Name: Jane Allyn Piliavin

Current position:

Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Current Address:

Department of Sociology,
8128 Social Science Building
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Telephone:

• Area code 608 - 262-4344 (office);
• 262-2921 (messages)

Education

• University of Rochester, 1954-58, B.A. High Honors, Psychology, 1958
  
• Stanford University, 1958-62, Ph.D., Social Psychology, 1962

Employment History

• Acting Instructor, Stanford University, 1960-62
  
• Junior Research Psychologist, 1962-63 and Assistant Research Psychologist, 1963-66, Survey
• Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
  
• Lecturer in Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, 1964-66
  
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Mills College, 1966-67
  
• Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1967-70
  
• Associate Professor, 1970-73; Professor, 1973-76, School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences, University of Wisconsin
  
• Professor, 1976-present, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin

Administrative Experience

• Co-Chair, Chancellor's Committee on Women's Studies, 1974-5
  
• Chair, Women's Studies Program, 1975-6
  
• Chair, Child and Family Studies Department, School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences, 1975-6
  
• Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, 1979-82
  
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, 1984-1990
  
• Organizer, Conference of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, October 20-23, 1988, Madison, Wisconsin (Attendance: 350)
  
• Chair, Department of Sociology, 1994 - 1997

University, College, and Graduate School Committee Service

• The Herfurth Awards Committee, 1971-2
  
• Search and Screen Committee, Dean, School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences, 1974-75
  
• College of Letters and Science Faculty Appeals Committee, 1979-1994
  
• College of Letters and Science Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Assistants, 1980-81
  
• College of Letters and Science Development Committee, 1979-80
  
• Graduate School Fellowships Committee, 1978-1982
  
• Graduate School Biomedical Grant Review Committee, 1980-1986
  
• Undergraduate Hilldale Research Awards Committee, 1991-92
  
• Letters and Science Nominations Committee 1993-7;Chair, 1995-7
  
• Athletic Board, 1993-2001
  
• Academic Affairs Committee (1993-2001)
  
• Equity and Planning Committee (1993-2001)
  
• Student-athlete Welfare Committee (1995-7)
  
• Personnel Committee (1996-2001)
  
• Academic Integrity Subcommittee, NCAA Certification 1993-4
  
• College of Letters and Science TA Awards Committee 1998-
  
• Committee on Academic Affairs of Minority/Disadvantaged Students 1998-2001
  
• Letters and Science Advising Center 1997 -

Honor Societies and Professional Associations

• Society of Experimental Social Psychology
  
• European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
  
• American Psychological Society (Fellow)
  
• American Sociological Association
  
• Council, Section on Social Psychology, 1983-1986
  
• Chair, Section on Social Psychology, 1990-91
  
• Member, Professional Affairs Committee, Section on Social Psychology, 1993-
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  
• Phi Beta Kappa
  
• Society of the Sigma Xi

Honors

• 22nd Katz-Newcomb Lecturer, University of Michigan, April 22-23, 1994.
  Presentation "In the beginning there is the body: implications for social psychology."
• Conway-Bascom Professorship, Department of Sociology, 2001-

Special Appointments

• Member, Social Problems Review Panel, N.I.M.H., 1972-1976
  
• Member, Social and Developmental Psychology Panel, NSF, 1980-1983
  
• Member, Transfusion Medicine D & E Parent Committee, NIH, 1984-1985
  
• NIH Consensus Development Panel on Platelet Transfusion Therapy, October 6-8, 1986
  
• Reviewer, American Foundation for AIDS Research, 1987-1995
  
• Member, NIH Working Group on AIDS and Blood Donation, 1988-
  
• Member, Panel on AIDS Intervention and Research, Committee on AIDS Research and the
• Behavioral, Social and Statistical Sciences, National Research Council, CBASSE, 1989-1990 (wrote most of chapter on Aids and the blood supply in Aids: The Second Decade)
  
• Member, AABB Ad Hoc Committee on Donor Incentives, 1993-1995
  
• Member, Blood Products Advisory Committee, FDA 1993-7.
  
• Member, Donor and Patient Safety Committee, National Marrow Donor Program, 1997-
  
• Member, Blood Safety and Availability Committee, Department of Health and Human Services 1997-
  
• Consulting Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1974-1977; 1984-1986; 1997-
  
• Associate Editor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1975-1977
  
• Consulting Editor, European Journal of Social Psychology, 1982-
  
• Consulting Editor, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1982-1996
  
• Consulting Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1988-90; 1994-7
  
• Honorary Member, Editorial Board, Polish Psychological Bulletin, 1989-
  
• Member, Committee to evaluate the Sociology Department, University of Illinois- Champaign-Urbana, January, 1996
  
• Member, Committee to evaluate the Sociology Department, University of Michigan, April, 1997

Areas of Teaching Interests

• social psychology
  
• prosocial behavior
  
• research methods
• sociology of sport
  
• gender role development and gender differences
  
• race and ethnic relations

  
  Publications:

Books:

• Glock, C.Y., Wuthnow, R., Piliavin, J.A., and Spencer, M. Adolescent Prejudice. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
• Piliavin, J.A., Dovidio, J., Gaertner, S., and Clark, R.D., III. Emergency Intervention. New York: Academic Press, 1981.
• Piliavin, J.A., and Callero, P.L. Giving Blood: The Development of an Altruistic Identity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
• Schroeder, D., Penner, L., Dovidio, J., and Piliavin, J.A. The Psychology of Helping and Altruism: Problems and Puzzles. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995 (being revised).

