive accretion of evaluation‐attitude object pairin…
Understanding implicit and explicit attitude change: A systems of reasoning analysis
There is considerable controversy about how to conceptualize implicit and explicit attitudes, reflecting substantial speculation about the mechanisms involved in implicit and explicit attitude formation and change. To investigate this issue, the current work examines the processes by which new attitudes are formed and changed and how these attitudes predict behavior. Five experiments support a systems of reasoning approach to implicit and explici…
Jealousy and commitment: Perceived threat and the effect of relationship alternatives
Most research on jealousy has focused on the correlation between one psychological factor and jealousy. In contrast, the current work examined how the link between relationship commitment and jealousy depends on the interplay of two situational factors: attractiveness of relationship alternatives and receiving threatening information about the self and the romantic relationship. In two studies, participants completed measures of relationship comm…
Whose self is it anyway? Self-aspect control moderates the relation between self-complexity and well-being
Expectations of consistency about the self: Consequences for self-concept formation
Understanding implicit and explicit attitude change: A systems of reasoning analysis
There is considerable controversy about how to conceptualize implicit and explicit attitudes, reflecting substantial speculation about the mechanisms involved in implicit and explicit attitude formation and change. To investigate this issue, the current work examines the processes by which new attitudes are formed and changed and how these attitudes predict behavior. Five experiments support a systems of reasoning approach to implicit and explici…
Consequences of discrepant explicit and implicit attitudes: Cognitive dissonance and increased information processing
Changing categorization of self can change emotions about outgroups
Multiple social identities and stereotype threat: Imbalance, accessibility, and working memory
In 4 experiments, the authors showed that concurrently making positive and negative self-relevant stereotypes available about performance in the same ability domain can eliminate stereotype threat effects. Replicating past work, the authors demonstrated that introducing negative stereotypes about women's math performance activated participants' female social identity and hurt their math performance (i.e., stereotype threat) by reducing working me…
Implicit and explicit attitudes respond differently to increasing amounts of counterattitudinal information
This research examined the processes by which explicit and implicit attitudes changed to systematically differing levels of counterattitudinal (CA) information. Explicit attitudes changed quickly in response to relatively small amounts of CA information, reflecting rule‐based reasoning. On the other hand, implicit attitudes changed more slowly in the face of CA information, reflecting the progressive accretion of evaluation‐attitude object pairin…
Forming implicit and explicit attitudes toward individuals: Social group association cues
The authors explored how social group cues (e.g., obesity, physical attractiveness) strongly associated with valence affect the formation of attitudes toward individuals. Although explicit attitude formation has been examined in much past research (e.g., S. T. Fiske & S. L. Neuberg, 1990), in the current work, the authors considered how implicit as well as explicit attitudes toward individuals are influenced by these cues. On the basis of a syste…
Whose self is it anyway? Self-aspect control moderates the relation between self-complexity and well-being
Formation, representation, and activation of contextualized attitudes
Configural face processing impacts race disparities in humanization and trust
On the experience of self-relevant feedback: How self-concept organization influences affective responses and self-evaluations
Discrepancies between implicit and explicit attitude measures as an indicator of attitude strength
The current research investigates whether implicit–explicit attitudinal discrepancy (IED) weakens attitudes as explicit discrepancies do. Across two experiments, we found that IED is an indicator of weak attitudes. In Experiment 1, we found that individuals with greater IED toward exercise were more swayed by a self‐perceptual manipulation than individuals with lower IED toward exercise. In Experiment 2, we found that the stability and predictive…
The effect of negative performance stereotypes on learning
Stereotype threat (ST) research has focused exclusively on how negative group stereotypes reduce performance. The present work examines if pejorative stereotypes about women in math inhibit their ability to learn the mathematical rules and operations necessary to solve math problems. In Experiment 1, women experiencing ST had difficulty encoding math-related information into memory and, therefore, learned fewer mathematical rules and showed poore…
Expectations of consistency about the self: Consequences for self-concept formation
The Prevalence and Nature of Unrequited Love
Unrequited love (UL) is unreciprocated love that causes yearning for more complete love. Five types of UL are delineated and conceptualized on a continuum from lower to greater levels of interdependence: crush on someone unavailable, crush on someone nearby, pursuing a love object, longing for a past lover, and an unequal love relationship. Study 1a found all types of UL relationships to be less emotionally intense than equal love and 4 times mor…
Competition in stereotyped domains: Competition, social comparison, and stereotype threat
The current work examines a novel and specific way in which competition can hurt the performance of negatively stereotyped individuals: by evoking stereotype threat. In four experiments, we demonstrate that women's underperformance in math when primed with competition was due to feeling worried about confirming negative stereotypes about women's math ability (i.e., stereotype threat), that the activation of negative performance stereotypes for wo…
Can I borrow a feeling? Spillover of negative arousal from inconsistent information during attitude formation diminishes perceptions of well-being
Expectations of consistency about the self: Consequences for self-concept formation
Jealousy and commitment: Perceived threat and the effect of relationship alternatives
Most research on jealousy has focused on the correlation between one psychological factor and jealousy. In contrast, the current work examined how the link between relationship commitment and jealousy depends on the interplay of two situational factors: attractiveness of relationship alternatives and receiving threatening information about the self and the romantic relationship. In two studies, participants completed measures of relationship comm…
Whose self is it anyway? Self-aspect control moderates the relation between self-complexity and well-being
Understanding implicit and explicit attitude change: A systems of reasoning analysis
There is considerable controversy about how to conceptualize implicit and explicit attitudes, reflecting substantial speculation about the mechanisms involved in implicit and explicit attitude formation and change. To investigate this issue, the current work examines the processes by which new attitudes are formed and changed and how these attitudes predict behavior. Five experiments support a systems of reasoning approach to implicit and explici…
