Recent Publications:

Smith, H.J., Parr, R., Wood, R., Bauer, B. & Abraham, T. (in press). Five years after graduation: Undergraduate cross-group friendships and multi-cultural curriculum predict current attitudes and activities. Journal of College Student Development.

Barrreto, M., Ellemers, N., Scholten, W. & Smith, H.J. (in press). To Be or Not to Be:
The Impact of Implicit Versus Explicit Inappropriate Social Categorizations on the Self. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Smith, H.J., Olson, G., Agronick, G., & Tyler, T. (2009). Everyday interactions with university authorities: Authority treatment quality, outcome favorability and first-year students’ university adjustment. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Smith, H.J., Cronin, T. & Kessler, T. (2008). Anger, Fear or Sadness: Faculty Members’ Emotional Reactions to Collective Pay Disadvantage. Political Psychology, 29, 221-246.

Smith, H.J. & Walker, I. (2008). Feeling relative deprivation: The rocky road from comparisons to actions. In Tropp, L, Finchilescu, G. Tredoux & Wagner, U., (Eds.) Emerging research directions for improving intergroup relations – Building on the legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew. Part of the SPSSI series, Social Issues and Interventions, Blackwell Press.


Eggenberger-Caroll, J., Smith, H.J. & Hillier, S. (in press). Elders' views of medical visits: Fair treatment, favorable outcomes and perceived provider-patient demographic differences. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.


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Smith, H.J. & Citti, D. (in press). Making the sexual harassment of others self-relevant: The roles of identity salience and value affirmation. Social Justice Research.


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Leach, C.W. & Smith, H. J. (2006). By whose standard? The affective implications of ethnic minorities' comparisons to ethnic minority and majority references. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 747-760.


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Smith, H.J., Thomas, T. & Tyler, T.R. (2006). Concrete Construction Employees: When does procedural fairness shape self-evaluations? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 644-663.

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Smith, H.J. & Leach, C.W. (2004). Group Membership and Everyday Social Comparison Experiences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 297-308.

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Smith, H.J. & Kessler, T. (2004). Group based emotions and intergroup behavior: The case of relative deprivation. In L. Tiedens & C.W. Leach, (Eds.), The Social Life of Emotions. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Smith, H.J., Tyler, T.R. & Huo, Y. J. (2001). Interpersonal treatment, social identity, and organizational behavior In Haslam, A., van Knipppenberg, D., Platnow, M. & Ellemers, N. (Eds.,) Social Identity at Work: Developing Theory for Organizational Practice. London, U.K.: Psychology Press.

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Smith, H.J. & Ortiz, D.J. (2001). Is it just me?: The different consequences of personal and group relative deprivation. In Walker, I. & Smith, H.J., (Eds.,) Relative deprivation: Specification, development and integration. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Walker, I. & Smith, H.J. (2001). Relative deprivation: Specification, development and integration. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Spears, R. & Smith, H.J. (2001). Experiments as Politics. Political Psychology, 22, 309-330.

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Heather Smith, Ph.D.
Psychology Department
Sonoma State University
1801 E. Cotati Ave
Rohnert Park, CA 93928
707-664-2587
smithh@sonoma.edu