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Blanton, Hart Professor
Positions
- Faculty Fellow, Center for Health Systems and Design, School of Architecture
- Professor and Department Head, Communication and Journalism, College of Arts and Sciences
My primary emphases are (a) health psychology & health communication, (b) social, normative and media influence, (c) attitude change and attitude-behavior modeling, and (d) psychometrics, assessment and research methodology. Much of my current and forthcoming research focuses on social influence processes occurring within immersive virtual reality environments, with a particular emphasis on utilizing virtual gaming worlds to deliver health communications. My applied areas are health-risk prevention, science communication, and implicit and explicit bias assessment and modeling
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Publications
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academic article
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Leary, A. V., Dvorak, R. D., Troop-Gordon, W., Blanton, H., Peterson, R., Kramer, M. P., De Leon, A. N., & Magri, T.
(2022).
Test of a deviance regulation theory intervention among first-year college student drinkers: Differential effects via frequency and quantity norms. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
36(6), 619-634.
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AuBuchon, K. E., Kracke-Bock, J., Dodge, T., Stock, M. L., & Blanton, H.
(2021).
Abstaining College Students' Motives to Use E-Cigarettes: A Brief Report. 82(6), 801-806.
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Neighbors, C., DiBello, A. M., Young, C. M., Steers, M., Rinker, D. V., Rodriguez, L. M., ... Lewis, M. A.
(2019).
Personalized normative feedback for heavy drinking: An application of deviance regulation theory. Behaviour Research and Therapy.
115, 73-82.
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Blanton, H., & Ikizer, E. G.
(2019).
Elegant Science Narratives and Unintended Influences: An Agenda for the Science of Science Communication. Social Issues and Policy Review.
13(1), 154-181.
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Pea, J., Khan, S., Burrows, C. N., & Blanton, H.
(2018).
How Persuasive Are Health Advertisements in First-Person Shooter Games? Exploring Knowledge-Activation and Thought-Disruption Mechanisms. Communication Research Reports.
35(4), 293-302.
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LaCroix, J. M., Burrows, C. N., & Blanton, H.
(2018).
Effects of Immersive, Sexually Objectifying, and Violent Video Games on Hostile Sexism in Males. Communication Research Reports.
35(5), 413-423.
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Burrows, C. N., & Blanton, H.
(2018).
In-Game Health Communication: Delivering Low-Fear Health Messages in a Low-Fear Videogame. Games for Health Journal.
7(3), 182-187.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2017).
You Can't Assess the Forest if You Can't Assess the Trees: Psychometric Challenges to Measuring Implicit Bias in Crowds. Psychological Inquiry: an international journal of peer commentary and review.
28(4), 249-257.
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Blanton, H., Burrows, C. N., & Jaccard, J.
(2016).
To accurately estimate implicit influences on health behavior, accurately estimate explicit influences. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY.
35(8), 856-860.
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Ikizer, E. G., & Blanton, H.
(2016).
Media coverage of "wise" interventions can reduce concern for the disadvantaged. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
22(2), 135-147.
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Burrows, C. N., & Blanton, H.
(2016).
Real-World Persuasion From Virtual-World Campaigns. Communication Research.
43(4), 542-570.
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Cornelius, T., & Blanton, H.
(2016).
The limits to pride: A test of the pro-anorexia hypothesis. Advances in Eating Disorders: theory, research and practice.
24(2), 138-147.
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Blanton, H.
(2016).
Group and individual as complementary conceptual categories. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
39, e141.
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Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Strauts, E., Mitchell, G., & Tetlock, P. E.
(2015).
Toward a meaningful metric of implicit prejudice. Journal of Applied Psychology.
100(5), 1468-1481.
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Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Burrows, C. N.
(2015).
Implications of the Implicit Association Test D-Transformation for Psychological Assessment. Assessment.
22(4), 429-440.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2015).
Not So Fast: Ten Challenges to Importing Implicit Attitude Measures to Media Psychology. Media Psychology.
18(3), 338-369.