Differentiating Reactive and Suspicious Jealousy
In contrast to viewing jealousy as a unitary construct, this research differentiates jealousy into reactive (emotional components of jealousy) and suspicious jealousy (cognitive and behavioral components of jealousy), for which manifestations and antecedents differ. Besides finding that reactive and suspicious jealousy could be delineated, the results of two studies found evidence for discriminant validity and that greater reactive jealousy was r…
Implicit and explicit attitudes respond differently to increasing amounts of counterattitudinal information
This research examined the processes by which explicit and implicit attitudes changed to systematically differing levels of counterattitudinal (CA) information. Explicit attitudes changed quickly in response to relatively small amounts of CA information, reflecting rule‐based reasoning. On the other hand, implicit attitudes changed more slowly in the face of CA information, reflecting the progressive accretion of evaluation‐attitude object pairin…
Consequences of discrepant explicit and implicit attitudes: Cognitive dissonance and increased information processing
Changing categorization of self can change emotions about outgroups
Forming implicit and explicit attitudes toward individuals: Social group association cues
The authors explored how social group cues (e.g., obesity, physical attractiveness) strongly associated with valence affect the formation of attitudes toward individuals. Although explicit attitude formation has been examined in much past research (e.g., S. T. Fiske & S. L. Neuberg, 1990), in the current work, the authors considered how implicit as well as explicit attitudes toward individuals are influenced by these cues. On the basis of a syste…
On the experience of self-relevant feedback: How self-concept organization influences affective responses and self-evaluations
Multiple social identities and stereotype threat: Imbalance, accessibility, and working memory
In 4 experiments, the authors showed that concurrently making positive and negative self-relevant stereotypes available about performance in the same ability domain can eliminate stereotype threat effects. Replicating past work, the authors demonstrated that introducing negative stereotypes about women's math performance activated participants' female social identity and hurt their math performance (i.e., stereotype threat) by reducing working me…
The effect of negative performance stereotypes on learning
Stereotype threat (ST) research has focused exclusively on how negative group stereotypes reduce performance. The present work examines if pejorative stereotypes about women in math inhibit their ability to learn the mathematical rules and operations necessary to solve math problems. In Experiment 1, women experiencing ST had difficulty encoding math-related information into memory and, therefore, learned fewer mathematical rules and showed poore…
Can I borrow a feeling? Spillover of negative arousal from inconsistent information during attitude formation diminishes perceptions of well-being
Discrepancies between implicit and explicit attitude measures as an indicator of attitude strength
The current research investigates whether implicit–explicit attitudinal discrepancy (IED) weakens attitudes as explicit discrepancies do. Across two experiments, we found that IED is an indicator of weak attitudes. In Experiment 1, we found that individuals with greater IED toward exercise were more swayed by a self‐perceptual manipulation than individuals with lower IED toward exercise. In Experiment 2, we found that the stability and predictive…
Reducing stereotype threat in order to facilitate learning
Recent stereotype threat research has demonstrated that negative stereotypes about women's math ability can impair their mathematical learning. This experiment extends this research by examining whether presenting “gender fair” information can reduce learning decrements (on a focal and transfer task) and if the timing of this information matters. Women (N = 140) and men (N = 60) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: control, stereotyp…
Competition in stereotyped domains: Competition, social comparison, and stereotype threat
The current work examines a novel and specific way in which competition can hurt the performance of negatively stereotyped individuals: by evoking stereotype threat. In four experiments, we demonstrate that women's underperformance in math when primed with competition was due to feeling worried about confirming negative stereotypes about women's math ability (i.e., stereotype threat), that the activation of negative performance stereotypes for wo…
The Prevalence and Nature of Unrequited Love
Unrequited love (UL) is unreciprocated love that causes yearning for more complete love. Five types of UL are delineated and conceptualized on a continuum from lower to greater levels of interdependence: crush on someone unavailable, crush on someone nearby, pursuing a love object, longing for a past lover, and an unequal love relationship. Study 1a found all types of UL relationships to be less emotionally intense than equal love and 4 times mor…
Negative Exposure: Watching Another Woman Subjected to Dominant Male Behavior During a Math Interaction Can Induce Stereotype Threat
This research examined whether simply watching videos of a man behaving dominantly toward a woman during a math-related interaction hurts women’s math performance. Men and women watched videos of male–female interactions related to math (stereotype-relevant) or studying (stereotype-neutral) in which the male was dominant, the female was dominant, or the two were equally dominant. Women who watched a video of a dominant male in a math interaction …
Formation, representation, and activation of contextualized attitudes
Forecasting the experience of stereotype threat for others
The Face of Humanity: Configural Face Processing Influences Ascriptions of Humanness
Across three studies, we test the hypothesis that the perceived “humanness” of a human face can have its roots, in part, in low-level, feature-integration processes typical of normal face perception—configural face processing. We provide novel evidence that perceptions of humanness/dehumanization can have perceptual roots. Relying on the well-established face inversion paradigm, we demonstrate that disruptions of configural face processing also d…
Configural face processing impacts race disparities in humanization and trust
The temporal dynamics of the link between configural face processing and dehumanization
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty
The Role of Executive Functions in Stereotyping in the Face of Stereotype-Inconsistent Exemplars
Controlled processing of stereotype-inconsistent information (e.g., stereotype reduction, subtyping) requires motivation and ability. Research on ability in stereotyping has focused on general attentional resources, neglecting specific cognitive abilities underlying the controlled processing of stereotype-inconsistent information. We examined the roles of the executive functions of updating, inhibition, and switching in stereotype reduction and m…
Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (18 works) · Cognitive psychology (12 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (10 works) · Perception (10 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works)