Early Life and Educational Background
Prewitt-Freilino earned a B.A. in Psychology from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, in 2002. She then earned her M.S. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK, under the direction of her advisor, Jennifer Bosson.
Professional Career
Since graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 2007, Prewitt-Freilino has been a full-time faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design, teaching courses like Gender and the Media, Stereotypes and Prejudice, as well as The Psychology of Evil. She has published work in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, Sex Roles, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, and Journal of East Asian Studies. She has presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues conferences and gave an invited keynote address at the Marie Curie Initial Training Network – Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN...
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Bosson, J. K., Prewitt-Freilino, J. L., & Taylor, J. N. (2005). Role rigidity: A problem of identity misclassification? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(4), 552–565. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.89.4.552.
Bosson, J. K., Weaver, J. R., & Prewitt-Freilino, J. L. (2012). Concealing to belong, revealing to be known: Classification expectations and self-threats among persons with concealable stigmas. Self & Identity, 11, 114–135. doi:10.1080/15298868.2010.513508.
Prewitt-Freilino, J. L., & Bosson, J. K. (2008). Defending the self against identity misclassification. Self & Identity, 7, 168–183. doi:10.1080/17405620701330706.
Prewitt-Freilino, J. L., Caswell, T. A., & Laakso, E. (2012a). The gendering of language: A comparison of gender equality in countries with gendered, natural gender, and genderless languages. Sex Roles, 66, 268–281. doi:10.1007/s11199-011-0083-5.
Prewitt-Freilino, J. L., Bosson, J. K., Burnaford, R. M., & Weaver, J. R. (2012b). Crossing party lines: Political identity and partisans’ reactions to violating party norms. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 15, 317–332. doi:10.1177/1368430211428162.
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Prewitt-Freilino, J. (2016). Prewitt-Freilino, Jennifer. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2148-1
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