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Are mindful people better at regulating their emotions?

Emotions such as fear, sadness, anger, and so on often need to be "regulated" for us to behave in healthy, adaptive ways. How can people better regulate their emotions when stressed? read more...

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Can we help children with ADHD succeed in school?

Adolescents with ADHD often experience significant problems in school, such as failing grades and low achievement test scores. Can we predict these problems before they occur? read more...

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Why do African American youth trade cigarettes for cigars?

Many youth perceive cigars to pose fewer health risks than cigarettes. But, is this true? read more...

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Are cultural issues important in rehabilitation medicine?

Many health problems and disabilities disproportionately affect ethnic minority communities. But what can rehabilitation specialists do to change that? read more...

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Is religious counseling effective?

Many religious people say they want religious counseling. But is it effective? And, if it is not available, is secular counseling less effective for religious people than religious counseling? read more...

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Dr. Jennifer Joy-Gaba

Assistant Professor

 

PhD (2011), University of Virginia

Contact Information

Phone: 804-827-1709

Office: 820 W Franklin, rm 107

E-mail: jjoygaba@vcu.edu

Web site: Dr. Joy-Gaba's web site

Research Interests

My research interests span both cognitive and social psychology by examining how automatic processes influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. My main line of research focuses on the consequences of implicit cognition on social and perceptual judgments, as well the factors that influence implicit cognition malleability and change. In several of my projects I am examining the basic mechanisms that contribute to situational or long-term shifts in automatic racial biases, and interventions in real-world settings that apply that learning. For example, one project investigates the impact of educating physicians about their automatic racial biases to see if that knowledge mitigates the effects of implicit bias in predicting racial health disparities in treatment. My secondary line of research focuses on examining whether social factors, like explicit preference, influence visual perception.

Selected Publications

Lee, C., Linkenauger, S. A., Bakdash, J. Z., Joy-Gaba, J. A., & Proffitt, D. R. (in press). Putting like a pro: The role of positive contagion in golf. PLoS ONE.

Joy-Gaba, J. A., & Nosek, B. A. (2010). The surprisingly limited malleability of implicit race evaluations. Social Psychology, 41, 137-146.

Nosek, B. A., Graham, J., Lindner, N. M., Kesebir, S., Hawkins, C. B., Hahn, C., Schmidt, K., Motyl, M., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Frazier, R., & Tenney, E. R. (2010). Cumulative and career-stage impact of social-personality psychology programs and their members. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1283-1300.

Ranganath (Ratliff), K. A., Spellman, B. A., & Joy-Gaba, J. A. (2010). Cognitive “Category-Based Induction” research and social “Persuasion” research are each about what makes arguments believable: A tale of two literatures. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 5, 115-122.

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