Brenda Major

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Brenda Major is affiliated with the following schools: University at Buffalo, University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Wooster, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Miami University

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According to Wikipedia, Brenda Nelle Major is an American social psychologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she heads the Self and Social Identity Lab.

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Brenda Major's Published Works

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Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma. (1989) (3325)
The social psychology of stigma. (2005) (2745)
Putting gender into context: An interactive model of gender-related behavior. (1987) (1184)
Social Stigma: The Affective Consequences of Attributional Ambiguity (1991) (777)
Antecedents and consequences of attributions to discrimination: Theoretical and empirical advances (2002) (589)
From social inequality to personal entitlement: the role of social comparisons, legitimacy appraisals, and group membership (1994) (559)
Stigma: Introduction and overview. (2000) (534)
Coping with Negative Stereotypes about Intellectual Performance: The Role of Psychological Disengagement (1998) (472)
The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations (2001) (463)
Group Identification Moderates Emotional Responses to Perceived Prejudice (2003) (395)
The stigma of overweight: affective consequences of attributional ambiguity. (1993) (394)
Coping with stigma and prejudice. (2000) (391)
Abortion as stigma: cognitive and emotional implications of concealment. (1999) (379)
Perceiving personal discrimination: the role of group status and legitimizing ideology. (2002) (361)
How attributional ambiguity shapes physiological and emotional responses to social rejection and acceptance. (2008) (347)
Responses to upward and downward social comparisons: The impact of esteem-relevance and perceived control (1991) (336)
Coping With Ethnic Stereotypes in the Academic Domain: Perceived Injustice and Psychological Disengagement (2001) (331)
Priming meritocracy and the psychological justification of inequality (2007) (315)
Attributions to discrimination and self-esteem: Impact of group identification and situational ambiguity (2003) (311)
Personal resilience, cognitive appraisals, and coping: an integrative model of adjustment to abortion. (1998) (305)
The ironic effects of weight stigma (2014) (303)
The threat of increasing diversity: Why many White Americans support Trump in the 2016 presidential election (2018) (294)
Perceived discrimination as worldview threat or worldview confirmation: implications for self-esteem. (2007) (293)
Overworked and underpaid: on the nature of gender differences in personal entitlement. (1984) (284)
How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health (2018) (284)
Psychological responses of women after first-trimester abortion. (2000) (282)
Coping with stigma through psychological disengagement. (1998) (275)
Presumed fair: ironic effects of organizational diversity structures. (2013) (272)
Discrimination and the stress response: psychological and physiological consequences of anticipating prejudice in interethnic interactions. (2012) (268)
Perceived social support, self-efficacy, and adjustment to abortion. (1990) (267)
Abortion and mental health: Evaluating the evidence. (2009) (250)
It's Not My Fault: When and Why Attributions to Prejudice Protect Self-Esteem (2003) (250)
Individual Differences in Justice Behavior (1982) (234)
An Investigation of Sex Differences in Pay Expectations and Their Possible Causes (1984) (232)
Gender, Entitlement, and the Distribution of Family Labor (1993) (221)
The Oxford handbook of stigma, discrimination, and health. (2018) (207)
System-Justifying Beliefs and Psychological Well-Being: The Roles of Group Status and Identity (2005) (197)
Gender, justice, and the psychology of entitlement. (1987) (192)
Weighed down by stigma: How weight-based social identity threat contributes to weight gain and poor health. (2015) (191)
The Psychological Weight of Weight Stigma (2012) (177)
Mixed messages: implications of social conflict and social support within close relationships for adjustment to a stressful life event. (1997) (176)
Psychological responses after abortion (1990) (175)
Intergroup relations and health disparities: a social psychological perspective. (2013) (175)
The impact of social comparisons after failure: the moderating effects of perceived control (1990) (175)
Social comparisons and pay evaluations: Preferences for same-sex and same-job wage comparisons (1985) (171)
A Social Psychological Perspective on Perceiving and Reporting Discrimination (2006) (163)
Prejudice Expectations Moderate Preconscious Attention to Cues That Are Threatening to Social Identity (2006) (157)
Challenge and threat responses during downward and upward social comparisons (2001) (151)
