Academic Research

Research Interests

I study the psychological processes that underlie social attitudes, person-perception, and intergroup relations. I examine these psychological processes in the context of relevant, real-world environments. For example, I have ongoing work related to perceptual biases on social media, how the attributes of individuals depicted alongside requests for donations influence perceiver responses, and attitudes toward algorithms and conclusions made by algorithms in everyday contexts.

I apply innovative methodological and statistical techniques and have creatively integrated a range of procedural tasks into my research. This includes the Implicit Association Test, the Affect Misattribution Procedure, and Reverse Correlation. I also place great value on the theoretical implications of the questions I ask in my research.

Publications & Ongoing Work

• PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
• Daley, J. S. & Bodenhausen, G. V. (in press). Beyond black and white: The differential impact of skin tone and racial category membership on social evaluation. Social Cognition.
• Tao, B., Daley, J. S, Lexow, B., & Balcetis, E. (2025). Keeping the goal in sight and in mind: the association between visual attention and motivational mindsets among runners. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 122, 104822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104822
• Balcetis, E., Daley, J. S, Guenther, C.L., Riccio, M., Kemp, J., Lapitan, E., Pesantes, J.A., Voigt, A., Gu, Y., & Cole, S. (2025). Self-Regulation Via Visual Fixation: Effects of Strategic Shifting of Attentional Scope on Running Intensity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251343392
• Daley, J.S., Ortiz, N., & Eagly, A.H. (2024). Impoverished ascriptions: Investigating stereotypes of single parents from a social role perspective. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241288895
• Gallagher, N.M.*, Daley, J. S.*,   & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2023). Linking Threats to an Outgroup: How COVID-19 Threat Appraisals Predict Differential Outgroup Attitudes. Social and Personality Compass, 17(12), e12882. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12882 *Shared first-authorship
• Daley, J. S.*, Gallagher, N.M.*, & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2022). The pandemic and the “perpetual foreigner”: How threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic relate to stereotyping of Asian Americans. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 821891. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.821891 *Shared first-authorship
• BOOK CHAPTERS
• Landy, J.P., Daley, J. S., & Balcetis, E. (2025). Making Meaning Through Motivated Perception: The Role of Construal. In Fujita, K, Fishbach, A., & Liberman, N. (Eds.), The Psychological Quest for Meaning (Chapter 6). Guilford Press. 
• Maddox, K. B., Daley, J. S., & Bart-Plange, D. J. (2025). Reflections on Racial Stereotypes of One Hundred College Students: Katz & Braly (1933). In Selvanathan, H. & Jetten, J. (Eds.), Political Psychology: Revisiting the classic studies (Chapter 15). Sage College Publishing. 
• PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
• De La Rosa, N., Daley, J.S., & Balcetis, E. (invited revision). Challenging Fixed Mindsets Fosters Belonging in Leadership among Ethnic and Racial Minority Adolescents.
• Balcetis, E., Daley, J.S., Hall, Z., Dupuis, R., Tsai, K.A., & Bragg, M. A. (under revision). Does Racial Congruency Promote Engagement with Social Media Ads? A Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Daley, J. S., Atalay, S., Ray, N., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (under review). A Persuasive Complexion? On the dominance of racial category compared to relative skin tone among persuasive appeals.   
• Daley, J. S., March, D.S., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (in prep). Skin-deep associations: Exploring the impact of skin tone on interpersonal beliefs across racial groups.
• Balcetis, E., Daley, J. S., Bragg, M.A., Cassidy, O. (in prep). Diversity of influence and appetite: How adolescents respond to race-based targeted marketing of food products.
• Daley, J.S., Klein, S.A.W., Sherman, J.W., Lei, R.F., & Bodenhausen, G.V. (in progress). Augmented associations: How skin tone influences racial associations and the underlying process.
• Sissoko, D.R., Todd, T.L., Daley, J.S., & Waller, B. (in progress). The Effect of Skin-tone and Afrocentric Stereotypicality on Culpability Attributions.

Selected Conference Presentations

• Daley, J.S., Bodenhausen, G.V. (Expected: 2025, October). Skin-deep associations: Investigating how skin tone drives social associations. Talk to be presented at the Person Memory Interest Group annual meeting. Lisbon, Portugal.
• Daley, J.S., Bodenhausen, G.V. (2024, September). Skin-deep associations: How race and skin tone drive social attitudes and associations. Talk to be presented at New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists symposium on “Skin Care Inclusivity: Caring for Melanated Skin. Madison, NJ.
• Daley, J.S., Bodenhausen, G.V. (2024, February). Skin-deep associations: Investigating how skin tone drives social associations. Talk presented in a symposium at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference. San Diego, CA.
• Daley, J.S., Klein, S.A.W., Sherman, J.W., Lei, R.F., & Bodenhausen, G.V. (2024, February). Augmented associations: How skin tone influences racial associations and the underlying process. Data Blitz presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference. San Diego, CA.
• Daley, J.S., Klein, S.A.W., Sherman, J.W., Lei, R.F., & Bodenhausen, G.V. (2023, February). Augmented associations: How skin tone influences racial associations and the underlying process. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference. Atlanta, GA.
• Daley, J.S., Bodenhausen, G.V. (2022, February). Beyond black and white: investigating skin-tone and race. Poster presented at Group Processes and Intergroup Relations preconference as part of Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference. San Francisco, CA.
• Daley, J.S., Gallagher, N., Bodenhausen, G.V. (2022, February). Intergroup attitudes in the time of COVID-19. Data Blitz presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference. San Francisco, CA.
• Daley, J.S., Eagly, A.H. (2021, February). Mental images of parents: How agentic and communal are they? Poster presented virtually at Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference.