How are implicit prejudices formed? How do they influence our behavior? And how can we control them? These are questions that my students and I seek to answer. In doing so, our work is illuminating basic mechanisms of social cognition, emotion, and self-regulation, and their roles in guiding behavior.

Throughout this work, we take an integrative social neuroscience approach, combining theories and methods from social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychophysiology to best address our questions.

Our labgroup also provides opportunities for training and education in social neuroscience and intergroup relations. These include intensive graduate training, postdoctoral research, and research assistantships for undergraduate students, as well as  community outreach, including student group visits to our lab, collaborations with museums, schools, and local organizations, media contacts, and public lectures.

For more information, visit amodiolab.org

Most publications can be downloaded for educational use at amodiolab.org

• Krosch, A. R., Tyler, T., & Amodio, D. M. (in press). Race and recession: The effect of economic scarcity and egalitarian motivation on racial discrimination. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Donate, A. P. G., Marques, L. M., Lapenta, O. M., Asthana, M. K., Amodio, D. M., Boggio, P. S. (in press). Ostracism via virtual chat room – effects on basic needs, anger and pain. PLoS One.
• Schmid, P. C., Hackel, L. M., Jasperse, L., & Amodio, D. M. (in press). Frontal cortical effects on feedback processing and reinforcement learning: Relation of EEG asymmetry with the feedback-related negativity and behavior. Psychophysiology.
• Mandalaywala, T. M., amodio, D. M., & Rhodes, M. (in press). Essentialism promotes racial prejudice by increasing endorsement of social hierarchies. Social and Personality Psychological Science.
• Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Berkman, E. T. (in press). Neuroscience approaches in social and personality psychology. In M. Snyder & K. Deaux (Eds.), Handbook of social and personality psychology, Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Halim, M. L., Ruble, D. N., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Shrout, P. E., & Amodio, D. M. (2017). Gender attitudes in early childhood: Behavioral consequences and cognitive antecedents. Child Development, 88, 882-899.
• Kawakami, K., Amodio, D. M., & Hugenberg, K. (2017). Intergroup perception and cognition: An integrative framework for understanding the causes and consequences of social categorization. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 1-80.
• Schmid, P. C., & Amodio, D. M. (2017). Power effects on implicit prejudice and stereotyping: The role of intergroup face processing. Social Neuroscience, 12, 218-231. 
• Kleiman, T., Trope, Y., & Amodio, D. M. (2016). Cognitive control modulates attention to food cues: Support for the control readiness model of self-control. Brain and Cognition, 110, 94-101.
• Hackel, L. M., Doll, B. B., & Amodio, D. M. (2015). Instrumental learning of traits versus rewards: Dissociable neural correlates and effects on decision making. Nature Neuroscience, 18, 1233-1235.
• Schmid, P. C., Kleiman, T., & Amodio, D. M. (2015). Power effects on cognitive control: Turning conflict into action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 655-663.
• Schmid, P. C., Kleiman, T., & Amodio, D. M. (2015). Neural mechanisms of proactive and reactive cognitive control in social anxiety. Cortex, 70, 137-145.
• Dennis, T. A., Amodio, D. M., O’Toole, L. J. (2015). Effects of parental ideology on neural sensitivity to cognitive conflict in children. Social Neuroscience, 10, 206-217.
• Tyler, T., & Amodio, D. M. (2015). Psychology and economics: A clash of methods? In A. Schotter and G. Frechette (Eds.), The Methods of Modern Experimental Economics. Oxford University Press.
• Amodio, D. M. (2014). The neuroscience of prejudice and stereotyping. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15, 670-682.
• Amodio, D. M. (2014). Dual experiences, multiple processes: Looking beyond dualities for mechanisms of the mind. In J. S. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual process theories of the social mind (pp. 560-576). New York: Guilford Press.
• Amodio, D. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Ito, T. A. (2014). Tracking the dynamics of the social brain: ERP approaches for social cognitive & affective neuroscience. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 9, 385-393.
