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| Name: |
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Samuel R. Sommers |
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Assistant Professor
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Psychology Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002; M.A., University of Michigan, 1999; B.A., Williams College, 1997 |
| Expertise: |
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Social Psychology: influence of race-related norms on perception, judgment, and behavior; diversity and group performance; psychology and law
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| Major Awards: |
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Summer Fellowship, Faculty Research Awards Committee, Tufts University (2005), Social Issues Dissertation Award, Second Prize, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (2003), Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan (2002), Patricia Gurin Distinguished Lecture, Psychology Department, University of Michigan (2001), Philip Brickman Memorial Research Prize, Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan (1999) |
| E-mail: |
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sam.sommers@tufts.edu
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| Other websites: |
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http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/faculty/bios/Sommers.htm
http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/Events/DC/index.htm
http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/sommerslab/
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Norton, M. I., Sommers, S. R., Apfelbaum, E. P., Pura, N. & Ariely, D. (2006). Colorblindness and interracial interaction: Playing the political correctness game. Psychological Science, 17, 949-953.
Sommers, S. R., Apfelbaum, E. P., Dukes, K. N., Toosi, N., & Wang, E. J. (in press). Race and media coverage of Hurricane Katrina: Analysis, implications, and future research questions. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.
Sommers, S. R., & Douglass, A. B. (in press). Context matters: Alibi strength varies according evaluator perspective. Legal and Criminological Psychology.
Sommers, S. R., & Norton, M. I. (in press). Race-based judgments, race-neutral justifications: Experimental examination of peremptory use and the Batson challenge procedure. Law and Human Behavior.
Sommers, S. R. (2006). On racial diversity and group decision-making: Identifying multiple effects of racial composition on jury deliberations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 597-612.
Sommers, S. R., & Norton, M. I. (2006). Lay theories about White racists: What constitutes racism (and what doesn’t). Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 9, 117-138.
Sommers, S. R., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2003). How much do we really know about race and juries? A review of social science theory and research. Chicago-Kent Law Review, 78, 997-1031.
Sommers, S. R., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2001). White juror bias: An investigation of racial prejudice against Black defendants in the American courtroom. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 7, 201-229.
Sommers, S. R., & Kassin, S. M. (2001). On the many impacts of inadmissible testimony: Selective compliance, need for cognition, and the overcorrection bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1368-1377.
Sommers, S. R., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2000). Race in the courtroom: Perceptions of guilt and dispositional attributions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1367-1379.
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