My research focuses on how to predict political judgments based on information about both the decision-maker and the context of their judgment. My major scholarly contributions to this literature so far have focused on a) developing a model to predict how people use different sources of information to form impressions of politicians (Crawford, Jussim, Madon, Cain & Stevens, 2011), b) developing the ideologically objectionable premise model (IOPM), which predicts the conditions under which political beliefs will (and will not) bias sociopolitical judgments (Crawford, 2012), and c) extending Duckitt's (2001) dual process motivational (DPM) model to political judgments and decision-making. My recent research on that topic has applied the DPM model to biased assimilation processes (Crawford, Jussim, Cain, & Cohen, in press), political intolerance (Crawford & Pilanski, under review), and voter decision-making (Crawford, in prep).

Primary Interests:

Attitudes and Beliefs
Causal Attribution
Intergroup Relations
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivation, Goal Setting
Person Perception
Personality, Individual Differences
Political Psychology
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Attitudes and Beliefs
Causal Attribution
Intergroup Relations
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivation, Goal Setting
Person Perception

Personality, Individual Differences
Political Psychology
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Attitudes and Social Cognition Laboratory
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Journal Articles:

Crawford, J. T. (2012). The ideologically objectionable premise model: Predicting biased political judgments on the left and right. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(1), 138-151.
Crawford, J. T., & Bhatia, A. (in press). Birther nation: Political conservatism is associated with explicit and implicit beliefs that President Barack Obama is foreign. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.
Crawford, J. T., Jussim, L., Cain, T. R., & Cohen, F. (in press). Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation differentially predict biased evaluations of media reports. Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Crawford, J. T., Jussim, L., Madon, S., Cain, T. R., & Stevens, S. T. (2011). The use of stereotypes and individuating information in political person perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(4), 529-542.
Crawford, J. T., Leynes, P. A., Mayhorn, C. B., & Bink, M. L. (2004). Champagne, beer, or coffee? A corpus of gender-related and neutral words. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(3), 444-458.
Jussim, L., Harber, K., Crawford, J. T., Cain, T. R., & Cohen, F. (2005). Social reality makes the social mind: Self-fulfilling prophecy, stereotypes, bias and accuracy. Interaction Studies, 6(1), 85-102.

Other Publications:

Jussim, L., Cain, T. R., Crawford, J. T., Harber, K., & Cohen, F. (2009). The unbearable accuracy of stereotypes. In T. Nelson (Ed.), The Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination (p. 199-228). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Courses Taught:

Classic and Contemporary Issues in Social Psychology
Design and Statistical Analysis
Political Psychology
The Psychology of Bias
Undergraduate Research Seminar

Classic and Contemporary Issues in Social Psychology
Design and Statistical Analysis
Political Psychology

The Psychology of Bias
Undergraduate Research Seminar

Jarret T. Crawford
Department of Psychology
College of New Jersey
2000 Pennington Road
Ewing, NJ 08628
United States

Phone: (609) 771-2117