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Overview

E. Ashby Plant is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and focuses research primarily in the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans various subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and gender studies.

The main topics addressed in Plant's research encompass social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, suicide and self-harm studies, posttraumatic stress disorder research, racial and ethnic identity research, and death anxiety and social exclusion.

Plant has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, including journal articles published in venues such as Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Military Behavioral Health, PsycTESTS Dataset, and Personality and Individual Differences.

Recent published papers include:

  • What factors underlie attitudes regarding protective mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic?, 2021, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report, 2022, Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Childhood illness as an antecedent of perceived vulnerability to disease, 2020, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • Capturing Fluctuations in Pathogen Avoidance: the Situational Pathogen Avoidance Scale, 2020, Evolutionary Psychological Science
  • "They should have followed the rules": Trade-offs Between Fairness and Authority Values Predict Judgments of Social Justice Protests, 2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science

Frequent coauthors in Plant's research include:

  • Jon K. Maner
  • Stephanie R. Mallinas
  • Anastasia Makhanova
  • Jennifer LaCosse
  • Douglas L. Kievit

The body of research conducted by Plant often explores the psychological mechanisms underlying intergroup attitudes, pathogen avoidance, social justice perceptions, and health-related behaviors. Their contributions engage with both theoretical and applied aspects of social and clinical psychology.

Best Publications

  • Internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice

    E. Ashby Plant;Patricia G. Devine

  • Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: willpower is more than a metaphor.

    Matthew T. Gailliot;Roy F. Baumeister;C. Nathan DeWall;Jon K. Maner

  • The regulation of explicit and implicit race bias: the role of motivations to respond without prejudice.

    Patricia G. Devine;E. Ashby Plant;David M. Amodio;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • The Antecedents and Implications of Interracial Anxiety

    E. Ashby Plant;Patricia G. Devine

  • THE GENDER STEREOTYPING OF EMOTIONS

    E. Ashby Plant;Janet Shibley Hyde;Dacher Keltner;Patricia G. Devine

  • Why study time does not predict grade point average across college students: Implications of deliberate practice for academic performance

    E. Ashby Plant;K. Anders Ericsson;Len Hill;Kia Asberg

  • The Consequences of Race for Police Officers' Responses to Criminal Suspects

    E. Ashby Plant;B. Michelle Peruche

  • Increasing Self-Regulatory Strength Can Reduce the Depleting Effect of Suppressing Stereotypes

    Matthew T. Gailliot;E. Ashby Plant;David A. Butz;Roy F. Baumeister

  • Responses to Interracial Interactions Over Time

    E. Ashby Plant

  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Depression: The Roles of Social Support and Meeting Basic Needs.

    E. Ashby Plant;Natalie Sachs-Ericsson

  • Eliminating automatic racial bias: Making race non-diagnostic for responses to criminal suspects

    E. Ashby Plant;B. Michelle Peruche;David A. Butz

  • Upward spirals of positive emotion and coping: Replication, extension, and initial exploration of neurochemical substrates.

    Andrea B. Burns;Jessica S. Brown;Natalie Sachs-Ericsson;E. Ashby Plant

  • Mortality Salience Increases Adherence to Salient Norms and Values

    Matthew T. Gailliot;Tyler F. Stillman;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Jon K. Maner

  • The active control of prejudice: Unpacking the intentions guiding control efforts.

    E. Ashby Plant;Patricia G. Devine

  • Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse and the 1-Year Prevalence of Medical Problems in the National Comorbidity Survey.

    Natalie J. Sachs-Ericsson;D. Blazer;E. Ashby Plant;Bruce A. Arnow

  • Responses to other-imposed pro-black pressure: Acceptance or backlash?

    E.Ashby Plant;Patricia G. Devine

  • The Problem of “Us” Versus “Them” and AIDS Stigma:

    Patricia G. Devine;E. Ashby Plant;Kristen Harrison

  • Changing middle-school students' attitudes and performance regarding engineering with computer-based social models

    E. Ashby Plant;Amy L. Baylor;Celeste E. Doerr;Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima

  • The Causes and Consequences of an Avoidance-Focus for Interracial Interactions

    E. Ashby Plant;David A. Butz

  • Internal and External Motivation to Respond Without Sexism

    Suzanne C. Klonis;E. Ashby Plant;Patricia G. Devine

  • Sexuality during pregnancy and the year postpartum.

    Janet Shibley Hyde;John D. DeLamater;E. Ashby Plant;Janis M. Byrd

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia G. Devine
Patricia G. Devine University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jon K. Maner
Jon K. Maner Florida State University
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Peter M. Gutierrez
Peter M. Gutierrez Florida State University
Natalie Sachs-Ericsson
Natalie Sachs-Ericsson Florida State University
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Janet Shibley Hyde
Janet Shibley Hyde University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brandon J. Schmeichel
Brandon J. Schmeichel Texas A&M University
Katherine Anne Comtois
Katherine Anne Comtois University of Washington
Megan L. Rogers
Megan L. Rogers Texas State University

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