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Dr. Mary Inman teaches courses such as Social Psychology and Research Methods, leads students in her research, and serves the college and community in many ways. She joined the Hope faculty in 1999.

Areas of expertise

Mary studied people鈥檚 perceptions of discrimination for 15 years, wrote two books that teach undergraduates how to do psychological research, and then shifted her research interests to body image concerns. She has been interviewed about her recent research for articles in the popular press, including and .  

She enjoys collaborating with students to conduct, present and write up research. She engages students in her research on identifying the causes of, and solutions to, low body esteem. Her second line of research examines how people determine whether an event reflects discrimination. She has created manipulations to determine whether people can enlarge their definition of discrimination.

Education

• Ph.D., social psychology, University of Iowa, 1992
• M.A., social psychology, University of Iowa, 1989
• B.A., psychology, Iowa State University, 1987

Honors, grants and awards

Mary received 换妻社区鈥檚 service award in 2011 for her work as chair of the Human Subject Review Board and her work on diversity training. She has also won teaching awards from her students.

Mary enjoys interdisciplinary teaching and research. She received interdisciplinary grants to help educators raise awareness in their classes about environmental sustainability. Her other grants include developing interdisciplinary tutorials for classes and interdisciplinary research grants to study the biological effects of perceiving discrimination.

Select publications

• 鈥�鈥� (with D. Johansen and D. Sherman), Journal of Religion and Health, 2022
• 鈥� (with S. Hoogeveen et al.), Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2022
• 鈥�鈥� (with G. Park et al.), International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2022
• 鈥淭he Socialization-Stressor Model of Racial Harassment鈥� (with P. Radhakrishnan and K. Liggett), in Research in Human Resource Management (ed. by D.L. Stone, J.H. Dulebohn and K.M. Lukaszewski), Information Age Publishing, 2020
• 鈥淏ody Esteem and Appearance-based Self-worth: A Test of Religious Moderators in Men and Women鈥� (with C.V.O. Witvliet,) Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 2017
• 鈥�鈥� (with A. Snyder and K. Preprah), Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 2016
• 鈥�,鈥� Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2014
• 鈥�鈥� (with E. Iceberg and L. McKeel), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2014
• The Research Companion for Introductory Psychology (supplemental textbook for college students), Cengage Publishing, 2011
• The Research Companion for Social Psychology (supplemental textbook for college students), Cengage Publishing, 2011
• 鈥�鈥� (with V. Swami et al.), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2010
• 鈥淢isperceptions in Intergroup Conflict: Disagreeing About What We Disagree About,鈥� Psychological Science, 2006
• 鈥淏oasting and Firsthand and Secondhand Impressions: A New Explanation for the Positive Teller-Listener Extremity Effects鈥� (with N. McDonald and A. Ruch), Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2004
• 鈥淪elf-Certainty and Feedback Seeking Behavior: Do Uncertain People Show Self-Assessment or Self-Protective Tendencies?,鈥� Representative Research in Social Psychology, 2002
• 鈥淒o You See What I See? Similarities and Differences in Victims' and Observers' Perceptions of Discrimination,鈥� Social Cognition, 2001
• 鈥淧erceiving Discrimination: The Role of Prototypes and Norm Violation鈥� (with J. Huerta and S. Oh), Social Cognition, 1998
• 鈥淲hy Listeners Hear Less Than They Are Told: Attentional Load and the Teller-Listener Extremity Effect鈥� (with R.S. Baron, J.P. David and B.M. Brunsman), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1997
• 鈥淭he Influence of Prototypes on Perceptions of Prejudice鈥� (with R.S. Baron), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1996
• 鈥淣egative Emotion and Message Processing鈥� (with R.S. Baron et al.), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1994
• 鈥淒o We Tell Less Than We Know or Hear Less Than We Are Told? Exploring the Teller-Listener Extremity Effect鈥� (with A.J. Reichl and R.S. Baron), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,1993
• 鈥淣egative Emotion and Superficial Social Processing鈥� (with R.S. Baron, C.F. Kao and H. Logan), Motivation and Emotion, 1992
• 鈥淒etecting and Labeling Prejudice: Do Female Perpetrators Go Undetected?鈥� (with R.S. Baron and C.F. Kao), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1991

View some of Mary鈥檚 published work at .

Outside the college

Mary mentors students and youth inside and outside of 换妻社区, plays in a handbell choir, enjoys playing and watching sports and is a naturalist.