Jarrod Bock, PH.D.
Department of Psychology
Assistant Professor, Social Psychology

Culture of Honor, Masculinity, Gender Issues, Mental Health
**Dr. Bock is currently accepting graduate students**
Education
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 2020
M.S., Oklahoma State University, 2017
B.S., University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, 2013
Academic Positions
2025-present Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Wyoming
2024-2025 Academic Professional Lecturer of Psychology, University of Wyoming
2023-2024 Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University
2020-2023 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Towson University
Research Interests
My research broadly examines gender norms within cultures of honor, with a specific focus on how masculinity norms and features of honor cultures (e.g., firearm accessibility) impact mental health and suicide risk. Recent publications appear in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychology of Men and Masculinities, and Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
Teaching
General Psychology (PSYC 1000)
Social Psychology (PSYC 2380)
Research Methods (PSYC 2000)
Teaching of Psychology (PSYC 5765)
Publications
*Denotes undergraduate co-author
Lopez, H. N., Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., & Cross, S. E. (2024). Beyond the dichotomy: Creation and validation of a continuous statewide index of U.S. honor culture. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Bock, J. E., Daruwala, S. E., Tucker, R. P., Foster, S. D., Bandel, S. L., Gunn, J., & Anestis, M. D. (2024). Honor endorsement and increased firearm purchasing behavior and intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Reports.
Foster, S., Albright, A., & Bock, J. E. (2024). The role of emotional suppression and emotional beliefs in explaining the honor-suicide link. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
Foster, S., & Bock, J. E. (2024). Honor concerns moderate the link between perceived reputation and depressive symptoms. Journal of Social Psychology.
Rubinstein, R. S., & Bock, J. E. (2024). The effects of counterstereotypical social vs. economic ideology information on explicit and implicit political person perception. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 12(1), 38-56.
Foster, S., Bock, J. E., & Carvallo, M. (2024). Making the world a more hostile place: Honor endorsement and the hostile attribution bias. Psychology of Violence, 14(2), 87–96.
Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., Pomerantz, A. L., & Raj, A. (2024). Preliminary validation of the single-item masculine and feminine honor prototype scales. Journal of Personality Assessment, 106(4), 522-531.
Ko, A., Bock, J. E., Ko, J., & Krems, J. A. (2023). Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask-wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross-cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(11), e12880.
Foster, S., Bock, J. E., & Carvallo, M. (2023). No boys allowed: An investigation into the role of honor concerns, stigma, and views of HPV vaccinations for men. Sex Roles, 89, 475-491.
Bock, J. E., Tucker, R. P., Brown, R. P., Foster, S., & Anestis, M. D. (2023). Veteran suicide rates mirror, but do not account for, elevated suicide rates among the general population in U.S. cultures of honor. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(4), 692-701.
Foster, S., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Feminine honor concerns heighten reactivity to femininity threats in U.S. women. Current Psychology, 1-14.
Harrington, E. E., Reese-Melancon, C., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Sometimes they show, sometimes they don’t: Appointment attendance as a naturalistic prospective memory task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(3), 590-599.
Krems, J. A., & Bock, J. E. (2023). The role of women’s and men’s body shapes in explicit and implicit fat stigma. Obesities, 3(2), 97-118.
Foster, S. D., Gul, P., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Masculine honor endorsement is linked with stigmatization of men who have been sexually assaulted. Psychology of Men & Masculinities.
Foster, S., Bock, J. E., Carvallo, M., *Pollet, C. L., & Stern, W. (2022). Honor-endorsing women and relational aggression: Evidence for the presence of feminine aggression norms in Southern U.S. women. Personality and Individual Differences, 194, 111668.
Bock, J. E., Tucker, R. P., Brown, R. P., Harrington, E. E., Bauer, B. W., Daruwala, S. E., Capron, D. W., & Anestis, M. D. (2021). Factors contributing to honor-endorsing men’s suicide capability: Firearm ownership, practical capability, and exposure to painful and provocative events. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 51(6), 1247-1258.
Rubinstein, R. S., Jussim, L., Bock, J. E., & Loh, B. (2021). Unobservable stereotypes are more malleable than observable stereotypes in implicit person perception. Journal of Theoretical and Social Psychology, 5(4), 318-337.
Bock, J. E., & Brown, R. P. (2021). To be liked or feared: Honor-oriented men’s sensitivity to masculine reputation concerns depends on status-seeking strategy. Personality and Individual Differences, 173, 110615.
Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., & Green, K. (2019). Aging with honor: Examining ambivalent ageism and interpersonal risk-factors for suicide as explanations for the honor-suicide link. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 38(9), 721-750.
Bell, A. C., Burkley, M., & Bock, J. (2019). Examining the asymmetry in judgments of racism in self and others. Journal of Social Psychology, 159(5), 611-627.
Bock, J., & Burkley, M. (2019). On the prowl: Examining the impact of the men-as-predators and women-as-prey metaphors on attitudes that perpetuate sexual violence. Sex Roles, 80, 262-276.
Bock, J., Byrd-Craven, J., & Burkley, M. (2017). The role of sexism in voting in the 2016 presidential election. Personality and Individual Differences, 119, 189-193.
Burkley, M., Andrade, A., Bell, A. C., & Bock, J. (2016). You’re smart, for a woman: Examining stereotypic backhanded compliments. In A. M. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research (Vol. 118, pp. 51-68). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