• Fourie, M. M., Thomas, K. G. F., Amodio, D. M., Warton, C. M. R., & Meintjes, E. M. (2014). Neural correlates of experienced moral emotion: An fMRI investigation of emotion in response to prejudice feedback. Social Neuroscience, 9, 203-218.
• Jost, J. T., Nam, H. H., Amodio, D. M., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship. Advances in Political Psychology, 1, 3-42.
• Krosch, A. K., & Amodio, D. M. (2014). Economic scarcity alters the perception of race. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 111, 9079-9084.
• Mendoza, S. M., Lane, S., & Amodio, D. M. (2014). For Members Only: Ingroup punishment of fairness norm violations in the Ultimatum Game. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 662-670.
• Ofan, R. H., Rubin, N., Amodio, D. M. (2014). Situation-based social anxiety enhances the neural encoding of faces: Evidence from an intergroup context. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1055-1061.
• Ratner, K. G., Dotsch, R., Wigboldus, D., van Knippenberg, A., & Amodio, D. M. (2014). Visualizing minimal ingroup and outgroup faces: Implications for impressions, attitudes, and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 897-911. 
• Amodio, D. M. (2013). The social neuroscience of prejudice:  Then, now, and what’s to come. In C. Stangor and C. Crandall (Eds.), Stereotyping and Prejudice (pp. 1-28). New York:  Psychology Press.
• Amodio, D. M. (2013). Contributions of neuroscience to the psychology of prejudice. In B. Derks, N. Ellemers, and D. Scheepers, The Neuroscience of Prejudice (pp. 167-189). New York: Psychology Press.
• Amodio, D. M., & Ratner, K. G. (2013). The neuroscience of social cognition. In D. Carlston (Ed.) Handbook of social cognition (pp. 702-728). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Halim, M. L., Yoshikawa, H., & Amodio, D. M. (2013). Cross-generational effects of discrimination in immigrant mothers: Perceptions of bias predict child’s healthcare visits for illness. Health Psychology, 32, 203-211.
• Krosch, A. R., Berntsen, L., Amodio, D. M., Jost, J. T., & Bavel, J. J. V. (2013). On the ideology of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces as Black. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 1196-1203.
• Ratner, K. G., & Amodio, D. M. (2013). Seeing “us vs. them": Minimal group effects on the neural encoding of faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 298-301. 
• Ratner, K. G., Halim, M. L., & Amodio, D. M. (2013). Perceived stigmatization, ingroup pride, and immune and endocrine activity: Evidence from a Black and Latina community sample. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 82-91.
• Amodio, D. M., & Hamilton, H. K. (2012). Intergroup anxiety effects on implicit racial evaluation and stereotyping. Emotion, 12, 1273-1280.
• Amodio, D. M. & Harmon-Jones, E. (2012). Neuroscience approaches in social and personality psychology. In M. Snyder & K. Deaux (Eds.), Handbook of social and personality psychology (pp. 11-150). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Gilbert, S. J., Swencionis, J. K., & Amodio, D. M. (2012). Evaluative vs. trait representation in intergroup social judgments: Distinct roles of anterior temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 50, 3600-3611.
• Harmon-Jones, E. & Amodio, D. M. (2012). Electroencephalographic methods in psychology. In H. Cooper, P. M. Camic, D. L. Long, A. T. Panter, D. Rindskopf, & K. J. Sher (Eds.), APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology (pp. 503-522). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Harmon-Jones, E., Harmon-Jones, C., & Amodio, D. M. (2012). A neuroscientific perspective on dissonance, guided by the Action-Based Model. In B. Gawronski and F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive consistency: A fundamental principle in social cognition. New York: Guilford Press.
• Jost, J. T., & Amodio, D. M. (2012). Political ideology as motivated social cognition:  Behavioral and neuroscientific evidence. Motivation and Emotion, 36, 55-64. 
