SCIP Lab

Social Cognition & Intergroup Processes (SCIP) Laboratory

2021 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL, 60208 United States

Publications

PUBLISHED AND IN PROGRESS WORK

indicates current or former undergraduate+, graduate*, or postdoc** mentee, ^indicates shared first-authorship

  1. Perry, S. P., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A.L., *Wages, J. E., & *Parzonka, J. Ambivalent reactions to people who deny (versus admit) their gender and racial biases. PsyArXiv. Manuscript under revision.

  2. **George, M., +Hoard, L. *Wages, J. E., & Perry, S. P. Raising an anti-racist child: Black American parents’ perceptions of and recommendations for White Parents. Manuscript under revision.

  3. Perry, S. P., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Abaied, J., +Osnaya, A., & Waters, S. Initial evidence that parent-child conversations about race reduce racial biases among White U.S. children. Manuscript under revision.

  4. Perry, S. P., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Abaied, J. L. **Wu., D. J., & Waters, S.F. A laboratory procedure to facilitate conversations about race within White families in the U.S. Invited revision, Child Development.

  5. Levine, E. E., Wallace, L. E., Kim, Y., & Perry, S. P. Walking the tightrope between honesty and harm: A theory of honest engagement across people, contexts, and time. Invited revision, Psychological Review.

  6. **de Brujin, Y., **Wu, D. J., & Perry, S. P. White children’s empathy toward Black children is predicted by their perceptions of their White parents’ racial attitudes. Manuscript under review.

  7. *Doriscar, J. E., Mamakos, M., Perry, S. P., Charlesworth, T. From data to discovery: Unsupervised learning’s role in social cognition. Invited for full submission to Social Cognition Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition. Manuscript under review.

  8. Perry, S. P., Abaied, J.,**Wu, D. J., & *Doriscar, J. E. (2025). Racial Socialization in the United States. Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 76: 31.1-31.32.

  9. Perry, S. P., **Wu, D. J., Abaied, J., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., *Sanchez, S., Waters, S. F., & +Osnaya, A. (2024). White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in White children’s pro-White biases. Developmental Psychology, 60, 624-636.

  10. Wilton, L., Sullivan, J., Albuja, A.F., & Perry, S. P. (2024). Understanding the challenges and opportunities of talking to children about race and racism. Social Issues and Policy Review, 18, 89-124.

  11. Plaisime, M. V., Jipguep-Akhtar, M-C., Belcher, H. M. E., Hardeman, R. R., Perry, S. P., Dovidio, J. F., Phelan, S. M., van Ryn, M. (2023). Neighborhoods and friendships: investigating interracial anxiety among 3,384 medical students and residents. Health Services Research, 58, 229-237.

  12. **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., **George, M. G., *Wages, J. E., *Sanchez, S. & Perry, S.P. (2023). A systemic approach to the psychology of racial bias within individuals and society. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2, 392-406.

  13. **Burke, S. E., Perry, S. P., Dovidio, J. F., & LaFrance, M. (2023). Distinctive negative reactions to novel intermediate social groups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53, 600-630.

  14. Tiako, M. J. N., *Wages, J. E., & Perry, S. P. (2023). Black medical students’ sense of belonging, residency self-efficacy, and residency goal stability at historically Black vs predominantly White medical schools: A prospective study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38, 122-124.

  15. **Wu, D. J., *Sánchez, S., & Perry, S. P. (2022). “Will talking about race make my child racist?” Dispelling myths to encourage honest White U.S. parent-child conversations about race and racism. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47: 101420.

  16. Abaied, J. L., Perry, S. P., Cheaito, A., & Ramirez, V. (2022). Racial socialization messages in White parents’ discussions of current events involving racism. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32, 863-882.

  17. Perry, S. P., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Abaied, J. L., & Waters, S. F. (2022). Applying the evidence we have: Support for having race conversations in White U.S. Families. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 895-900.

