Ashby Plant
check Recruiting a graduate student for Fall of 2025
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2000
Research Interests
Promoting positive intergroup relations and reducing intergroup tension; interactions between different social groups; the role of motivation in the management and reduction of intergroup tension.
Current Research
Current research explores how people's motivations affect their intergroup attitudes, emotions, and behavior. Other studies focus on the factors that influence the quality of interactions between different social groups and the reduction of intergroup tension.
Lab Description
Social Psychology with an emphasis on intergroup relations; specific interests include individual differences in how preconceptions are managed and strategies for improving interactions between different groups.
Chamberlin, K.G., & Plant, E.A. (2024). Getting By with a Little Help from My Antiracist White Friends: Can White Antiracism Counteract the Demobilizing Effect of Positive Contact? Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Mallinas, S. R., Kievit, D. K. & Plant, E. A. (2023). Trial by Ideology: Ideological Differences in Responses to Errors in Determining Guilt in the United States. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104489
Chamberlin, K., & Plant, E. A. (2023). Systemic Sexism Recognition and Antisexism Encourage Gender Equality Activism: An Adaptation of Bystander Intervention Theory. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12976
Mallinas, S. R., & Plant, E. A. & Maner, J. K. (2021). Abandon Ship or Stay on Board? Threats to Group Power Influence Group Adherence. Social Psychology, 52, 287-298. DOI:10.1027/1864-9335/a000456
Kievit, D. L., LaCosse, J., Mallinas, S. R., March, D. S., Kunstman, J., Zabel, K., Olson, M. A., Plant, E. A. (2022). Changes in motivations to respond without prejudice track changes in perceived race relations in the U.S. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221089768
Monroe, A.E., Wyngaarden, J.B., & Plant, E.A. (2020). “They should have followed the rules”: Tradeoffs Between Fairness and Authority Values Predict Judgments of Social Justice Protests. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620923854
LaCosse, J., & Plant, E. A. (2020). Internal motivation to respond without prejudice fosters respectful responses in interracial interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(5), 1037–1056. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000219
Goplen, J., & Plant, E.A., (2015). A Religious Worldview: Protecting One’s Meaning System through Religious Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1474-1487.
Undergraduate Research
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