Email: tford@email.wcu.edu
Phone: 828-227-2109
Office Address: Killian 301

Education:

• Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Maryland, 1992
• M.A., University of Maryland, 1989
• B.S., Texas Christian University, 1987

Area of Specialization:

• Social psychology: prejudice, disparaging humor and discrimination, humor and coping with stress, the relationship between religion and prejudice, unintentional racism and stereotype threat in educational settings.

Selected 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.