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Eileen Pitpitan
 
  
  • B.A., summa cum laude, 2005, psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.A., 2009, social psychology, University of Connecticut
  • Major advisor: Pratto
  • Joined program, Fall 2005
 
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Research Interests: Recent News:
  • Power dynamics and the maintenance of group-based inequality
  • Social and health psychology of overweight stigma
  • Sexuality and sexual violence
  • Gender
  • (2009) Awarded the Christine N. Witzel Seed Grant from the Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention & The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut for research proposal titled, A stress and coping model of weight stigma and overweight women’s mental and physical health.
Publications and Recent Presentations

Pratto, F., Lee, I., Tan, J. & Pitpitan, E. (in press). Power Basis Theory: A psycho-ecological approach to power. To appear in D. Dunning (Ed.), Social Motivation. New York: Psychology Press.

Pratto, F., & Pitpitan, E.V. (2008). Ethnocentrism and sexism: How stereotypes legitimize six types of power. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 2159-2176.

Malamuth, N., & Pitpitan. E. (2007). The effects of pornography are moderated by men's sexual aggression risk. In D. E. Guinn, & J. DiCaro (Eds.), Pornography: Driving the demand in international sex trafficking (pp. 124-143). Los Angeles: Captive Daughters Media.

Pitpitan, E. V., & Felicia Pratto (2010, January). Fungibility of masculine and feminine forms of power. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Pratto, F., Pitpitan, E.V., Angus-John, M.S., & Huntington, A., Eicher, V., & Tan, J. (2009). Ethics police the power use of subordinate groups more than dominant groups. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Dublin.

Pitpitan, E. V., & Felicia Pratto (2009, February). The correlates and consequences of women’s sexual agency. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

Earnshaw, V., Pitpitan, E.V., & Chaudoir, S. (2009, February). Why take back the night? Understanding involvement in collective responses to rape. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.


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