SIPR Co-Editor-in-Chief

John Dovidio earned his AB in 1973 from Dartmouth College and his PhD in 1977 from the University of Delaware. He is currently Professor of Psychology at Yale University. His research interests are intergroup relations, prejudice and stereotyping, altruism and helping, and nonverbal communication.

John was President of SPSSI in 1999-2000. He was also previously Chair of the Executive Committee of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Associate Editor of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Research on Prejudice at Warsaw University in Poland.

He is co-author of several books, including Emergency Intervention; The Psychology of Helping and Altruism; The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior; and Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model; as well as co-editor of Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism; Power, Dominance, and Nonverbal Behavior; On the Nature of Prejudice: 50 years after Allport; and Intergroup Misunderstandings: Impact of Divergent Social Realities, and the Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination. He was a co-recipient of the Kurt Lewin Award in 2004, and a recipient of the Gordon Allport Prize in 1984, and winner of the SPSSI Distinguished Service Award in 2006. In addition, he has won the APA Raymond D. Fowler Mentor Award and the APA Presidential Citation for his research on racism.