• Amodio, D. M. (2011). Self-regulation in intergroup relations: A social neuroscience framework. In A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, and D. Prentice (Eds.) Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind (pp. 101-122). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Amodio, D. M. & Harmon-Jones, E. (2011). Trait emotions and affective modulation of the startle eyeblink: On the unique relationship of trait anger. Emotion, 11, 47-51.
• Amodio, D. M., & Bartholow, B. D. (2011). Event-related potential methods in social cognition. In A. Voss, C. Stahl, & C. Klauer (Eds.), Cognitive methods in social psychology (pp. 303-339). New York: Guilford Press.
• Amodio, D. M., & Ratner, K. G. (2011). A memory systems model of implicit social cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 143-148.
• Amodio, D. M., & Ratner, K. (2011). Mechanisms for the regulation of intergroup responses:  A social neuroscience analysis. In J. Decety and J. T. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of social neuroscience (pp. 729-741). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Gonsalkorale, K., Sherman, J. W., Allen, T. J., Klauer, K. C., & Amodio, D. M. (2011). Accounting for successful control of implicit racial bias: The roles of association activation, response monitoring, and overcoming bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1534-1545.
• Harmon-Jones, E., Harmon-Jones, C., Amodio, D. M., & Gable, P. A. (2011). Attitudes toward emotions: Conceptualization and measurement of evaluations of specific emotions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 1332-1350.
• Halim, M.L., Ruble, D.N., & Amodio, D.M. (2011). From Pink Frilly Dresses to “One of the Boys”: Developmental Changes in Girls’ Gender Identity and Implications for Intergroup Gender Bias. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 933-949.
• Ofan, R. H., Rubin, N., Amodio, D. M. (2011). Seeing race: N170 responses to race and their relation to automatic racial attitudes and controlled processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3152-3161.
• Amodio, D. M. (2010). Can neuroscience advance social psychological theory? Social neuroscience for the behavioral social psychologist. Social Cognition, 28, 695-716.
• Amodio, D. M. (2010). Coordinated roles of motivation and perception in the regulation of intergroup responses: Frontal cortical asymmetry effects on the P2 event-related potential and behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2609-2617.
• Mendoza, S. A., Gollwitzer, P. M., & Amodio, D. M. (2010). Reducing the expression of implicit stereotypes: Reflexive control through implementation intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 512-523.
• Amodio, D. M. & Devine, P. G. (2010). Regulating behavior in the social world: Control in the context of intergroup bias. In R. R. Hassin, K. N. Ochsner, and Y. Trope (Eds). Self control in society, mind and brain (pp. 49-75). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Amodio, D. M., & Mendoza, S. A. (2010). Implicit intergroup bias: Cognitive, affective, and motivational underpinnings. In B. Gawronski and B. K. Payne (Eds.) Handbook of implicit social cognition (pp. 353-374). New York: Guilford.
• Amodio, D. M. (2010). The egalitarian brain. In J. Marsh, R. Mendoza-Denton, and J. A. Smith (Eds.), Are we born racist? (pp. 45-53). Boston: Beacon Press.
• Harmon-Jones, E., Amodio, D. M., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2010). Action-based model of dissonance: On cognitive conflict and attitude change (pp. 163-182). In J. P. Forgas, J. Cooper, & B. Crano (Eds.), Attitudes and attitude change. New York: Psychology Press.
• Amodio, D. M. (2009). Intergroup anxiety effects on the control of racial stereotypes: A psychoneuroendocrine analysis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 60-67.
• Amodio, D.M. & Lieberman, M.D. (2009). Pictures in our heads: Contributions of fMRI to the study of prejudice and stereotyping. In T. Nelson (Ed.) Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination (pp. 347-366). New York: Erlbaum Press.
