Department of Psychology
Phone: 828-227-2109
Email: tford@email.wcu.edu
Office Address: 91 Killian Building Lane, Rm. 302K
Website: http://tomfordsocialpsylab.yolasite.com/
Research Interest: Social Psychology: prejudice, disparaging humor and discrimination, humor and coping with stress, and the relationship between religion and prejudice
Education:
- Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Maryland, 1992
- M.A., University of Maryland, 1989
- B.S., Texas Christian University, 1987
Publications:
Ford, T. E., Fitzgerald, C. M., Armstrong, J. A., & Edel, J. R. (2008). More than just a joke: The prejudice-releasing function of sexist humor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 159-170.
Ferguson, M. A., & Ford, T. E. (in press). Disparagement Humor: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Psychoanalytic, Superiority, and Social Identity Theories. Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research.
Ford, T. E., & Fitzgerald, C. M. (in press). Sexist humor in the workplace: A case of subtle harassment. To appear in Jerald Greenberg (Ed.), Insidious workplace deviance: subtle behavior with major impact. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Ford, T. E., Gambino, F., Lee, H., Mayo, E., & Ferguson, M. A. (2005). The role of accountability in attenuating managers' pre-interview biases against African-American sales job applicants. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, 24, 113-124.
Ford, T. E., Ferguson, M. A., Brooks, J., and Hagadone, K. M. (2004). Coping sense of humor reduces effects of stereotype threat on women's math performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 643-653.
Ford, T. E., & Ferguson, M. (2004). Social consequences of disparagement humor: A prejudiced norm theory. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 79-94.