Articles and Chapters:

• Allyn, J. and Festinger, L. The effectiveness of unanticipated persuasive communications. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1961, 62, 35-40.
• Hardyck, J.A. and Braden, M. Prophecy fails again: A report of a failure to replicate. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1962, 65, 136-141.
• Stein, D.D., Hardyck, J.A., and Smith, M.B. Race and Belief: an open and shut case. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1965, 1, 28l-289.
• Hardyck, J.A. Consistency, relevance, and resistance to change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1966, 2, 27-41.
• Hardyck, J.A. Predicting response to a negative evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1968, 9, 128-132.
• Hardyck, J.A. and Kardush, M. A modest modish model for dissonance reduction. In Abelson et al. (Eds.), Consistency Theories. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1968.
• Piliavin, I.M., Hardyck, J.A., and Vadum, A.C. Constraining effects of personal costs on the transgressions of juveniles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1968, 10, 227-231.
• Piliavin, I.M., Vadum, A.C., and Hardyck, J.A. Delinquency, personal costs, and parental treatment: A test of a cost-reward model. Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 1969, 60, 165-172.
• Piliavin, J.A., Piliavin, I.M., Lowenton, E., McCauley, C., and Hammond, P. Observers' reproductions of dissonance effects: the right answers for the wrong reasons? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1969, 13, 98-106.
• Piliavin, I.M., Rodin, J., and Piliavin, J.A. Good samaritanism: an underground phenomenon? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1969, 13, 289-299.
• Smith, M.B., and Piliavin, J.A. The schools and prejudice: Findings. In C.Y. Glock and E. Siegelman (Eds.), Prejudice, U.S.A. New York: Frederick Prayer, Inc., 1969.
• Simons, C.W., and Piliavin, J.A. The effect of deception on reactions to a victim. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972, 21, 56-60.
• Comer, R.J., and Piliavin, J.A. The effects of physical deviance upon face-to-face interactions: The other side. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972, 23, 33-38.
• Piliavin, J.A., and Piliavin, I.M. The effect of blood on reactions to a victim. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972, 23, 353-361.
• Walster, E., and Piliavin, J.A. Equity and the innocent bystander. Journal of Social Issues, 1972, 28, 165-190.
• Walster, E., Walster, G.W., Piliavin, J.A., and Schmidt, L. "Playing hard-to-get: understanding an elusive phenomenon." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973, 26, 113-121.
• Walster, E., Piliavin, J.A., and Walster, G.W. The hard-to-get woman. Psychology Today, September 1973, 8-83.
• Comer, R.J., and Piliavin, J.A. As others see us: attitudes of physically handicapped and normal to own and other groups. Rehabilitation Literature, 1975 (July), 36 (7), 206-221, 225.
• Piliavin, I.M., Piliavin, J.A., and Rodin, J. Costs, diffusion, and the stigmatized victim. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, l975, 32, 429-438.
• Piliavin, J.A., On feminine self-presentation in groups, in J. Roberts (Ed.), Beyond Intellectual Sexism: A New Woman, A New Reality. New York: McKay Press, 1976.
• Piliavin, J.A., Piliavin, I.M., and Broll, L., Time of arrival at an emergency and likelihood of helping, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1976, 2, 273-276.
• Konle, C., and Piliavin, J. Vocational aspirations in kindergarten children: early sex differences, Wisconsin Sociologist, 1976, 13, 119-124.
• Piliavin, J.A., and Martin, R.R. The effects of the sex composition of groups on style of social interaction. Sex Roles, l978, 4 (2), pp. 281-296.
• Marecek, J., Piliavin, J.A., Fitzsimmons, E., Krogh, E.C., Leader, E., and Trudell, B. Women as experts in television commercials: a three year study. Journal of Communication, Winter, 1977-78, pp. 159-168.
• Walster, E., Walster, G.W., and Piliavin, J.A. Equity theory and helping relationships. In L. Wispe (Ed.), Sympathy, Altruism, and Helping. New York: Academic Press, 1978.
• Piliavin, J.A., Dovidio, J., Gaertner, S., and Clark, R.D. III. Responsive bystanders: the process of intervention. In V. Derlega and J. Grzelak (Eds.), Cooperation and helping behavior: theories and research. New York Academic Press, 1982.
• Callero, P. and Piliavin, J.A. Developing a commitment to blood donation: the impact of one's first experience. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1983, 13, 1-16.
• Piliavin, J.A., Callero, P., and Evans, D.E. Addiction to altruism? Opponent-process theory and habitual blood donation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1982, 43, 1200-1213.
• Piliavin, J.A., Evans, D.E., and Callero, P. Learning to "give to unnamed strangers": the process of commitment to regular blood donation. In E. Staub, D. Bar-Tal, J. Karylowski, and J. Reykowski, (Eds.), The development and maintenance of prosocial behavior: International Perspectives. New York: Plenum, in 1984.
