Keith Maddox

Keith Maddox is a professor in the department of psychology at Tufts University. Maddox's research focuses on social cognition, and he is the director of the Tufts University Social Cognition Lab.

Education Maddox received his A.B. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1991. Maddox received his M.A. and PhD in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994 and 1998, respectively.

Research Maddox was a lecturer at Tufts University from 1997 to 1998. He became an assistant professor in the department of psychology in 1998, and received tenure and promotion to an associate professor in 2004. He is currently a professor of psychology at Tufts University and the Co-Director of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Leadership Program at Tufts University. Maddox is also the director of the Tufts University Social Cognition Lab. Maddox studies racial phenotypicality bias, how the variation of appearance in a racial group affects the types or degree of stereotypes people have toward them. Maddox is also interested in understanding how people discuss race and racial bias and ways to encourage such discussion.

Maddox is currently an editor at Social Cognition, and on the editorial boards for Frontiers in Social Psychology (2023), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2021), Psychological Bulletin (2020), and The Journal of Black Psychology (2002).

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Awards and honors

Jenessa Shapiro Award for Contributions to Diversity, and Inclusion, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2021). Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (2020). Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2018). Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2017). Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology (2006).