Jordan LaBouff

Jordan LaBouff
Occupation	Psychologist, academic
Employer	University of Maine
Known for	Research on religiosity, prejudice, and intellectual humility

Jordan LaBouff is a psychologist at the University of Maine, where he holds a position in the Department of Psychology and is affiliated with the university's programs in Education, Business, and Honors. His research addresses the relationship between religiosity, prejudice, and intellectual humility.

Career

LaBouff joined the University of Maine System in 2011 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology.

Research

LaBouff's publication record includes 40 papers that have collectively been cited 2,058 times, giving him an h-index of 17 according to Semantic Scholar. His work has examined the links between religiosity and prejudice, including studies on in-group favoritism and out-group derogation, and the effects of priming religious concepts on racial attitudes. He has also contributed to research on intellectual humility, including the development of implicit measures of humility and studies connecting humility to helping behavior and knowledge acquisition.

Selected publications

• "Survey-software implicit association tests: A methodological and empirical analysis" (2018), Behavior Research Methods
• "Religiosity and prejudice revisited: In-group favoritism, out-group derogation, or both?" (2012)
• "Priming Christian Religious Concepts Increases Racial Prejudice" (2010)
• "Development and initial validation of an implicit measure of humility relative to arrogance" (2006)
• "Associations Among Religiousness, Social Attitudes, and Prejudice in a National Random Sample of American Adults" (2009)
• "Links between intellectual humility and acquiring knowledge" (2020), Journal of Positive Psychology
• "Humble persons are more helpful than less humble persons: Evidence from three studies" (2012)
• "Differences in Attitudes Toward Outgroups in Religious and Nonreligious Contexts in a Multinational Sample: A Situational Context Priming Study" (2012)
• "A mediational analysis of the role of right-wing authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism in the religiosity-prejudice link" (2011)
• "Facets of Right-Wing Authoritarianism Mediate the Relationship Between Religious Fundamentalism and Attitudes Toward Arabs and African Americans" (2012)

External links

• Jordan LaBouff on ORCID