Alan J. Lambert
Associate
Professor
alambert@artsci.wustl.edu
(314)
935-7176
Office: 319B
Lab: 311/313
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M.A. University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1988)
B.A. Cornell
University (1982)
Research Interests:
- Processes underlying expression vs. suppression of stereotypes
- The role of political ideology and values in mediating social
judgment
- Consequences of group variability
- Effects of the self on judgments of others
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Professional Activities
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin (2000-2002)
CONSULTING EDITOR
Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology (2005-present)
Basic and Applied Social Psychology (1996-present)
Publications
BOOKS
Foundations of Social Cognition (2003) Bodenhausen, G. V. & Lambert, A. J. (Eds.)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Wyer, R.S., Budesheim, T. L, &
Lambert, A.J. (1990). Cognitive
representations of
conversations about persons. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 58, 218-238.
Lambert, A. J., & Wyer, R. S. (1990). Stereotypes and social judgment: The effects
of typicality and group heterogeneity. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 59,
676-691.
Lambert, A. J., & Wedell,
D. H. (1991). The self and social judgment: Effects of
affective reaction and "own
position" on judgments of unambiguous and ambiguous
information about others.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 884-898.
Wyer, R. S., & Budesheim, T. L., Lambert, A. J,
Swan, S. (1994). Person memory
and judgment:
Pragmatic influences on impressions formed in a social context. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 2, 254-267.
Lambert, A. J. (1995) Stereotypes and social judgment: The consequences of group
variability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 388-403.
Lambert, A. J., Cronen,
S., Chasteen, A. L., & Lickel, B. (1996).
Private vs. public
expressions of racial prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
32, 437-459.
Lambert, A. J., Khan, S., Lickel, B.,
& Fricke, K. (1997) Mood and the correction
of positive vs. negative
stereotypes. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 72, 1002-1116.
Lambert, A. J., & Chasteen, A. L.
(1997). Perceptions of disadvantage
vs. conventionality: Political values
and
attitudes toward the elderly vs.
Blacks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 469-481.
Lambert, A. J., Barton,
L., Lickel, B. A. & Wells, J. (1998) The influence of group variability and
processing goals
on the ease of making decisions about
social categories. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
24, 807-820.
Khan, S. R. & Lambert, A. J.
(1998). Ingroup favoritism and black
sheep effects in
observations of informal
conversations. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 20, 263-269.
Lambert, A. J., Burroughs, T., &
Nguyen, T. (1999) Perceptions of risk
and the "buffering hypothesis":
The role of just world beliefs and
right-wing authoritarianism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 25, 643-656.
Lambert, A. J., & Raichle, K.
(2000). The role of political ideology
in mediating judgments of blame in rape
victims and their assailants: A test of the just world,
personal responsibility, and legitimization hypotheses.
Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 853-863.
Khan, S. R., & Lambert, A. J. (2001) Perceptions of
"rational discrimination": When do people attempt to justify
race-based prejudice? Basic and Applied Social
Psychology, 23, 43-53.
Braman,
A. & Lambert, A. J. (2001) Punishing individuals for
their infirmities: Effects of personality responsibility,
just-world beliefs, and
ingroup-outgroup status. Journal of
Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1-16
Payne, B. K., Lambert, A. J.,
& Jacoby, L. L. (2002). Best laid plans: Effects of goals on accessibility bias
and cognitive control in race-based misperceptions of
weapons. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 38, 384-396
Lambert, A. J., Payne, B. K., Jacoby, L. L. Shaffer, L. M.,
Chasteen, A. L. &
Khan, S. K. (2003)
Stereotypes as dominant responses: On the “social
facilitation” of prejudice in
anticipated public contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 277-295
Lambert, A. J., Payne, B. K., &
Jacoby, L. L. (2004) Accuracy and error: Constraints on process
models in social psychology (commentary). Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 27, 350-351
Payne, B.K., Jacoby, L. L. &
Lambert, A. J. (2004). Memory monitoring and the control of stereotype
distortion.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 52-64
Olson,
K.R., Lambert, A. J. & Zacks, J. M. (2004).
Graded structure and the speed of category verification:
On the
moderating effects of SOA for social vs. nonsocial categories. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
40, 239-246
Lambert,
A. J., Chasteen, A. L. & Payne, B. K., & Shaffer, L. M. (2004).
Typicality and group variability as
dual
moderators of category-based inferences.
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 40, 708-722.
Lambert, A. J., Payne, B. K.,
Ramsey, S., & Shaffer, L. M.
(2005) On the predictive validity of implicit attitude measures:
The
moderating effect of perceived group variability Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 114-128.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Wyer, R.S., Lambert, A. J., Budesheim, T. L., & Gruenfeld, D. H. (1992).
Theory
and research on person impression formation: A look to the future. In L. Martin & A.
Tesser (Eds.), The construction of social judgment. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
Wyer, R. S., & Lambert, A. J. (1994). The role of trait constructs in person
perception: A historical perspective. In P. Devine, T. Ostrom,
& D.
cognition:
Impact on social psychology.
Lambert, A. J., Chasteen, A. L., & Khan, S. &
Manier, J. (1998). Rethinking assumptions about stereotype
inhibition:
Do we need to correct our theories about correction? In
R. S. Wyer (Ed.) Advances in social
cognition (Vol. 11).
Lambert, A. J. & Chasteen, A. L. (1998). Social cognition. In W. Bechtel & B. Graham (Eds.), A Companion to
Cognitive Science. Blackwell:
Lambert, A. J., Burroughs, T., & Chasteen, A. L.
(1998). Belief in a just world and right
wing authoritarianism
as dual moderators of perceived risk. In L Montada &
M. Lerner (Eds.), Responses to Victimization and Belief in a Just World. Plenum Press.
Lambert, A. J. & Chasteen, A. L., & Payne, B. K.
(2003). On finding prejudice in all the
wrong places: Ironic effects
of
situational contexts and interpersonal anxiety.
In G. V. Bodenhausen & A. J. Lambert (Eds.), Foundations of Social Cognition, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Payne,
B. K., Jacoby, L. L., & Lambert, A.J., (2005) Attitudes as accessibility bias: Dissociating
automatic and
controlled
processes., pp. 293-420. In RR\. Hassin, J. UlemanJ. Bargh
(Eds.) The New Unconscious.