Psychology of Social Class
Dietze, P., & Knowles, E. D. (2020)
Social class predicts perspective-taking and emotion-reading performance in adults.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
doi:10.1177/0146167220914116
Goudarzi, S. Pliskin, R., Jost, J. T., & Knowles, E. D.(2020)
Economic system justification predicts muted emotional responses to inequality.
Nature Communications, 11, 1-9.
doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14193-z
McDermott, Knowles, E. D., & Richeson, J. (2019)
Class perceptions and attitudes towards immigration and race among working-class whites.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 19(1), 349-380.
doi:10.1111/asap.12188
Dietze, P., & Knowles, E. D.
Social class and the motivational relevance of other human beings: Evidence from visual attention.
Psychological Science, 27, 1517–1527.
doi: 10.1177/0956797616667721
Privilege and Policy Attitudes
Rivera Pichardo, E. J., Vargas Salfate, S. E., Knowles. E. D. (2022)
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro-egalitarian and neo-colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood.
British Journal of Social Psychology.
doi: 10.1111/bjso.12591
Marshburn, C. K., & Knowles, E. D. (2017)
White out of mind: Identity suppression as a coping strategy among Whites anticipating racially charged interactions.
Group Processes and Interpersonal Relations.
doi: 10.1177/1368430216681178
Chow, R. M., & Knowles, E. D. (2016)
Taking race off the table: Agenda setting and support for color-blind public policy.
Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 42, 25-39.
doi: 1177/0146167215611637
Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., Chow, R. M., & Unzueta, M. M. (2014)
Deny, distance, or dismantle? How White Americans manage a privileged identity.
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 594–609.
doi:10.1177/1745691614554658
Lowery, B. S., Chow, R. M., Knowles, E. D., & Unzueta, M. M. (2012)
Paying for positive group esteem: How inequity frames affect whites’ responses to redistributive policies.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 323–336.
doi:10.1037/a0024598
Knowles, E. D., & Lowery, B. S. (2012)
Meritocracy, self-concerns, and Whites’ denial of racial inequity.
Self and Identity, 11, 202–222.
doi:10.1080/15298868.2010.542015
Unzueta, M. M., Knowles, E. D., & Ho, G. (2012)
Diversity is what you want it to be: How social-dominance motives affect construals of diversity.
Psychological Science, 23, 303–309.
doi:10.1177/0956797611426727
Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., Hogan, C. M., & Chow, R. M. (2009)
On the malleability of ideology: Motivated construals of color blindness.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 857–869.
doi:10.1037/a0013595
Chow, R. M., Lowery, B. S., & Knowles, E. D. (2008)
The two faces of dominance: The differential effect of ingroup superiority and outgroup inferiority on dominant-group identity and group esteem.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1073–1081
doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2007.11.002
Unzueta, M. M., Lowery, B. S., & Knowles, E. D. (2008)
How believing in affirmative action quotas protects White men’s self-esteem.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105, 1–13
doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.05.001
Lowery, B. S., Knowles, E. D., & Unzueta, M. M. (2007)
Framing inequity safely: Whites’ motivated perceptions of racial privilege.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1237–1250
doi:10.1177/0146167207303016
Lowery, B. S., Unzueta, M. M., Knowles, E. D., & Goff, P. A. (2006)
Concern for the ingroup and opposition to affirmative action.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 961–974
doi:10.1037/0022-3514.90.6.961
Knowles, E. D., & Peng, K. (2005)
White selves: Conceptualizing and measuring a dominant-group Identity.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 223–241
doi:10.1037/0022-3514.89.2.223
Social Identity and Political Behavior
Knowles, E. D., & Tropp, L. R. (2018)
The racial and economic context of Trump support: Evidence for threat, identity, and contact effects in the 2016 presidential election.
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(3), 275-284.
doi:10.1177/1948550618759326
Frenda, S. J., Knowles, E. D., Saletan, W., & Loftus, E. F. (2013)
False memories of fabricated political events.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 280–286
doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2012.10.013
Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., Shulman, E. P., & Schaumberg, R. L. (2013)
Race, ideology, and the Tea Party: A longitudinal study.
PLOS ONE, 8, e67110
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067110
Knowles, E. D., & Ditto, P. H. (2012)
Preference, principle, and political casuistry.
In J. Hanson (Ed.), Ideology, Psychology, and Law (pp. 341–379). New York: Oxford University Press
Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., & Schaumberg, R. L. (2010)
Racial prejudice predicts opposition to Obama and his health care reform plan.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 420–423
doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.10.011
Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., & Schaumberg, R. L. (2009)
Anti-egalitarians for Obama? Group-dominance motivation and the Obama vote.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 965–969
doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.05.005
Social Cognition in Group Contexts
Effron, D. A., Kakkar, H., & Knowles, E. D. (2018).
Group cohesion benefits individuals who express prejudice, but harms their group.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 239-251.
doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.08.002
Effron, D. A, & Knowles, E. D. (2015)
Entitativity and intergroup bias: How belonging to a cohesive group allows people to express their prejudices.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 234–253.
doi:10.1037/pspa0000020
Tannenbaum, D., Valasek, C. J., Knowles, E. D., & Ditto, P. H. (2013)
Incentivizing wellness in the workplace: Sticks (not carrots) send stigmatizing signals.
Psychological Science, 24, 1512–22
doi:10.1177/0956797612474471
Cho, J. C., & Knowles, E. D. (2013)
I’m like you and you’re like me: Social projection and self-stereotyping both help explain self-other correspondence.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 444–56.
doi:10.1037/a0031017
Glaser, J., & Knowles, E. D. (2008)
Implicit motivation to control prejudice.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 164–172
doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2007.01.002
Park, S. H., Glaser, J., & Knowles, E. D. (2008)
Implicit motivation to control prejudice moderates the effect of cognitive depletion on unintended discrimination.
Social Cognition, 26, 401–419.
doi:10.1521/soco.2008.26.4.401
Gender and Politics
Lucarini, A., Suitner, C., Brown, R., Craig, M. A., Knowles, E. D., & Casara, B. G. S. (2020).
The# MeTooLate Effect: Victim blame and trust denial for sexual harassment not immediately reported.
Personality and Individual Differences, 167, 110240.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110240
DiMuccio, S. H., & Knowles, E. D. (2020).
The political significance of fragile masculinity.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 25-28.
doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.11.010
DiMuccio, S. H., & Knowles, E. D. (2020)
Precarious manhood predicts support for aggressive policies and politicians
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
doi: 10.1177/0146167220963577