James M. Jones
Psychology Department
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716
U.S.A.
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Professor Jones' major interest is in the cultural psychology of African Americans. He has approached this through the development of a Psycho-Cultural model known as TRIOS. An acronym, TRIOS represents five psychocultural variables of Time, Rhythm, Improvisation, Orality and Spirituality. They are posited to follow from African Cultural origins and to characterize personality, motivational systems and behavior, and interpersonal and intergroup dynanmics. The development of theory and research on TRIOS is the focus of ongoing work.
A second broad area of writing is in the analyses of cultural and racial diversity in the social context of delimited, ethnocentric power structures and the consequences of such socio-political arrangements for the emergence of Black Personality. These interests focus on prejudice and racism in the United States; the second-class status or race and culture as variables in social psychological research.
A third major area of work is in the social psychology of time. That interest is concerned with individual orientations toward the past, present and future, and how those differences in temporal perspective may influence the development of achievement motivations and personal expressive styles. This interest also involves determining how cognitive and emotional factors influence the perception of the passage of time.
 Books:
- Jones, J. M. (1997). Prejudice and racism (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Jones, J. M. (1972). Prejudice and racism. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishers.
Journal Articles:
- JOnes, J.M. (In press) TRIOS:A Psychological Theory of the African Legacy in American Culture. Journal of Social Issues.
- Jones, J.M. (1998) Psychological Knowledge And the New American Dilemma of Race. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 638-652.
- Jones, J.M. , Lynch, P.D., Tenglund, A.A. & Gaertner , S.G. (2000) Toward a Diversity Hypothesis: Multidimensional Effects of Intergroup Contact. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 9(1),53-62.
- Lasane, T.P. & Jones, J.M. (1999) Temporal orientation and academic goal-setting: The mediating properties of a motivational self. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 14(1), 31-44.
- Lasane, T.P. & Jones, J.M. (1999) When socially induced temporal myopia interferes with academic goal-setting. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 14(5), 1-12.
Other Publications:
- Jones, J. M. (1999) Cultural Racism: The Intersection of Race and Culture in Intergroup Conflict. In D. Prentice and D. Miller (Eds.) Culture Divides: understanding and overcoming group conflict. (pp. 465-490). New York: Russell Sage.
- Jones, J.M. (1999) Toward a cultural psychology of African Americans. In W.J. Lonner, D.L. Dinnel,D.K. Forgays & S.A. Hayes (Eds.) Merging past, present and future: Selected proceedings of the 14th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp.52-62). Lisse, The Netherlands: Sweets and Zeitlinger.
- Jones, J. M. (1994). An exploration of temporality in human behavior. In R. C. Schank & E. Langer (Eds.), Beliefs, reasoning and decision-making: Psycho-logic in honor of Bob Abelson (pp. 389-411). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Jones, J. M. (1988). Cultural and individual differences in temporal orientation. In J. McGrath (Ed.), Research toward a social psychology of time. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
- Jones, J. M. (1983). The concept and usage of race in social psychology: From color to culture. In L. Wheeler & P. Shaver (Eds.), Review of personality and social psychology, Vol. 4. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
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