P. J. Henry received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001. Since then, he has had various research and teaching appointments at the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), Yale University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Bielefeld (Germany), and DePaul University. He is currently part of the faculty at New York University's new campus in Abu Dhabi. His general research interests include stigma, group-based status and power issues, and prejudice and racism.

Primary Interests:

Culture and Ethnicity
Intergroup Relations
Political Psychology
Prejudice and Stereotyping

Culture and Ethnicity
Intergroup Relations

Political Psychology
Prejudice and Stereotyping

Journal Articles:

Henry, P. J. (in press). The role of stigma in understanding ethnicity differences in authoritarianism. Political Psychology.
Henry, P. J. (2009). Low-status compensation: A theory for understanding the role of status in cultures of honor. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 451-466.
Henry, P. J. (2008). College sophomores in the laboratory redux: Influences of a narrow data base on social psychology's view of the nature of prejudice. Psychological Inquiry, 19, 49-71.
Henry, P. J. (2008). Student sampling as a theoretical problem. Psychological Inquiry, 19, 114-125.
Henry, P. J., & Hardin, C. D. (2006). The contact hypothesis revisited: Status bias in the reduction of implicit prejudice in the United States and Lebanon. Psychological Science, 17, 862-868.
Henry, P. J., & Reyna, C. (2007). Value judgments: The impact of perceived value violations on political attitudes. Political Psychology.
Henry, P. J., Reyna, C. E., & Weiner, B. (2004). Hate welfare but help the poor: How the attributional content of stereotypes explains the paradox of reactions to the destitute in America. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34(1), 34-58.
Henry, P. J., & Saul, A. (2006). The development of system justification in the developing world. Social Justice Research, 19, 365-378.
Henry, P. J., & Sears, D. O. (2002). The symbolic racism 2000 scale. Political Psychology, 23, 253-283.
Henry, P. J., Sidanius, J., Levin, S., & Pratto, F. (2005). Social dominance orientation, authoritarianism, and support for intergroup violence between the Middle East and America. Political Psychology, 26, 569-583.
Reyna, C., Henry, P. J., Korfmacher, W., & Tucker, A. (2006). Examining the principles in principled conservatism: The role of responsibility stereotypes as cues for deservingness in racial policy decisions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 109-128.
Sears, D. O., & Henry, P. J. (2003). The origins of symbolic racism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85 (2), 259-275.

Other Publications:

Henry, P. J. (2010). Institutional racism. To appear in J. F. Dovidio, M. Hewstone, P. Glick, & V. M. Esses (Eds.), Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. London: Sage.
Henry, P. J. (2008). Review of The Handbook of Social Psychology by A. W. Kruglanski & E. T. Higgins. Political Psychology, 29, 792-797.
Sears, D. O, & Henry, P. J. (2005). Over thirty years later: A contemporary look at symbolic racism and its critics. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 95-150.

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Psychology
Prejudice
Social Psychology

Introduction to Psychology
Prejudice

Social Psychology

P. J. Henry
New York University Abu Dhabi
P.O. Box 129188
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Phone: +971-2628-4171