Why Egalitarianism Might Be Good for Your Health (2007) (151)
Psychological factors in abortion. A review. (1992) (150)
The Group as a Resource: Reducing Biased Attributions for Group Success and Failure via Group Affirmation (2007) (143)
Attributions, expectations, and coping with abortion. (1985) (138)
Gender, self confidence, and social influence strategies: An organizational simulation. (1983) (138)
In-Group Versus Out-Group Comparisons and Self-Esteem (1993) (135)
Attributions to Discrimination and Self-Esteem: The Role of Group Identification and Appraisals (2006) (134)
Report of the APA Task Force on mental health and abortion (2008) (133)
Exploring the Validity of the Impostor Phenomenon (1990) (131)
Expectations about the Future and the Emotional Consequences of Perceiving Prejudice (2004) (129)
Weight stigma mediates the association between BMI and self-reported health. (2015) (129)
Members of high-status groups are threatened by pro-diversity organizational messages (2016) (125)
Gender Differences in Comparisons and Entitlement: Implications for Comparable Worth (1989) (123)
Gender and self-esteem: A meta-analysis. (1999) (123)
Devaluing domains in response to threatening intergroup comparisons: perceived legitimacy and the status value asymmetry. (2001) (122)
Reactions to stigma: The moderating role of justifications. (1994) (115)
Social comparison processes and judgments of entitlement and satisfaction (1989) (114)
Role of gender, interpersonal orientation, and self-presentation in distributive-justice behavior. (1983) (114)
Social Stigma: The Consequences of Attributional Ambiguity (1993) (112)
Self-blame, self-efficacy, and adjustment to abortion. (1989) (102)
A Prospective Investigation of the Relationship Between Just-World Beliefs and the Desire for Revenge After September 11, 2001 (2004) (102)
Two Routes to Eliminating Gender Differences in Personal Entitlement: Social Comparisons and Performance Evaluations (1992) (96)
From “In the Air” to “Under the Skin”: Cortisol Responses to Social Identity Threat (2011) (92)
Perceptions of cross-sex and same-sex nonreciprocal touch: It is better to give than to receive (1982) (91)
Social Stigma and the Potential Costs of Assunptive Help (1996) (91)
Stigma and Social Exclusion (2004) (91)
Gender Patterns in Touching Behavior (1981) (89)
INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND ATTRIBUTION PROCESSES. (1980) (87)
Mental models of attachment and coping with abortion. (1998) (84)
Can the absence of prejudice be more threatening than its presence? It depends on one's worldview. (2010) (78)
Psychological responses after abortion. (1990) (76)
Attributional Ambiguity of Affirmative Action (1994) (75)
Reducing prejudice: The target's perspective. (2000) (72)
Gender patterns in social touch: the impact of setting and age. (1990) (71)
Psychosocial Predictors of Adjustment to Abortion (1992) (71)
The Self-Protective Properties of Stigma: Evolution of a Modern Classic (2003) (68)
Physiological markers of challenge and threat mediate the effects of performance-based goals on performance (2009) (68)
Effects of Pay Expected on Pay Received: The Confirmatory Nature of Initial Expectations1 (1984) (65)
It’s not your fault: The social costs of claiming discrimination on behalf of someone else (2012) (64)
Diversity initiatives, status, and system-justifying beliefs: When and how diversity efforts de-legitimize discrimination claims (2014) (64)
Prejudice and self-esteem: A transactional model (2003) (63)
A different perspective on androgyny: Evaluations of masculine and feminine personality characteristics. (1981) (60)
Mixed Signals: The Unintended Effects of Diversity Initiatives (2019) (57)
Intergroup Contact Facilitates Physiological Recovery following Stressful Intergroup Interactions. (2010) (56)
Communication Quality and Job Satisfaction Among Managerial Nurses (1988) (56)
The costs of caring: Gender identification increases threat following exposure to sexism (2010) (54)
Emerging perspectives on the psychology of legitimacy (2001) (53)
Sex-Related Patterns in the Unit of Perception (1977) (52)
Unpacking the psychological weight of weight stigma: A rejection-expectation pathway. (2016) (52)
It's fair for us: Diversity structures cause women to legitimize discrimination (2015) (52)
New Perspectives on Stigma and Psychological Well-Being (2006) (51)
When avoiding failure improves performance: Stereotype threat and the impact of performance goals (2012) (50)
Gender differences in distributive justice preferences: The impact of domain (1989) (50)
The Obesity Stigma Asymmetry Model: The Indirect and Divergent Effects of Blame and Changeability Beliefs on Antifat Prejudice (2017) (50)
Gender Differences in Entitlement: The Role of System-Justifying Beliefs (2012) (48)
Perceiving and Claiming Discrimination (2005) (47)
Group Status and Attributions to Discrimination: Are Low- or High-Status Group Members More Likely to Blame their Failure on Discrimination? (1998) (46)
