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College of Arts and Sciences

John Pryor PhD

Distinguished Professor
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TTH 2:30-3:30
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  • Education
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Ph D Psychology

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

MA Psychology

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

BA Psychology

The University of Texas-Austin
Austin, TX

Distinguished Professor

Illinois State University
2010

Book, Chapter

Pryor, J., & Bos, A. Stigma: Implications for helping behavior.. The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior.. Oxford University Press (2014)
Pryor, J., & Bos, A. Stigma: Implications for helping behavior.. D. Schroeder & W. Graziano (EDs), The Oxford Handbook of Prosocial Behavior. Oxford. Oxford University Press (2012)
Schneider, K., Pryor, J., & Fitzgerald, L. Sexual harassment research in the United States. S. Einarsen, H. Hoel, D. Zapf, C. Cooper (EDs), Bullying and harassment in the workplace: Developments in theory, research, and practice. Taylor & Francis (2011): 245-265.

Encyclopedia

Pryor, J. B., & Wesselmann, E. D. (2010). Likelihood to Sexually Harass scale. In T. D. Fisher, C. M. Davis, W. L. Yarber, & S. L. Davis (Eds.), Handbook of sexually-related measures (3rd ed.) (pp. 328-330). New York: Routledge.

Journal Article

Wesselmann, E. D., Wirth, J. H., Pryor, J. B., Reeder, G. D., & Williams, K. D. (2015). The role of burden and deviation in ostracizing others. The Journal of Social Psychology, 155, 483-496.
Wesselmann, E. D., Williams, K. D., Pryor, J. B., Eichler, F. A., Gill, D. M., & Hogue, J. D. (2014). Revisiting Schachter’s research on rejection, deviance, and communication (1951). Social Psychology, 45, 164-169.
van der Sanden, R., Stutterheim, S., Pryor, J., Kok, G., & Bos, A. Coping with stigma by association and family burden among family members of people with mental illness. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 202 (2014): 710-717.
Bos, A., Pryor, J., Reeder, G., & Stutterhiem, S. Stigma: Advances in theory and research.. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 35 (2013): 1-9.
Pryor, J., Reeder, G., Wesselmann, E., Williams, K., & Wirth, J. The influence of social norms upon behavioral expressions of implicit and explicit weight-related stigma in an interactive game.. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 86 (2013): 189-201.

Presentations

Hogue, J. D., Eichler, F. A., Gill, D., Wesselmann, E. D., Williams, K. D., & Pryor, J. B. (2015, February). "It's us against the world": Liking and rejecting a deviate group member. Presentation at the meeting for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Stigma Magic. Illinois Wesleyan University. (2014)
Stigma Magic. Northern Illinois University. (2014)
Stigmatization of Hiv-positive Substance Users in the Dutch Health Care Sector. Midwestern Psychological Association 2014 Meeting. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2014)
Eichler, F. A., Hogue, J. D., Gill, D., Wesselmann, E. D., Williams, K. D., & Pryor, J. B. (2014, May). Mutual deviance: Liking individuals with similar unfavorable opinions within groups. Presentation at the meeting for the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Antecedents of sexual prejudice among adolescents.. International Congress of Psychology. (2012)
Beliefs contributing to HIV-related stigma in African and Afro-Caribbean communities in the Netherlands.. International Congress of Psychology. (2012)
HIV status disclosure among HIV-positive African and Afro-Caribbean people in the Netherlands.. International Congress of Psychology. (2012)
HIV-related stigma.. International Congress of Psychology. (2012)
Reducing the self-stigma of seeking psychological help through self-affirmation.. Meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2012)

Grants & Contracts

Replications of Important Results in Social Psychology. Center for Open Science. Private. (2013)