• Gratz, R.R. and Piliavin, J.A. What makes kids sick: Children's beliefs about the causative factors of illness. Children's Health Care, 1984, 12, 156-162.
• Piliavin, J.A. and Unger, R.K. The helpful but helpless female: Myth or reality? In O'Leary, G., Unger, R.K., and Wallston, B.S., Women, Gender, and Social Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985.
• Briggs, N.C., Piliavin, J.A., Lorentzen, D., and Becker, G.A. On willingness to be a bone marrow donor. Transfusion, 1986, 26 (4), 324-330.
• Piliavin, J.A. & Libby, D. Perceived social norms, personal norms, and blood donation: aggregate and individual level analyses. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 1986, 13, 159-194.
• Piliavin, J.A. Temporary deferral and donor return. Transfusion, 1987, 27, 199-200.
• Piliavin, J.A. Age, race, and sex similarity to candidates and voting preference. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1987, 17, 351-368.
• Callero, P.L., Howard, J.A., and Piliavin, J.A. Helping behavior as role behavior: Disclosing social structure and history in the analysis of pro-social action. Social Psychology Quarterly,1987, 50, 247-256.
• Piliavin, J.A., and Charng, H. What is the factorial structure of the private and public self-consciousness scales? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1988, 14, 587-595.
• Charng, H., Piliavin, J.A., and Callero, P.L. Role-identity and reasoned action in the prediction of blood donation. Social Psychology Quarterly, 1988 (December), vol. 51 (6), 303-317.
• Piliavin, J.A. The development of motives, self-identities, and values tied to blood donation: A Polish-American comparison study, in Eisenberg, N., Reykowski, J., and Staub, E. (Eds.), Social and moral values: Individual and Societal Perspectives. Erlbaum, 1989.
• Piliavin, J.A. Role-identity and organ donation: Some suggestions based on blood donation research. pp 150-158 in Shanteau, J. and Harris, R.J. (Eds.) Organ Donation and Transplantation: Psychological and Behavioral Factors. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1990.
• Piliavin, J.A. Why do they give the gift of life? A Review of Blood Donation Research since Oswalt (1977). Transfusion, 1990, 30, 444-459.
• Piliavin, J.A., and Charng, H-W. Altruism: A Review of Recent Theory and Research. The Annual Review of Sociology, 1990, 16, 27-65.
• Piliavin, J.A. Is the road to helping paved with good intentions? Or inertia based on habit? pp. 259-280 in Howard, J. and Callero, P.L. (Eds.) The Self-Society Interface: Cognition, Emotion, and Action. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991.
• Dovidio, J.F., Piliavin, J.A., Gaertner, S.L., Schroeder, D.A. , and Clark, R.D., III. The arousal: cost-reward model and the process of intervention. pp. 86-118 In M. S. Clark (Ed.) Prosocial Behavior, Newbury Park, Ca: Sage Publications, Inc., 1991.
• Piliavin, J.A. and LePore, P.C. Biology and social psychology: Beyond nature vs. nurture. in Cook, K., Fine, G., and House, J. (Eds.) Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology. Allyn and Bacon. 1994.
• Margolis, B. and Piliavin, J.A. 1999. ‘Stacking' in major league baseball: a multivariate analysis. Sociology of Sport Journal, 16: 16-34.
• Lee, L., Piliavin, J. A., and Call, V. R. A. 1999. Giving money, time, and blood: Similarities and differences. Social Psychology Quarterly, 62, 276-290.
• Ting, J-C, and Piliavin, J.A. 2000. Altruism in comparative international perspective. In Phillips, J., Chapman, B., and Stevens, D. (Eds.) Between state and market; Essays on Charities Law and Policy in Canada. (Pp. 51-105) Montreal and Kingston; McGill-Queens University Press.
• Grube, J., and Piliavin, J. A. 2000. Role-identity, organizational experiences, and volunteer performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 26: 1108-1119.
• Howard, J. , and Piliavin, J.A. 2000 Altruism. pp. 114-120 in Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. by Borgatta, E.F., and Montgomery, R.J.V. New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
• Piliavin, J. A. 2001. The Sociology of Altruism and Prosocial Behavior. pp. 411- 415 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ed. by Smelser N.J. and Baltes P.,B. Oxford, UK: Pergamon.
• Piliavin, J.A., Callero, P.L., and Grube, J. 2002. Role as resource in public service. Journal of Social Issues, 58: 469-486.
• Pliavin, J.A. 2003. Doing well by doing good: Benefits for the benefactor. Pp. 227-247 in Keyes, Corey Lee M. and Haidt, Jon (Eds.). Flourishing: The Positive Psychology and the Life Well Lived. Washington, D.C.:APA,
• Piliavin, J.A. 2004. Feeling good by doing good: In Omoto, A. M. & Oskamp, S. (Eds.) Processes of community change and social action. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Piliavin, J.A., Lee, L., and Call, V.R.A. 2004. Dar tiempo, dinero y sangre: Un analisis sociologico comparado. (Giving time, money, and blood: A comparative sociological analysis.) in Vilarino, J.P (Ed.) Religión y Sociedad en España y Estados Unidos in homage a Richard A. Shoenherr. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas.