The Negative and Bidirectional Effects of Weight Stigma on Health (2018) (45)
The Impact of Ingroup vs Outgroup Performance on Personal Values (1999) (45)
The face of chauvinism: How prejudice expectations shape perceptions of facial affect ☆ (2008) (43)
Stigma and Its Implications for Health: Introduction and Overview (2018) (42)
Social Comparisons and Contentment (1994) (41)
Suspicion of Motives Predicts Minorities' Responses to Positive Feedback in Interracial Interactions. (2016) (40)
How status and stereotypes impact attributions to discrimination: The stereotype-asymmetry hypothesis (2008) (39)
SYSTEM-JUSTIFYING BELIEFS MODERATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION AND RESTING BLOOD PRESSURE (2011) (39)
Minority Perceptions of Whites’ Motives for Responding Without Prejudice (2013) (38)
Stigma, Social Identity Threat, and Health (2018) (38)
A Raw Deal: Heightened Liberalism Following Exposure to Anomalous Playing Cards (2013) (37)
Male partners' appraisals of undesired pregnancy and abortion: Implications for women's adjustment to abortion. (1992) (35)
Predicting career-entry pay expectations: The role of gender-based comparisons (1989) (35)
The power of affirming group values: Group affirmation buffers the self-esteem of women exposed to blatant sexism (2016) (35)
Adolescents and adjustment to abortion: are minors at greater risk? (2001) (34)
Contagious Anxiety: Anxious European Americans Can Transmit Their Physiological Reactivity to African Americans (2017) (33)
Women's Experiences of and Reactions to Antiabortion Picketing (2000) (31)
Attributions to Discrimination (2009) (30)
Physical Attractiveness and Self-Esteem (1984) (29)
The Effects of Anti-Abortion Demonstrators and Pro-Choice Escorts on Women's Psychological Responses to Abortion (1994) (29)
Group Status and Feelings of Personal Entitlement: The Roles of Social Comparison and System-Justifying Beliefs (2009) (28)
Psychological implications of abortion--highly charged and rife with misleading research. (2003) (27)
The Unintended Negative Consequences of Sympathy for the Stigmatized1 (1995) (25)
The Psychological Impact of Prejudice. (2008) (24)
Ideology and the maintenance of group inequality (2017) (23)
Insidious Procedures: Diversity Awards Legitimize Unfair Organizational Practices (2015) (23)
Influencing the World Versus Adjusting to Constraints (2014) (23)
Sex-role orientation and fear of success: Clarifying an unclear relationship (1979) (21)
Attributions to discrimination: Antecedents and consequences. (2009) (21)
Suspicion of White people's motives relates to relative accuracy in detecting external motivation to respond without prejudice (2015) (20)
Does unfairness feel different if it can be linked to group membership? Cognitive, affective, behavioral and physiological implications of discrimination and unfairness☆ (2015) (20)
The psychological and physiological effects of interacting with an anti-fat peer. (2018) (19)
The Meaning and Impact of Partner's Accompaniment on Women's Adjustment to Abortion1 (1994) (19)
Anticipated and Experienced Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Sleep: A Longitudinal Study (2020) (19)
Self-Verification Versus Expectancy Confirmation in Social Interaction (1988) (18)
The Countervailing Effects of Weight Stigma on Weight-Loss Motivation and Perceived Capacity for Weight Control (2020) (17)
Perceived discrimination and poor health: Accounting for self-blame complicates a well-established relationship. (2016) (17)
Why did you choose that person over me? Ingroup rejection and attributions to discrimination☆ (2012) (17)
An identity-based motivational model of the effects of perceived discrimination on health-related behaviors (2016) (15)
Situational moderators of gender differences in reward allocations (1984) (15)
The Social Life of Emotions: Judgments of Deserving and the Emotional Consequences of Stigmatization (2004) (15)
Coping with Bias (2010) (15)
Sex-Role Orientation and Type A Behavior (1981) (13)
Meaning Making in Response to Unfairness (2012) (13)
How African-American College Students Protect Their Self-Esteem. (2002) (13)
Prototypes of Discrimination: How Status Asymmetry and Stereotype Asymmetry Affect Judgments of Racial Discrimination (2013) (13)
Response Latency as an Index of Temporary Self-Evaluation (1992) (12)
Women and entitlement. (1987) (12)
Self, social identity, and stigma: Through Kay Deaux’s lens. (2012) (12)
Applying Intergroup Relations Research to Understanding LGB Health Disparities (2017) (11)
Whether to Agree-Disagree Or Disagree-Agree: the Effects of Anchor Order on Item Response (1978) (11)
The impact of antiabortion activities on women seeking abortions. (1998) (10)
Weight Stigma and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis Reactivity in Individuals Who Are Overweight. (2018) (10)
The Influence of Legitimacy Appraisals on the Determinants of Entitlement Beliefs (1995) (9)
