EDUCATION

1999 - present, Advisor: Claude M. Steele

• Ph.D. - Expected 2003 in Social Psychology, Stanford University
• M.A. - Expected 2001 in Social Psychology, Stanford University

1995-1999, Advisors: Cornel West & William Julius Wilson

• A.B. - 1999 in Afro-American Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University
• Senior Thesis: "The truth shall set us free: Social science as the language
  for race advocacy in the twentieth century," received High Honors.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 1999 - Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
• 1999 - David McCord Prize
• 1999 - William Plummer French Prize
• 1998-1999 - John Harvard Scholarship
• 1998 - Rhodes Scholarship Nominee, Harvard University
• 1998 - Truman Scholarship Finalist
• 1998 - Harvard Foundation Award
• 1997 - Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellow

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Structure, Social Categories, and Social Change

• Culture / Ideology as Metaphor: If individuals think in metaphors, then to what extent are the values and ideologies shaped by metaphor as well?
  
  
• Discourses of Domination: How do we understand, and subsequently change those cultural discourses that facilitate the oppression of minority group members?
  
  
• The Dementia of Privilege: What allows for certain dominant group members to persist in ignoring or endorsing unjust social inequality?
  
  
• Out-Group Empathy: What are the factors that effect understanding and mutual care between parties, particularly when those parties belong to different social categories?
  
  
• Social Entitlement: What leads to social entitlement, how can it be overcome, and what are the interactional consequences of group differences in social entitlement?
  
  
• System Justification: When, why, and how do dominant and subordinate groups endorse or resist the prevailing socio-political system?
  
  
• Mental Representations of Stigma: What are the adjustments made to "see" and perform race in the United States from behavior to neurological functions?
  

PUBLICATIONS

Goff, P. A. (In preparation). Preface to a Black Man.

Goff, P. A., Boroditsky, L., & Tennenbaum, J. B. (In preparation). The price of privilege: The endowment effect as a model for social entitlement.

Goff, P. A. (2000). Empathic barriers and lines of invisibility:  Examining the competitive race relations model in America. The Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Journal.

Goff, P. A. (1998). More than entertainment. Harvard Parents’ Newsletter.

PAPERS, POSTERS, AND INVITED TALKS

Goff, P.A.  (2000, expected). "Targeting the enemy: Toward a functional definition of American ideologies about racial justice"  Paper, accepted for presentation at the National Ford Fellows Conference, Irvine, California.

Goff, P. A. (2000). "The psychology of political mendacity." Poster, presented at the National Mellon Minority Research Conference, Houston, Texas.

Goff, P. A. (2000). "The motivated cognition of political ideology," Paper, presented for the Laboratory Group of Professor Claude M. Steele, Stanford, California.

Goff, P. A. (2000). "The need for a social psychology of racial inequality," Paper, presented for Stanford University’s Social Psychology Area, Stanford, California.

Goff, P. A. (2000). "Keepin’ it real: The history and historiography of authenticity in Black American music,"  Invited talk in "Slave Ships, Emancipation and Hip-Hop: Lineage of Representations," Drama 121, Stanford, California.

Goff, P. A. (2000). "Hip-hop sankofa" Invited talk in "Slave Ships, Emancipation and Hip-Hop: Lineage of Representations," Drama 121, Stanford, California.

Goff, P. A. (1999). "The truth shall set you free: Social science as the language for race advocacy in the twentieth century," Paper, presented at the National Mellon Minority Research Conference, Providence, Rhode Island.

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