  18. *Wages, J. E., & Perry, S. P., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2022). Reckless gambles and responsible ventures: Racialized prototypes of risk-taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 202-221.

  19. Mabry, P. L., Dasgupta, N., Moss-Racusin, C. A., Park, L. E., Pestilli, F., Rattan, A., … Thoman, D. B. (2021). Why MANtoring is not the solution. A Rebuttal to “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance.” Unpublished Manuscript.

  20. Perry, S. P., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., *Wages, J. E., & Abaied, J. L. (2021) Systemic considerations in child development and the pursuit of racial equality in the United States. Psychological Inquiry, 32, 180-186.

  21. Perry, S. P., *Wages, J. E., **Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Burke, S. E., Hardeman, R. R., & Phelan, S. M. (2021). The value of a self-affirmation intervention for improving the psychosocial health of Black and White medical students. Journal of Social Issues, 77, 769-800.

  22. Forscher, P. S.^, Taylor, V. J.^, Cavagnaro, D., Lewis, N. A., Jr., Moshontz, H., Batres, C., ...Chartier, C. R. (conditional acceptance). A multi-site examination of stereotype threat in Black college students across varying operationalizations. PsyArXiv. Nature Human Behaviour.

  23. Abaied, J. L., & Perry, S. P. (2021). Socialization of racial ideology by White parents. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27, 431-440.

  24. ⌃Murphy, M. C., ⌃Mejia, A., ⌃Mejia, J., ⌃Yan, X...⌃Mabry, P. L., ⌃Ressl, S., ⌃Diekman, A., & ⌃Pestilli F. (2020). Open Science, communal culture, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 117, 24154-24164.

  25. Perry, S. P., & *Wages, J. E. (2020). Zero-sum beliefs about racial progress. Nature Human Behaviour, News & Views, 1-2.

  26. **Skinner, A. L., +Patel, B., +Osnaya, A., & Perry, S. P. (2020). Mimicking others’ nonverbal signals increases attitude contagion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Special Issue on Nonconscious Mimicry, 44, 117-131.

  27. Onyeador, I. N., Wittlin, N. M., **Burke, S. E., Dovidio, J. F., Perry, S. P., Hardeman, R. R., Dyrbye, L. N., Herrin, J., Phelan, S. M., & van Ryn, M. (2020). The value of interracial contact for reducing Anti-Black bias among Non-Black physicians: A CHANGE Study Report. Psychological Science, 31 18-30.

  28. **Skinner, A. L., & Perry, S. P. (2020). Are attitudes contagious? Exposure to biased nonverbal signals can create novel social attitudes. PsyArXiv. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 514-524.

  29. **^Skinner, A, ^Perry, S. P., & Gaither, S. E. (2020). Not quite monoracial: Biracial stereotypes explored. PsyArXiv. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 377-392.

  30. Perry, S. P., **Skinner, A. L., & Abaied, J. L. (2019). Bias awareness predicts color conscious racial socialization methods among White parents. PsyArXiv. Journal of Social Issues, 1075, 1035-1056.

  31. Phelan, S. M., **Burke, S. E., Cunningham, B., Perry, S. P., Hardeman, R. R., Dovidio, J. F., Herrin, J., Dyrbye, L., White, R. O., Yeazel, M., Onyeador, I. N., Wittlin, N. M., Harden, K., & van Ryn, M. (2019). The effects of racism in medical education on students’ decision to practice in underserved or minority communities. Academic Medicine, 94, 1178-1179.

  32. Doshi, R., Gudzune, K., Dyrbye, L., Dovidio, J., Burke, S., White, R., Perry, S., Yeazel, M., van Ryn, M., & Phelan, S. (2019). Factors influencing medical student self-competence to provide weight management services. Clinical Obesity, 9 (1), 1-9.

