David Amodio
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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 lab group 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.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Intergroup Relations
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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11:59 Seeing Race: How Social Categories Influence Face Perception
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2:22 Is Your Brain Racist?
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2:00:51 Visual Dehumanization of Black Americans under Economic Stress
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Journal Articles:
- Amodio, D. M. (2025). A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating. Nature Reviews Psychology, 4, 417-432.
- 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. (2008). The social neuroscience of intergroup relations. European Review of Social Psychology, 19, 1-54.
- 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., 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., 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.
- 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., 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.
- 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., Jost, J. T., Master, S. L., & Yee, C. M. (2007). Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 1246-1247.
- 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., 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., 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., & Showers, C. J. (2005). “Similarity breeds liking” revisited: The moderating role of commitment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 22, 817-836.
- Hackel, L. M., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Loken, S., & Amodio, D. M. (2022). Context-dependent learning in social interaction: Trait impressions support flexible social choices. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123, 655-675.
- 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.
- Schultner, D. T., Lindström, B. R., Cikara, M., & Amodio, D. M. (2024). Transmission of social bias through observational learning. Science Advances, 10, eadk2030.
- Schultner, D. T., Stillerman, B. S., Lindström, B. R., Hackel, L. M., Hagen, D. R., Jostmann, N. B., & Amodio, D. M. (2024). Transmission of societal stereotypes to individual-level prejudices through instrumental learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, e2414518121.
- Traast, I. J., Schultner, D. T, Doosje, B., & Amodio, D. M. (2024). Race effects on impression formation in social interaction: An instrumental learning account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 2985-3001.
- Vlasceanu, M. & Amodio, D. M. (2022). Propagation of societal gender inequality by internet search algorithms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2204529119.
Other Publications:
- Amodio, D. M. (2024). Intergroup neuroscience. In M. C. Frank & A. Majid (Eds.), Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MIT Press.
David Amodio
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Achtergracht 129, REC G
1001 NK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
