Brandon D. Stewart, PhD

HE | HIM | HIS

Assistant Professor

207-780-8174

brandon.stewart@maine.edu

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Science Building, Room 514 (A-wing), Portland campus

Territory/Specialty

Social Cognition & Social Psychologist

Education

University of Birmingham, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Education, 2011
The Ohio State University, Ph.D. in Social Psychology, December 2007
University of Massachusetts, Master’s in Public Health, May 1997
Nebraska Wesleyan University, B.S. in Biology, May 1995

Current Courses

PSY 205/206 Experimental Methodology & Lab (In-person)

PSY 338 Theories of Personality (In-person)

Research Interests

Social Cognition

Intergroup relationships

Attitudes and Bias

Immigration

Department of Psychology

College of Science, Technology, and Health

Dr. Brandon D. Stewart, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology who conducts research in social cognition, interpersonal and intergroup relationships, and attitudes and bias. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Ohio State University.

His expertise revolves around experimental methods and measuring stereotyping and bias at both the explicit level and the implicit or unconscious level; he has created an implicit measure of bias that has been used extensively within the literature to measure implicit bias. He also has experience in manipulating goal focus and measuring the effects of those goal manipulations in changing people’s implicit bias within difficult to control situations and the effects of goals and ideologies on intergroup relationships and intergroup attitudes.

Selected Publications

Morris, D. S. M. & Stewart, B. D. (2022). Moral Values, Social Ideologies, and Threat-Based Cognition: Implications for Intergroup Relations. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:869121. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.869121 Online Open Access Journal

Stewart, B.D., & Morris, D.S.M. (2021). Moving morality beyond the in-group: Liberals and conservatives show differences on group-framed moral foundations and these differences mediate the relationships to perceived bias and threat. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:579908.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.579908 Online Open Access Journal

Stewart, B. D., Gulzaib, F., & Morris, D.S.M. (2019). Bridging political divides: Perceived threat and uncertainty avoidance help explain the relationship between political ideology and immigrant attitudes within diverse intergroup contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1236., 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01236 Online Open Access Journal

Matosic, D., Ntoumanis, N., Boardley, I., Sedikides, C., Stewart, B.D., Chatzisarantis, N. (2017). Narcissism and Coach Interpersonal Style: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 27, 254-261. doi: 10.1111/sms.12635

Healy, L.C., Ntoumanis, N., Stewart, B.D., & Duda, J.L. (2015) Predicting subsequent task performance from goal motivation and goal failure. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:926. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00926 Online Open Access Journal

Ntoumanis, N., Healy, L. C., Sedikides, C., Duda, J., Stewart, B.D., Smith, A., & Bond, J. (2014). When the going gets tough: The “why” of goal striving matters. Journal of Personality, 82, 225-236. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12047

Stewart, B. D., von Hippel, W., & Radvansky, G. A. (2009). Age, race, and implicit prejudice: Using process dissociation to separate the underlying components. Psychological Science, 20, 164-168.