Gordon Hodson, Brock University

Research

audit discrimination housing Canada

Latest papers

Primary and secondary generalization effects from Black and gay contact: Longitudinal evidence of between- and within-person effects.
The British journal of social psychology · 2025 · senior author
Attitudes Toward Cisgender Women's Participation in Sex Work: Opportunity for Agency or Harmful Exchange?
Archives of sexual behavior · 2024
Reductions in perceived COVID-19 threat amid UK's mass public vaccination programme coincide with reductions in outgroup avoidance (but not prejudice).
The British journal of social psychology · 2022 · senior author

All 21 publications

Latest funding

Ideological beliefs and differential distress: threat target as a moderator
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$175,491
Situational, psychological, and hormonal processes underlying sexual aggression
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$65,842
Intergroup disgust and ideology as determinants of prejudice
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$88,728

All 3 grants and awards

21 publications.

01

Primary and secondary generalization effects from Black and gay contact: Longitudinal evidence of between- and within-person effects.

Puffer H, Hodson G

The British journal of social psychology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12900 PMID: 40364634

02

Attitudes Toward Cisgender Women's Participation in Sex Work: Opportunity for Agency or Harmful Exchange?

Puffer H, Hodson G, Prusaczyk E

Archives of sexual behavior2024

DOI: 10.1007/s10508-023-02797-y PMID: 38285296

03

Reductions in perceived COVID-19 threat amid UK's mass public vaccination programme coincide with reductions in outgroup avoidance (but not prejudice).

Meleady R, Hodson G

The British journal of social psychology2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12537 PMID: 35357017

04

Reconsidering reconsent: Threats to internal and external validity when participants reconsent after debriefing.

Hodson G

British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)2022First author

DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12561 PMID: 35274307

05

Fighting over who dictates the nature of prejudice.

Hodson G

The Behavioral and brain sciences2022First author

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x21000625 PMID: 35550021

06

News media impact on sociopolitical attitudes.

Earle M, Hodson G

PloS one2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264031 PMID: 35263324

07

The role of meat appetite in willfully disregarding factory farming as a pandemic catalyst risk.

Dhont K, Piazza J, Hodson G

Appetite2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105279 PMID: 33930493

08

Tensions within and between vegans and vegetarians: Meat-free motivations matter.

MacInnis CC, Hodson G

Appetite2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105246 PMID: 33819525

09

A multilevel analysis of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights support across 77 countries: The role of contact and country laws.

Earle M, Hoffarth MR, Prusaczyk E, MacInnis C, Hodson G

The British journal of social psychology2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12436 PMID: 33372304

10

Questioning white losses and anti-white discrimination in the United States.

Earle M, Hodson G

Nature human behaviour2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0777-1 PMID: 31819205

Ideological beliefs and differential distress: threat target as a moderator

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Choma, Rebecca L.

Keywords: ideological beliefs; threat senstivity; distress; risk-perception; climate change; financial risk-taking; moral/ethical risk-taking

$175,491

Situational, psychological, and hormonal processes underlying sexual aggression

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Carré, Justin

Keywords: (1) sexual aggression; (2) dehumanization; (3) pornography; (4) testosterone; (5) narcissism

$65,842

Intergroup disgust and ideology as determinants of prejudice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Hodson, Gordon

Keywords: disgust; ideology; social dominance; authoritarianism; prejudice

$88,728

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Social Psychology
Psychology

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Cara MacInnis

Social Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Elvira Prusaczyk

Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: audit Dear Professor Hodson, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Primary and secondary generalization effects from Black and gay contact: Longitudinal evidence of between- and within-person effects." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]