Jennifer S. Hunt
(402) 472-4591
jhunt2@unl.edu

Jenn Hunt joined the faculty in the Fall of 2000. Her graduate training was in social psychology, minoring in law, at the University of Minnesota. Her primary research interests include stereotyping and discrimination, eyewitness behavior, and gender and race issues. Currently, she is investigating the role of individuating information in stereotype activation, the effects of stereotypes on health judgments, and the effects of pre-existing expectations on eyewitness behavior. Her teaching interests include Psychology and the Law, Psychology of Gender, Social Cognition, and Attitudes and Persuasion.

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Representative Publications:

Hunt, J.S., Borgida, E., Kelly, K., & Burgess, D. (in press). Gender stereotyping. In D. Faigman, M. Saks, & J. Sanders (Eds.), Modern scientific evidence: The law and science of expert testimony. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co.

Hunt, J.S. (2000). The effects of individuating information on stereotype activation. Unpublished dissertation. University of Minnesota.

Frazier, P.A., & Hunt, J.S. (1998).Research on gender and the law: Where are we going? Where have we been? Law and Human Behavior, 22, 1 -16.

Walker, N., & Hunt, J.S. (1998). Interviewing child victim-witnesses: How you ask is what you get. In C.P. Thompson, D. Herrman, J.D. Read, D. Bruce, & M. Toglia (Eds.), Eyewitness memory: Theoretical and applied perspectives (pp. 58-88). Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.