Allen R. McConnell
Department of Psychology
Miami University
213 Psychology Building
Oxford, Ohio 45056
U.S.A.
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Phone: (513) 529-2407
Fax: (513) 529-2420
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I am an experimental social psychologist who approaches understanding social behavior from a social cognitive perspective (i.e., how we interact with others is determined, in large measure, by what's in our head and how it's organized), with my primary lines of research focusing on self-concept representation, the processes underlying implicit and explicit attitudes, and on group stereotyping and prejudice. My research on self-concept explores how self-concepts are formed and how their organization affects well-being. With respect to attitudes, my most recent work has been exploring the how implicit and explicit attitudes differ in their formation, change, and ability to predict behavior. Finally, in the area of group stereotyping, my most recent work examines how members of minority groups respond to stigma, especially when stereotype threat results in suboptimal performance in members of stigmatized groups. In addition to these primary lines of research, my work also examines judgment and decision making, including how affect and counterfactual ("if only...") thinking influences judgments and feelings, and how people respond to socially-induced reactance (i.e., threats to perceived freedom).
 Beilock, S. L., Jellison, W. A., Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., & Carr, T. H. (2006). Causal mechanisms of stereotype threat: Can skills that don't rely heavily on working memory still be threatened? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1059-1071.
- Beilock, S. L., Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2007). Stereotype threat and working memory: Mechanisms, alleviation, and spillover. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 256-276.
- Jellison, W. A., McConnell, A. R., & Gabriel, S. (2004). Implicit and explicit measures of sexual orientation attitudes: Ingroup preferences and overt behaviors among gay and straight men. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 629-642.
- McConnell, A. R., & Leibold, J. M. (2001). Relations among the Implicit Association Test, discriminatory behavior, and explicit measures of racial attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 435-442.
- McConnell, A. R., Renaud, J. M., Dean, K. K., Green, S. P., Lamoreaux, M. J., Hall, C. E., & Rydell, R. J. (2005). Whose self is it anyway? Self-aspect control and the relation between self-complexity and well-being. Journal Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 1-18.
- McConnell, A. R., Rydell, R. J., & Leibold, J. M. (2002). Expectations of consistency about the self: Consequences for self-concept formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 569-585.
- McConnell, A. R., Rydell, R. J., Strain, L. M., & Mackie, D. M. (2008). Forming implicit and explicit attitudes toward individuals: Social group association cues. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 792-807.
- McConnell, A. R., Sherman, S. J., & Hamilton, D. L. (1997). Target entitativity: Implications for information processing about individual and group targets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 750-762.
- McConnell, A. R., Sherman, S. J., & Hamilton, D. L. (1994). On-line and memory-based aspects of individual and group target judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 173-185.
- Renaud, J. M., & McConnell, A. R. (2007). Wanting to be better but thinking you can't: Implicit theories of personality moderate the impact of self-discrepancies on self-esteem. Self and Identity, 6, 41-50.
- Renaud, J. M., & McConnell, A. R. (2002). Organization of the self-concept and the suppression of self-relevant thoughts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 79-86.
- Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2006). Understanding implicit and explicit attitude change: A systems of reasoning analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 995-1008.
- Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2005). Perceptions of entitativity and attitude change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 99-110.
- Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., Mackie, D. M., & Strain, L. M. (2006). Of two minds: Forming and changing valence inconsistent implicit and explicit attitudes. Psychological Science, 17, 954-958.
- Schleicher, D. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2005). The complexity of self-complexity: An Associated Systems Theory approach. Social Cognition, 23, 387-416.
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