Professor
James H. Sidanius
(
–
)
1945
2021
Harvard University
;
Cambridge, MA
Psychologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Psychological Sciences
Elected
2007
Professor of Psychology and African American Studies. His Social Dominance Theory of intergroup discrimination takes into account the importance of the maintenance of an established status hierarchy as a potent determinant of the nature of intergroup relations, attitudes and behavior. The social dominance perspective effectively links social structural variables with psychological mechanisms at the individual level. His latest books are entitled: The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus (2010), Key Readings in Political Psychology (2004), and Racialized Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion (2000).
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