Dr. Madon is a professor of social psychology and faculty member in the psychology and law concentration at Iowa State University. Her research examines how social influence processes alter people’s behavior specifically with respect to police interrogation, criminal confessions, and forensic science. Dr. Madon's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Psychological Foundation, and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Personality and Social Psychology. To visit Dr. Madon's Google Scholar profile, click here. Additional information can be found at the following links:
Dr. Madon is a professor of social psychology and faculty member in the psychology and law concentration at Iowa State University. Her research examines how social influence processes alter people’s behavior specifically with respect to police interrogation, criminal confessions, and forensic science. Dr. Madon's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Psychological Foundation, and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Personality and Social Psychology. To visit Dr. Madon's Google Scholar profile, click here. Additional information can be found at the following links:
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
The self-fulfilling prophecy is a general process of social influence that is of central importance to theory and research aimed at understanding behavior. According to the self-fulfilling prophecy process, one person’s false belief about another person is behaviorally confirmed through social interaction. Dr. Madon's research on the self-fulfilling prophecy has focused on its potential to contribute to social problems within public school classrooms and families. She has also examined how stereotypes contribute to social inequalities by virtue of having cumulative self-fulfilling effects on the behavior of stereotyped individuals.
Selected Publications:
Madon, S., Jussim, L., Guyll, M., Nofziger, H., Salib, E., Willard, J., Scherr, K. C. (2018). The cumulative self-fulfilling effect of social stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 824-844. Link
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Scherr, K. C., Madon, S., Guyll, M., Willard J., & Spoth, R. (2011). Self-verification as a mediator of self-fulfilling prophecy effects across contexts: How mothers’ beliefs shape their adolescents’ educational attainment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 587-600. Link
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Madon, S., Guyll, M., Buller, A. A., Scherr, K., Willard, J., & Spoth, R. (2008). The mediation of mothers’ self-fulfilling effects on their children’s alcohol use: Self-verification, informational conformity and modeling processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 369-384. Link
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Madon, S., Willard, J., Guyll, M., Trudeau, L., & Spoth, R. (2006). Self-fulfilling prophecy effects of mothers' beliefs on children's alcohol use: Accumulation, dissipation, and stability over time. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 911-926. Link
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Madon, S., Guyll, M., Spoth, R. L., & Willard, J. (2004). Self-fulfilling prophecies: The synergistic accumulation of parents’ beliefs on children's drinking behavior. Psychological Science, 15, 837-845. Link
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Madon, S., Guyll, M., Spoth, R. L., Cross, S. E. & Hilbert, S. J. (2003). The self-fulfilling influence of mother expectations on children's underage drinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1188–1205. Link
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Madon, S., Guyll, M., Aboufadel, K., Montiel, E., Smith, A., Palumbo, P., & Jussim, J. (2001). Ethnic and national stereotypes: The Princeton trilogy revisited and revised. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 996-1010. Link
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Madon, S., Jussim, L., Keiper, S., Eccles, J., Smith, A., & Palumbo, P. (1998). The accuracy and power of sex, social class and ethnic stereotypes: A naturalistic study in person perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1304-1318. Link
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Madon, S., Jussim, L., & Eccles, J. (1997). In search of the powerful self-fulfilling prophecy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 791-809. Link
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Jussim, L., Eccles, J., & Madon, S. (1996). Social perception, social stereotypes, and teacher expectations: Accuracy and the quest for the powerful self-fulfilling prophecy. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol., 28, pp. 281-388). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Link
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