Office: Carney 262
Phone: 617-552-8812
E-mail: prenovos@bc.edu
Primary Advisor: Gilda Morelli
Secondary Advisors: Karen Rosen, Eric Dearing
Academic Interests: Mary is interested in the economic and social conditions of low-wage earning families, the factors affecting these conditions, and the relation between these factors and family decision-making and well-being.
Undergraduate Institution/Degrees: University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A. Psychology and Sociology, 2005.
Posters
Prenovost, M., Morelli, G., & Shartrand, A. (2007, November). The cost of economic security for low-wage earning families. Poster presented at the annual convention of the National Council on Family Relations, Pittsburgh, PA.
Prenovost, M., Morelli, G., & Shartrand, A. (2007, May). The choices mothers make: A pilot study on economic decision making of women living on the edge of self-sufficiency. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington DC.
Prenovost, M., Sherman, D. K., Kinias, Z., Major, B., & Kim, H.S. (2006, June). The fans’ role in the group: Affirmation and group-serving biases. Poster presented at the biennial convention of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Long Beach, CA.
Prenovost, M. (2005, May). The role of the fan in the group. Poster presented at the annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium, Santa Barbara, CA.
Publications
Tropp, L., & Prenovost, M. (2008). The role of intergroup contact in predicting children’s inter-ethnic attitudes: Evidence from meta-analytic and field studies. In S. Levy and M. Killen (Eds.) Intergroup attitudes and relations in childhood through adulthood. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Prenovost, M., Youngblood, D. C., Babcock, E. D., Liberman, R., & Goodman, A. (2007). Unlocking the doors to higher education and training for Massachusetts’ working poor families. The Working Poor Families Project. Available at http://liveworkthrive.org/admin/Editor/assets/MA_WPFP_UnlockingTheDoors.pdf
Sherman, D. K., Kinias, Z., Major, B., Kim, H.S., & Prenovost, M.A. (2007). The group as a resource: Reducing biased attributions for group success and failure via group-affirmation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1100-1112.