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Curriculum Vita

Research Interests

Decision making and judgment, attitudes and the attitude-behavior relation, and the minority experience.

Education

Ph.D., Indiana University (1987)
B.S., University of California-Davis (1979)

Selected Publications

White, P. H., Sanbonmatsu, D. M., Croyle, R. T., and Smittipatana, S. (2002). Letting up for others: Test of socially motivated underachievement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 162-169.

Ho, Edward A., David M. Sanbonmatsu, and Sharon A. Akimoto, (2002). The effects of the comparative status on social stereotypes: How the perceived success of some persons affects the stereotypes of others. Social Cognition, 20, 36-57.

Posavac, S. S., Sanbonmatsu, D. M., Kardes, F. R., & Fitzsimons (2004).The brand positivity effect: When evaluation confers preference. Journal of Consumer Research, 31, 643-651.

Sanbonmatsu, D. M., Posavac, S. S., Vanous, S., & Ho, E. A. (2005). Information search in the testing of quantified hypotheses: How "all", "most", "some", "few", and "none" hypotheses are tested. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 254-266.

Sanbonmatsu, D. M, Posavac, S. S., Vanous, S., Ho, E. A., & Fazio, R. H. (2007). The deautomatization of accessible attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 365-378.

My current graduate students

Arwen Behrends
Shannon Moore