Keith Maddox
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
keith.maddox@tufts.edu
TUSC Lab Web Site

Keith Maddox is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Tufts University and director of the Tufts University Social Cognition (TUSC) lab.  He received his A.B. (1991) in psychology from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Dr. Maddox is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including a graduate student fellowship from the National Science Foundation in 1993, a President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship from the University of California in 1997, and grants from the National Science Foundation, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.  Currently, Professor Maddox is a Faculty Fellow of the Tisch College developing a project to explore the impact of racial phenotypicality bias in communities surrounding Tufts.

The TUSC Lab is focused on research programs examining social cognitive aspects of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. We seek to understand topics such as: cognitive representations and stereotypes of African Americans based on variation in skin tone and other phenotypic characteristics; the experience of stereotype threat among members of socially marginalized groups; how the perception of ulterior motives can influence social judgments; the role of social categories in spatial representation; and individual student projects covering a range of social psychological topics.  As the United States becomes a more diverse society, issues surrounding stereotyping and discrimination will continue to gain importance.  The long-range goal is to further the understanding of the representation of stereotypic knowledge and its implications for the behavior and treatment of members of stereotyped groups.

The TUSC lab consists of faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student researchers at Tufts University.  Are you a current undergraduate who is interested in joining the lab?  Contact me if you are interested in doing research in psychology as a volunteer or for academic credit.
 

Maddox, K.B., (2006). Rethinking Racial Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination. The Psychological Science Agenda, 20, 3-5.

Dixon, T.L., & Maddox, K.B. (2005). Skin tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the schema of the dark and dangerous Black criminal. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1555-1570.

Maddox, K.B. (2004). Perspectives on racial phenotypicality bias. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 383-401.

Maddox, K.B. & Chase, S.G. (2004). Manipulating subcategory salience: Exploring the link between skin tone and social perception of Blacks. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 533-546.

Maddox, K.B. & Gray, S. (2002). Cognitive representations of African Americans: Re-exploring the role of skin tone. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 28, 250-259.

Garcia-Marques, L, Hamilton, D.L., & Maddox, K.B. (2002). Exhaustive and heuristic retrieval processes in person cognition: Further tests of the TRAP model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 193-207.

Hamilton, D.L., Sherman, S.J., & Maddox, K.B. (1999). Dualities and continua: Implications for understanding perceptions of persons and groups. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.) Dual Process Theories in Social Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.