Books:

• Ruscher, J. B. (2001). Prejudiced communication: A social psychological perspective. New York: Guilford Press.
• Ruscher, J. B., & Hammer, E. Y. (Eds.). (2009). Current directions in social psychology (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Journal Articles:

• Boasso, A., Overstreet, S., & Ruscher, J. B. (in press). Community disasters and shared trauma: Potential implications of listening to a co-survivor narrative. Journal of Loss and Trauma
• Cralley, E. L., & Ruscher, J. B. (2005). Lady, girl, female, or woman: Sexism and cognitive busyness predict use of gender-biased nouns. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, 300-314
• Duval, L. L., Ruscher, J. B., Welsh, K., & Catanese, S. P. (2000). Bolstering and undercutting use of the elderly stereotype through communication of exemplars: The role of speaker age and exemplar stereotypicality. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 22, 137-146.
• Kaplan, S. A., Bradley, J. C., & Ruscher, J. B. (2004). The inhibitory role of cynical disposition in the provision and receipt of social support: The case of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Personality and Individual Differences, 37, 1221-1232.
• Kaplan, S. A., Santuzzi, A. M., & Ruscher, J. B. (2009). Elaborative metaperceptions in outcome-dependent situations: The diluted relationship between default self-perceptions and metaperceptions. Social Cognition, 27, 602-615.
• Ruscher, J. B. (2012). Describing grief under cyclical versus linear conceptions of time. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 31, 533-546
• Ruscher, J. B. (2011). Moving forward: The effect of spatial metaphors on perceptions about grief . Social Psychology, 42, 225-230. [Special issue: Spatial Constraints on Social Cognition]
• Ruscher, J. B. (2006). Stranded by Katrina: Past and present. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 6, 1-6.
• Ruscher, J. B. (1998). Prejudice and stereotyping in everyday communication. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 30, pp. 241-307). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
• Ruscher, J. B., Cralley, E. L., & O'Farrell, K. J. (2005). How newly acquainted dyads develop shared stereotypic impressions through conversation. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 8, 259-270.
• Ruscher, J. B., Fiske, S. T., & Schnake, S. B. (2000). The motivated tactician's juggling act: Compatible versus incompatible impression goals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 241-256.
• Ruscher, J. B., & Hammer, E. D. (2006). The development of shared stereotypic impressions in conversation: An emerging model, methods, and extensions to cross-group settings. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 25, 221-243.
• Ruscher, J. B., & Hurley, M. M. (2000). Off-target verbosity evokes negative stereotypes of older adults. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 19, 141-149.
• Ruscher, J. B., Santuzzi, A. M., & Hammer, E. Y. (2003). Shared impression formation in the cognitively interdependent dyad. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 411-425.
• Ruscher, J. B., Wallace, D., Walker, K. M., & Bell, L. H. (2010). Constructive feedback in cross-race interaction. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 603-619.
• Santuzzi, A. M., & Ruscher, J. B. (2002). Stigma salience and paranoid social cognition: Understanding variability in metaperceptions among individuals with recently-acquired stigma. Social Cognition, 20, 171-197.
• Tipler, C. N., & Ruscher, J. B. (2014). Agency’s role in dehumanization: Non-human metaphors of outgroups. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8, 214-228.