Thomas Pettigrew
Department of Psychology
273 Social Sciences 2
University of California
Santa Cruz, California 95064
U.S.A.
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Thomas Pettigrew is currently Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has also taught at the Universities of North Carolina (1956-1957), Harvard (1957-1980), and Amsterdam (1986-1991). In addition, in 2001 he was a Senior Fellow at the Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.Professor Pettigrew has been at the forefront of research on racial prejudice for a half-century. An expert on black-white relations in the United States, he has also conducted intergroup research in Australia, Europe, and South Africa. He served as President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 1967-1968 and later received the Society's Kurt Lewin Award and twice the Gordon Allport Intergroup Research Award. Other national awards include the Sydney Spivack Award for Race Relations Research from the American Sociological Association (1979), the 2002 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology), a Senior Fulbright Fellowship (2003-2004), and the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.
 Books:
- Campbell, E. Q., & Pettigrew, T. (1959). Christians in racial crisis: A study of Little Rock's ministry. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press.
 Pettigrew, T. (1996). How to think like a social scientist. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers.
- Pettigrew, T. (1971). Racially separate or together? New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Pettigrew, T. and others. (1982). Prejudice. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
- Pettigrew, T. (Ed.). (1980). The sociology of race relations: Reflection and reform. New York: Free Press.
- Pettigrew, T. (Ed.). (1975). Racial discrimination in the United States. New York: Harper & Row.
- Stephan, C. W., Stephan, W. G., & Pettigrew, T. F. (Eds.). (1991). The future of social psychology: Defining the relationship between sociology and psychology. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Journal Articles:
- Pettigrew, T. (1998). Intergroup contact theory. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 65-85.
- Pettigrew, T. F. (2004). Justice deferred: A half century after Brown v. Board of Education. American Psychologist, 59(6), 521-529.
- Pettigrew, T. F. (1997). Generalized intergroup contact effects on prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23(2), 173-185.
- Pettigrew, T. F. (1979). The ultimate attribution error: Extending Allport's cognitive analysis of prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5(4), 461-476.
- Pettigrew, T., & Tropp, L. (2006). A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 751-783.
- van Dick, R., Wagner, U., Pettigrew, T. F., Christ, O., Wolf, C., Petzel, T., Castro, V. S., & Jackson, J. S. (2004). Role of perceived importance in intergroup contact. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87(2), 211-227.
Other Publications:
- Pettigrew, T. (in press). Final reflections. In U. Wagner, L. Tropp, G. Finchilescu, & C. Tredoux (Eds.), Emerging research directions for improving intergroup relations: Building on the legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
- Pettigrew, T. (2000). Systematizing the predictors of prejudice. In D. Sears, J. Sidanius, & L. Bobo (Eds.), Racialized politics: The debate about racism in America. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
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