Nilanjana Dasgupta
Department of Psychology
University of Massachusetts
Tobin Hall, 135 Hicks Way
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
U.S.A.
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My collaborators and I are interested in people's beliefs and attitudes toward social groups, with special attention to mental processes that promote stereotypes and prejudices toward disadvantaged social groups and guide behavior without people's awareness, intention, or control. One of the central themes in social psychology is that people’s perceptions and behavior are often shaped by factors that lie outside their awareness. Along these lines, my recent projects focus on: (a) specifying factors that create and magnify stereotypes and prejudice without people’s awareness or control, (b) examining their influence on behavior, and (c) developing strategies aimed at undermining such biases. These projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, and the American Psychological Foundation.
 Journal Articles:
- Abelson, R.P., Dasgupta, N., Park, J., & Banaji, M.R. (1998). Perceptions of the collective other. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2, 243-250.
- Dasgupta, N. (2004). Implicit ingroup favoritism, outgroup favoritism, and their behavioral manifestations. Social Justice Research, 17, 143-169.
- Dasgupta, N., & Asgari, S. (2004). Seeing is believing: Exposure to counterstereotypic women leaders and its effect on automatic gender stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 642-658.
- Dasgupta, N., Banaji, M.R., & Abelson, R.P. (1999). Group entitativity and group perception: Associations between physical features and psychological judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 991-1003.
- Dasgupta, N., & Greenwald, A.G. (2001). On the malleability of automatic attitudes: Combating automatic prejudice with images of admired and disliked individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 800-814.
- Dasgupta, N., McGhee, D.E., Greenwald, A.G., & Banaji, M.R. (2000). Automatic preference for White Americans: Eliminating the familiarity explanation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 316-328.
- DeSteno, D. A., Dasgupta, N., Bartlett, M. Y., & Cajdric, A. (2004). Prejudice from thin air: The effect of emotion on automatic intergroup attitudes. Psychological Science, 15, 319-324.
- Eberhardt, J. L., Dasgupta, N., & Banaszynski, T. (2003). Believing is seeing: The effects of racial labels and implicit beliefs on face perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 360-370.
- Uhlmann, E., Dasgupta, N., Greenwald, A.G., Elgueta, A., & Swanson, J. (2002). Skin color based subgroup prejudice among Hispanics in the United States and Latin America. Social Cognition, 20, 197-224.
Other Publications:
- Banaji, M.R., & Dasgupta, N. (1998). The consciousness of social beliefs: A program of research on stereotyping and prejudice. In V.Y. Yzerbyt, G. Lories, & B. Dardenne (Eds.), Metacognition: Cognitive and social dimensions. Great Britain: Sage Publications.
- Dasgupta, N., Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (2003). The first ontological challenge to the IAT: Attitude or mere familiarity? Psychological Inquiry, 14, 238-243.
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