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Selected Publications: Brenda N. Major

Jost, J. T. & Major, B. (Eds.) (2001).  The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Power, and Intergroup Relations, (pp. 3-30). Cambridge University Press.

Deaux, K., & Major, B. (1987).  Putting gender into context:  An interactive model of gender-related behavior.  Psychological Review, 94, 369-389. (Recipient of 1986 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from SPSSI).

Crocker, J., & Major, B. (1989).  Social stigma and self-esteem:  The self-protective properties of stigma. Psychological Review, 96, 608-630.  (Recipient of 1988 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from SPSSI).

Major, B. (1994). From social inequality to personal entitlement:  The role of social comparisons, legitimacy appraisals, and group membership.  In M. Zanna (Ed.) Advances in experimental social psychology, (Vol. 26, pp. 293-355). NY: Academic Press.

Crocker, J., Major, B., & Steele, C. (1998).  Social stigma.  In S. Fiske, D. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (Vol 2, pp. 504-553).  Boston, MA: McGraw Hill.

Major, B., Spencer, S., Schmader, T., Wolfe, C. & Crocker, J. (1998).  Coping with negative stereotypes about intellectual performance:  The role of psychological disengagement.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 34-50.

Major, B., Richards, M. C., Cooper, M. L., Cozzarelli, C. & Zubek, J. (1998).  Personal resilience, cognitive appraisals, and coping:  An integrative model of adjustment to abortion.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 735-752.

Major, B. & Gramzow, R. (1999).  Abortion as stigma:  Cognitive and emotional implications of concealment.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 77, 735-746.

Major, B., Cozzarelli, C., Cooper, M. L., Zubek, J., Richards, C., Wilhite, M., & Gramzow, R. (2000).  Psychological responses of women following first trimester abortion.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 57, 777-784.
 
Major, B., Quinton, W. & McCoy, S (2002). Antecedents and consequences of attributions to discrimination: Theoretical and empirical advances.  In M. P. Zanna (Ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 251-329.

Major, B., Gramzow, R., McCoy, S., Levin, S., Schmader, T., Sidanius, J. (2002). Attributions to discrimination: The role of group status and legitimizing ideology.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 82, 269-282.  (Honorable Mention for the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from SPSSI).

Major, B., Kaiser, C. R. & McCoy, S. K. (2003). It’s not my fault: When and why attributions to prejudice protect self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 772-781.

Major, B., Quinton, W. J. & Schmader, T. (2003). Attributions to discrimination and self-esteem: Impact of group identification and situational ambiguity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 220-231.

McCoy, S. K. & Major, B. (2003). Group identification moderates emotional responses to perceived prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1005-1017.

Major, B. & O’Brien, L.T. (2005). The social psychology of stigma.  Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 393-421.

Major, B. & Kaiser, C. R. (2005). Perceiving and claiming discrimination. In Nielsen,.L. B. and Nelson, R. L. (Eds.)  The Handbook of Research on Employment Discrimination: Rights and Realities  (pp. 279-293). New York: Springer.

O’Brien, L. T. & Major, B. (2005). System justifying beliefs and psychological well-being: The roles of group status and identity.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1718-1729.

Kaiser, C.R., Vick, S.B., & Major, B. (2006). Prejudice expectations moderate preconscious attention to social identity threatening cues. Psychological Science, 17, 332-338.

Major, B., Kaiser, C.R, O’Brien, L. & McCoy, S. (in press). Perceived discrimination as worldview threat or worldview confirmation: Implications for self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

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