Hart Blanton
Department of Psychology, unit 1020
406 Babbidge Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-102
U.S.A.
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My primary research emphases are: (1) Social Influence and Social Communication: social marketing, health communication, peer influence. (2) Social Cognition: social comparison and categorization, unconscious processes, meta-cognition (overconfidence and judgments of learning). (3) Group Process: reactions to negative stereotypes, group-based social comparisons. (4) Motivated Cognition: cognitive dissonance, comparative evaluations. (5) Research Methodology: attitude measurement, implicit psychometrics, ethics in science and communication.
 Books:
 Pelham, B. W., & Blanton, H. (2007). Conducting research in psychology: Measuring the weight of smoke (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning.
Journal Articles:
- Blanton, H., & Christie, C. (2003). Deviance regulation: A theory of identity and action. Review of General Psychology, 7(2), 115-149.
- Blanton, H., Christie, C., & Dye, M. (2002). Social identity versus reference frame comparisons: The moderating role of stereotype endorsement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38(3), 253-267.
- Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J. (2008). Unconscious racism: A concept in pursuit of a measure. Annual Review of Sociology, 34, 277-2097.
- Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J. (2006). Arbitrary metrics in psychology. American Psychologist, 61, 27-41.
- Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J. (2006). Tests of multiplicative models in psychology: A case study using the unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-concept. Psychological Review, 113, 155-169.
- Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J., Gonzales, P., & Christie, C. (2006). Decoding the Implicit Association Test: Implications for criterion prediction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 192-212.
- Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Klick, J., Mellers, B., Mitchell, G., & Tetlock, P. E. (in press). Strong claims and weak evidence: Reassessing the predictive validity of the IAT. Journal of Applied Psychology.
- Blanton, H., Pelham, B. W., DeHart, T., & Carvallo, M. (2001). Overconfidence as dissonance reduction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37(5), 373-385.
- Blanton, H., & Stapel, D. A. (2007). Unconscious and spontaneous and... complex: The three selves model of social comparison assimilation and contrast. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Blanton, H., Stuart, A. E., & VandenEijnden, R. J. J. M. (2001). An introduction to deviance-regulation theory: The effect of behavioral norms on message framing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(7), 848-858.
- Burkley, H., & Blanton, H. (2008). Endorsing a negative in-group stereotype as a self-protective strategy: Sacrificing the group to save the self. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(1), 37-49.
- Burkley, M., & Blanton, H. (2005). When am I my group? Self-enhancement versus self-justification accounts of perceived prototypicality. Social Justice Research, 18, 445-463.
- Jaccard, J., Blanton, H., & Dodge, T. (2005). Peer influences on risk behavior: An analysis of the effects of a close friend. Developmental Psychology, 41(1), 135-147.
Other Publications:
- Blanton, H. (2001). Evaluating the self in the context of another: The three-selves model of social comparison assimilation and contrast. In G. B. Moskowitz (Ed.), Cognitive social psychology: The Princeton Symposium on the Legacy and Future of Social Cognition (pp. 75-87). Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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