Amanda Sesko
Department of Psychology
1202 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI, 53706
Phone: 608-265-3960

We are examining the effects of social pressure to act prejudiced or nonprejudiced toward homosexuals. Amodt and Devine found that while some low prejudice individuals resisted social pressure from a confederate to respond with prejudice, others conformed to this prejudiced social pressure. The variability in low-prejudice participants’ responses may be due to the fact that some low–prejudice people are ineffective prejudice regulators, who tend to be inconsistent in their ability to respond without prejudice and thus are more vulnerable to situational pressures, while other low-prejudice people are effective regulators, who are better able to respond without prejudice even when faced with prejudiced social pressure. We are currently examining how effective and ineffective regulators respond in situations in which there is a presence or absence of prejudiced social pressure towards Blacks.

Tyler Radley, Talia Nachamias, Amanda Sesko, Carl Falk

Research Assistants (Fall 03 & Fall 04)

L-R: Eleena Hardzinski, Tyler Radley, Amanda Sesko