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Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P. E.
(2015).
Using the IAT to predict ethnic and racial discrimination: small effect sizes of unknown societal significance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
108(4), 562-571.
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Hall, D. L., Blanton, H., & Prentice, D. A.
(2015).
Being Much Better and No Worse than Others: Deviance Regulation, Self-Guides, and the Motive to be Distinct. Self and Identity.
14(2), 214-232.
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Hilgard, J., Bartholow, B. D., Dickter, C. L., & Blanton, H.
(2015).
Characterizing switching and congruency effects in the Implicit Association Test as reactive and proactive cognitive control. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
10(3), 381-388.
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Strauts, E., & Blanton, H.
(2015).
Thats not funny: Instrument validation of the concern for political correctness scale. Personality and Individual Differences.
80, 32-40.
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Blanton, H., Snyder, L. B., Strauts, E., & Larson, J. G.
(2014).
Effect of graphic cigarette warnings on smoking intentions in young adults. PLoS ONE.
9(5), e96315-e96315.
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Blanton, H., Gerrard, M., & McClive-Reed, K. P.
(2013).
Threading the needle in health-risk communication: increasing vulnerability salience while promoting self-worth. Journal of Health Communication: international perspectives.
18(11), 1279-1292.
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Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P. E.
(2013).
Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: a meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
105(2), 171-192.
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Zabelina, D. L., Felps, D., & Blanton, H.
(2013).
The Motivational Influence of Self-Guides on Creative Pursuits. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
7(2), 112-118.
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Blanton, H., Strauts, E., & Perez, M.
(2012).
Partisan Identification as a Predictor of Cortisol Response to Election News. Political Communication: an international journal.
29(4), 447-460.
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Blanton, H., & Mitchell, G.
(2011).
Reassessing the Predictive Validity of the IATII: Reanalysis of Heider & Skowronski (2007). North American Journal of Psychology.
13(1), 99-106.
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Buhrmester, M. D., Blanton, H., & Swann, W. B.
(2011).
Implicit self-esteem: nature, measurement, and a new way forward. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
100(2), 365-385.
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Lawrence, J. S., Crocker, J., & Blanton, H.
(2011).
Stigmatized and Dominant Cultural Groups Differentially Interpret Positive Feedback. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
42(1), 165-169.
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Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Klick, J., Mellers, B., Mitchell, G., & Tetlock, P. E.
(2009).
Strong claims and weak evidence: reassessing the predictive validity of the IAT. Journal of Applied Psychology.
94(3), 567-582.
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Hall, D. L., & Blanton, H.
(2009).
Knowing when to assume: Normative expertise as a moderator of social influence. Social Influence.
4(2), 81-95.
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Burkley, M., & Blanton, H.
(2009).
The Positive (and Negative) Consequences of Endorsing Negative Self-stereotypes. Self and Identity.
8(2-3), 286-299.
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Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Klick, J., Mellers, B., Mitchell, G., & Tetlock, P. E.
(2009).
Transparency Should Trump Trust: Rejoinder to McConnell and Leibold (2009) and Ziegert and Hanges (2009). Journal of Applied Psychology.
94(3), 598-603.
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Sweeney, P. J., Thompson, V., & Blanton, H.
(2009).
Trust and Influence in Combat: An Interdependence Model. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
39(1), 235-264.
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Blanton, H., & Stapel, D. A.
(2008).
Unconscious and spontaneous and...complex: the three selves model of social comparison assimilation and contrast. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
94(6), 1018-1032.
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Blanton, H., Kblitz, A., & McCaul, K. D.
(2008).
Misperceptions about Norm Misperceptions: Descriptive, Injunctive, and Affective Social Norming Efforts to Change Health Behaviors. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
2(3), 1379-1399.
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Seaton, M., Marsh, H. W., Dumas, F., Huguet, P., Monteil, J., Rgner, I., ... Wheeler, L.
(2008).
In search of the big fish: investigating the coexistence of the big-fish-little-pond effect with the positive effects of upward comparisons. British Journal of Social Psychology.
