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John F. Dovidio

John F. Dovidio

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Psychology
USA
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
141
Citations
89226
World Ranking
111
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

John F. Dovidio is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences, with significant contributions to psychology and subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, infectious diseases, gender studies, and general health professions.

Their work covers a broad range of topics prominently centered on social and intergroup psychology. Additional areas of focus include cultural differences and values, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, gender diversity and inequality, racial and ethnic identity research, and contexts involving HIV, drug use, and sexual risk.

Among recent publications are several papers illustrating their engagement with implicit bias, acculturation processes, and intergroup contact:

  • Best research practices for using the Implicit Association Test, 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • Implicit-Bias Remedies: Treating Discriminatory Bias as a Public-Health Problem, 2022, Gothic.net
  • The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures, 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Implicit androcentrism: Men are human, women are gendered, 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Mobilizing or Sedative Effects? A Narrative Review of the Association Between Intergroup Contact and Collective Action Among Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups, 2023, Personality and Social Psychology Review

The scientist has frequent collaborations with several coauthors, including Sarah K. Calabrese, Louis A. Penner, Nao Hagiwara, Sharanya Rao, and Brian D. Smedley, reflecting partnerships in ongoing social and psychological research.

Their research has been published regularly in the following venues:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • PLoS ONE

In addition to articles, Dovidio has contributed to academic books published by notable presses. Their book titles include Unequal Health (2023) published by Cambridge University Press and States of Belonging (2021) published by the Russell Sage Foundation.

Awards recognizing their contributions include the Donald T. Campbell Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2011 and being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students

    Corinne A. Moss-Racusin;John F. Dovidio;Victoria L. Brescoll;Mark J. Graham

  • The aversive form of racism.

    Samuel L. Gaertner;John F. Dovidio

  • Prosocial Behavior: Multilevel Perspectives

    Louis A. Penner.;John F. Dovidio.;Jane A. Piliavin.;David A. Schroeder.

  • Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model

    Samuel L. Gaertner;John F. Dovidio

  • Implicit and explicit prejudice and interracial interaction.

    John F. Dovidio;Kerry Kawakami;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • On the nature of prejudice: Automatic and controlled processes

    John F. Dovidio;Kerry Kawakami;Craig Johnson;Brenda Johnson

  • Aversive Racism and Selection Decisions: 1989 and 1999:

    John F. Dovidio;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • The Common Ingroup Identity Model: Recategorization and the Reduction of Intergroup Bias

    Samuel L. Gaertner;John F. Dovidio;Phyllis A. Anastasio;Betty A. Bachman

  • Prejudice, discrimination, and racism.

    John F. Dovidio;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas

    Anne L. Stangl;Valerie A. Earnshaw;Carmen H. Logie;Wim van Brakel

  • Reducing intergroup bias: The benefits of recategorization.

    Samuel L. Gaertner;Jeffrey Mann;Audrey Murrell;John F. Dovidio

  • The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior

    John F. Dovidio;Jane Allyn Piliavin;David A. Schroeder;Louis A. Penner

  • The Immigration Dilemma: The Role of Perceived Group Competition, Ethnic Prejudice, and National Identity

    Victoria M. Esses;John F. Dovidio;Lynne M. Jackson;Tamara L. Armstrong

  • Intergroup Contact: The Past, Present, and the Future

    John F. Dovidio;Samuel L. Gaertner;Kerry Kawakami

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

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

  • Racial stereotypes: The contents of their cognitive representations☆

    John F Dovidio;Nancy Evans;Richard B Tyler

  • Prejudice, discrimination, and racism: Historical trends and contemporary approaches.

    John F. Dovidio;Samuel L. Gaertner

  • Stigma and racial/ethnic HIV disparities: Moving toward resilience.

    Valerie A. Earnshaw;Laura M. Bogart;John F. Dovidio;David R. Williams

  • Stigma and prejudice: One animal or two?

    Jo C. Phelan;Bruce G. Link;John F. Dovidio

  • Stigma: Introduction and overview.

    John F. Dovidio;Brenda Major;Jennifer Crocker

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel L. Gaertner
Samuel L. Gaertner University of Delaware
Diana J. Burgess
Diana J. Burgess United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Tamar Saguy
Tamar Saguy Reichman University
Louis A. Penner
Louis A. Penner Wayne State University
Victoria M. Esses
Victoria M. Esses University of Western Ontario
Nathan B. Hansen
Nathan B. Hansen University of Georgia
Valerie A. Earnshaw
Valerie A. Earnshaw University of Delaware
Arie Nadler
Arie Nadler Tel Aviv University
Gordon Hodson
Gordon Hodson Brock University
Tessa V. West
Tessa V. West New York University

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