Melissa Burkley

Institution Oklahoma State University Current Position Assistant Professor Highest Degree Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006 Research Interests Group Processes Intergroup Relations Prejudice/Stereotyping Social Cognition Laboratory Home Page Social Cognition Laboratory Blog The Social Thinker Courses Taught Research Methods in Psychology Social Psychology Stereotypes and Prejudice   Melissa Burkley Department of Psychology Oklahoma State University 215 North Murray Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 United States Home Page Phone: (405) 744-7575 Fax: (405) 744-8067 My research interests center around the issues of stereotypes, stigma, and group processes. I currently pursue this interest with two main lines of research. The first examines why stigmatized individuals embrace negative stereotypes regarding their own group. The second is concerned with the development of a new measure of implicit prejudice. Journal Articles: Burkley, M., & Blanton, H. (2008). Endorsing a negative in-group stereotype as a self-protective strategy: Sacrificing the group to save the self. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 37-49. Burkley, M., & Blanton, H. (2005). When am I my group? Self-enhancement versus self-justification accounts of perceived prototypicality. Social Justice Research, 18, 445-463. Burkley, M., Parker, J., Stermer, P. S., & Burkley, E. (2010). Trait beliefs that make women vulnerable to math disengagement. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 234-238. Parker, J., & Burkley, M. (2009). Who’s chasing whom? The impact of gender and relationship status on mate poaching. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1016-1019. Payne, K., Burkley, M., & Stokes, M. (2008). Why do implicit and explicit attitude tests diverge? The role of structural fit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 16-31. Other Publications: Blanton, H., & Burkley, M. (2008). Deviance regulation theory: Applications to adolescent social influence. In M. Prinstein & K. A. Dodge (Eds.), Peer contagion processes among youth: Peer contagion processes in youth Duke series on child development and public policy. Guilford Press. Burkley, M., & Blanton, H. (2008). Research designs in applied social psychology. In L. Steg, B. Buunk, & T. Rothengatter (Eds.), Applied social psychology: Understanding and managing social problems. Cambridge University Press.

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