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Felicia Pratto

Felicia Pratto

Title: Professor


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:

  • Political psychology
  • Intergroup relations, discrimination and prejudice
  • Power dynamics between groups

Undergraduate courses:

  • Social Psychology (PSYC 2700)
    Laboratory in Social Psychology (PSYC 3750W)

Graduate courses:

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

Representative Publications:

  • Lee, I., Pratto, F., & Johnson, B. T. (in press). Intergroup Consensus/Disagreement in Support of Group Based Hierarchy:
    An Examination of Socio-Structural and Psycho-Cultural Factors. Psychological Bulletin.
  • Pratto, F., Sidanius, J., & Levin, S. (2006). Social dominance theory and the dynamics of intergroup relations: Taking stock and looking forward. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds)., European Review of Social Psychology, 17, 271-320.
  • Pratto, F. & Pitpitan, E. V. (2008). Ethnocentrism and sexism: How stereotypes legitimize six types of power relations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2/6, 2159-2176.
  • Pratto, F., & Glasford, D. E. (2008). Prospect theory, ethnocentrism, and the value of a human life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1141-1428.
  • Pratto, F., Lee, I., Tan, J. & Pitpitan, E. (2011). Power Basis Theory: A psycho-ecological approach to power. In D. Dunning (Ed.), Social Motivation (191-222). New York: Psychology Press.