  |
|
 |
James D. Johnson |
|
Greetings from the Chair | Faculty & Staff | Faculty Openings | |
Earlier in my career, I was very interested in the influence of various forms of stereotypes on perceptual and judgmental processes. Moreover, I tended to focus on the role of mass media in the origins and maintenance of such stereotypes. At some point, I realized that there was very little empirical attention given to the minority perspective in stereotyping literature. From my personal experiences, I realized that Blacks had clear and persistent stereotypes regarding Whites. There also seemed to be some degree of variation in the endorsement of such Black antiWhite stereotypical beliefs. More important, this variation seems to have a profound influence on Blacks’ perceptions and behavioral interactions with Whites. Subsequently, Len Lecci and I developed one of the first measures of Black antiWhite bias based on the responses of a Black participant population. This four factor Johnson-Lecci scale (see Johnson & Lecci, 2003) has been shown to predict responses to ambiguously racist scenarios and peer-rated attitudes towards Whites. Most recently, I have become very interested in the role of Black antiWhite bias on the health care related responses of Blacks. I was recently a part of a consortium that received a 3.5 million grant from NIH to assess why minorities in the Southeast tend not to seek or continue radiation treatment for cancer. One of the major components of the grant was to assess whether variations in responses on the Johnson-Lecci scale would predict health care seeking responses, and more important, health care outcomes. In my own lab, I am presently investigating how variation on the Johnson-Lecci scale and physician race might interact to influence physician trust and health care seeking behavior. Select Publications Johnson, J.D. , Gibson, N., Reed, W., & Ashburn-Nardo, L. (in press). Priming Media Stereotypes Reduces support for Social Welfare Policy: The Mediating Role of Empathy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Johnson, J.D., Ashburn-Nardo, L.A., Spicer, C. V., & Dovidio, J. (2008). The role of Black Discriminatory Expectations in their Prosocial Orientations towards Blacks and White. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1498-1505. Johnson, J.D., Bushman, B., & Dovidio, J. (2008). Support for Harmful Treatment and Reduction of Empathy towards Blacks: “Remnants” of Stereotype Activation involving Hurrricane Katrina and “Lil Kim”. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1506-1513. Johnson, J, & Lecci, L. (2003). Assessing antiWhite attitudes among Blacks and predicting perceived racism: The Johnson-Lecci Scale. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 29, 299-312. | ||
 Maintained by J. Toth () Copyright Notice | About this Site |
||
