Jonathon D. Brown
Jonathon D. Brown is a social psychologist at the University of Washington. Since receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1986, he has written two books, authored numerous journal articles and chapters, received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, and been recognized as one of social psychology's most frequently-cited authors. Among his many pet peeves are self-promoting autobiographical statements written in the third person.
Primary Interests:
- Causal Attribution
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Self and Identity
Books:
- Brown, J. D. (2006). Social psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Brown, J. D., & Arkin, R. M. (2010). The self (2nd ed.). New York: Psychology Press.
Journal Articles:
- Brown, J. D., & Cai, H. (2009). Thinking and feeling in the People’s Republic of China: Testing the generality of the ‘laws of emotion’. International Journal of Psychology, 44, 1-11.
- Brown, J. D., Cai, H., Oakes, M. A., & Deng, C. (2009). Cultural similarities in self-esteem functioning: East is East and West is West, but sometimes the twain do meet. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 140-157.
- Brown, J. D., & Dutton, K. A. (1995). The thrill of victory, the complexity of defeat: Self-esteem and people's emotional reactions to success and failure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 712-722.
- Brown, J. D., & Kobayashi, C. (2002). Self-enhancement in Japan and America. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 145-167.
- Brown, J. D., & Marshall, M. A. (2001). Self-esteem and emotion: Some thoughts about feelings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 575-584.
- Cai, H., Brown, J. D., Deng, C., & Oakes, M. A. (2007). Self-esteem and culture: Differences in cognitive self-evaluations or affective self-regard? Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 162-170.
- Dutton, K. A., & Brown, J. D. (1997). Global self-esteem and specific self-views as determinants of people's reactions to success and failure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,73, 139-148.
- Kobayashi, C., & Brown, J. D. (2003). Self-esteem and self-enhancement in Japan and America. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34, 567-580.
- Marshall, M. A., & Brown, J. D. (2006). Emotional reactions to achievement outcomes: Is it really best to expect the worst? Cognition and Emotion, 20, 43-63.
- Oakes, M. A., Brown, J. D., & Cai, H. (2008). Implicit and explicit self-esteem: Measure for measure. Social Cognition, 26, 778-790.
Other Publications:
- Brown, J. D. (1993). Self-esteem and self-evaluation: Feeling is believing. In J. Suls (Ed.), Psychological perspectives on the self (Vol. 4, pp. 27-58). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Courses Taught:
Jonathon D. Brown
Department of Psychology
Box 351525
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195-1525
United States of America
- Phone: (206) 543-0679
- Fax: (206) 685-3157