Linda Skitka

Linda J. Skitka [http://tigger.uic.edu/~lskitka/Skitka.html] [http://skitka.socialpsychology.org/] is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known for her research into justice and fairness [Skitka, L. J., Aramovich, N., Lytle, B. L., & Sargis, E. (in press). Knitting together an elephant: an integrative approach to understanding the psychology of justice reasoning. In D. R. Bobocel, A. C. Kay, M. P. Zanna, & J. M. Olson (Eds.), The psychology of justice and legitimacy: The Ontario symposium (Vol. 11). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.] [Skitka, L. J., Bauman, C. W., & Mullen, E. (2008). Morality and justice: An expanded theoretical perspective and review. In K. A. Hedgvedt & J. Clay-Warner (Eds.), Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 25 (pp. 1 - 27). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.] [Mullen, E., & Skitka, L. J. (2006). Exploring the psychological underpinnings of the moral mandate effect: Motivated reasoning, identification, or affect? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 629 - 643.] , moral conviction [Skitka, L. J., Bauman, C. W., & Sargis, E. G. (2005). Moral conviction: Another contributor to attitude strength or something more? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 895 - 917.] [Skitka, L. J., & Bauman, C. W. (2008). Moral conviction and political engagement. Political Psychology, 29, 29 - 54.] [Skitka, L. J., & Morgan, G. S. (in press). The double-edged sword of a moral state of mind. In D. Narvaez & D. K. Lapsley (Eds.), Moral self, identity, and character: Prospects for new field of study, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.] , and political reasoning. [Skitka, L. J., Mullen, E., Griffin, T., Hutchinson, S., & Chamberlin, B. (2002). Dispositions, ideological scripts, or motivated correction? Understanding ideological differences in attributions for social problems. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 470-487.] [Skitka, L. J., & Tetlock, P. E. (1993). Providing public assistance: Cognitive and motivational processes underlying liberal and conservative policy preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1205 - 1223.] Skitka earned her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. She served as president of the International Society for Justice Research from 2006-2008 [http://www.isjr.org/] . Skitka is also on on numerous editorial boards for academic journals, has received research funding from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and has won several awards for excellence in teaching and research. [http://tigger.uic.edu/~lskitka/Skitka.html/SkitkaVita.pdf>.]

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