Research in Cheryl Kaiser's Social Identity Lab is focused on understanding prejudice and intergroup relationships, particularly from the perspective of members of socially devalued groups. For example, our research addresses personal and situational factors that affect whether individuals perceive prejudice-related threats, their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to prejudice, and the implications of how they cope with prejudice for well being and interpersonal relationships. We are also interested in the implications of this work for law and legal processes. The Social Identity Laboratory is guided by the Lewinian philosophy that strong empirical work firmly grounded in social psychological theory can explain and solve practical social problems.
If you are an undergraduate interested in working in the Social Identity lab, please read this and then complete an application.
Research in our lab currently is funded by the National Science Foundation (2008-2011), UW's Royalty Research Program (2007-2008), and UW's Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (2008-2009).