Rios, K., Roth, Z. C., & Langston, J. A. (under review). Academics’ stereotypes about identity related research: The buffering role of intellectual humility. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Roth, Z. C., & Herbstrith, J. (in prep). Revisiting the Big Five and prejudice: Motivations to respond without prejudice as mediators. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin.
Herbstrith, J., & Roth, Z. C. (in prep). Motivation matters: A pathway for reducing anti-gay prejudice among authoritarian preservice teachers.
Roth, Z. C., Rios, K., & Alicke, M. (in prep). Are they racist? Am I? Self-enhancement motives drive perceptions of racism in others.
Roth, Z. C., & Rios, K. (2020). Feeling correct is feeling prejudiced: The differential effects of attitude correctness and attitude clarity on evaluations of outgroups. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220972756
Rios, K., & Roth, Z. C. (2019). Is "me-search" necessarily less rigorous research? Social and personality psychologists' stereotypes of the psychology of religion. Self & Identity. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2019.1690035
Herbstrith, J.C., Kuperus, S., Dingle, K., & Roth, Z.C. (2019). Religion in the public schools: An examination of school personnel knowledge of the law and attitudes toward religious expression. Research in Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523718821705
Rios, K., & Roth, Z.C. (2018). Extending the attitudinal entropy framework to intrapersonal phenomena. Psychological Inquiry, 29(4), 208-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2018.1537331
Roth, Z.C. Religious fundamentalism, prejudice, and the uncertain atheist stereotype: An exploratory study. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, April 2023.
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Leicht, C., Roth, Z.C., & Rios, K. Atheists vs. new atheists: The conflict narrative and perceptions of religious threat. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February 2023
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Roth, Z.C., & Rios, K. The consequences of Dialectical Thinking for Political Centrism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, April 2022
Roth, Z.C., Rios, K., & Alicke, M. Self enhancement motives affect perceptions of racism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, April 2021
Roth, Z. C., & Rios, K. Parsing the effects of religious attitude certainty: Correctness, clarity, and prejudice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, St. Louis, MO, October 2019
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Selected Publications
Selected Paper Presentations
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
My research interests broadly lie at the intersection of attitudes, identity, and intergroup relations between ideological groups.
My current primary line of research examines how secondary and tertiary attitude structures (dogmatism, attitude certainty, ideological complexity, etc.) affect prejudice amongst ideological groups (i.e., political and religious groups). I have found that some indices of attitude strength (feeling one's attitudes are "correct") increase feelings of prejudice, while others (feeling certain of the content of one's attitudes) are unrelated or decrease feelings of prejudice (Roth & Rios, 2020). I am currently conducting a series of studies aimed at disentangling and clarifying the effects of indices of "attitude rigidity" on prejudiced attitudes.
A secondary line of research of mine is investigating the nature and genesis of moderate political identities. I have found that political moderates in the U.S. may adopt their political positions because they engage in a less analytical and more contradiction-tolerant cognitive style than those on the left or right (Roth, in prep). I am currently conducting several studies investigating the causal relationship between this cognitive style and political orientation. Additionally, I have initial empirical evidence that political moderates, rather than having attitudes that are an "average" of left-right attitudes, have an asymmetric affinity for left or right positions that varies based on the values associated with the position.
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Below are a select collection of publications and presentations. See my full CV here or visit my ResearchGate profile