2012-2013 NCID Postdoctoral Fellow | Assistant Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan
About
Arnold Ho is an assistant professor of psychology and of organizational studies at the University of Michigan. He is interested in the interplay of individual and societal level factors in the production of group-based social inequality. In particular, much of his current research explores how individual differences in prejudice and anti-egalitarianism interact with perceived threats to the hierarchical status quo to drive behaviors aimed at maintaining inequality.
Ho’s research has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, and Psychological Science, and has been covered by numerous news outlets, including the Agence France-Presse (AFP), Boston Globe, Psychology Today, and Time. Ho received his PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 2011.
Current Work:
Research in Dr. Ho's lab examines why systems of group-based social inequality are so ubiquitous and so resistant to change. The research centers around three major themes:
I. why individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one group (e.g., biracials) are categorized and perceived as belonging more to their lower status parent group,
II. the nature of social dominance orientation (SDO), or individual differences in the preference for inequality between groups (e.g., race or caste groups), and
III. the endorsement of ideologies and beliefs that justify group-based inequality and discrimination (that is, beliefs that make inequality seem fair or legitimate).
Selected Publications:
Ho, A. K., Kteily, N., & Chen, J. M. (2017). “You’re one of us”: Black Americans’ use of hypodescent and its association with egalitarianism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 753-768.
Kteily, N., Sheehy-Skeffington, J., & Ho, A. K. (2017). Hierarchy in the eye of the beholder: Social dominance orientation shapes the perception of inequality between groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112(1), 136-159.
Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Kteily, N., Sheehy-Skeffington, J, Pratto, F., Henkel, K. E., Foels, R., & Stewart, A. L. (2015). The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO7 scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(6), 1003-1028.
Ho, A. K., Roberts, S. O., & Gelman, S (2015). Essentialism and racial bias jointly contribute to the categorization of multiracial individuals. Psychological Science, 26(10), 1639-1645.
Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Banaji, M. R. (2013). Status-boundary enforcement and the categorization of Black-White biracials. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(5), 940-943.
Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., Levin, S., Thomsen, L., Kteily, N., & Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (2012). Social dominance orientation: Revisiting the structure and function of a variable predicting social and political attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(5), 583-606.
Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Levin, D. T., & Banaji, M. R. (2011).Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 492-506.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Psychology; business, management, and organizational Studies