  33. Burgess, D. J., Hardeman, R. R., Burke, S. E., Cunningham, B. A., Dovidio, J. F., Nelson, D. B., Perry, S. P., Phelan, S. M., Yeazel, M. W., & van Ryn, M. (2019). Incoming medical students’ political orientation affects outcomes related to care of marginalized groups: Results from the Medical Student CHANGE Study. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 44, 113-146.

  34. *Khosla, N., Perry, S. P., Moss-Racusin, C. A., Burke, S. E., & Dovidio, J. F. (2018). A cross-cultural comparison of clinicians’ racial biases. Social Science & Medicine, 206, 31-37. Named one of the Most Read Papers in 2018 by Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research

  35. ⌃Phelan, S. M., ⌃Burke, S. E., Hardeman, R. R., White, R. O., Przedworski, J. M., Dovidio, J. F., Perry, S. P., Yeazel, M. Plankey, M., Finstad, D., Cunningham, B., van Ryn, M. (2017). Medical school factors associated with changes in implicit and explicit bias towards sexual minorities among 3,492 graduating medical students. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 32,1193-1201.

  36. *Burke, S. E., Dovidio, J. F., LaFrance, M., *Przedworski, J. M., Perry, S. P., Phelan, S. M., Burgess, D. J., Hardeman, R. R., Yeazel, M. W., & van Ryn, M. (2017). Beyond generalized sexual prejudice: Need for Closure predicts negative attitudes toward bisexual people relative to gay/lesbian people. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 71, 145-150.

  37. *Burke, S. E., Dovidio, J. F., Perry, S. P., Burgess, D. J., Hardeman, R. R., Phelan, S. M., Cunningham, B. A., Nelson, D. B., Yeazel, M. W., *Przedworski, J. M., & van Ryn, M. (2017). Informal training experiences and explicit bias against African Americans among medical students: A report from the Medical Student CHANGE Study. Social Psychology Quarterly, 80, 65-84.

  38. Hardeman, R., *Przedworski, J., *Burke, S., Burgess, D. J., Perry, S. P., Phelan, S., Dovidio, J. F., & van Ryn. (2017). Association between perceived medical school diversity climate and change in depressive symptoms among medical students: A report from the Medical Student CHANGE Study. Journal of the National Medical Association, 108, 225-235.

  39. Burgess, D.J., *Burke, S., Cunningham, B., Dovidio, J. F., Hardeman, R., Nelson, D., Hou, Yuefeng, Perry, S. P., Phelan, S., Yeazel, M., & van Ryn, M. (2016). Medical students’ learning orientation regarding interracial interactions affects their preparedness to care for minority patients: A Report from Medical Student CHANGES. BMC Medical Education, 16:254.

  40. Perry, S. P., Hardeman, R., *Burke, S., Cunningham, B., Burgess, D. J., & van Ryn, M. (2016). The impact of everyday discrimination and racial identity centrality on African American medical student well-being: A report from the medical student CHANGE study. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 3, 519-526.

  41. Hardeman, R., Perry, S. P., Phelan, S., *Przedworski, J., Burgess, D. J., & van Ryn, M. (2016). Racial identity and mental well-being: The experience of African American medical students, A report from the medical student CHANGE study. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 3, 250-258.

  42. Phelan, S. M., Puhl, R. M., *Burke, S. E., Hardeman, R., Dovidio, J. F., Nelson, D. B., Przedworski, J., Burgess, D. J., Perry, S. P., Yeazel, M. W., van Ryn, M. (2015). The mixed impact of medical school on medical students’ implicit and explicit weight bias. Medical Education, 49, 983-992.

  43. Phelan, S., Burgess, D. J., Puhl, R., Dyrbye, L., Dovidio, J. F., Yeazel, M., Ridgeway, J., Nelson, D., Perry, S. P., *Przedworski, J., Burke, S., Hardeman, R., & van Ryn, M. (2015). The adverse effect of weight stigma on the well-being of medical students with overweight or obesity: Findings from a national survey. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 30, 1251- 1258.

