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Keith Maddox

Contact Info Department of Psychology Psychology Building Room 228 Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 Lab Website Tel: 617-627-2563 Email Professor

Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998

Dr. Keith Maddox is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Tufts University Social Cognition Lab. He received his A.B. (1991) in psychology from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Maddox is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including grants from the National Science Foundation, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, and an SPSP Distinguished Service Award. His lab is focused on research programs examining social cognitive aspects of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination seeking to understand topics such as: cognitive representations and stereotypes of African Americans based on variation in skin tone and other phenotypic characteristics; how stereotypes and prejudice influence perceptions of those who claim to be the targets of discrimination; stereotype threat among members of socially marginalized groups; and the role of social categories in spatial representation.. As the United States becomes a more diverse society, issues surrounding stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination will continue to gain importance. The long-range goal of this work is to further the understanding of the representation of stereotypic knowledge and its implications for the behavior and treatment of members of stereotyped groups.

Representative Publications

• Maddox, K.B., (2006). Rethinking Racial Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination. The Psychological Science Agenda, 20, 3-5.
• Dixon, T.L., & Maddox, K.B. (2005). Skin tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the schema of the dark and dangerous Black criminal. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1555-1570
• Maddox, K.B. (2004). Perspectives on racial phenotypicality bias. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 383-401.
• Maddox, K.B. & Chase, S.G. (2004). Manipulating subcategory salience: Exploring the link between skin tone and social perception of Blacks. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 533-546.
• Maddox, K.B. & Gray, S. (2002). Cognitive representations of African Americans: Re-exploring the role of skin tone. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 28, 250-259.
• Garcia-Marques, L, Hamilton, D.L., & Maddox, K.B. (2002). Exhaustive and heuristic retrieval processes in person cognition: Further tests of the TRAP model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 193-207.
• Hamilton, D.L., Sherman, S.J., & Maddox, K.B. (1999). Dualities and continua: Implications for understanding perceptions of persons and groups. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.) Dual Process Theories in Social Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.