47(Pt 1), 73-103.
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Burkley, M., & Blanton, H.
(2008).
Endorsing a negative in-group stereotype as a self-protective strategy: Sacrificing the group to save the self. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
44(1), 37-49.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2008).
Representing Versus Generalizing: Two Approaches to External Validity and Their Implications for the Study of Prejudice. Psychological Inquiry: an international journal of peer commentary and review.
19(2), 99-105.
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Cooper, J., Blanton, H., Halberstadt, J., Hogg, M., McConnell, A. R., Murray, S. L., ... Williams, K.
(2007).
Editorial. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
43(2), 167-167.
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Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Christie, C., & Gonzales, P. M.
(2007).
Plausible assumptions, questionable assumptions and post hoc rationalizations: Will the real IAT, please stand up?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
43(3), 399-409.
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Quinlan, S. L., Jaccard, J., & Blanton, H.
(2006).
A decision theoretic and prototype conceptualization of possible selves: implications for the prediction of risk behavior. Journal of Personality.
74(2), 599-630.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2006).
Arbitrary Metrics Redux. American Psychologist.
61(1), 62-71.
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Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Gonzales, P. M., & Christie, C.
(2006).
Decoding the implicit association test: Implications for criterion prediction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
42(2), 192-212.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2006).
Postscript: Perspectives on the Reply by Greenwald, Rudman, Nosek, and Zayas (2006). Psychological Review.
113(1), 166-169.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2006).
Arbitrary metrics in psychology. American Psychologist.
61(1), 27-41.
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Schwinghammer, S. A., Stapel, D. A., & Blanton, H.
(2006).
Different selves have different effects: self-activation and defensive social comparison. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
32(1), 27-39.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2006).
Tests of multiplicative models in psychology: a case study using the unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-concept. Psychological Review.
113(1), 155-169.
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Buunk, A. P., Blanton, H., Schuurman, M. K., & Siero, F. W.
(2005).
Issue Involvement and Low- Versus High-Power Style as Related to Attitude Change in Sex-Role Egalitarianism. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
24(4), 412-420.
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Burkley, M., & Blanton, H.
(2005).
When Am I My Group? Self-Enhancement Versus Self-Justification Accounts of Perceived Prototypicality. Social Justice Research.
18(4), 445-463.
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Jaccard, J., Blanton, H., & Dodge, T.
(2005).
Peer influences on risk behavior: an analysis of the effects of a close friend. Developmental Psychology.
41(1), 135-147.
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Stapel, D. A., & Blanton, H.
(2004).
From seeing to being: subliminal social comparisons affect implicit and explicit self-evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
87(4), 468-481.
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Blanton, H., & Christie, C.
(2003).
Deviance Regulation: A Theory of Action and Identity. Review of General Psychology.
7(2), 115-149.
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Blanton, H., & Christie, C.
(2003).
Social Comparisons: Everybody's Personal Theory. CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY.
48(3), 311-314.
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Stuart, A. E., & Blanton, H.
(2003).
The effects of message framing on behavioral prevalence assumptions. European Journal of Social Psychology.
33(1), 93-102.
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Gibbons, F. X., Lane, D. J., Gerrard, M., Reis-Bergan, M., Lautrap, C. L., Pexa, N. A., & Blanton, H.
(2002).
Comparison-level preferences after performance: is downward comparison theory still useful?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
83(4), 865-880.
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Gonzales, P. M., Blanton, H., & Williams, K. J.
(2002).
The Effects of Stereotype Threat and Double-Minority Status on the Test Performance of Latino Women. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
28(5), 659-670.
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Blanton, H., Christie, C., & Dye, M.
(2002).
Social Identity versus Reference Frame Comparisons: The Moderating Role of Stereotype Endorsement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
38(3), 253-267.
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Blanton, H., Axsom, D., McClive, K. P., & Price, S.
(2001).
Pessimistic Bias in Comparative Evaluations: A Case of Perceived Vulnerability to the Effects of Negative Life Events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
27(12), 1627-1636.
