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Felicia Pratto is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Gender Studies, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The main topics addressed in their work include Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, and Social and Cultural Dynamics.

Recent publications by Felicia Pratto feature a variety of themes centered on social dominance, political engagement, and intergroup relations. Selected papers include:

  • "Group dominance in hierarchy-attenuating and hierarchy-enhancing organizations: The role of social dominance orientation, need for cognitive closure, and power tactics in a person-environment (mis)fit perspective." (2020, Group Dynamics Theory Research and Practice)
  • "From Social Dominance Orientation to Political Engagement: The Role of Group Status and Shared Beliefs in Politics Across Multiple Contexts" (2021, Political Psychology)
  • "How people higher on social dominance orientation deal with hierarchy-attenuating institutions: the person-environment (mis)fit perspective in the grammar of hierarchies" (2022, Current Psychology)
  • "When empathy predicts greater support for intergroup violence: Counter-dominance against the U.S. in Syria and Lebanon" (2023, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology)
  • "As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines" (2022, Business & Society)

Felicia Pratto has published frequently in several venues, notably:

  • Political Psychology
  • Frontiers in Social Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology

The scientist has collaborated multiple times with a cohort of co-authors, reflecting research partnerships in related domains. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Aleksandra Rusowicz
  • Shana Levin
  • Antonio Aiello
  • Floriana Gargiulo
  • Alessio Tesi

Best Publications

  • Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression

    Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto

  • Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes.

    Felicia Pratto;James Sidanius;Lisa M. Stallworth;Bertram F. Malle

  • Automatic Vigilance: The Attention-Grabbing Power of Negative Social Information

    Felicia Pratto;Oliver P. John

  • The generality of the automatic attitude activation effect.

    John A. Bargh;Shelly Chaiken;Rajen Govender;Felicia Pratto

  • Social dominance theory and the dynamics of intergroup relations: Taking stock and looking forward

    Felicia Pratto;Jim Sidanius;Shana Levin

  • The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO₇ scale.

    Arnold K. Ho;Jim Sidanius;Nour Sami Kteily;Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

  • Social Dominance Theory: Its Agenda and Method

    Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto;Colette Van Laar;Shana Levin

  • Racism, conservatism, affirmative action, and intellectual sophistication : A matter of principled conservatism or group dominance ?

    Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto;Lawrence Bobo

  • The Irony of Harmony Intergroup Contact Can Produce False Expectations for Equality

    Tamar Saguy;Nicole Tausch;John F. Dovidio;Felicia Pratto

  • Social Dominance Orientation and the Political Psychology of Gender: A Case of Invariance?

    Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto;Lawrence Bobo

  • The Interface Between Ethnic and National Attachment: Ethnic Pluralism or Ethnic Dominance?

    Jim Sidanius;Seymour Feshbach;Shana Levin;Felicia Pratto

  • Social Dominance Orientation Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes

    Arnold K. Ho;Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto;Shana Levin

  • Social dominance orientation, anti-egalitarianism and the political psychology of gender: An extension and cross-cultural replication.

    Jim Sidanius;Shana Levin;James Liu;Felicia Pratto

  • Social Dominance Orientation and the Legitimization of Inequality Across Cultures

    Felicia Pratto;James H. Liu;Shana Levin;Jim Sidanius

  • The gender gap: Differences in political attitudes and social dominance orientation

    Felicia Pratto;Lisa M. Stallworth;Jim Sidanius

  • The inevitability of oppression and the dynamics of social dominance.

    Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto

  • In-Group Identification, Social Dominance Orientation, and Differential Intergroup Social Allocation

    Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto;Michael Mitchell

  • Beyond Contact: Intergroup Contact in the Context of Power Relations

    Tamar Saguy;John F. Dovidio;Felicia Pratto

  • Individual construct accessibility and perceptual selection

    John A Bargh;Felicia Pratto

  • The gender gap in occupational role attainment: A social dominance approach.

    Felicia Pratto;Lisa M. Stallworth;Jim Sidanius;Bret Siers

  • INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AND GROUP PROCESSES Racism, Conservatism, Affirmative Action, and Intellectual Sophistication: A Matter of Principled Conservatism or Group Dominance?

    Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto;Lawrence Bobo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Sidanius
Jim Sidanius Harvard University
Shana Levin
Shana Levin Claremont McKenna College
Nour Kteily
Nour Kteily Northwestern University
James H. Liu
James H. Liu Massey University
Tamar Saguy
Tamar Saguy Reichman University
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Kevin Durrheim
Kevin Durrheim University of Johannesburg
Antonio Pierro
Antonio Pierro Sapienza University of Rome
Orla T. Muldoon
Orla T. Muldoon University of Limerick
John A. Bargh
John A. Bargh Yale University

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