Jennifer S. Hunt
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Jenn Hunt is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Psychology and an Interdisciplinary Fellow of the College of Law. Her research addresses two overarching issues: lay people’s judgments and behaviors in legal contexts, and the ways in which people’s judgments and behaviors are influenced by gender, race, and ethnicity. In particular, her work focuses on understanding when and how jurors are influenced by racial bias, as well as how they use complex evidence, such as character evidence, when making trial judgments. In addition, she examines people’s beliefs, ideologies, and stereotypes related to gender and race. Recently, she has been investigating the effects of “gender-blind” versus “gender-aware” ideologies, as well as tolerance of racism, which is a passive form of bias in which people accept or excuse racist behavior in others. Dr. Hunt’s work has been published in number of journals, including Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Group Processes and Intergroup Behavior, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, as well as books such as the APA Handbook of Forensic Psychology.
Dr. Hunt is currently an Associate Editor for Law and Human Behavior, and she recently finished a term as Member-at-Large for the American Psychology-Law Society.
Prior to coming to the University of Kentucky, Dr. Hunt was a faculty member in Psychology at SUNY Buffalo State and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. At Buffalo State, she served as Coordinator for the Women and Gender Studies program from 2009-2015.
Dr. Hunt currently teaches undergraduate courses on Sex and Power, Inequality Under the Law, and the Psychology of Gender and a graduate course on Prejudice and Inequality. In 2012, she received the Action Teaching Award from the Social Psychology Network.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Gender Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Intergroup Relations
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Law and Public Policy
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Armenta, B. E., & Hunt, J. S. (2009). Responding to societal devaluation: Effects of perceived personal and group discrimination on the ethnic group identification and personal self-esteem of Latino/Latina adolescents. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 12, 23-39.
- Frazier, P. A., & Hunt, J. S. (1998). Research on gender and the law: Where are we going? Where have we been? Law and Human Behavior, 22, 1-16.
- Hunt, J. S., Armenta, B. E., Seifert, A. L., & Snowden, J. L. (2009). The other side of the diaspora: Race, threat, and the social psychology of evacuee reception in predominantly White communities. Organization and Environment, 22, 437-447.
- Hunt, J. S., & Borgida, E. (2001). Is that what I said?: Witnesses’ responses to interviewer modifications. Law and Human Behavior, 25, 583-604.
- Hunt, J. S., & Budesheim, T. L. (2004). How jurors use and misuse character evidence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 347-361.
- Hunt, J. S., & Rothman, A. J. (2007). College students’ mental models for recognizing anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Appetite, 48, 289-300.
- Hunt, J. S., Seifert, A. L., Armenta, B. E., & Snowden, J. L. (2006). Stereotypes and prejudice as dynamic constructs: Reminders about the nature of intergroup bias from the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 6, 1-17.
- Maeder, E. M., & Hunt, J. S. (2011). Talking about a Black man: The influence of defendant and character witness race on juror’s use of character evidence. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 29, 608-620.
- Ryan, C. S., Hunt, J. S., Weible, J. A., Peterson, C. R., & Casas, J. F. (2007). Multicultural versus color-blind ideology and its relation to out-group homogeneity and ethnocentrism among Black and White Americans. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10, 617-637.
- Schwartz, S. L., & Hunt, J. S. (2011). Sexual harassment trials involving Latina plaintiffs: Effects of a cultural relativist argument and juror background. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 29, 418-439.
- Zhang, S., & Hunt, J. S. (2008). The stereotype rebound effect: Universal or culturally bounded process? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 489-500.
Other Publications:
- Hunt, J. S. (2007). Implicit bias and hate crimes: A psychological framework and critical race theory analysis. In R. L. Wiener, B. H. Bornstein, B. Schopp, & S. Wilborn (Eds.), Legal decision making in everyday life: Controversies in social consciousness (pp. 247-265). New York: Springer.
- Hunt, J. S., & Borgida, E. (2006). Social psychology and law. In S. E. Taylor, L. A. Peplau, & D. O. Sears, (Eds.), Social psychology (12th ed., pp. 468-492). New York: Prentice Hall.
- Hunt, J. S., Borgida, E., Kelly, K. M., & Burgess, D. (2002). Gender stereotyping. In D. L. Faigman, D. H. Kaye, M. J. Saks, & J. Sanders (Eds.), Modern scientific evidence: The law and science of expert testimony (2nd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 384-426). St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.
- Walker, N., & Hunt, J. S. (1998). Interviewing child victim-witnesses: How you ask is what you get. In C. P. Thompson, D. Herrman, J. D. Read, D. Bruce, & M. Toglia (Eds.), Eyewitness memory: Theoretical and applied perspectives (pp. 58-88). Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Legal Psychology
- Gender, Sex, and Feminism (First Year Foundations of Inquiry course)
- Proseminar in Social Behavior
- Psychology and the Law
- Psychology of Diversity (Senior Seminar)
- Psychology of Gender
- Psychology of Social Behavior (Intro to Social Psychology)
- Social Cognition
Jennifer S. Hunt
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
112 Breckinridge Hall 0056
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506
United States of America
- Phone: (859) 257-1388