Mark Zanna
- SPN Mentor
IN MEMORIAM
Professor Mark Zanna died February 22, 2020, in Waterloo, Canada. Social Psychology Network is maintaining this profile for visitors who wish to learn more about Professor Zanna's work.
Please see below for more information:
- A Tribute to Distinguished Professor Emeritus Mark Zanna (University of Waterloo)
- In Memory of Mark Peter Zanna: 1944-2020 (Erb & Good Obituary)
- The Mark Zanna Memorial Scholarship in Psychology (University of Waterloo)
My area of research is the psychology of attitudes. Currently, in the domain of communication and persuasion I am conducting research on overcoming resistance to change (e.g., narrative persuasion). In the domain of implicit attitudes I am conducting research on aversive racists (i.e., those low in explicit prejudice, but high in implicit prejudice) and on individuals with defensive self-esteem (i.e., those high in explicit self-esteem, but low in implicit self-esteem). Finally, in the domain of health I have recently tested a safer-sex intervention and evaluated the new cigarette warning labels in Canada. Currently, I am investigating the subtle effects of smoking in feature films on implicit cognition (e.g., implicit attitudes and implicit norms) and the development of negative implicit norms toward first-year, female engineering students.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Health Psychology
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
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Books:
- Albarracin, D., Johnson, B. T., & Zanna, M. P. (Eds.). (2005). The handbook of attitudes. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Darley, J. M., Zanna, M. P., & Roediger, H. L. (Eds.) (2004). The compleat academic: A career guide (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Journal Articles:
- Correll, J., Spencer, S. J., & Zanna, M. P. (2004). An affirmed self and an open mind: Self-affirmation and sensitivity to argument strength. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 350-356.
- Dal Cin, S., Gibson, B., Zanna, M. P., Shumate, R., & Fong, G. T. (2007). Smoking in the movies, implicit associations of smoking with the self, and intentions to smoke. Psychological Science, 39, 559-563.
- Dal Cin, S., MacDonald, T. K., Fong, G. T., Zanna, M. P., & Elton-Marshall, T. E. (2006). Remembering the message: Using a reminder cue to increase condom use following a safer sex intervention. Health Psychology, 25, 438-443.
- Ebel-Lam, A. P., MacDonald, T. K., Zanna, M. P., & Fong, G. T. (2009). An experimental investigation of the interactive effects of alcohol and sexual arousal on intentions to have unprotected sex. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 31, 226-233.
- Hoshino-Browne, E., Zanna, A. S., Spencer, S. J., Zanna, M. P., Kitayama, S., & Lackenbauer, S. (2005). On the cultural guises of cognitive dissonance: The case of Easterners and Westerners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 294-310.
- Jonas, E., Graupmann, V., Niesta Kayser, D., Zanna, M. P., Traut-Mattausch, E., & Fry, D. (2009). Culture, self-construal and the emergence of reactance: Is there a "universal" freedom? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1068-1080.
- Jordan, C. H., Spencer, S. J., & Zanna, M. P. (2005). Types of high self-esteem and prejudice: How implicit self-esteem relates to ethnic discrimination among high explicit self-esteem individuals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 693-702.
- Kay, A. C.,Gaucher, D., Peach,J. M., Laurin, K., Friesen, J., Zanna, M. P., & Spencer, S. J. (2009). Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should be. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 421-434.
- Peach, J. M., Yoshida, E., Spencer, S. J., Zanna, M. P., & Steele, J. (2011). Recognizing discrimination explicitly while denying it implicitly: Implicit social identity protection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 283-292.
- Son Hing, L. S., Bobocel, D. R., Zanna, M. P. et al. (2007). Authoritarian dynamics and unethical decision making: High SDO leaders and high RWA followers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 67-81.
- Son Hing, L. S., Chung-Yan, G. A., Hamilton, L. K., & Zanna, M. P. (2008). A two-dimensional model that employs explicit and implicit attitudes to characterize prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 971-987.
- Spencer, S. J., Zanna, M. P., & Fong, G. T. (2005). Establishing a causal chain: Why experiments are often more effective than mediational analyses in examining psychological processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 845-851.
- Stinson, D. B., Logel, C., Zanna, M. P. et al. (2008). The cost of lower self-esteem: Testing a self-and-social-bonds model of health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 412-428.
- Strahan, E. J., Lafrance, A., Wilson, A. E., Ethier, N., Spencer, S. J., & Zanna, M. P. (2008). Victoria's dirty secret: How sociocultural norms influence adolescent girls and women. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 288-301.
- Strahan, E. J., Spencer, S. J., & Zanna, M. P. (2007). Don't take another bite: How sociocultural norms of appearance affect women's eating behavior. Body Image, 4, 331-342.
- Zanna, M. P. (2011). While waiting for nature to take her course: There's nothing so practical as a good...design. Journal of Social Issues, 67(3), 651-662.
- Zanna, M. P. (2004). The naive epistemology of a working social psychologist (or the working epistemology of a naive social psychologist): The value of taking "temporary givens" seriously. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 210-218.
Other Publications:
- Jordan, C. H., & Zanna, M. P. (2007). Not all experiments are created equal: On conducting and reporting persuasive experiments. In R. J. Sternberg, D. Halpern, & H. L. Roediger (Eds.), Critical Thinking in Psychology (pp. 160-176). New York: Cambridge University Press.
