Jason A. Nier is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College. He received his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University and his masters & doctorate in psychology from the University of Delaware. Dr. Nier is a social psychologist who specializes in the study of intergroup relations. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters, which have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Dr. Nier also co-authored a book chapter, along with Sam Gaertner, Jack Dovidio and their colleagues, which won the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, awarded annually to the best paper in the field of intergroup relations.
Nier, J. A., Bajaj, P., McLean, M., & Schwartz, E. (in press). Group status, perceptions of agency, and the correspondence bias: Attributional processes in the formation of stereotypes about high and low status groups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Nier, J.A., Gaertner, S.L., Nier, C. L., & Dovidio, J. F. (in press). Can racial profiling be avoided under Arizona immigration law? Lessons learned from implicit bias research and anti-discrimination law. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy.
McWilliams, M. A., Nier. J. A., & Singer, J. A. (in press). The implicit self and the specificity-matching principle: Implicit self-concept predicts domain-specific outcomes. Personality and Individual Differences.
Nier, J.A., & Gaertner, S. L. (2012). The challenge of detecting contemporary forms of discrimination. Journal of Social Issues, 68, 207-220.
Nier, J. A. (2012). Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Social Psychology, 4th Edition. Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw Hill.
Nier, J. A., Nier, C. L., Gaertner, S. L. & Dovidio, J. F. (2007). The nature of contemporary discrimination and civil rights law enforcement. Journal of Intergroup Relations, 33, 76-96.
Nier, J. A. (2005). How dissociated are implicit and explicit measures of racial attitudes? A bogus pipeline approach. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 8, 39-52.
Nier, J. A., Gaertner, S. L., Dovidio, J. F., Banker, B. S.,Ward, C. M., & Rust, M. C. (2001). Changing interracial evaluations and behavior: The effects of a common ingroup identity. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 4, 299-316.
Nier, J. A., Mottola, G. R., & Gaertner, S. L. (2000). The O. J. Simpson criminal verdict as a racially symbolic event: A longitudinal analysis of racial attitude change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 507-516.
Gaertner, S. L., Dovidio, J. F., Nier, J. A., Ward, C. M., & Banker, B.S. (1999). Across cultural divides: The value of a superordinate identity. In D. A. Prentice & D. T. Miller (Eds.) Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict (pp. 173-212). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Gaertner, S. L., Dovidio, J. F., Rust, M. C., Nier, J. A., Banker, B., Ward, C. M., Mottola, G. R., & Houlette, M. (1999). Reducing intergroup bias: Elements of intergroup cooperation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 388-402.
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