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Felicia Pratto

Felicia Pratto

Title: Professor, Head of the Social Division


Departmental Program: Social

E-mail: felicia.pratto@uconn.edu

Office: BOUS 177

Office Phone: (860) 486-4772

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail or postal mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Attention and consciousness
  • Prejudice and discrimination
  • Social cognition

Undergraduate courses:

  • Communication of Prejudice
  • Social Psychology

Graduate courses:

  • Research Methods in Experimental Social Psychology
  • Theories of Intergroup Relations
  • Social Cognition

Representative Publications:

  • Pratto, F. (1999). The puzzle of continuing group inequality: Piecing together psychological, social, and cultural forces in social dominance theory. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, 31. San Diego: Academic Press. (pp. 191-263).
  • Pratto, F. (1996). Sexual politics: The gender gap in the bedroom, the cupboard, and the cabinet. In D. M. Buss & N. Malamuth (Eds.), Sex, power, and conflict: Evolutionary and feminist perspectives. NY: Oxford University Press. (pp. 179-230).
  • Hegarty, P. J., & Pratto, F. (2001). The effects of social category norms on explanations for intergroup differences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 723-735.
  • Pratto, F., & Cathey, C. (2002). The role of social ideologies in legitimizing political attitudes and public policy. In V. Ottati (Ed.), The Social Psychology of Politics. (pp. 131-151). NY: Plenum.
  • Pratto, F., & Walker, A. (2004). The bases of gendered power. In A. H. Eagly, A. Beall, & R. Sternberg (Eds.), The Psychology of gender, 2nd edition (pp. 242-268). NY: Guilford Publications.