Jordan Axt
Associate Professor
Contact Information:
Office: 2001 McGill College, 1458
Phone: 514.398.4657
Email: jordan.axt[at]mcgill.ca
Mailing Address:
Department of Psychology
2001 McGill College, 7th floor
Montreal, QC
H3A 1G1
Research Areas:
Research Summary:
My research explores how people form and express intergroup bias in attitudes and behavior. I investigate how such bias is presented both explicitly, when mental processes are more controlled, and implicitly, when mental processes are more automatic and uncontrolled. I study this question across many social domains, such as race, politics, religion, age, sexual orientation, and physical attractiveness. Through this work, I seek to discover how intergroup bias can be best conceptualized, measured, and reduced. In particular, I examine these issues by using large, diverse samples and applying novel methodologies.
Selected References:
Axt, J.R. & To, J. (2025). How can debiasing research aid efforts to reduce discrimination? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 29, 81-105.
Roy, E., Jaeger, B., Evans, T... Lai, C.K. & Axt, J.R. (2025). A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128, 508-535.
Axt, J.R. & Roy, E. (2025). Moderators of test-retest reliability in implicit and explicit attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128, 567-593.
Axt, J.R., Buttrick, N.R. & Feng, R (2024). A comparative investigation of the predictive validity of four implicit association measures of bias and prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50, 871-888.
Axt, J.R., Atwood, S., Talhelm, T. & Hehman, E.H. (2023). Asian men and Black women hold weaker race-gender associations: Evidence from the US and China. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 675-683.