What we do Our
research focuses on social psychological phenomena related to stereotyping and prejudice. We examine the ways in which race shapes thoughts, influences judgments, and impacts behavior.
Currently, we are investigating how physical features that signal racial category membership influence downstream social cognitive processes like stereotyping and prejudice.
We are also investigating different aspects of how individuals process human faces.
If you're interested in getting involved with the lab, click the "Join the Lab" link to the left and apply!
I will consider taking 1-2 Masters students for Fall 2018.
Selected Papers
Ma, D. S., Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (in press). The Effects of Category and Physical Features on Stereotyping and
Evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Ma, D. S., Koltai, K.*, McManus, R.*, Bernhardt, A.*, Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (in press). Race Signaling Features:
Identifying Markers of Racial Prototypicality among Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and Whites. Social Cognition.
Scott, K., Ma, D. S., Sadler, M. S., & Correll., J. (2017). A social scientific approach toward understanding racial
disparities in police shooting: Data from the Department of Justice (1980-2000). Journal of Social Issues. PDF download
Ma, D. S., Webster, C., Tachibe, N., & Gressis, R. (2017). 21% versus 79%: Explaining Philosophy's Gender
Disparities with Stereotyping and Identification. Philosophical Psychology. Link
Ma, D. S., Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (2016). Context Dependency at Recall: Decoupling Context and Targets at
Encoding. Social Cognition, 34, 119-132. PDF download
Davis, M., Hudson, S. Ma, D. S., & Correll, J. (2015). Childhood Contact Predicts Hemispheric Asymmetry in
Cross-Race Face Processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-7. PDF download
Ma, D. S., Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (2015). The Chicago Face Database:
A Free Stimulus Set of Faces and Norming Data. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 1122-1135. PDF download
Please also visit: chicagofaces.org
Correll, J., Hudson, S. M., Guillermo, S. & Ma, D. S. (2014), The Police Officer's Dilemma: A Decade of Research on Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 201-213. PDF download
Ma, D. S. & Devos, T. (2013). Every Heart Beats True, for the Red, White, and Blue: National Identity Predicts Voter Support. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. doi: 10.1111/asap.12025. PDF download
Ma, D. S., Correll, J., Wittenbrink, B., Bar-Anan, Y., Sriram., N., & Nosek, B. A. (2013).
When fatigue turns deadly: The association between fatigue and racial bias in the decision to shoot.
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35, 515-524. doi 10.1080/01973533.2013.840630. PDF download
Devos, T., & Ma, D.S. (2013). How 'American' is Barack Obama? The role of national identity in a historic bid for the White House.
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 214-226. PDF download
Correll, J., Lemoine, C., & Ma, D. S. (2011). Hemispheric Asymmetry in Cross-Race Face Recognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1162-1166. PDF download
Ma, D. S. & Correll, J. (2011). Target Prototypicality Moderates Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 391-396. PDF download
Twenge, Gentile, DeWall, Ma, Lacefield, & Schurtz (2010).pdf Twenge, J. M., Gentile, B., DeWall, C. N., Ma, D. S., Lacefield, K., & Schurtz, D. R. (2010). Birth cohort increases in psychopathology among young Americans, 1938-2007: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the MMPI. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 145-154. PDF download
Devos, T., & Ma, D. S. (2008). Is Kate Winslet more American than Lucy Liu? The impact of construal processes on the implicit ascription of a national identity. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 191-215. PDF download
