Cheryl L. Dickter
My research interests are in social psychology with an emphasis on social cognition and person perception. More specifically, I study the processes involved in stereotyping and prejudice. I am interested in the social categorization process and how contextual information affects social judgment. I also study the factors involved in confronting prejudicial remarks, and I explore how confrontation can be a possible prejudice reduction strategy.
Primary Interests:
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Dickter, C. L. & Gyurovski, I. I. (in press). The effects of expectancy violations on early attention to race in an impression formation paradigm. Social Neuroscience.
- Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (2008). A response conflict account of the effects of stereotypes on racial categorization. Social Cognition, 26(3), 273-291.
- Bartholow, B. D., Dickter, C. L., & Sestir, M. A. (2006). Stereotype activation and control of race bias: Cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 272-287.
- Bartholow, B. D., Pearson, M. A., Dickter, C., Sher, K. J., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2005). Strategic control and medial frontal negativity in the event-related brain potential: Beyond errors and response conflict. Psychophysiology, 42, 33-42.
- Dickter, C. L. (in press). Confronting hate: Heterosexuals’ responses to antigay comments. Journal of Homosexuality.
- Dickter, C. L., & Bartholow, B. D. (2010). Ingroup categorization and response conflict: Interactive effects of target race, flanker compatibility and infrequency on N2 amplitude. Psychophysiology, 47, 596-601.
- Dickter, C. L., & Bartholow, B. D. (2007). Racial ingroup and outgroup attention biases revealed by event-related brain potentials. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2(3), 189-198.
- Dickter, C. L., & Newton, V. A. (in press). To confront or not to confront: Non-targets’ responses to racist comments. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
- Forestell, C. A., Dickter, C. L., Wright, J. D., & Young, C. M. (in press). Clearing the smoke: Parental influences on non-smokers’ attentional biases to smoking-related cues. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
- Jia, L., Dickter, C. L., & Zhang, Q. (in press). Different brain mechanisms betweenstereotype activation and application: Evidence from an ERP study. International Journal of Psychology.
- Newton, V. A., Dickter, C. L., & Gyurovski, I. I. (2011). The effects of stereotypical cues on the social categorization and judgment of ambiguous-race targets. Journal of Interpersonal Relations, Intergroup Relations and Identity.
Other Publications:
- Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience of person perception: A selective review focused on the event-related brain potential. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Fundamentals of social neuroscience. New York: Guilford Press.
- Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (in press). Person perception. In J. Decety & J. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of Social Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Research Methods
- Introduction to Psychology
- Introduction to Statistics
- Proseminar in Social Psychology (graduate)
- Social Psychology
- Stereotypes and Prejudice
Cheryl L. Dickter
Department of Psychology
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia 23187
United States of America
- Phone: (757) 221-3722