Publications

Brown, E. R., Phills, C. E., Kahn, J., & Mukundan, S. (2025). Feeling a sense of belonging is associated with more motivation within organizations that value diversity and equity. Scientific Reports, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04456-9

Brown, E. R., Phills, C. E., & Veilleux-Mesa, C. J. (2025). Of donkeys, elephants, and dehumanization: Exploring the content and implications of stereotypes of republicans, democrats, libertarians, and independents. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsps.2025.1376013

Phills, C. E., Miller, J. K., Buchanan, E. M., Williams, A., Meyers, C., Brown, E. R., Zickfeld, J., Volsa, S., Stieger, S., Oberzaucher, E., Mlakic, V., Vasilev, M., Dalgar, İ., Çoksan, S., Söylemez, S., Solak, Ç., Özdoğru, A. A., Çoktok, B., Kung, C.-C., … Kekecs, Z. (2025). Multi-region investigation of “man” as default in attitudes. PLOS One, 20(6), e0323938. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323938

Phills, C. E. (2024). Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against black women and people with intersectional identities. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12981

Phills, C. E., Brown, E. R., Wesely, J. K., Hull, K., Smith, C., Buehler, A. J., & Binder, M. (2022). Survivor‐focused timely warnings increase negative stereotyping of survivors but make readers feel safer. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53(7), 570–581. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12935

Brown, E. R., Wesely, J. K., & Phills, C. E. (2021). De-stigmatizing Survivors: Intervening by Changing the Composition of Campus Alerts about Sexual Assault. In Innovative Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Programs Across the World (pp. 103–112). Routledge.

Coleman, J. A., Nonterah, C. W., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Phills, C., & Jacobson, K. C. (2021). A cross-species examination of pro-white color bias using a novel implicit association test. Anthrozoös, 35(3), 423–441. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2021.1996024

McCarthy, R., Gervais, W., Aczel, B., Al-Kire, R. L., Aveyard, M., Marcella Baraldo, S., Baruh, L., Basch, C., Baumert, A., Behler, A., Bettencourt, A., Bitar, A., Bouxom, H., Buck, A., Cemalcilar, Z., Chekroun, P., Chen, J. M., Fresno- Díaz, Á. del, Ducham, A., … Zogmaister, C. (2021). A multi-site collaborative study of the hostile priming effect. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18738

Phills, C. E., Hahn, A., & Gawronski, B. (2020). The bidirectional causal relation between implicit stereotypes and implicit prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(9), 1318–1330. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167219899234

Wesely, J. K., Brown, E. R., & Phills, C. E. (2020). Words matter: A qualitative content analysis of campus crime alerts and considerations for best practices. Journal of American College Health, 70(1), 49–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1719114

Karmali, F., Kawakami, K., Vaccarino, E., Williams, A., Phills, C., & Friesen, J. P. (2019). I don’t see race (or conflict): Strategic descriptions of ambiguous negative intergroup contexts. Journal of Social Issues, 75(4), 1002–1034. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12353

Struthers, C. W., Khoury, C. H., Phills, C. E., Monsjou, E. van, Guilfoyle, J. R., Nash, K., Golenitski, V., & Summers, C. (2019). The effects of social power and apology on victims’ posttransgression responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25(1), 100–116. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000188

Young, R. E., Goldberg, J. O., Struthers, C. W., McCann, D., & Phills, C. E. (2019). The subtle side of stigma: Understanding and reducing mental illness stigma from a contemporary prejudice perspective. Journal of Social Issues, 75(3), 943–971. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12343

Brown, E. R., Phills, C. E., Mercurio, D. G., Olah, M., & Veilleux, C. J. (2018). Ain’t she a woman? How warmth and competence stereotypes about women and female politicians contribute to the warmth and competence traits ascribed to individual female politicians. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 18(1), 105–125. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12151

Gawronski, B., Morrison, M., Phills, C. E., & Galdi, S. (2017). Temporal stability of implicit and explicit measures: A longitudinal analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(3), 300–312. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216684131

Phills, C. E., Kawakami, K., Krusemark, D. R., & Nguyen, J. (2017). Does reducing implicit prejudice increase out-group identification? The downstream consequences of evaluative training on associations between the self and racial categories. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(1), 26–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617732817

Phills, C. E., Williams, A., Wolff, J. M., Smith, A., Arnold, R., Felegy, K., & Kuenzig, M. E. (2017). Intersecting race and gender stereotypes: Implications for group-level attitudes. Group Processes &Amp; Intergroup Relations, 21(8), 1172–1184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430217706742

Struthers, C., Guilfoyle, J., Khoury, C., Monsjou, E. van, Sasaki, J., Phills, C., & Marjanovic, Z. (2017). What victims say and how they say matters: Effects of victims’ post-transgression responses and form of communication on transgressors’ apologies. The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness, 12–37.

Struthers, C. W., Santelli, A. G., Khoury, C., Pang, M., Young, R. E., Kashefi, Y., Marjanovic, Z., Phills, C., Nash, K., & Vasquez, N. A. (2014). The role of victim embarrassment in explaining why apologies affect reported (but not actual) forgiveness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 33(5), 517–525. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x14520983

West, T. V., Pearson, A. R., Dovidio, J. F., Johnson, B. T., & Phills, C. E. (2014). Racial attitudes and visual cues in political judgments: Support for obama during the 2008 presidential election. Cultural Diversity &Amp; Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20(4), 583–590. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036947

Pearson, A. R., Dovidio, J. F., Phills, C. E., & Onyeador, I. N. (2013). Attitude–goal correspondence and interracial interaction: Implications for executive function and impression formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(5), 907–914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.015

Young, R. E., Struthers, C. W., Khoury, C., Muscat, S., Phills, C., & Mongrain, M. (2013). Forgiveness and revenge: The conflicting needs of dependents and self-critics in relationships. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 32(10), 1095–1115. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2013.32.10.1095

Brauer, M., Er-rafiy, A., Kawakami, K., & Phills, C. E. (2012). Describing a group in positive terms reduces prejudice less effectively than describing it in positive and negative terms. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(3), 757–761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.11.002

Kawakami, K., Phills, C. E., Greenwald, A. G., Simard, D., Pontiero, J., Brnjas, A., Khan, B., Mills, J., & Dovidio, J. F. (2012). In perfect harmony: Synchronizing the self to activated social categories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(3), 562–575. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025970

Phills, C. E., Kawakami, K., Tabi, E., Nadolny, D., & Inzlicht, M. (2011). Mind the gap: Increasing associations between the self and blacks with approach behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(2), 197–210. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022159

Phills, C. E., Santelli, A. G., Kawakami, K., Struthers, C. W., & Higgins, E. T. (2011). Reducing implicit prejudice: Matching approach/avoidance strategies to contextual valence and regulatory focus. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(5), 968–973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.013

McGregor, I., Nash, K., Mann, N., & Phills, C. E. (2010). Anxious uncertainty and reactive approach motivation (RAM). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(1), 133–147. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019701

Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Dovidio, J. F., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Phills, C. E. (2009). An implicit measure of anti-gay attitudes: Prospective associations with emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(6), 1316–1320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.005

Kawakami, K., Steele, J. R., Cifa, C., Phills, C. E., & Dovidio, J. F. (2008). Approaching math increases math=me and math=pleasant. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(3), 818–825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2007.07.009

Kawakami, K., Phills, C. E., Steele, J. R., & Dovidio, J. F. (2007). (Close) distance makes the heart grow fonder: Improving implicit racial attitudes and interracial interactions through approach behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 957–971. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.957