Dr. Robert "B.J." Rydell
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Contact Information
Office: PY 351
Office Phone: 855-7608
Lab: PY 238
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Link to curriculum vitae
Educational Background
- 2005 - Ph.D., Miami University
- 1999 - B.S., Purdue University
Areas of Study
- Social psychology
Research Topics
- Attitude formation
- Attitude change
- Implicit-explicit attitude discrepancies
- Impression formation
- Stereotype threat
Research Summary:
My primary research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that explain attitude formation, attitude change, and resisting persuasion. Building on this basic research, I investigate how forming valence inconsistent implicit and explicit attitudes impact phenomonology, information processing, and behavior. I also examine impression formation, outcomes associated with perceptions of group characteristics (e.g., entitativity), self-concept formation and integration, and the mechanisms underlying stereotype threat.
Representative Publications
Rydell, R. J., & Boucher, K. L. (in press). Capitalizing on multiple social identities to prevent stereotype threat: The moderating role of self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
McConnell, A. R., strong>Rydell, R. J., & Brown, C. M. (in press). On the representation of self-concept: How self-concept organization influences affective responses and self-evaluations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Rydell, R. J., Hamilton, D. L., & Devos, T. (in press). Now they are American, now they are not: Valence as a determinant of the inclusion of African Americans in the American identity. Social Cognition.
Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (in press). Consistency and inconsistency in implicit social cognition: The case of implicit and explicit measures of attitudes. In B. Gawronski & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition. New York: Guilford.
Rydell, R. J., & Jones, C. R. M. (in press). Competition between unconditioned stimuli in attitude formation: Negative asymmetry versus spatio-temporal contiguity. Social Cognition.
Rydell, R. J., & Gawronski, B. (in press). I like you, I like you not: Understanding the formation of context dependent automatic evaluations. Cognition and Emotion.
McConnell, A. R., Strain, L. M., Brown, C. M., & Rydell, R. J. (2009). The simple life: On the benefits of being lower in self-complexity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 823-835.
Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., & Beilock, S. L. (2009). Multiple social identities and stereotype threat: Imbalance, accessibility, and working memory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 949-966.
Bringle, R. G., & Rydell, R. J. (2009). Obsessive love. In H. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., & Mackie, D. M. (2008). Consequences of discrepant explicit and implicit attitudes: Cognitive dissonance and increased information processing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1526-1532.
Rydell, R. J., Mackie, D. M., Maitner, A. T., Claypool, H. M., Ryan, M., & Smith, E. R. (2008). Arousal, processing, and risk taking: Consequences of intergroup anger. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1141-1152.
Ray, D., Mackie, D. M., Rydell, R. J., & Smith, E. R. (2008). Changing categorization of self can change emotions about outgroups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1210-1213.
McConnell, A. R., Rydell, R. J., Strain, L. M., & Mackie, D. M. (2008). Social group association cues: Forming implicit and explicit attitudes toward individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 792-807.
Rydell, R. J., & Bringle, R. G. (2007). Differentiating reactive and suspicious jealousy. Social Behavior and Personality, 35, 1099-1114.
Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., Strain, L. M., Claypool, H. M., & Hugenberg, K. (2007). Implicit and explicit attitudes respond differently to increasing amounts of counterattitudinal information. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 867-878.
Beilock, S. L., Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2007). Stereotype threat and working memory: Mechanisms, alleviation, and spill over. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 256-276.
Rydell, R. J., Hugenberg, K., Ray, D., & Mackie, D. M. (2007). Implicit theories about groups and stereotyping: The role of group entitativity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 549-558.
Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2006). Understanding implicit and explicit attitude change: A systems of reasoning analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 995-1008.
Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., Mackie, D. M., Strain, L. M. (2006). Of two minds: Forming and changing valence inconsistent attitudes. Psychological Science, 17, 954-958. (EditorÕs Choice Š Science January 5, 2007)
Beilock, S. L., Jellison, W. A., Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., & Carr, T. H. (2006). On the causal mechanisms of stereotype threat: Can skills that don't rely heavily on working memory still be threatened? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1059-1071.
Rydell, R. J., Hugenberg, K., & McConnell, A. R. (2006). Resistance can be good or bad: How theories of resistance and dissonance affect attitude certainty. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 740-750.
Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2005). Perceptions of entitativity and attitude change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 99-110.
McConnell A. R., Renaud, J. M., Dean, K. K., Green, S. M., Lamoreaux, M. J., Hall, C. E., & Rydell, R. J. (2005). Whose self is it anyway? Self-aspect control moderates the relation between self-complexity and well-being. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 1-18.
Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., & Bringle, R. G. (2004). Jealousy and relationship commitment: Perceived threat and the effect of relationship alternatives. Personal Relationships, 11, 451-468.
McConnell, A. R., Rydell, R. J., & Leibold, J. M. (2002). Expectations about the self: Consequences for self-concept formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 569-585.
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