Dr. Blankenship's Research
Blankenship, K. L., Wegener, D. T., & Murray, R. A. (2015). Values, inter-attitudinal structure, and attitude change: Value accessibility can increase a related attitude’s resistance to change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(12), 1739-1750.
Blankenship, K. L., Nesbit, S. M., & Murray, R. A. (2013). Driving anger and metacognition: The role of thought confidence on anger and aggressive driving intentions. Aggressive behavior, 39(4), 323-334.
Murray, R. A., Aberson, C. L., Blankenship, K. L., & Barry Highfield, J. J. (2013). Beliefs that sexual orientation is a choice and motivation to control prejudice moderates method of disease transmission and sexual orientation effects on reactions to HIV-positive men. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35(3), 272-285.
Blankenship, K. L., & Craig, T. Y. (2007). Powerless language markers and the correspondence bias: Attitude confidence mediates the effects of tag questions on attitude attributions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26(1), 28-47.
Blankenship, K. L., & Craig, T. Y. (2006). Rhetorical question use and resistance to persuasion: An attitude strength analysis. Journal of language and social psychology, 25(2), 111-128.
Blankenship, K. L., & Whitley, B. E. (2000). Relation of general deviance to academic dishonesty. Ethics & Behavior, 10(1), 1-12.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Communication Studies
ComSt101
An introduction to communication theory, the development and functions of communication, and a survey of verbal, nonverbal, interpersonal, small group, organizational, and intercultural communication.
Social Cognition
Psych380
How people understand themselves and others, including attitude formation and change, attribution, impression formation, social categories and schemas, the self, stereotypes, and prejudice.
Social Cognition (Graduate)
Psych595A
Social cognition seeks to explore the cognitive underpinnings of numerous social psychological phenomena, including impression formation about individuals, group stereotyping, attributional thinking, self-knowledge, affect, and judgment and decision making.
Attitudes and Attitude Change (Graduate)
Psych592R
Considers relation of attitudes to beliefs and to behaviors. Surveys major theories of attitude formation and change and subsequent effects on information processing, judgments, and behavior.
Seminar on Social Psychology (Graduate)
Psych692R
Provides students with opportunities to discuss a variety of professional development issues, improve presentation/summarization skills, and learn about others’ research.