Brandon D. Stewart
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Associate Professor
Education
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Education, University of Birmingham, 2011
- PhD in Social Psychology, Ohio State University, December 2007
- Master's in Public Health, University of Massachusetts, May 1997
- BS in Biology, Nebraska Wesleyan University, May 1995
Current Courses
PSY 205/206 Experimental Methodology and Lab
PSY 338 Theories of Personality
Research Interests
- Social Cognition
- Intergroup relationships
- Attitudes and Bias
Dr. Brandon D. Stewart, is an Associate Professor in Social Psychology who conducts research in social cognition, interpersonal and intergroup relationships, and attitudes and bias. He earned his PhD 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.
Expertise
Social Cognition & Social Psychologist
Selected Publications
Hughes, R.E., Stewart, B.D. (2025) The influence of perceived threat on the motive attribution asymmetry bias for groups in conflict. PLoS One 20(9): e0330927. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330927
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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02274.x
Education
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Education, University of Birmingham, 2011
- PhD in Social Psychology, Ohio State University, December 2007
- Master's in Public Health, University of Massachusetts, May 1997
- BS in Biology, Nebraska Wesleyan University, May 1995
Current Courses
PSY 205/206 Experimental Methodology and Lab
PSY 338 Theories of Personality
Research Interests
- Social Cognition
- Intergroup relationships
- Attitudes and Bias