Jennifer Bruce

MS, Purdue University, 2005 Advisors: William Graziano Send e-mail to jenbruce@psych.purdue.edu Mailing Address: Purdue University Psychological Sciences Building    703 Third Street West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2081 Phone: (765) 494-6892 (leave message) Office: PSYC 2182

My main research interest is the link between personality and prejudice and discrimination. I am also interested in cognitive and situational factors that affect impression formation.

Presentations/Publications

Graziano, W. G., Bruce, J. W., Sheese, B., & Tobin, R. (manuscript under review). Unfavorable evaluations of other people: Prejudice or general negativity? Bruce, J.W., & Graziano, W. G. (2006, January). Nice people need a reason to be mean: The relationship between agreeableness and prejudice. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA. Bruce, J.W., & Graziano, W. G. (2005, May). To switch or not to switch; That is the question: Agreeableness and prejudice toward overweight women. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Bruce, J. W., Graziano, W. G., & Carlston, D. (2005). Eating your words: Controlled processing of anti-fat stereotypes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. Graziano, W., & Bruce, J. W. (2004, April). New directions in prejudice and personality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Bruce, J. W. & Graziano, W. G. (2004, January). She's like me, she's like me not...Agreeableness and discrimination towards overweight women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, Texas. Bruce, J. W., Graziano, W. G., & Tobin, R. M. (2003, February). Behavioral confirmation processes and personality moderate prejudice toward overweight women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, California. Bruce, J. W., Graziano, W. G., Tobin, R. M., & Sheese, B. E. (2002, May). Agreeableness and prejudice against overweight women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois. Bruce, J. W., Gillespie, R., Henderson, R., Dougall, A., & Toglia, M. (2000). Pictorial false memories: Recognizing Saturday morning cartoon characters. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.