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Gayle Bessenoff
Gayle Bessenoff
Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Program: Social (UConn Stamford Regional
E-mail: gayle.bessenoff@uconn.edu
Office Phone: Stamford: (203) 251-9585, Storrs: (860) 486-9051
Web site: http://bessenoff.socialpsychology.org/
Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020
Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail
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Research Interests:
- internalization and influence of social norms
- self-concept and self-esteem
- body image
- social stigma
- stereotyping and prejudice
Social Psychology
Research Methods in Psychology
of Women's Bodies
Representative Publications:
- Bessenoff, G. R., & Sherman, J. W. (2000). Automatic and
controlled components of prejudice toward fat people: Evaluation
versus stereotype activation. Social Cognition,
18, 329-353.
- Sherman, J. W., & Bessenoff, G. R. (1999). Stereotypes
as source monitoring cues: On the interaction between episodic
and semantic memory. Psychological Science, 10, 106-110.
- Sherman, J. W., Lee, A. Y., Bessenoff, G. R., & Frost,
L. A. (1998) Stereotype efficiency reconsidered: Encoding flexibility
under cognitive load. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
75, 589-606.
Other:
- American Psychological Association Dissertation Research
Award, 2000
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