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Blanton, H., Stuart, A. E., & Van den Eijnden, R.
(2001).
An Introduction to Deviance-Regulation Theory: The Effect of Behavioral Norms on Message Framing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
27(7), 848-858.
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Blanton, H., VandenEijnden, R., Buunk, B. P., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., & Bakker, A.
(2001).
Accentuate the Negative: Social Images in the Prediction and Promotion of Condom Use1. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
31(2), 274-295.
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Blanton, H., George, G., & Crocker, J.
(2001).
Contexts of System Justification and System Evaluation: Exploring the Social Comparison Strategies of the (Not Yet) Contented Female Worker. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
4(2), 126-137.
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Blanton, H., Pelham, B. W., DeHart, T., & Carvallo, M.
(2001).
Overconfidence as Dissonance Reduction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
37(5), 373-385.
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Gibbons, F. X., Blanton, H., Gerrard, M., Buunk, B., & Eggleston, T.
(2000).
Does Social Comparison Make a Difference? Optimism as a Moderator of the Relation between Comparison Level and Academic Performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
26(5), 637-648.
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Dijkstra, P., Buunk, B. P., & Blanton, H.
(2000).
The Effect of Target's Physical Attractiveness and Dominance on STDRisk Perceptions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
30(8), 1738-1755.
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Blanton, H., Crocker, J., & Miller, D. T.
(2000).
The Effects of In-Group versus Out-Group Social Comparison on Self-Esteem in the Context of a Negative Stereotype. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
36(5), 519-530.
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Blanton, H., Buunk, B. P., Gibbons, F. X., & Kuyper, H.
(1999).
When Better-Than-Others Compare Upward: Choice of Comparison and Comparative Evaluation as Independent Predictors of Academic Performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
76(3), 420-430.
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Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Blanton, H., & Russell, D. W.
(1998).
Reasoned action and social reaction: willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
74(5), 1164-1180.
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Blanton, H., & Gerrard, M.
(1997).
Effect of sexual motivation on men's risk perception for sexually transmitted disease: there must be 50 ways to justify a lover. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY.
16(4), 374-379.
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Blanton, H., Cooper, J., Slkurnik, I., & Aronson, J.
(1997).
When Bad Things Happen to Good Feedback: Exacerbating the Need for Self-Justification with Self-Affirmations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
23(7), 684-692.
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Blanton, H., Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Conger, K. J., & Smith, G. E.
(1997).
Role of Family and Peers in the Development of Prototypes Associated With Substance Use. Journal of Family Psychology.
11(3), 271-288.
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Aronson, J., Blanton, H., & Cooper, J.
(1995).
From Dissonance To Disidentification: Selectivity in the Self-Affirmation Process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
68(6), 986-996.
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Leary, A. V., Dvorak, R. D., Troop-Gordon, W., Blanton, H., Peterson, R., Kramer, M. P., De Leon, A. N., & Magri, T.
(2022).
Test of a deviance regulation theory intervention among first-year college student drinkers: Differential effects via frequency and quantity norms. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
36(6), 619-634.
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book
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Pelham, B., & Blanton, H.
(2012).
Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke. Cengage Learning.
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Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2008).
Unconscious Racism: A Concept in Pursuit of a Measure. Ed. 34.
Annual Reviews.
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Stapel, D. A., & Blanton, H.
(2007).
Social Comparison Theories Key Readings. Psychology Press (UK).
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Pelham, B., & Blanton, H.
(2012).
Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke. Cengage Learning.
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chapter
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Blanton, H., Burrows, C. N., & Regan, T.
(2020).
Call of Duty the Tobacco Wars. Applications of Social Psychology.
(pp. 107-123).
Taylor & Francis.
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Webster, G. D., Blanton, H., & Jaccard, J.
(2018).
From Principles to Measurement. Measurement in Social Psychology.
(pp. 1-28).
Taylor & Francis.