  44. Perry, S. P., Murphy, M. C., & Dovidio, J. F. (2015). Modern Prejudice: Subtle, but unconscious? The role of bias awareness in Whites’ perceptions of personal and others’ biases. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 61, 64-78. (Scale Available Here).

  45. van Ryn, M., Hardeman, R., Phelan, S., Burgess, D. J., Dovidio, J. F., Herrin, J., *Burke, S., Nelson, D., Perry, S. P., Yeazel, M., Przedworski, J. (2015). Medical school experiences associated with change in implicit racial bias among 3547 medical students: A medical student CHANGES study report. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 30, 1748-1756.

  46. *Burke, S. E., Dovidio, J. F., *Przedworski, J. M., Hardeman, R. R., Perry, S. P., Phelan, S. M., Nelson, D. B., Burgess, D. J., Yeazel, M. W., van Ryn, M. (2015). Do contact and empathy mitigate bias against gay and lesbian people among heterosexual medical students? A report from Medical Student CHANGES. Academic Medicine, 90, 646-651.

  47. *Przedworski, J. M., Dovidio, J. F., Hardeman, R., Phelan, S., *Burke, S. E., Ruben, M. A., Perry, S. P., Burgess, D. J., Nelson, D. B., Yeazel, M., Knudsen, J. M., & van Ryn, M. (2015). Mental health and wellbeing of sexual minority medical students: A report from Medical Student CHANGES. Academic Medicine, 90, 652-659.

  48. Perry, S. P., Dovidio, J. F., Murphy, M. C., & van Ryn, M. (2015). The joint effect of bias awareness and self-reported prejudice on intergroup anxiety and intentions for intergroup contact. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21, 89-96.

  49. Phelan, S. M., Dovidio, J. F., Puhl, R. M., Burgess, D. J., Nelson, D. B., Yeazel, M., Hardeman, R., Perry, S. P., van Ryn, M. (2014). Implicit and explicit weight bias in a national sample of 4732 medical students: The Medical Student CHANGES Study. Obesity, 22, 1201- 1208.

  50. Perry, S. P., York, C. S., Block, S. D., Johnson, H. M., & Bottoms, B. L. (2013). Children: As witnesses. In A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Eds.), Wiley encyclopedia of forensic sciences (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.

  51. Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., Wright, E., & Perry, S. P. (2013). Social conflict, harmony, and integration. In I. B. Weiner, H. A. Tennen, & J. Suls (Eds.), Handbook of psychology, Vol. 5: Personality and social psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.

  52. Thompson, R., Dancy, B. L., Wiley, T. R. A., Najdowski, C. J., Perry, S. P., Wallis, J., Mekawi, Y., & Knafl, K. (2012). African American families’ expectations and intentions for mental health services. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 40, 1-13.

  53. Stevenson, M. C., Nadjowski, C. J., Bottoms, B. L., Sorenson, K., & Perry, S. P. (2011). Jurors’ perceptions of juvenile offenders tried in adult criminal court. In A. E. Hasselm (Ed.), Crime: Causes, types, and victims (pp. 141-154). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

  54. Thompson, R., Dancy, B.L., Wiley, T.R.A., Perry, S.P., & Najdowski, C.J. (2011). The experience of mental health service use for African American mothers and youth. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 32, 678-686.

  55. van Ryn, M., Burgess, D. J., Dovidio, J. F., Phelan, S. M., Malat, J., Griffin, J. M., Fu, S. S., Saha, S., & Perry, S. P. (2011). The impact of racism on clinician cognition, behavior, and clinical decision-making. The Du Bois Review, 8, 199-218.

  56. Perry, S.P., & Skitka, L. J. (2009). Making lemonade? Defensive coping style moderates the effect of stereotype threat on women's math test performance. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 918-920.

  57. Perry, S., York, C. S., Bottoms, B. L., Block, S., & Goodman, G. S. (2009). Children: As witnesses. In A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Eds.), Wiley encyclopedia of forensic sciences. New York: Wiley.