Bruce D. Bartholow

Institution University of Missouri, Columbia Current Position Associate Professor Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Missouri, 2000 Research Interests Aggression Health Person Perception Prejudice/Stereotyping Psychophysiology Social Cognition Laboratory Home Page Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Courses Taught Experimental Social Psychology Stereotypes and Prejudice Theories of Social Psychology   Bruce D. Bartholow Department of Psychological Sciences 210 McAlester Hall University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65211 U.S.A. Home Page Phone: (573) 882-1805 Fax: (573) 882-7710 Email: BartholowB@missouri.edu Dr. Bartholow received his B.S. in Psychology from Minnesota State University at Mankato in 1992, received his master's degree in Experimental Psychology from Drake University in 1995, and received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Missouri in 2000. Dr. Bartholow also completed a brief period of NIH-supported post-doctoral training in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Missouri. From January 2001 to June 2004 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, Dr. Bartholow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. Dr. Bartholow's research focuses primarily on three areas: (1) person perception and interpersonal expectancy effects (e.g., stereotyping, impression formation); (2) predictors of aggression among late adolescents and young adults; and (3) correlates and consequences of alcohol use and abuse. All of these areas are studied from a social-cognitive perspective, including the use of methods and measures developed in cognitive neuroscience, such as event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and facial electromyogram (EMG). These tools are very useful for examining questions related to, for example, the effects of stereotypes on the interpretation of behavior, the influence of media violence on desensitization to aggression and violence, and the influence of alcohol intoxication on cognitive processing and social behavior. Dr. Bartholow's research has been funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, and by several small awards. In addition, he has received awards for his teaching. His teaching interests include courses in Social Psychology, Stereotypes and Prejudice, Psychophysiology, Aggression, and Experimental Methodology. Journal Articles: Bartholow, B. D., Anderson, C. A., Carnagey, N. L., & Benjamin, A. J. Jr. (2005). Interactive effects of life experience and situational cues on aggression: The weapons priming effect in hunters and nonhunters. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 48-60. Bartholow, B. D., Bushman, B. J., & Sestir, M. A. (2006). Chronic violent video game exposure and desensitization: Behavioral and event-related brain potential data. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 532-539. Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (2008). A response conflict account of the effects of stereotypes on racial categorization. Social Cognition, 26, 273-291. Bartholow, B. D., Dickter, C. L., & Sestir, M. A. (2006). Stereotype activation and control of race bias: Cognitive control of inhibition and its impairment by alcohol. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 272-287. Bartholow, B. D., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., & Bettencourt, B. A. (2001). A psychophysiological analysis of cognitive processing of and affective responses to social expectancy violations. Psychological Science, 12, 197-204. Bartholow, B. D., & Heinz, A. (2006). Alcohol and aggression without consumption: Alcohol cues, aggressive thoughts, and hostile perception bias. Psychological Science, 17, 30-37. Bartholow, B. D., Pearson, M. A, Gratton, G., & Fabiani, M. (2003). Effects of alcohol on person perception: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 627-638. Bartholow, B. D., Sestir, M. A., & Davis, E. B. (2005). Correlates and consequences of exposure to video game violence: Hostile personality, empathy, and aggressive behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1573-1586. Bartholow, B. D., Sher, K. J., & Krull, J. L. (2003). Changes in heavy drinking over the third decade of life as a function of collegiate fraternity and sorority involvement: A prospective, multilevel analysis. Health Psychology, 22, 616-626. Bartholow, B. D., Sher, K. J., & Strathman, A. (2000). Moderation of the expectancy – alcohol use relation by private self-consciousness: data from a longitudinal study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1410-1421. Dickter, C. L., & Bartholow, B. D. (2007). Event-related brain potential evidence of ingroup and outgroup attention biases. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 189-198. Kernahan, C. A., Bartholow, B. D., & Bettencourt, B. A. (2000). Effects of category-based expectancy violation on affect-related evaluations: Toward a comprehensive model. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 22, 85-100. Other Publications: Bartholow, B. D., & Amodio, D. M. (in press). Using event-related brain potentials in social psychological research: A brief review and tutorial. In E. Harmon-Jones & J. S. Beer (Eds.), Methods in the neurobiology of social and personality psychology. New York: Guilford Press. Bartholow, B. D., & Dickter, C. L. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience of person perception: A selective review focused on the event-related brain potential. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior (pp. 376-400). New York: Guilford Press. Bartholow, B. D., Dill, K. E., Anderson, K. B., & Lindsay, J. J. (2003). The proliferation of media violence and its economic underpinnings. In D. A. Gentile (Ed.), Media violence and children. Westport, CT: Praeger.

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