Jordan LaBouff

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Thursday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

Associate Professor of Psychology and Honors

352 Williams Hall

Jordan.LaBouff@maine.edu

207.581.2826

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Research Interests

My research investigates how beliefs, and the ways in which people hold those beliefs, interact with personal virtues and social situations to influence attitudes (e.g., prejudice, impression formation) and behaviors (e.g., helping those in need, discrimination, and public behaviors). I pursue this question across three primary research areas, each of which have garnered international scholarly attention: (1) virtue and prosocial behavior, (2) belief and intergroup bias, and (3) applications of implicit social cognition to public policy and social issues.

Selected Publications

Shen, M. J., & LaBouff, J. P. (2016). Who’s for universalized health care?: A confirmatory factor analysis of health care attitudes and predictors of favoring universal health care among americans. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 4, 493-520.

LaBouff, J. P., & LeDoux, A. (2016). Imagining atheists: Reducing fundamental distrust in anti-atheist attitudes. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

Shen, M. J., Rowatt, W. C., & LaBouff, J. P. (2012). Religion and prejudice revisited: In-group favoritism, out-group derogation, or both? Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 4, 154-168

Shen, M. J., LaBouff, J. P., Rowatt, W. C., Patock-Peckham, J. A., & Carlisle, R. D. (2012). Facets of right-wing authoritarianism mediate the relationship between religious fundamentalism and attitudes towards Arabs and African Americans. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51, 128-142.

LaBouff, J. P., Rowatt, W.C., Johnson, M. K., & Finkle, C. (2012). Differences in attitudes towards outgroups in religious and non-religious contexts in a multi-national sample: A situational context priming study. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.22, 1-9.

LaBouff, J. P., Rowatt, W. C., Johnson, M. K., Tsang, J., & McCullough, G. (2011). Humble people are more helpful than less humble persons: Evidence from three studies. Journal of Positive Psychology, 7, 16 – 29.

LaBouff, J. P., Rowatt, W. C., Johnson, M. K., Thedford, M., Tsang, J. (2010). Development and initial validation of an implicit measure of religiousness-spirituality. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 49(3), 439-445.

Rowatt, W. C., LaBouff, J. P., Johnson, M., Froese, P., & Tsang, J. (2009). Associations among religiousness, social attitudes, and prejudice in a national sample of American adults. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 1 (1), 14-24.