Was It Race or Merit?: The Cognitive Costs of Observing the Attributionally Ambiguous Hiring of a Racial Minority (2017) (9)
An Expectancy/Value Perspective on the Demotivating Effects of Prejudice (2010) (8)
APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion 2008 (2008) (7)
The embodiment of meaning violations. (2013) (7)
Author ' s personal copy The ironic effects of weight stigma (2014) (6)
Diversity Initiatives and White Americans’ Perceptions of Racial Victimhood (2021) (6)
Suspicion in Interracial Interactions: Using Measures of Cardiovascular Reactivity to Index Threat (2013) (5)
Discrimination, health, and the costs and benefits of believing in system fairness. (2019) (5)
Perceptions of Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Touching: It's Better to Give Than to Receive. (1978) (5)
Adverse events with Zyban (buproprion) (2003) (4)
Latinx identity and intersectional responses to stigma. (2021) (4)
Motivational processes of the relationship between weight stigma and physical activity: a comparison between France and Mexico (2021) (3)
Self-verification and expectancy confirmation in social interaction: Independent or interactive processes? (1988) (3)
Influencing the World Versus Adjusting to Constraints : Social Class Moderates Responses to (2013) (3)
Crossing the racial line: The fluidity vs. fixedness of racial identity (2019) (3)
Cardiovascular, behavioral, and psychological responses to organizational prodiversity messages among racial/ethnic minorities (2020) (2)
Integrating biological and chemical control of slugs. (2000) (2)
Affective and Behavioral Consequences of Social Comparison. (1988) (2)
Health Consequences of Prejudice and Discrimination (2020) (2)
Responding to Self-Threats (2008) (2)
Title Influencing the World Versus Adjusting to Constraints : Social Class Moderates Responses to Discrimination Permalink (2013) (1)
The Competitive Woman: Fear of Success, Attractiveness, and Competitor Sex. (1975) (1)
Causes and Consequences of Sex-Role Stereotypes. (1981) (1)
Making Diversity Work for Everybody? The Double-Edged Sword of All-Inclusive Diversity. (2021) (1)
Correction to Major. (1981) (1)
Fine structure of the butterfly diagram (2004) (1)
Self-Efficacy for Dietary Control Measure (2014) (1)
Perceived Internal Motivation Scale/Perceived External Motivation Scale (2014) (1)
The downside of success. (1988) (1)
Procedural Justice Scale (2015) (1)
Introduction to Kay Deaux's Lewin Award Address (2008) (0)
Perceived Discrimination Measures (2016) (0)
Attributions to Discrimination Scale (2013) (0)
EDM: More than Scanned Paper (2011) (0)
Sleep, Emotions, and Sense of Belonging: A Daily Experience Study (2022) (0)
One Step Forward and Two Steps Back. (1983) (0)
Effects of Physical Attractiveness, Sex and Sex-Role on Trait Attributions. (1977) (0)
Perceived Discrimination Scale (2015) (0)
The Changing Further Education Structure: A Basis for Conscription? (2017) (0)
Helping Ourselves to Better Relationships. (1985) (0)
An Auto-ethnographic Study of Teaching Methods that Support Meaning Making in Middle School Art (2014) (0)
Discrimination and Perceived Cultural Mismatch Increase Status-Based Identity Uncertainty. (2023) (0)
Mixed messages: implications of social conflict and social support within close relationships for adjustment to a stressful life event. (1997) (0)
Achievement goals and psychophysiology 1 Running head : CHALLENGE AND THREAT IN ACHIEVEMENT GOALS Physiological markers of challenge and threat mediate the effects of performance-based goals on performance Aïna Chalabaev (2017) (0)
Social Comparison of Wages: Impact on Satisfaction and Fairness Judgments. (1986) (0)
Insidious Procedures: Diversity Awards Legitimize Unfair Organizational Practices (2015) (0)
Depressed and Hostile Emotion Measures (2013) (0)
DiscriminationandtheStressResponse:Psychological andPhysiologicalConsequencesofAnticipatingPrejudice inInterethnicInteractions (2012) (0)
Concerns about Unfair Treatment Measure (Study 2) (2016) (0)
Relations entre l'induction de buts de performance et des indicateurs cardiovasculaires d'états de menace et de défi (2011) (0)
For Mutual Benefit: Studying Women and Social Psychology. (1986) (0)
External Motivation to Avoid Prejudice Scales Minority Perceptions of Whites ' Motives for Responding Without Prejudice : The Perceived Internal and (2013) (0)
When avoiding failure improves performance: Stereotype threat and the impact of performance goals (2011) (0)
Weight Stigma Concerns Scale (2014) (0)
Self-verification and behavioral confirmation: The impact of self-focus (1988) (0)
Sex-Role Orientation and Fear of Success: Clarifying an Unclear Relationship 1 (0)
Fair Treatment of Minorities Scale (2015) (0)
Motives matter: White instructors' external race-based motives undermine trust and belonging for Black college students. (2021) (0)
Brenda Major else It ' s not your fault : The social costs of claiming discrimination on behalf of someone (2012) (0)

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