Dr. Leonard Newman

Director, Social Psychology Program

Education

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Cornell University, BA.--Government
New York University, MA, Ph. D. Social-Personality Psychology

Research Interest

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How do people resolve the ambivalent feelings they have about members of other groups? What mental maneuvers do people use to shield themselves from threats to their self-concepts? How do people deal with having violated their moral and other behavioral standards? At the broadest level, my research focuses on the motivational aspects of social cognition. More specific interests include attitudinal ambivalence, social stigma, defensive and self-protective processes in judgment and memory, and the social psychology of genocide and mass killing.

Representative Publications

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Newman, L. S., Caldwell, T. L., & Griffin, T. D. (in press). The undesired selves of repressors. Cognition and Emotion.

Newman, L. S. (2007). Beyond situationism: The social psychology of genocide and mass killing. In H. Kramer (Ed.), NS-Täter aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. München, Germany: Meidenbauer.

Newman, L. S., & Caldwell, T. L. (2005). Allport's "Living Inkblots": The role of defensive projection in stereotyping and prejudice. In J. F. Dovidio, P. Glick, and L. A. Rudman (Eds.). On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty years after Allport (pp. 377-392). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Newman, L. S., Caldwell, T. L., Chamberlin, B., & Griffin, T. (2005). Thought Suppression, Projection, and the Development of Stereotypes. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27, 259-266.

Ottati, V., Bodenhausen, G. V., & Newman, L. S. (2005). Social Psychological Models of Mental Illness Stigma. In P. W. Corrigan (Ed), On the stigma of mental illness: Practical strategies for research and social
change (pp. 99-128). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association.

Newman, L. S., & Erber, R. (2002). Understanding Genocide: The social psychology of the Holocaust. New York: Oxford University Press.

Newman, L. S., & McKinney, L. C. (2002) Repressive coping and threat avoidance: An idiographic Stroop study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 409-422.

Newman, L. S., Duff, K. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (1997). A new look at defensive projection: Thought suppression, accessibility, and biased person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 980-1001.