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Victor Ottati is affiliated with Loyola University Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a total of nine publications in this broad field. Within social sciences, their work covers several subfields including sociology and political science, gender studies, political science and international relations, literature and literary theory, and public administration.

Ottati's research addresses multiple main topics, such as social and intergroup psychology, gender diversity and inequality, gender politics and representation, media influence and health, public policy and administration research, political philosophy and ethics, as well as terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence.

The scientist has contributed to several academic journals, publishing one paper each in the following venues:

  • Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Psychology Archives

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Victor Ottati include:

  • "I feel your pain": The effect of displaying empathy on political candidate evaluation (2020), published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain (2024), published in European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Rigidity-of-the-Right and Ideological Extremism in Belief Superiority: Evidence From National Surveys in Indonesia (2025), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Situational factors of intellectual humility: the flexible merit standard model (2023), published in The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Supplementary materials to: "I feel your pain": The effect of displaying empathy on political candidate evaluation (2020), published in Psychology Archives

Throughout their career, Ottati has collaborated with multiple frequent coauthors, including Randall A. Renstrom, David Igliozzi, Yael Granot, Whinda Yustisia, and Joevarian Hudiyana. Randall A. Renstrom appears as the most frequent collaborator, contributing to two papers with Ottati.

Best Publications

  • The Cognitive and Affective Bases of Political Tolerance Judgments

    James H. Kuklinski;Ellen Riggle;Victor Ottati;Norbert Schwarz

  • Improving police response to persons with mental illness: a multi-level conceptualization of CIT.

    Amy C. Watson;Melissa Schaefer Morabito;Jeffrey Draine;Victor Ottati

  • Effects on mood during exposure to target information on subsequently reported judgments: An on-line model of misattribution and correction.

    Victor C. Ottati;Linda M. Isbell

  • Crisis Intervention Teams and People With Mental Illness: Exploring the Factors That Influence the Use of Force

    Melissa S. Morabito;Amy N. Kerr;Amy C. Watson;Jeffrey Draine

  • Police Officers' Attitudes Toward and Decisions About Persons With Mental Illness

    Amy C. Watson;Patrick W. Corrigan;Victor Ottati

  • BASES OF POLITICAL JUDGMENTS: The Role of Stereotypic and Nonstereotypic Information

    Ellen D. Riggle;Victor C. Ottati;Robert S. Wyer;James Kuklinski

  • Outcomes of police contacts with persons with mental illness: the impact of CIT.

    Amy C. Watson;Victor C. Ottati;Melissa Morabito;Jeffrey Draine

  • Social psychological models of mental illness stigma

    Victor Ottati;Galen V. Bodenhausen;Leonard S. Newman

  • Perceived In-Group Homogeneity as a Function of Group Membership Salience and Stereotype Threat

    Yueh-Ting Lee;Victor Ottati

  • Attitudes toward “Illegal” Immigration into the United States: California Proposition 187:

    Yueh-Ting Lee;Victor Ottati;Imtiaz Hussain

  • The Effect of Metaphor on Processing Style in a Persuasion Task: A Motivational Resonance Model

    Victor Ottati;Susan Rhoads;Arthur C. Graesser

  • Determinants of In-Group and Out-Group Perceptions of Heterogeneity An Investigation of Sino-American Stereotypes

    Yueh-Ting Lee;Victor Ottati

  • From whence comes mental illness stigma

    Patrick W Corrigan;Amy C Watson;Victor Ottati

  • Attitudes toward U.S. immigration policy: the roles of in-group-out-group bias, economic concern, and obedience to law.

    Yueh-Ting Lee;Victor Ottati

  • Open-Minded Cognition

    Erika Price;Victor Ottati;Chase Wilson;Soyeon Kim

  • Police responses to persons with mental illness: does the label matter?

    Amy C Watson;Patrick W Corrigan;Victor Ottati

  • Happy Faces Elicit Heuristic Processing in a Televised Impression Formation Task: A Cognitive Tuning Account

    Victor Ottati;Nayda Terkildsen;Clark Hubbard

  • Affect and Politics: Effects on Judgment, Processing, and Information Seeking

    Linda M. Isbell;Victor C. Ottati;Kathleen C. Burns

  • Accuracy: A neglected component of stereotype research.

    Victor Ottati;Yueh-Ting Lee

  • When self-perceptions of expertise increase closed-minded cognition: The earned dogmatism effect

    Victor Ottati;Erika D. Price;Chase Wilson;Nathanael Sumaktoyo

  • Cognitive and affective bases of opinion survey responses.

    Victor C. Ottati;Ellen J. Riggle;Robert S. Wyer;Norbert Schwarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy C. Watson
Amy C. Watson University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert S. Wyer
Robert S. Wyer University of Cincinnati
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Ellen D. B. Riggle
Ellen D. B. Riggle University of Kentucky
Harry C. Triandis
Harry C. Triandis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick W. Corrigan
Patrick W. Corrigan Illinois Institute of Technology
Fred B. Bryant
Fred B. Bryant Loyola University Chicago
Jamie DeCoster
Jamie DeCoster University of Virginia
Eliot R. Smith
Eliot R. Smith Indiana University
Martin Fishbein
Martin Fishbein University of Pennsylvania

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