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Gordon Hodson

Gordon Hodson

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Psychology

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57
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13593
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4015
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Overview

Gordon Hodson is a researcher affiliated with Brock University in Canada, specializing primarily in the social sciences and psychology. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and ecology.

Their main areas of study cover multiple topics with a particular focus on social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, behavioral health and interventions, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, racial and ethnic identity research, and LGBTQ health, identity, and policy.

Hodson has contributed to research published in a range of established academic venues. These include Food Quality and Preference, British Journal of Social Psychology, American Psychologist, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Frequent collaborative partners in their research include Kristof Dhont, Rose Meleady, Cara C. MacInnis, Megan Earle, and Elvira Prusaczyk.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Hodson are:

  • Construct jangle or construct mangle? Thinking straight about (nonredundant) psychological constructs, 2021, Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology
  • The role of individual differences in understanding and enhancing intergroup contact, 2020, Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • Ideological and psychological predictors of COVID-19-related collective action, opinions, and health compliance across three nations, 2021, Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations, 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Food technology neophobia as a psychological barrier to clean meat acceptance, 2021, Food Quality and Preference

Best Publications

  • Why can't we just get along? Interpersonal biases and interracial distrust.

    John F. Dovidio;Samuel E. Gaertner;Kerry Kawakami;Gordon Hodson

  • Interpersonal Disgust, Ideological Orientations, and Dehumanization as Predictors of Intergroup Attitudes

    Gordon Hodson;Kimberly Costello

  • The role of ''dark personalities" (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy), Big Five personality factors, and ideology in explaining prejudice

    Gordon Hodson;Sarah M. Hogg;Cara C. MacInnis

  • Processes in Racial Discrimination: Differential Weighting of Conflicting Information

    Gordon Hodson;John F. Dovidio;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact

    Gordon Hodson;Michael A. Busseri

  • They see us as less than human: Metadehumanization predicts intergroup conflict via reciprocal dehumanization.

    Nour Kteily;Gordon Hodson;Emile Bruneau

  • Justice, Morality, and the Dehumanization of Refugees

    Victoria M. Esses;Scott Veenvliet;Gordon Hodson;Ljiljana Mihic

  • Exploring the roots of dehumanization: The role of animal—human similarity in promoting immigrant humanization

    Kimberly Costello;Gordon Hodson

  • Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?

    Kristof Dhont;Gordon Hodson

  • The person-based nature of prejudice: Individual difference predictors of intergroup negativity

    Gordon Hodson;Kristof Dhont

  • It ain’t easy eating greens: Evidence of bias toward vegetarians and vegans from both source and target

    Cara C. MacInnis;Gordon Hodson

  • Do Ideologically Intolerant People Benefit From Intergroup Contact

    Gordon Hodson

  • Explaining dehumanization among children: the interspecies model of prejudice.

    Kimberly Costello;Gordon Hodson

  • Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals:

    Cara C. MacInnis;Gordon Hodson

  • Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States and Canada in Response to the September 11, 2001 “Attack on America”

    Victoria M. Esses;John F. Dovidio;Gordon Hodson

  • Is the Dark Triad common factor distinct from low Honesty-Humility?

    Gordon Hodson;Angela Book;Beth A. Visser;Anthony A. Volk

  • Independent benefits of contact and friendship on attitudes toward homosexuals among authoritarians and highly identified heterosexuals

    Gordon Hodson;Hannah Harry;Andrea Mitchell

  • When Closing the Human-Animal Divide Expands Moral Concern: The Importance of Framing

    Brock Bastian;Kimberly Costello;Steve Loughnan;Gordon Hodson

  • Social dominance orientation connects prejudicial human–human and human–animal relations

    Kristof Dhont;Gordon Hodson;Kimberly Costello;Cara C. MacInnis

  • A joke is just a joke (except when it isn't): cavalier humor beliefs facilitate the expression of group dominance motives.

    Gordon Hodson;Jonathan Rush;Cara C. MacInnis

  • Instrumental Relations Among Groups: Group Competition, Conflict, and Prejudice

    Victoria M. Esses;Lynne M. Jackson;John F. Dovidio;Gordon Hodson

Frequent Co-Authors

Becky L. Choma
Becky L. Choma Toronto Metropolitan University
Kristof Dhont
Kristof Dhont University of Kent
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Richard M. Sorrentino
Richard M. Sorrentino University of Western Ontario
Victoria M. Esses
Victoria M. Esses University of Western Ontario
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Samuel L. Gaertner
Samuel L. Gaertner University of Delaware
Rhiannon N. Turner
Rhiannon N. Turner Queen's University Belfast
Michael A. Busseri
Michael A. Busseri Brock University
Teena Willoughby
Teena Willoughby Brock University

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