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Blanton, H., & Ikizer, E. G.
(2017).
The Politics of Social Psychology. Crawford, J. T., & Jussim, L. (Eds.),
The Politics of Social Psychology.
(pp. 168-190).
Psychology Press.
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Blanton, H., & Ikizer, E. G.
(2017).
The Bullet-point Bias. The Politics of Social Psychology.
(pp. 168-190).
Taylor & Francis.
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Burkley, M., & Blanton, H.
(2017).
The dilemmatics approach to applied research design: a case study of violent video game effects and aggression. Steg, L., Kees, K., Buunk, A. P., & Rothengatter, T. (Eds.),
Applied Social Psychology.
(pp. 82-108).
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Blanton, H., Burkley, M., & Burkley, E.
(2014).
Bonding, hiding, and promoting. Communal Functions of Social Comparison.
(pp. 175-202).
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Blanton, H.
(2012).
Social Judgment and Decision Making. Krueger, J. I. (Eds.),
Social Judgment and Decision Making.
(pp. 79-95).
Taylor & Francis.
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Blanton, H., & Hall, D. L.
(2011).
Psychology of Self-Regulation, Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes. Forgas, J. P., Baumeister, R. F., & Tice, D. M. (Eds.),
Psychology of Self-Regulation: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes.
(pp. 273-288).
Taylor & Francis.
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Burkley, M., & Blanton, H.
(2008).
Research designs in applied social psychology. Applied Social Psychology.
(pp. 87-116).
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Baumeister, R., & Vohs, K.
(2007).
Deviance. Encyclopedia of Social Psychology.
SAGE Publications.
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Ajzen, I., Albarracin, D., & Hornik, R.
(2007).
Prediction and Change of Health Behavior. Ajzen, I., Albarracin, D., & Hornik, R. (Eds.),
Prediction and Change of Health Behavior: Applying the Reasoned Action Approach.
(pp. 69-93).
Taylor & Francis.
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Blanton, H., Burrows, C. N., & Regan, T.
(2020).
Call of Duty the Tobacco Wars. Applications of Social Psychology.
(pp. 107-123).
Taylor & Francis.
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institutional repository document
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Leary, A., Dvorak, R., Troop-Gordon, W., Blanton, H., Peterson, R., Matthew, .., De Leon, A., & Magri, T.
(2020).
Test of a Deviance Regulation Theory Intervention Among First Year College Student Drinkers: Differential Effects via Frequency and Quantity Norms
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Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Strauts, E., Mitchell, G., & Tetlock, P.
(2015).
Toward a Meaningful Metric of Implicit Prejudice
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Oswald, F. L., Mitchell, G., Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., & Tetlock, P.
(2015).
Using the IAT to Predict Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: Small Effect Sizes of Unknown Societal Significance
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Leary, A., Dvorak, R., Troop-Gordon, W., Blanton, H., Peterson, R., Matthew, .., De Leon, A., & Magri, T.
(2020).
Test of a Deviance Regulation Theory Intervention Among First Year College Student Drinkers: Differential Effects via Frequency and Quantity Norms
Research
Teaching
teaching activities
- COMM291 Research Instructor
- COMM308 Hnr-research Methods In Comm Instructor
- COMM491 Research Instructor
- COMM601 Found Of Comm Inquiry Instructor
- COMM610 Soc Sci Meth In Comm Instructor
- COMM670 Health Communicatn Sem Instructor
- COMM685 Directed Studies Instructor
- COMM691 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Burpo, Jill Elizabeth (2007-09). Unintended consequences of negative messages: why some health interventions miss the mark.
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Wagner, Sharon P. (2021-04). Consumer Attitudes Toward Milk and Plant-Based Dairy Alternative Beverages.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States) 1994
- M.A. in Social Psychology, Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States) 1992
- B.S. in Psychology, Virginia Tech - (Blacksburg, Virginia, United States) 1990
Contact
first name
- Hart
has last name
- Blanton
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Communication
4234 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4234
USA
Other
- hblanton@tamu.edu