James Sidanius
Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies
William James Hall, room 960
33 Kirkland Street
Tel: (617) 495-3804
Email: sidanius@wjh.harvard.edu
Biography
Jim Sidanius is a Professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph. D. at the University of Stockholm, Sweden and has taught at several universities in the United States and Europe, including Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, Princeton University, the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and the University of California, Los Angeles. His primary research interests include the interface between political ideology and cognitive functioning, the political psychology of gender, group conflict, institutional discrimination and the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice.
He has authored and published more than 100 scientific papers, and his most important theoretical contribution to date is the development of social dominance theory, a general model of the development and maintenance of group-based social hierarchy and social oppression. Professor Sidanius= latest books are entitled: Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression (1999, Cambridge University Press), Racialized Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion (University of Chicago press, 2000) and Key Readings in Political Psychology (Psychology Press, 2004).
Courses
African and African American Studies 241: Topics in African American Social Science
African and African American Studies 302: Graduate Seminar
Psychology 1951: Intermediate Quantitative Methods.
Psychology 1952: Multivariate Analysis in psychology.
Selected Publications
Sidanius, J. & Pratto, F. (1999). Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Sears, D. O., Sidanius, J., & Bobo, L. (2000). Racialized Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago press.
Jost, J. T., & Sidanius, J. (2004). Political Psychology: Key Readings. Ann Arbor, MI: Psychology Press.
Thomsen, L., Sidanius, J., & Fiske, A. (in press). Interpersonal leveling, Independence, and Self-enhancement: A comparison between Denmark and the US, and a Relational Practice Framework for Cultural Psychology. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Sidanius, J., Mitchell, M., Haley, H., & Navarrete, C. D., (in Press). Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs: A Social Dominance Perspective. Social Justice Research.
Sidanius, J., Haley, H., Molina, L. & Pratto, F. (in press). Vladimir's choice and the distribution of social resources: A group perspective." Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Sidanius, J., Sinclair, S. & Pratto, F. (2006). Social Dominance Orientation, Gender and Increasing College Exposure. Journal of Applied Social Psychology,36, 1640-1653.
Haley, H., & Sidanius, J. (2006). The Positive and Negative Framing of Affirmative Action: A Group Dominance Perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32 656-668.
Henry, P.J., Sidanius, J., Levin, S., & Pratto, F. (2005). Social Dominance Orientation, Authoritarianism, and Support for Intergroup Violence Between the Middle East and America. Political Psychology, 26, 569-583.
Staerklé, C., Sidanius, J., Green, E.G.T., & Molina, L. (2005). Ethnic minority-majority asymmetry and attitudes towards immigrants across 11 nations. Psicologia Polίtica, 30, 7-26.
Haley, H., & Sidanius, J. (2005). Person-organization Congruence and the Maintenance of Group-Based Social Hierarchy: A Social Dominance Perspective. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 8, 187-203.
Van Laar, C., Levin, S., Sinclair, S., & Sidanius, J. (2005). The Effect of University Roommate Contact on Ethnic Attitudes and Behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 329-345.
Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., van Laar, C., & Levin, S. (2004). Social Dominance Theory: Its Agenda and Method. Political Psychology, 25, 845-880.
Peña, Y., Sidanius, J., & Sawyer, M. (2004). "Racial Democracy" in the Americas: A Latin and North American Comparison." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 749-767.
Sidanius, J., Van Laar, C., Levin, S., & Sinclair, S. (2004). Ethnic Enclaves and the Dynamics of Social Identity on the College Campus: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 96-110.
Sidanius, J., Henry, P.J., Pratto, F., & Levin, S. (2004). Arab Attributions for the Attack on America: The Case of Lebanese Sub-Elites. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35, 403-416.
Haley, H., Sidanius, J., Lowery, B. & Malamuth, N. (2004). The Interactive Nature of Sex and Race Discrimination: A Social Dominance Perspective. In G. Philogene (Ed.), Racial Identity in Context: The Legacy of Kenneth B. Clark. American Psychological Association pp. 149-160.
Sawyer, M. Q., Peña, Y. & Sidanius, J. (2004). Cuban Exceptionalism: Group Based Hierarchy and the Dynamics of Patriotism in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The Dubois Review. 1, 93-114.