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Overview

Hart Blanton is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary areas, focusing primarily on behavioral health, risk, and safety.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics and appear in various academic venues. These include:

  • Optimized guidance for building fires considering occupants' route choices, 2020, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Test of a deviance regulation theory intervention among first-year college student drinkers: Differential effects via frequency and quantity norms, 2021, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • The Prototypes of Tobacco Users Scale (POTUS) for Cigarette Smoking and E-Cigarette Use: Development and Validation, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Abstaining College Students' Motives to Use E-Cigarettes: A Brief Report, 2021, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • The prototypes of tobacco users scale (Potus) for cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use: Development and validation, 2023, UNC Libraries

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Eboneé N. Butler
  • Marissa G. Hall
  • Jessica K. Pepper
  • Xuesong Lu
  • Timothy Gifford

The primary publication venues for their research reflect the diversity of their work:

  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
  • UNC Libraries

Hart Blanton's research fields and subfields include Applied Psychology, Physiology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, as well as Literature and Literary Theory, and Sociology and Political Science. This broad range underlines a multidisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

The main topics examined throughout their career are:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology

This body of work suggests an emphasis on understanding and influencing health behaviors, particularly relating to tobacco use and cessation, as well as safety dynamics in emergency and risk contexts.

Best Publications

  • Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: a meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies.

    Frederick L. Oswald;Gregory Mitchell;Hart Blanton;James Jaccard

  • Arbitrary metrics in psychology.

    Hart Blanton;James Jaccard

  • Reasoned action and social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Hart Blanton;Daniel W. Russell

  • The Effects of Stereotype Threat and Double-Minority Status on the Test Performance of Latino Women:

    Patricia M. Gonzales;Hart Blanton;Kevin J. Williams

  • Peer influences on risk behavior: an analysis of the effects of a close friend

    James Jaccard;Hart Blanton;Tonya Dodge

  • When better-than-others compare upward : Choice of comparison and comparative evaluation as independent predictors of academic performance

    Hart Blanton;Bram P. Buunk;Frederick X. Gibbons;Hans Kuyper

  • Strong Claims and Weak Evidence: Reassessing the Predictive Validity of the IAT

    Hart Blanton;James Jaccard;Jonathan Klick;Barbara Mellers

  • Deviance regulation: A theory of action and identity.

    Hart Blanton;Charlene Christie

  • Implicit self-esteem: nature, measurement, and a new way forward.

    Michael D. Buhrmester;Hart Blanton;William B. Swann Jr.

  • Decoding the implicit association test: Implications for criterion prediction

    Hart Blanton;James Jaccard;Patricia M. Gonzales;Charlene Christie

  • From Dissonance To Disidentification: Selectivity in the Self-Affirmation Process

    Joshua Aronson;Hart Blanton;Joel Cooper

  • Using the IAT to Predict Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: Small Effect Sizes of Unknown Societal Significance

    Frederick L. Oswald;Gregory Mitchell;Hart Blanton;James Jaccard

  • Role of family and peers in the development of prototypes associated with substance use.

    Hart Blanton;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Katherine Jewsbury Conger

  • From seeing to being: subliminal social comparisons affect implicit and explicit self-evaluations.

    Diederik A. Stapel;Hart Blanton

  • The effects of in-group versus out-group social comparison on self-esteem in the context of a negative stereotype.

    Hart Blanton;Jennifer Crocker;Dale T. Miller

  • When Bad Things Happen to Good Feedback: Exacerbating the Need for Self-Justification with Self-Affirmations

    Hart Blanton;Joel Cooper;Ian Slkurnik;Joshua Aronson

  • Overconfidence as Dissonance Reduction

    Hart Blanton;Brett W. Pelham;Tracy DeHart;Mauricio Carvallo

  • Evaluating the Self in the Context of Another: The Three-Selves Model of Social Comparison Assimilation and Contrast

    Hart Blanton

  • Unconscious Racism: A Concept in Pursuit of a Measure

    Hart Blanton;James Jaccard

  • Accentuate the negative : Social images in the prediction and promotion of condom use

    Hart Blanton;Regina J. J. M. VandenEijnden;Bram P. Buunk;Frederick X. Gibbons

Frequent Co-Authors

James Jaccard
James Jaccard New York University
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Diederik A. Stapel
Diederik A. Stapel Tilburg University
Bram P. Buunk
Bram P. Buunk University of Groningen
Frederick L. Oswald
Frederick L. Oswald Rice University
Jennifer Crocker
Jennifer Crocker The Ohio State University
Barbara A. Mellers
Barbara A. Mellers University of Pennsylvania
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University

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