Stigma and Expectancy Effects

My research team also examines issues relating to stigma and expectancy effects and how they influence applied outcomes outside of police interrogations and wrongful convictions. Some of this research examines applied issues such as how stigma associated with certain religious groups and races can influence voting behavior. My research team has also examined the role of self-fulfilling prophecies and their ability to perpetuate a variety of stereotypes and prejudices leading to the stigmatization of various groups.

Related Publications

Catlin, M., Piggott, D., Scherr, K. C., & Vallano, J.P. (2023). Schematic expectations influence mock jurors' sexual violence case recognition. Applied Cognitive Psychology 37, 558-568.

Fleming, A.C., O'Brien, K., Steele, S., & Scherr, (2022). An investigation of the nature and consequences of counterproductive work behavior. Human Performance, 35, 178-192.

Catlin, M., & Scherr, K. C.(2022). The deleterious effect of Victimization on just-world beliefs. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, NP16013-NP16036.

Catlin, M., Scherr, K. C., Barlett, C., Jacobs, E., & Normile, C. J. (2019). Bounded
blame: The effects of victim-perpetrator relationship and victimization history on judgments of sexual violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, NP8800-NP8823.

Franks, A. S. & Scherr, K. C. (2019). Economic issues are moral issues: The moral
underpinnings of the desire to reduce wealth inequality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 553-562.

Franks, A. S., Scherr, K. C., & Gibson, B. (2019). Godless by association: Deficits in trust mediate anti-atheist stigma-by-association. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25, 303-316.

Madon, S., Jussim, L., Guyll, M., Nofziger, H., Salib, E., Willard, J., & Scherr, K. C. (2018). The cumulative self-fulfilling effect of social stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 825-844.

Franks, A. S., & Scherr, K. C. (2017). Analytic thinking reduces anti-atheist bias in voting intentions. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 27, 129-140.

Reed, O., Franks, A. S., & Scherr, K. C. (2015). Are perceptions of transgender individuals affected by mental illness stigma? A moderated mediation analysis of anti-transgender prejudice in hiring recommendations. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 2, 463-469.

Franks, A. S., & Scherr, K. C. (2015). Using moral foundations to predict voting behavior: Regression analyses from the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 15, 213-232.

Franks, A. S., & Scherr, K. C. (2014). A sociofunctional approach to prejudice at the polls: Are atheists more politically disadvantaged than gays and Blacks? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44, 681-691.

Madon, S., Scherr, K. C., Guyll, M., Willard, J., Spoth, R. & Vogel, D. (2013). The role of the self-fulfilling prophecy in young adolescents' responsiveness to a substance use prevention program. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 1784-1798.

Willard, J., Madon, S., Guyll, M., Scherr, K. C., & Spoth, R. (2012). The accumulation of shared expectations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 497-508.

Madon, S., Willard, J., Guyll, M., & Scherr, K. C. (2011). Self-fulfilling prophecies: Mechanisms, power, and links to social problems. Social and Personality Compass, 8, 578-590.

Scherr, K. C., Madon, S., Guyll, M., Willard, J., & Spoth, R (2011). Self-verification
as a mediator of mothers’ self-fulfilling effects on children’s educational
attainment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 587-600.

Guyll, M., Madon, S., Prieto, L., & Scherr, K. C. (2010). The potential roles of self-
fulfilling prophecies, stigma consciousness, and stereotype threat in linking Latino/a ethnicity and educational outcomes. Journal of Social Issues, 66, 113-130.

Madon, S., Guyll, M., Buller, A.A., Scherr, K.C., Willard, J., Spoth, D. (2008). The
mediation of mothers’ self-fulfilling effects on their children’s alcohol use: self-verification, informational conformity, and modeling processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 369-384.

Willard, J., Madon, S., Buller, A., & Scherr, K. C. (2008). Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Madon, S., Willard, J., Buller, A. A, & Scherr, K. C. (2007). Self-fulfilling prophecies. In Darity, William A., Jr. (2nd Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (pp. 414-415). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale.

Scherr, K. C. (2007). The end of the end of ideology. Association for Psychological Science Observer, 20.