Reviews, Responses, and Research Notes:


• Hardyck, J.A. "On nasty surprises." A review of Harvey, O.J. (Ed.), Motivation and Social Interaction: Cognitive Determinants. In Contemporary Psychology, 1965, 10, 8-9.
• Piliavin, J.A. "Tobacco Road: l965." A review of Baughman, E.E., and Dahlstrom, W.G., Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South. In Contemporary Psychology, 1970, 15, 729-730, 732-733.
• Piliavin, J.A. "Prosocial behavior." A review of Staub, E. Positive Social Behavior and Morality, Vol. 1: Social and Personal Influences, and Positive Social Behavior and Morality, Vol. 2: Socialization and Development. In Contemporary Psychology, 1980, 25 (8), 602-604.
• Piliavin, J.A. Methods, findings, and history in attitude-behavior research: a rejoinder to Hanson. In Psychology, 1981, 18, 1.
• Piliavin, J.A. A review of Reid, I., and Wormald, E. (Eds.), Sex Differences in Britain (London: Grant McIntyre, 1982). In The Journal of Social Welfare Law, 1984.
• Piliavin, J.A. A review of Nadler, A. et al. (Eds.), New Directions in Helping: Recipient Reactions to Aid. In Contemporary Sociology, 1984.
• Piliavin, J.A. When in doubt, ask the subject. a solicited response to Egan, J. M. Graduate school and the self: a theoretical view of some negative effects of professional socialization. in Teaching Sociology, 1989, 17, 208-210.
• Piliavin, J.A. A review of Eckert, R.D. and Wallace, E.L. Securing a safer blood supply: Two views. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1985. In Contemporary Sociology, 1986.
• Piliavin, J.A. Review of Stature and Stigma: the Biopsychosocial Development of Short Males, by L. F. Martel and H.B. Biller. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1987, in Contemporary Sociology, 1989.
• Piliavin, J.A. Introduction of John Clausen for the Cooley-Mead Award. Social Psychology Quarterly, 1991, 54, 1-3.
• Piliavin, J.A. Beyond rescue to a caring society. A review of Oliner, P.M. et al. (Eds.) Embracing the other: Philosophical, psychological, and historical perspectives on altruism. in Contemporary Psychology. 1994, 39, pp. 1098-1099.
• Piliavin, J.A. Review of Kristin Monroe, The Heart of Altruism, in American Journal of Sociology, 1997, pp. 495-496.
• Piliavin, J.A. Practical utopia building. 1998. 4:307-309. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. A review of Oliner, .M. and Oliner, S.P., Toward a Caring Society. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.

In press:

• Hitlin, S., and Piliavin, J.A. 2004. Current research, methods, and theory of values. Annual Review of Sociology (vol. 30)

In Preparation:

• Ting, J. and Piliavin, J.A. Helping at a distance: Europeans and the third world.
• Schreiber, George B., Usha K. Sharma, David J. Wright, Simone Glynn, Helen E. Ownby, Yongling Tu, George Garratty, Jane Piliavin, Thomas Zuck, and Ronald Gilcher for the Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study. First year donation patterns predict long term commitment for first-time donors. Under review.
• Penner, Louis A. , Dovidio, John F., Piliavin, Jane A. and Schroeder, David A. Prosocial Behavior: Multilevel Perspectives. Annual Review of Psychology. Under review.
• Schroeder, D., Penner, L., Dovidio, J., and Piliavin, J.A. The Psychology of Helping and Altruism (Second edition). In preparation.

• Piliavin, J. A. Health benefits of volunteering in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study .

• Grube, Jean A. , Piliavin, Jane A. , and Turner, Jeanine W. Role Identity and the Courage of One’s Convictions.

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