• Master, S. L., Amodio, D. M., Stanton, A. L., Yee, C. Y., Hilmert, C. J., & Taylor, S. E. (2009). Neurobiological correlates of coping through emotional approach. Brain, behavior and immunity, 23, 27–35.
• Harmon-Jones, E., Amodio, D. M., & Harmon-Jones, C. (2009). Action-based model of dissonance. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 119-166.
• Bartholow, B. D., & Amodio, D. M. (2009). Using event-related brain potentials in social psychological research: A brief review and tutorial. In E. Harmon-Jones and J. Beer (Eds). Methods in social neuroscience (pp.198-232). New York: Guilford.
• Amodio, D. M. (2008). The social neuroscience of intergroup relations. European Review of Social Psychology, 19, 1-54.
• Amodio, D. M., Devine, P. G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2008). Individual differences in the regulation of intergroup bias: The role of conflict monitoring and neural signals for control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 60-74.
• Amodio, D. M., Master, S. L., Yee, C. M., & Taylor, S. E. (2008). Neurocognitive components of the behavioral inhibition and activation systems: Implications for theories of self-regulation. Psychophysiology, 45, 11-19.
• Amodio, D. M. & Devine, P. G. (2008). On the interpersonal functions of implicit stereotyping and evaluative race bias: Insights from social neuroscience. In R. E. Petty, R. H. Fazio, & P. Briñol (Eds.), Attitudes: Insights from the new wave of implicit measures (pp. 193-226). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Amodio, D. M., Jost, J. T., Master, S. L., & Yee, C. M. (2007). Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 1246-1247.
• Amodio, D. M., Devine, P. G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2007). A dynamic model of guilt: Implications for motivation and self-regulation in the context of prejudice. Psychological Science, 18, 524-530.
• Robinson, M. D., Ode, S., Wilkowski, B. M., & Amodio, D. M. (2007). Neurotic contentment: A self-regulation view of neuroticism-linked distress. Emotion, 7, 579–591.
• Amodio, D. M., Devine, P. G., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2007). Studying the social brain:  A social cognitive neuroscience approach to prejudice control. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Fundamentals of social neuroscience (pp. 353-375).  New York:  Guilford.
• Harmon-Jones, E., Amodio, D. M., & Zinner, L. R.  (2007). Social psychological methods in emotion elicitation. In J. A. Coan and J. J. B. Allen (Eds.) Handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment (pp. 91-105), New York: Oxford University Press.
• Amodio, D. M. & Devine, P. G.  (2006). Stereotyping and evaluation in implicit race bias:  Evidence for independent constructs and unique effects on behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 652-661.
• Amodio, D. M., Kubota, J. T., Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2006). Alternative mechanisms for regulating racial responses according to internal vs. external cues. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 26-36.
• Amodio, D. M., & Frith, C. D. (2006). Meeting of minds: The medial frontal cortex and social cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7, 268-277.
• Amodio, D. M., & Showers, C. J. (2005). “Similarity breeds liking” revisited: The moderating role of commitment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 22, 817-836.
• Amodio, D. M. & Devine, P. G. (2005). Changing prejudice: The effects of persuasion on implicit and explicit forms of race bias. In T. C. Brock & M. C. Green (Eds.), Persuasion:  Psychological insights and perspectives (2^nd ed., pp. 249-280). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publications.
• Amodio, D. M., Shah, J. Y., Sigelman, J., Brazy, P. C., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2004). Implicit regulatory focus associated with resting frontal cortical asymmetry. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 225-232.
• Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., Devine, P. G., Curtin, J. J., Hartley, S. L., & Covert, A. E. (2004). Neural signals for the detection of unintentional race bias. Psychological Science, 15, 88-93.
• Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Devine, P. G. (2003). Individual differences in the activation and control of affective race bias as assessed by startle eyeblink responses and self-report.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 738-753.
• Devine, P. G., Plant, E. A., Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., & Vance, S. L.  (2002). The regulation of explicit and implicit race bias:  The role of motivations to respond without prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 835-848.